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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15
Marks of GenfilIfY.


There are many curious personal
habits and usages that originally
marked gentility. if not aristocracy
The practice observed among Spanish
hidalgos of allowing the Eager nails to
grow into claw like forms was to show
that they had never done any work.
The same thing is done by the Chinese
for the same purpose.
Among the ancient Romans the
wearing of long sleeves, which came
down over the hand. was the fashion
in the upper circles. This advertised
TO the world that the wearer did not
engage in any labor, and freedom from
employment was, according to their
crude notions of worth, the condition of
respectability.
The height of absurdity is reached
in the fancy Of the Chinese leaders of
fashion who have gone to the extent
of inducing shapeless deformity IN
women's feet, and rendering the vic
TINS cripples for life, to prove that
these could afford to get along with
out doing anything for themselves.
Yet we cannot afford to laugh at the
Chinese in this matter English boots
and shoes have been designed more or
less for the same absurd purpose. As
early as the time of William Rufus
peaked toed boots and shoes excited
the wrath and contempt of the monk
ish historians. The shoes called piga-
cia had their points made like scor-
pion's tail, and courtier named Rob
ert stuffed his out with tow, and
caused them to curl round in form OF
a rams horn, fashion which took
nightly among the mobiles.
1t is plain that the purpose of this
fashion was to show that the privileged
wearer was not dependent on any kind
of labor or feetness of foot for his
daily bread.
The practice of wearing tight fitting
boots and shoes is an old one, foi
Chaucer, writing of them in his day,
says that it is
| Meryeyle sith that they site SO pleyn.
How they come on, off again.
Later, in 1865, Horace Walpole said
II am now twenty years on the righ
side of red heels. ."-Youth's Compan
ion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

For none of us liveth unto him
self" writes the great apostle There
is broad and general law underlying
this statement No matter who or
what we are, as members of the hui
man family We live, are compelled to
live, for one another. This may not
be our wish Nevertheless it is a con
dition attached to our existence Whyi
Howl Because we affect others. 9th
ers affect us. We are more or less de-
pendent upon those around us. Those
within our circle are measurably re-
liant upon U.s. We may try to live
unto ourselves. Nay, we may succeed
in living for ourselves. Our control.
ling purpose in life may be the gain
ing Of riches, wearing honors, enjoy
ing pleasures. Yet strive as we may,
we cannot live unto ourselves, OF
within ourselves We touch our fel-
lows; they touch us. Our interests
are mutual And this interplay OF
interests calls US out of ourselves and
unites each TO all and all to each. -
Clergyman in st. Louis Republic.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

But when we look at the moon with
ourNtelescopes, do we see any traces of
water2 There are, no doubt, many
largo districts which at first glance
seem like oceans, and were indeed
termed "seas' by the old astronomers,
a name which they still absurdly re-
tain. Closer inspection shows that
the so-called lunar seas are deserts,
often marked over with small craters
and with rocks The telescope reveals
no seas and no oceans, no lakes and no
rivers. Nor is the grandeur of the
moons scenery ever impaired by
clouds over her surface. Whenever
the moon is above the horizon, and
terrestrial clouds are out of the way,
we can see the features of her surface
with distinctness. There are no clouds
in the moon; there are not even the
mists or the vapors which invariably
arise wherever water is present, and
therefore astronomers have been led
TO the conclusion that our satellite is @
sterile and a waterless desert. Story
of the Heavens.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15
A Master Architect.

Mr.. G. o. Bolmerth, of Maiden,
Mass, was not only the architect OF
his own fortune, but he was the archi-
tect and builder of his own house as
we'll. In the work of building he was
entirely unaided, placing every stone
and every beam himself. This would
not be SO surprising If Mr.. Bolmerth
were as well supplied with limbs as
other men, but he is not. He has but
one arm, and yet ho Ras done much
better than most men would do with
two. The house is of stone, with a
complete wooden frame inside. II
took him four years to do the work,
during which time he was laid up for
one year, having sustained serious in
juries by a fall Of thirty feet, from the
roof to the first story.-Harper's Ra-
Zar.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15
An Infallible Indicator.

