The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
GRAVE AND GAY.

A sEALED propsal-the engagement
kiss.
No ONE can be said to be happy till
he is dead.
THE wasld is all title-page without
contents. Young.
A FOE to God was never true
friend to man Young.
Those who would make us feel
must feel themselves.-[C Churchill.
A FIG for your bill of fare-show me
your bill of company Swift.
WHY is the figure 9 like a peacock 3?
Because it is nothing without its tail.
DEATH is no longer mystery
ing de- all exists, and is only trans
formed.
WHAT is it that man may have
never possessed, and yet leave behind
him? A will.
THERE is but step between a
proud mans glory and his disgrace.
THE popular notion OF genius is-of
one who can do almost everything
cspt make a living.
WE prefer to confess our moral
errors, faults and crimes, rather than
our intellectual s.-[Goethe.
IT Is one of the curiosities of natural
history that horse eats best when he
has not bit in his mouth.
The latest definition of a gentle
man is man who can put on clean
collar without being conspicuous.
Be NOT ashamed of the virtues
honor is a good brooch to wear in a mans
hat at all times. = Ben johnson.
AS sURFETr is the father of much
fast, so very scope, by the immoderate
use, turns TO restraint. Shakespeare
TRUE love cannot exist without
purity of heart. Barrenness of heart is
the greatest of evils [Guldenstubb
WHY is a ballet-dancer most in
human creature? {? Because her greatest
delight is to execute her grand pas
THE only praiseworthy Indifference
is an acquired one we must feel, as
well as control, our passions Richter.
POETRY has no echo more sonorous,
and more prolonged, than the heart of
youth in which love is first born
TLamartine
WHAT is the difference between
plan of battlefield and a roasted
pippin? One is war-map, the other a
warm apple.
Ii YOUR neighbor's hens are trouble
some and steal across the way, don't let
your angry passions rise, but fix place
for them to lay.
The dwelling house is modern
institution. 1t is curious fact that it
has only improved with the social eleva-
ton of womsn.-[C. d. Warner.
No HEREsY was ever yet killed by
suppression the deeper it is thrust into
the ground, the stronger will be its
root. and the surer it's bloom.
WHICH is the oldest, Miss Antaqufse,s,
old Aunty Deluvian, Miss Ann Terror,
Miss Ann Cestor, Miss Ann T. Mundane,
or Miss Ann Il. Cedent?
The most accomplished way of
using books at present is to serve them
as some do lords, learn their titles and
then boast of their acquaintance
.S,oift.
The power of imagination is regu-
lassd through art, especially through
poetry. Nothing is more frightful than
Imagination without TASTE Goethcr.
NEVER was sincere word utterly
lost. Never magnanimity fell to the
ground, but there is some neart to greet
and accept it unexpectedly Emerson.
EVERY sweet thought is line of
beauty to the fuctuant form every
noble impulse shapes the dilated figure
to prCdder expression of its strength,
beauty and grace.
SIX feet in his boots exclaimed
Mrs. Beeswax. What will the impu-
dence of this world come to, wonder
Why. they might as well tell me that
the man had six heads in his hat.
The word love in one of the North
American Indian dialects is s'chemlen-
lamourtcheyager. Persons afflicted
with stammering find it difioult 20 give
expression to the sacred feeling.
A LoQUAoIoUs blockhead, after
some time to Lord Erskine.
observed he was afraid he wasintruding
on his lordship's ear Oh, not at all,
said Erskine have not been listening.
THAT is the great advantage of
dialogue on horseback lit can be merg-
ed a1x minute into trot or a canter,
and o4ie might have escaped from So
crates himself in the saddle.-[ AdaDl
Bede.
The beginning of hardship is like the
irst taste of bitter food-4it seems for |
unbearable; yet if there is no.
hing else to satisfy our hunger We
axe another bite. and find it possible to I
20 on George Eliot
Do you think am fool a violent |
nan asked the late Rev. DIR. Bethune
Really, replied the doctor, would not
AVE ventured the assertion, but now
hat you ask my opinion, I must say
hat am not prepared to deny it.
WHEN Sydney Smith had gravely
istened to the details of man dogs
curse through the streets of London
ow he frightened bishop. and was at
sngth dispatched with difficulty-the
lerical wit remarked that heSshould
Ike to hear the dogs side of the story.
THE following hit at the water-cure
ras made by Charles Lamb, and none
ut himself could have made 50 quaint
conceit It is, said he, neither new
or wonderful, for it is as old as the
eluge, which, in my opinion, killed
lore than it cured.
La Is good investment to have good
ature, and so much of it that you ex-
ale it, as flowers do their odors for
on do not know who will take the
'mfort of it, though there may be