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The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
who Can Explain.

The creeping" of railroad rails has
attrncted some attention of late, and
while we do not attempt TO explain it,
we offer point on the fact that, on
lines rInning north and south, the wes-
tern rail " creeps" faster than the cas-
tern rail that is, this strange move
ment of the rail toward the south Is
more marked in one rail than in the
other on the same track. Furthermore,
il has been noticed that ON such = line
the eastern rail wears out the fastest.
Both of these points. we think can be
explained by the motion of the earth
as il Turns from the west towards the
east. Everything that has free motion
is dragged after the whirling globe !;
every wind that blows, and every tide
that moves, feels the influence, and on
train going north or south is pulled
ovel toward the east. aud naturally
presses the eastern rail most heavily.
The western rail, being relieved of its
share of weight, "creeps more freely
and quickly" 1t is also noticed that
the wheels that run on the eastern rail
wear ont the fastest, and we but think
that this earth motion IS the true cause.
The practical side of this is. that the
eastern rail and wheels should be stron-
er.-.Scfentifc american.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
A Convict Making Moonshine.

About three months ago it was noticed
that many convicts and keepers at Sing
Sing, in the quarry gang, weW more or
less intoxicated when they went IN at
night, and many were the devices to
catch the supposed smuggler of liquor.
One OF the guard heard convict talk
ing in his cell and say I've alwavs
been good friend to you why don't
you set up straight. The guard looked
in and saw the convict addressing pop
bottle, which he then took from him.
1t ha / the odor of whisky, and the con-
Wet was drunk. Questioned by the
warden, he said that he bought the
whisky from the quarry distillery at
one dollar per bottle. Under a ledge,
hidden by some boards, the warden
found John Short, convict, at work in
tjoafde0 over, winch he used as ? boiler.
Some old barrels contained the mash,
which was the best of bread, canned toma-
toes, apples, potatoes and carrots. The
still was IN full blast, and from half an
inch gas pipe, twisted into IA worm, ran
a good stream of tolerably fair spirits.
John was searched, and 5000 were found
in his possession. he sold his stuff at
one dollar per pop bottle. The keep
ers, he said, were good customers. and
helped him to rig up his establishment,
and he had just completed arrange
ments to supply some neighboring ss-
looms with his products. The still pro-
duced an average of five gallons day.
MIXED MARRIAGES. "-H5H. Robert
Townsend, Nebraska probate Judge,
has recently taken some pains to ascer-
tain, as far as possible from official
sources, tho law in all the states con-
cerning the intermarriage of whites and
blacks. The Omaha Republican, pub
fishing the results of his inquiries, says
that such intermarriages are now valid
in New York, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey, South Caro-
lima, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Dis
trict of Columbia Maine, Michigan
and Illinois report that, although they
have prohibitory statutes, yet the law
with them is a dead letter, and that
such marriages frequently oc enf. "
The gentleman replying from Connect
cut said =" There is no law in the state
that prohibits the intermsrriage Of
whites and blacks, unless the black oh
iects.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

Don't he afraid Of having little fun in
the family. A merry disposition is God
send home. There's the case OF a man no
Nelson street, for instance. Saturday
he went into the kitchen ahead Of his
wife, and seeing two huckleberry pies
standing on the table, he hastily 4,
cealed them in the ice chest, which So
open In the back hall. Then he
down town chuckling 10 himself,
ten minutes later the ice cart drove
and the ice man brought IN fifty-p
cake and started for the ice chest, fol-
lowed closely by the fond wife expatia-
ting upon the "muss." He put tho
cake upon the edge of the chest and.
gave it push over, and when it came
down ON those two steaning pies, a
huckleberry geiser followed, and the ice
man, with eyes and face full of the dis.
charge, tumbled completely over the
woman, and disappeared ont of the
floor. The wife recovered her balance
as speedily as possible, and catching mp
a broom went after the ice man, but he
escaped her; then she came back and
looked into the ice chest, and down at
the oil-cloth, and mp at the ceiling, and
around on the walls. The men at the
store who we're let into the joke by the
facetious Nelson street man are anxious
ly WONDERING how il turned out.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
Winter care Of Horseg.