You can tell pretty we'll how a girl
feels towards you by the way she takes
your arm. If she doesn't care cent
you know it by the indifference of her
muscles If she has great confidence
In you the pressure tells it; and friend
ship is as distinct from love in that
mode OF expression as in words or
looks. A woman can take the arm of
q fellow she likes much with perfect
comfort. even if she is six feet high
and he is four. But even if the two
are just matched she can make him
feel disdain, contempt, discomfort dis
like, anything she likes by the way
she does not hold on TO him. am
told there is a great deal of difference,
too, between the way girl fits her
waist TO one mans arm as compared
with another; but | hardly believe it.
San Francisco Chronicle.
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Proof Positive.

Not long ago citizen of Augusta
was observed driving about in sort
Of nondescript vehicle. 1t was SO do
cidedly in the line of an Innovation,
that q staid citizen felt constrained to
ask, "What do you call thati" ".A
phaeton," was the response But my
dear man, that isn't phaeton or any
thing like it." "Wel, I know it's O
phaeton." ''How's thatg "Why, 4
was made in Fayette. - Lewiston
Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15
It's Very Easy.

She had purchased hammock at q
store on Woodward avenue, and as she
received her change she asked:
''Are thero any printed instructions
10 60 with iti"
mo, ma'am," replied the clerk.
You swing it between two trees, wait
for dark night and then GO out and
practice falling In and rolling out Ii,
q week, il you are persistent and don's
mind the bruises. you can get to that
point where you can fall in before a
dozen people, but as 10 getting out you
had better put in another week on
falling down stairs and bringing up
gracefully in the hall. Detroit Free
Press
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

Croton, Conn, boasts of boy @ho
is full of pure Yankee ingenuity. In
the past he has been obliged to rise Ia
the morning about 5 o'clock and feed
horse which is kept in the barn near
his place OF residence Finding this q
little too monotonous and irksome he
invented a way in which he could
fulfill his mission and enjoy blissful
rest simultaneously. He arranged q
small box in the upper part of the
barn directly over the manger in such
way that by pulling q cord tie box
was tipped or dumped, depositing the
grain In the feed box. The other end
OF the cord was carried through the
window of his room and attached "a
the bedstead. Boston Herald.
Flattery is q sort of TAG money TO
which our vanity gives currency
Locke.
Petroleum is now solidified by being
| combined with soap, and ii can be sent
as solid freight instead of. as former
ly, in tank ears
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15
Cab Signals,

An ingenious apparatus for signal
ing In hanson cabs has been patented
in England. 1t consists of an index
plate, on which are the words stop
left" turn left, " ''go ahead, turn
right" and stop right" fixed inside
the vehicle, and by turning the pointer
to either one of these bell rings and
works similar indicator placed at the
back Of the lamps 1t is claimed for
this device that it IS simple, easily
worked and self adjusting and that il
enables instructions to be conveyed to
the driver with the greatest facility.
It is adaptable to old or now lamps
New York Telegram.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

nanu, ana IT mas been burned s....
SCARED ever since, and hardly looks
any more like hand; but got that,
my child, in trying to save you" o
mani 0 womanl / wish today
could show you the burned hand of
Christ-burned in plucking you out of
the fire. burned in snatching you away
from the fame. Aye, also the burned
foot, and the burned brow, and the
burned heart-burned for you. By
his stripes ye are healed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15
STRANGLED.
There Is a legend in some Spanish book

There Is a legend In some Spanish book
About a noisy reveller who at night,
Returning home with Others. saw light
Shine from a window. and climbed up to look
And saw within the room hanged 10 hook,
His own self strangled self. grim, rigid, white
And who struck sober by that fvd sight
Feasting his eyes In tongue tied horror shook
Has any man q fancy to peep in
And see. as through window. In the past
His noble self, self choked with coils of sin,
Or sloth or follyf Round the throat whipped
fast
The nooses give the face a stiffened grin
'Tis but thyself Look we'll Why be a,,ilassi
Eugene Lee Hamilton
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

