The Hickman courier., 1872-10-26

II was April the month and the hour # was
And charity-cold was the season.
The frost on the ground was palpable white
But Bella sat wrapped in trance Of delight. !
As needless OF Tfnie as OF reason:
Not alone was the lady on that winterly eve, /
Per Sc there phiiand' ring and fooling.
Not singly she Eept on the tender gte rfre
For pair OF them sat-if you'll only believe |
Mrs. Partington-billing and cooling.
sweet spirits Of night!D the enraptured one |
AS the stars twinlsled clearer and brighter; |
But next morn II was bed for the day, and
Of sweet spirits Of night" she had cold in
And a dose ofsweet spirits Of niteri
THE pre-hysteric period-Before
tight lacing was invited.
WHrE you marry. "take the daugh-
ter of a good mother
In Alaska, Alabama, there are elev-
en- young men and one young wo-
man.
ONE more self-sacrifcing female
martyr coal-oiled at Easton, Penn,
last week.
4 BEAUTIFUL woman, said Fontenel-
le, is tae purgatory of the pure and
the paradise of the eye
WY is q muff like a fool? Because |
it holds lady's hand without squeez- !
ing it.
The shoe of a Louisville belle can
be used az a ladder. You rest the
heel on the top of a building and
climb up the lacing.
4 YOUNG lady being asked by a rich
old bachelor "If not yourself, who
would you rather be-" blushed as
she sweetly replied: yours, truly! !"
II IS said that one green tarlatan
dress contains arsenic enough to xii.
a man, and yet men don't seem to be
afraid to go near green tarletan
dresses.
The last question which has troub
led philosophers is this (which
causes a girl most pleasure, to hear
herself praised, or TO hear another
girl run down ?"
TIE following notice might have
been seen some time ago stuck up in
a corset-maker' windowin Glasgow:
CAN sorts of ladies stays here" Just
the place for bachelors and widowers.
AYoUxG lady suggeslively remarks
eff 1t was not good for Adam to live
single when there wasn't a woman
on earth, what will be said of old
bachelors with the world full ofpret-
tY girls p
SOME of our young ladies who blush
ed when the census taker asked Them
if they were twenty years old can Ie-
member of seeing three crops Of sew
enteen-year locusts, but that does no
signify.
IHE first cloud across the honey
moon.--Augustus TO his bride).-
And now. Gaorgia. do explain your
odd-cold treatment of me this morn
ing. Georgina with offended dig
nity). augustus, l am shocked at
you'll When you were walking with
Mr.. Fitzafrel on the parade this
morning, I heard you say, as you
passed under the window, that you
liked to see the beautiful little Bella
in staysl" Augustus with a roar of
irreverent laughter -"My love, 1
only meant Captain Clifton's yacht
in the act of tackingw 20 blissful
reconciliation
MARY Hogan was too pretty a girl
to be a Shakeress. They tied her
eyes and ears back, and distorted her
fair proportions by uncomely dress,
but she still refused to be plain.
Brother Jackson, warmed out of bis
cold faith by love and the weather
eloped with and married Mary few
days ago. When interviewed by
some of the scandalized brethren,
Mary is reported t. have said "You
can make your apple sass and war
rant it TO keep our gals amt ap-
Piles, and you can't boil 'em down so
they won't sour on your old rules
about marrying"
Emma, my love" said q much
enamored, newly welded husband,
"you have such pretty feet that ]
wonder you do not wear shorter
dresses"
81 declare, George" she replied
"you're a greater noodle than ever
thought you were. Don't you gee, il
wear long dresses, I can have an
excuse to lift my skirts much higher
than L dare wear them if made short
er 2"
Exit wife for a walk. Husband
sits down to reflect upon the subtle.
ties of feminine strategy.
The Supreme Court of North Caro-
lima has recently delivered judgment
in the case of the State vs.. Rhodes
an appeal from the Superior Court
of Wilkes County. On the trial be-
low the special verdict was as fol
lows: frWe find that the defendant
struck Elizabeth Rhodes, his wife,
three licks with a switch about the
size of one of his fingers (but not sc
large as a mans thumb) without any
provocation except some words ut
tered by her and not recollected by
the witness" On this return the
verdict "not guilty" was entered by
the Judge, and the Appellate Couri
} allows it to stand, saying: 1T vii
be observed that the ground upor
which we have put this decision is
not that the husband has right tC
whip his wife much or little; bui
that we will not interfere with family
government in trifing cases. W.
, will no more interfere where the hus
band whips the wife than where the
wife whips the husband and yet W.
would hardly be supposed to holt
that a wife has the right to whip he
husband. We will not inhict uool
society the greater evil of raising th'
curtain upon domestic privacy t.
punish the lesser evil of trifing vio
lence."
Rats.
Remarkable stories are related O
the marvellous instinct, amountin,
: almost to reason, shown by rats il