Considerable - written nowadays
about false economy IN various ways.
My observation leads to tho conclusion
that one important item is almost en-
tirely overlooked, and that thousanR
of dollars are lost each year by the
reless wintering OF farm horses. For
instance, farmer a. owns n fine span Of
horses he ia not much of a horseman,
but in the sulnmer be works them, and
keeps man who takes good care
them. In the fall, after work is over,
the horses are put into the stable and
fed all the hay they will eat (be the
same good or bad > or left perhaps a
week or two weeks at time, with little
or 40 exercise, and when they are dri.
ven, are let go at the top OF their speed.
Fast driving, with stomachs full of nm
msnt. The S result IS Iii is that year or
two, the horses have th heaves badly,
are spoiled for marketG End are unable
to do the usual amount of service on
the farm or road and this alone causes
a loss each year so long as the team is
used.
This'could in some degree be avoided,
by building shed with yard for ox-
ercise, and by feeding food OF sufficient
efre1gtb sesiss sSS & THAT that i%siniferaiisig aiiss
horses in the field on hay alone, viii
cause falling away of muscles and
difficult TO regain. No doubt,
being chilled by standing in a cold barn
is very injurious to horses. - Country
Gc)lfIeyy70n.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
widow clicquot,s wine cellars
Icor. y. y. Herald. ]

a new bottle Of champagne looks
likeO spiders web floating about in wa
ter. 1t is terrible stuff tokeep, andabout
fifteen per cent. of the wine kept in NJ.
Yernet's stock breaks yearly. As we
walked through NJ. Vernet's cellars bot.
ties were bursting on all sides of M
with reports louder than those of pis11
tolls, and almost as dangerous. When
q champagne bottle bursts in n work
mans hand, as it often does, il fr
quently deprives him Of his eyesis hit:
1t is hazardous thing to shake cham
pagne bottle, or even to touch 1t, aI
prudent people have their corks draTfr'
by the waiter.
Clicauot sells no magnumA of cham
pagne, only pint aud quar-. bottleaA
OF this brand quite as good
much prettier, and very littlet ~
the market. It is merely stsans,ga 81
old Bouzy wine, in the proports- ~
one part to twenty. There is no st1
champagne Of the Clicquot brand.
When the vine OF a particular win
tage proves unusually good, it is ken
to mix with the wine grown the follow
ing year, to keep up an average quality
The best champagne remains about SIS
months in the wood before bottliDg.
1t takes two full hours by the clocks
TO visit Widow Clicquots wine cellars,
and one comes out of them half stifled.
1t is a temple Of Bacchus, where he is
wormiped IN darkness, and the salutes
perpetually firing in his honor from
those bursting bottles are more costly
than the broadsides OF line-batt o ships.
WIDOW PoMHRY's CAVE.
There is also another sort OF champagne
wine cellar, which is constructed ont Of
some ancient chalk pits which were ac-
cidently discovered near Rhiems not
long ago. The best OF them belong to
widow Pornmery, a vigorous minded
old lady. who has built herself queer
looking castle Oh hill, without tree
near il. A fight of 100 broad stone
steps leads down to these chalk pits,
where one million five hundred thou
sand bottles Of champagne are stacked
away. They seem like the caverns Of
mighty genii, who dwell amid darknessE
and weird revels. Here the bottles,
like tipsy people, make most row at
night, and regular fen de joie is hsr
from then during the small Id
Large as is the quantity of champ
kept in stock, not more than 5,0Ot
bottles are exported yearly and cerl
ly not enough true Clicquot is sol
provide for the consumption Of Russia
alone.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

New York-Cotton in moderate request
and market firm, middling uplands 1Sssc; fu-
lures closed firm.
-Liyerpool-Cotton market strong. mid
ding uplands @915d. Middling Orleans
81 "a sgd Sales OF uplands on the
basis of good ordinary. for December and
January delivery, at sgd; sales of uplands
shipped during November and December, at
sgd; sales of hollands during October and
November at sgd; sales of Orleans on the
paris of good ordinary, for October and Noyem-
Der delivery, at 3-l6d; sales of Orleans ship
ped during October and November at 81 ID
Cincinnati. Oct. 7-cotton market steady,
middling 1756c.
St Louis. Oct. 7-Cotton market stronger
middling III Ca175Ec.
louisville Oct. 7-Cotton quotations adj
vanced low middling IKE.
Memphis. Oct. 7-Cotton market firm low
ding 1614c.
Galveston, Oct. 7-Cotton in light demand,
good ordinary 1870: Texas ordinary l2tSc
Savannah, Oct. Cotton market firm,
middling 165sc- =
Mobile, Oct. cotton market firm with
limited supply. middiing I751c.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
HER LIYE AND NINE.