/ noticed for the first timo these
many years change in tho looks OF
the Princess of Wales. II is sad to
have TO say so, but the "sea kings
daughter from over the sea, Alexan-
dra, a" is getting old. She has for years
looked like the sisters of her daugh-
ters, only fairer than they. But nowi
Well, now, she is beginning last
TO look like their mother. / do not go
50 far as TO say that the foot of the
crow has marked the eye corners, but
she is thinner and moro worn in APP
pearance and older looking than she
was last Ascot II may be that the
cares of the season arc telling upon
her The prince is as jolly as ever.
Nothing seems 10 affect him.-Londop
Cor Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

Spinning originated in Hindostan,
as it was known there at the most dis
tant period. 1t appears in the illumi-
mated missals OF the Fourteenth CEN
tury, but only among the leading pop
ulation, being made by spinster maid
ems of rank. The bulk Of the spinning
was by the distaff, which is still used
in some parts OF the continent Of Eu-
rope today. Among English speak
ing people that survived the ladies Of
the iiax wheel, which still continues,
there was spun from tussock cone lax
which was held upon the distaif at
one end Of the machine. New York
| Taiaayraun
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$500 TO CHICAGO
And One Fare for The Round IiD 10 Almost any POIRI

The c. H. 81 ID. Ry. acc selling first class
tickets Cincinnati to Chicago for $500, and viii
sell round trip Harvest Excursion tickcE :, almost
anv point North West or South on August 20ti,
Sept 10th and 2lth. and October Sth~ This Is
Pullman Palace Car Line For tall particulars
address 4. o. MCCORMICK, Gcn'l pass'r Agent,
No. 200 Mc.i lummh 81. lLmnlnmalL. y.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

4 Washington lady who thanks us
for proposing statues for women as
well as FOR men informs US that she
has trained six different servant girls
within this year. and desires TO know
II we do not think she deservesa a mon
rraent. We certainly think shedoes.
Indeed, we are not sure but she ought
TO have one for zach OF the six SER
wants. There is more real altruism in
training servants Tor other people 70
enjoy than in serving country at s13
q month Washington Post
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Textile Industries in Japan

In recent issue The Japan Weekly
Mail, of Yokohama, states that at the
close of last year the number of spin
dies at work is given at 114,636, -,
376 having been added i'll the last six
months of the year The industry
gave employment to /, $50 men and
mer having been increased by 275 and
that of the latter by 657 during the
second half of the year The quantity
of yarn manufactured was 1898, ,261
pounds, which, though a small figure
compared with SO, $50, 900 pounds of
imported yarn, is, nevertheless, not
insignificant. The maximum and
minimum prices of the Japan ase yarn
here were fully Is cents higher than
those of the imported yarns. 1t is
against the Indian yarn that japanese
mill owners have to compete, and
they must reduce their prices ID per
cent. before they can beat this.
On the other hand, japanese con.
sumers prefer the home manufacture
and are willing to pay more for it. Its
superiority, therefore, whether actual
or sentimental, must be taken into ac-
count. The import of cotton yarn dur
ing the year 1888 was much greater
than during 1887, and the increase is
spread about equally over the English
and Indian yarns. The total import
in 1888 was AZ, 500, 900 catties Q1.3 lbs.
each), against 33, 25G, 900 IN 1887 and
"a, 500, 900 in 1886, the values for the
three years being S13, 500, 900, IS, 250,
900 and $4,000, 900 respectively. The
Indian import just now is larger in
quantity, though not quite so large IN
value as the English. In spite of this
enormous increase in the import Of
cotton yarns, and in spite of the grow
ing importance of the native cotton
industry, there was also a very large
increase in the import of cotton man
ufactured goods. In 1883 they
amounted So, 600, 900 against 81, 900, 600
in 1887 and "a, 900, ,0fc in s86.-Lon-
don Standard
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15

The size of the canvas on which
Millct painted "LAngelus," tho ia.
nous Sil0, GOO picture, Is 2it by 25l
inches. The painting was paid for al
the rate of 1901 ,05 per.square inch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-08-15
..un Industries.

