The Hickman courier., 1872-02-10
NO. 6.
COnnubiaIIties.

ANA say, with sigh, they were haPpy
just for the old loves sake?
Just for the old loves sake, sweetheart,
Just for the old loves sake?
DO you ever sit in the twilight, dear,
And think of that wintry day,
"heh we met and parted and journeyed
Each on our separate way?
turned and stood for a moment dear.
and looked in your face, to take
It's memory far on my way through life,
Just for the old loves sake;
Just for the old loves sake, sweetheart.
Just for the old loves sake.
Do you ever think they were bitter words7
Their memory haunts me yet.
DO You wonder how you could say them all,
And wonder, if | forget?
Yet, dear, my heart has forgiven them long,
Though | thought at frst twould break
And whenever / think, it is kindly still,
Just for the old loves sake:
Just for the old loves sake, sweetheart,
Just for the old loves sake.
The reason why so few marriages are
happy is because young ladies spend
their time in making nets, not in making
cages.
A New Orleans paper says that a
young widow in that city, who writes well,
sis training herself for an editor" Who
is the editor she is training for?
At a leap year party in Atlanta, on
the 9th inst, the young ladies showed
their manliness By having the following
notices in conspicuous places: I'VE
mean business" Now is our chance, ="
Waiting is tedious
A wife having lost her husband, was
inconsolable for his death. Leave me
to my grief" she cried. sobbing, 'you
know the extreme sensibility Of my ner
ves-a mere nothing upsets them
A bachelor says "all" be would require
in wife would be q good disposition,
beauty, good figure aud connections,
| conversational talents, elegant and pol
ished manner and-money.
Spasmodic love-a neuralgia affection.
Any fool can make a woman talk, but
it's rather hard to make one listen.
A Winona wedding degenerated into
4 pugilistic entertainment, and the bride
groom was escorted to Jail to spend the
honeymoon.
The breaking of a wedding ring is
/ said to be a sign that its owner will soon
be widow.
Two Glenn's falls girls, having but
one lover between them, drowned them
selves in a graceful but determined
manner.
Old maids should always 60 to the
theatre before the rise of the curtain
because then there is a chance of AT
overture.
Junior Clerk: "Haw! look here
Fipps; l want to be away month OF So
Senior Clerk: "All right, old fellow
.ea .,a.. Ienos.,2., aiar CLARK
l"Haw" no-domestic affictfon-som'
ones going to marry me-
"The sexes are made for one another,
was the text of lecture by young ladl
in California, recently. She appealed t
the feelings of her audience to prove th'
truth of her wonderful discovery. [Grea
applause
An old lawyer says that the thre,
most troublesome clients he ever haC
were, young woman who wanted to b.
married, a married woman who wanted
a divorce, and an old maid who didn'
know what she wanted.
A cynical society man says that HI
does not object to keeping the command
ment which tells him to love his neigh
Dor as himself, provided that neighbor i
a woman and pretty.
The Chronicle, in speaking of the frs
reception of the Sons of Michigan a
Washington, says it is well known tha
the Michigan residents embrace some o
the finest ladies at the capital. Let tn,
Sons of Michigan alone for that.
On the occasion of the marriage of tht
Princess Marguerite de Nemours to thu
Prince Czartorysky at Paris, on the 17tl
instant, the Emperor of Brazil presented
his niece, the bride, with a magnifcen
diamond bracelet valued at $4,000.
An agricultural exchange, who ha,
evidently sat at the feet Of Greeley, re
marks: A little attention to the hen,
now, giving them milk punch, oyster
shells, red pepper, and other stimulating
compounds, will set them to laying like
everything.
A Western paper speaks of the house
cleaning season as that when woman ha.
her own way at the house, while the sold
man" takes his solemn repast from the
top of the -four barrel, and in sleeping
enjoys the freedom of the interval be-
tween his bedroom and the front fence
1t is season of meditation, whitewash,
and calm, unimpassioned profanity.
Fond mother, John, do look at that
child; it has your watch in its mouth
and will swallow itl' Johu (who is q
batchelor brother-in- law, and very font
of babies); "Ohl don't be the leas
alarmed I've got a hold of the chain, i
can't go far" (Tableau.)
A citizen of North Stonington, Conn.
buried his first wife, and inscribed upol
her tomb: "An Angel on Earth
Saint in Heaven" which was all right
But. when he buried his second alongsid
his first, the marble dealer inscribed Of
her tomb: Another Angel on Earth
Another Saint in Heaven" and tn
neighbors want to know how long tn
thing is going to lastr
A London woman hung herself latel.
because her husband would not let he
seold her boarders. She left the follow
ing farewell billet deux chalked on th'
back of tea tray: Dear Jim OF
have driven me to do this little affair
Be good to the dogs, and ask Mrs. Little
to be kind TO the birds"
Twas while the refulgent rays o
the last moon shed a soft, pale light ovel
the sand-hills of Jackson county, aud 10
the season that the frozen ground wa'
crimsoned over with the life's blood o
hundreds of porkers which fell beneath
the well-directed blows of the relentless
executioner, that Miss Maggie felt hel
heart pierced by Cupid's darts" Th'
above is an extract from the last effort o.
the romaucist Of the Brownstown BaHp'''