Tomorrow viii come. and the sun may shine.
And the heavens be blue, and the day divine:
And the esrth and Sky may sing together
OF the glory and Joy Of ths sumner weather.
Let IL come with the sun, come with the shower
II will bring IN its round the fatal hour
That promised l. yield fos wlfe's sweet claims
My lues Lerce joys and its feyered aims.
Tomorrow will come and yet, and yet,
i trenbe 70 see yon golden sun set
/ tremble 10 the dim starlight strengthen,
trenble to see the gray shadows lengthen,
And 10 the last lights burn low in the sky.
And the shades aud gl0oms of earth magnify
More than al, l trenIble to ask my soul why
It should shrink frcrn a day that With Heaven
should vie.
Her life into mine, like soft Inooabeam
That kisses the breast Of . sullied stream,
Tomorrow shall FAM aud God only knows
whether
These lives, uniike, shall nlingle together.
Mine so defiled il would almost seem
They never could blend, more than oil with the
sea,
Though they flowed on together III rough eternity
She viii yield the morrow her snow-white life
With It's gentle aims and its sinless strife;
Her hearts first love, 80 deep and tender
And her rich young years unto me she'll render.
Aud /, in return, shall give her --ah Wlat9
All the evils that fall 10 the sinners lot,
guilty soul, and deadened heart
~ TO-. impulse Of youth hath never part.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

BIZ the use s thin leaves of steel in
the construction of artificial magnets,
NJ. Jannin has so increased the carrying
power of these magnets as to construct
one weighing about four and half
pounds, which could carry a weight of
ninetAine pounds. The great advan-
tage toN expected from this discovery
is the reduction in the weight of the
magnetic electric machines of all kinds,
and especially of those employed in the
production of light.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

TIE cake has been ordered for the
wedding of the duke Of Edinburgh and
that Russian girl. 1t viii be seven
feet and six inches high, and will weigh
280 pounds.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
eENERAL IYTEAIGENcE.

The proposition OF 4 Cooke & Co. to
transfer all their prope7K including their in
dividual property and tAat of their wives, Of
whatever character, to Mr.. Rollins, in trust
for the creditors, paying in five per cent in
stallments a. that sum shall be realized from
time to time from the assets meets with gen
eraI' 'faver. Mr. Rollins viii be recolected as
commissioner of internal revenue for several
years, and is now tine president of the National
insurance company of Philadelphia, of which
jay Cooke was the principal stockholder. 1t
is unders ood that this proposition OF Cooke
& Co also includes the option of creditor to
take real estate or other property OF the firm
at its appraised vslue.
1t is stated that the suspended First Ma
tional bank of Washington will pay 75 per
cent OF its indebtedness irrespective Of their
claims upae Jay Cooke & Co for about 300, o00-
-TbA apartment OF state has been in
formed by Gen1 Shenck that the Nttional as
sooiation of science OF London las offered
prize of -e300 to the person who shall write
the most able essay ON the following subject:
In what way ought an international assembly
to be constituted for the formation Of code
of public intero ional law, and what ought
tobe the principles on which such code should
be formed The association invites the COM
petition of Americans for the prize. The
essay is to be serA to the association on or
before the 1st OF Ju @. 1874.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

Tar Virginia educational society pro-
hibits girls from studying algebra. II
thinks their fgures are good snonsh al
ready.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

A MORNING paper, in an account of
the voyage of the JQniata to Greenland,
describes "the effeN lof blubber on the
female form, ThsAenect Of female
biubbes 90 he malls !, ra is known to
be melting il the extrsAs,
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

MAST hop-growers have been called
upon to respond in various amounts for
infringing OF patent for stringing hop
vines, that Of using short poles and
running strings between them for the
vines to cling to.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

BRIsBASE will soon commence laying
a new pneumatic tube between the
capitol and the government printing
office at Washington. It will be en-
closed in an octagonal box to protect it
from the pressure of the earth, which
crushed the first one he put down.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