Among the many startling contrasts
between the industries OF 100 years ago
and those Of today, one of the most
impressive Is the vast expansion Of
tho production of that indispensable
article, iron. A century ago, it is
stated, only charcoal iron was
produced, and Of that only
10000 tons a year. Even Great
Britain produced, in 177e, only 6S, 800
tons. Today there are several furnaces
in this country, each OF which turns
out annually as much as that, and a
single railroad now buys yearly more
iron than both Great Britain and this
country produced a century ago
Boston Budget
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.

Now the crankiness of GEORGE FRANCIS
TRAIN is expressing itself in a new direc-
ton, leading the old man into fasting. he
drinks one glass of water day, and
spends an hour in the Turkish bath. he
doesn't know how long he viii continue
this regimen, but has kept it up six days,
and proposes to 90 along until the soul in
fuence that has so long controlled him
shall indicate that it time to stop. We
imagine that Mr.. TRAIN is fast nearing the
end of his erratic career. Nature permits
lot of fooliug now and then, but when the
time for the roundup occurs, the old dame
is always on hand to see that there is
no failure. She has allowed TRAIN
wide latitude, giving him all
the rope he could ask, and now
she is getting ready to close in on him. 1t
NAV be that this fasting folly will be the
last of which the remarkable fellow Will
be guilty, and that at its end GEORGE
FRANCIS will be no more, neither him nor
his cosmos" and 'psychoso When he
passes away. one of the most remarkable
men Of the age will go. Always peculiar
in his prime there were few more brilliant
men than the distinguished-lOo white
haired old gentleman who for dozen
years OF. more has avoided men and been
friendly and social only with the sparroWs
and children of New York. If his mind
had been well-balanced, his achievements
would have been mighty. We hope he will
not 60 out as a common crank.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25

As ALL knew would be the case, an at
tempt is now to be made to steal the Chero-
kee strip. Several hundred Oklahoma
boomers who failed to get claims IN the
new territory, held a meeting at Arkansas
city Tuesday night and voted to at once &c
upon the strip. OF course they will be re
moved. but the agitation viii be kept up
until the Indians are deprived Of their
land. and it will matter very little to the
greedy boomers whether or not the Chero-
KEGS shall be paid for the soil which the
government has guaranteed to them. 1t is
apparent to others if not TO the Indians that
the doom of the latter is sealed, { so far as
the maintenance Of adistinctive race is con
cerned. The opening Of Oklahoma is the
beginning of the end, and the end will come
when the whites shall be in control OF the
Indian territory and own the Indian lands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25
CRUEL HUMOR.

The HERALD is surprised TO find this IN
The editorial columns of its brilliant Chi
capo contemporary. the Globe: "The whip
ping of Mormon missionaries in Alabama IS
highly discreditable to the people Of that
state. If the local preachers OF more or
thodox sects are unable TO successfully
counteract the teaching Of the apostles OF
polygamy, some lusty Boanerges OF the
region might settle all controversy by fill
ing the Utah emissaries with lead. The
argument of hickory switches IS brutal
and repulsiven The writer may have
thought ne was saying something very
r,,nnv Int when he comes to read it over
and 10 reflect upon its full meaning, he
will be ashamed of himself: that is to say,
he will be ashamed if he IS half human and
possesses in any degree whatever Chris
tian sentiment 1t is just such eX-
pressions as this which encourage
men to deeds of violence and even
murder. and which are responsible for
the many outrages upon unotfending Nor
mons which have disgraced so many com
nunities in this country When leading
neyvspapers iucite men to shoot down Nor
mon missionaries who have broken no law
and done nothing worse than talk Of their
religion to those who are willing to listen.
C if any wonder that bloody deeds like
those of which we occasionally have news
from the south sometimes occur! II the
Globe has no respect for the Christian re
Iigion and its teachings. it should at least
respect the laws Of the land which declare
the malicious killing of even strolling
Mormon elder murder Repeating por-
tion of the Globes sentence, we can say that
..if the local preachers of the more ortho-
dox sects are unable to success
fully counteract the teachings of the
apostIes of polygamy," the Christianity
which these preachers teach should re
strain them from manifesting their defeat
bv acts of violence. In this country men
are amenable to punishments only for VIC
lations of the law, and Mormons who break
the law are punished with a certainty and
severity which are unknown among other
peopIes. When the MOrmons do not offend
the statutes, as they certainly do not in
preaching. those who assail them are the
yiolators of the law who should be pun
ished. and it is the duty of newspapers to
encourage to the punishment of the Grim
inals. The Chicago Globe has been CON
Quoted on too elevated plane to now drop
down to the level Of those contemplate
sheets which regard it as legitimate to
assail sect without cause.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25

Our Washington correspondent, the
other day, in naming the offices in Idaho to
be filled by the appointment of the Presi-
dent, mentioned that of the chief justice.
The announcement was somewhat startling
hereabouts, as it had been understood. the
information coming straight from the
White House, that President HARRISON
would attempt to remove no territorial
judge except for good and sufficient cause.
The President recognized the fact that
there was doubt as to his ability to re
move one of these officials, whose terms are
for four years and thereafter until their
successors are appointed. HARRISON
is also said TO have told the friends
of certain applicants for Judge
ships, that it would be insufficient
to cause a removal to merely file charges
against an incumbent. He said it would be
necessary to prove the truth Of the charges,
and that politics would not be taken into
account 1t was assumed from this that
the early appointment of a successor to
Chief Justice WEIR meant that the Judge
had sent in his resignation. Inquiry into
the case develops the fact that vigorous
effort is being put forth to induce the Pres
ident to remove the chief justice. Delegate
DUBOIS is engineering the movement as
the agent or tool of crowd of politi-
clans in Alturas county, who are
making war on WEIR because he held
the legislative act valid which divided the
county named. In waging this assault,
DUBOIS is mourning the enmity of the best
men in his party, and arousing the dis
pleasure of the Idaho bar generally. The
scheme is one devised and urged by cor
ruptionists. THE HERALD does not believe
it will succeed, for HARRIsON's views in
the matter of the tenure Of Office of the
territorial judges, as remarked above, have
been announced and are well understood.
The best citizens of Idaho, without regard
to party, are rallying to the support of
Judge WEIR, and asking that as an act
of justice TO him, as well as IN the interests
of the territory, the judge be permitted to
serve out his term. 1t is probable that Mr..
DUBOIS stuffed the correspondent, who
accepted the correspondents word without
question.
TIE HERALD is interested in this matter
only this far, that it hopes President HAIR
RIsoN will not attempt to exercise doubtful
authority and remove judges in defiance Of
the plain reading of the law. If he can re
move Chief Justice WEIR without cause, he
can do the same with the Utah judges
whose places are wanted by active and hun
cry politicians.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25

The ILLINOIS legislature is struggling
with bill concerning voluntary assign
ments which has for its object the proven
ton of swindling of creditors by giving pre-
ferred claims to favorites. Inasmuch as
Congress seems opposed to acting in the
matter by providing a national bankrupt
law. tits high time that the states and ter
ritories provided statutes for themselves
which will protect creditors to the extent
of at least placing them on an equal footing.
The assignment laws, as a rule, seem to
have been contrived for the benefit OF
swindling debtors, and the latter are not
slow to take advantage Of the protection
and encouragement which the statutes
rrr1.uicb
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25
ovERxoR WEST issues a proclamation

GOVERNOR WEST issues proclamation
recommending that next Tuesday be OBJ
served as a legal holiday in this territory,
and suggesting that people assemble in
their respective places of worship at
o'clock in the morning, and engage in re
Iigious service. 1t is to be hoped that the
governors recommendations will be care
fully needed, and that the people of this
territory will all show their appreciation OF
the great event the hundredth anniversary
of which we are about to celebrate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-25
IDAHO OFFICES.

The President reached Idaho again yes
terday with an appointment, naming
WILLIS SWEET for United States attorney,
Ever since the election it has been under
stood that Mr. SWEET would have the
place. the Republicans with one accord con
ceding it TO him as his right. The gentle
man was the ablest and most earnest
worker on behalf of Mr.. DUBOIS in last
years campaign, not only managing The
business but delivering many and
effective speeches. Mr.. SWEET Is
reckoned among tie leading lawyers ei