As stand before f1,.e'- and men, palm to palm,
While the low wedding-chants high over us hover,
O then viii my soul its full shame discover.
And when her soft lips shall tremble and say.
g In sickness in health, in death-and always ~
Humbled, abashed, by her pure, sweet trust,
My spirit shall fan at her feet in the dust
Perhaps she would lift it bu; then her white
hands
Would gather the dust and the stains Of the sands
o women who stand with men at the aiteri
Your pure sweet lips would tremble and falter
Did their sin-etained lives lie open ike scrolls
or an angel in waiting stand Weighing yonr souls
Yours, mounting upward, as if unto God
Theirs, sinking down like the dark foul ciod
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

IL THE SPRING. TINE Sow THY SRED.-
Before the fifth year how many seeds
are sown which future years, and dis
tant ones, mature successfully How
much fondness, how much generosity,
what hosts of other virtues, courage.
constancy, patriotism, spring into the
fathers heart from the cradleo OF hischild.
And does never the fear come over
n man that what is most precious to him
upon earth is left in careless or perfidi-
Gus. in unsafe or unworthy hands |?
Does it never occur 70 him that he loses
son in every one of these five years
Lander.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

"A PennsylvRnia paper employs 4
calico foreman, two dinity componefa
aud pink muslin devil, and does
bustling bpEiness.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
to Political Economi.aE

Interesting to Political Economi IS.
There Is yet another argument CO..
The impious greed for riches, the, =
themselves, in strictly monetary fos =
having no exisssSce beyond insignifi-
ant limits, saveS N the diseased imagi-
nation OF credulous minds I know n
great philosopher, in soft blXk hat
md the newspaper business, who has
,bly maintained for years, with irrefu-
table ingenuity of reasoning and mar
velous felicity OF professional olIustra-
tion, that the whole amount of ready
money in the world, not belonging to
kings and governments, the actual dem
milton hard cash, to be shown in the
hand, mind you-cannot possibly
amount 10 more than about seven hun
dred and fifty dollars and quarter
GOO. 25.) OF f'this, Mr.. William b. As
tor may have, say, $3.50; Mr.. A. T.
Stewart, 900; Mr.. Vanderbilt, 300;
and the remainder divided up in S5O's
sna 2S,s :, sgeRgstb batAfr siE5ic E5icp pr32iissf
one and men anotiief member 81
the press. This theory has starting
sound at first; but its profoundly able
enunciator has put it 10 proof, time and
again, in the society of capitalists with
success. At their b MS
ter about securities" " mortgages"
6 checks" notes, bank stock, "
% first-class paper" aud 50 on, he has
invariably responded, o yes, paper, and
the houses and lots, and ali that. 1 ad-
nIt all that but take ont your pocket
et-books. I mean real ont I'd out |
money % And never did he find the |
iull amount Of his above liberal esti-
na es amongst the whole OF them
O. Kerr.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
Effect of Extra Feed.

The Farm and Preside Journal thus
summarizes the results of some expe-
riments in feeding pigs;
During the warm weather two and
one-half pounds OF extra food produ
eed one pound live weight. This would
be most extraordinary result, ii ap-
piled to all the food taken by the pigs
but they had ali the good grass they
could eat, and this food supplied the
vast of the system, the animal heat,
and kept the pig growing moderately,
and this extra food was used solely to
lay on flesh. Here is the secret Cf
high feeding. The extra food diges
ted all goes to profit, whereas the food
that supplies animal waste produces no
gain in the flesh, and if no more is fed
than to supply waste in the young ami
NAL, the food is all thrown away. Full
feeding i the only profitable feeding,
and this leads to early maturity and
early profit. The most profitable feed
ing of pigs is before they are ten months
old. No profit results in keeping pigs to
eighteen months and two years old, ex-
cept for breeding purposes; and be
sides, these eighteen to twenty-four
months hogs do not generally average
more than $50 to Apounds, live
weight, and $50 pour, be reached
in Ten or twelve m5S Many mil
= .,
thrown away every year by half feeding
or feeding principally a cold instead
OF warm weather.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

LETTERS and papers for officers and
seamen abroad must be prepaid the
same as other postal matter. else they
VIII not reach their destination. 50
snxsuHcss the aavy dspartnaeHt.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

The plant papyrus, which gave its
name to our word paper, is of more i'm
portance in history than cotton and
silver and gold. First used for writing
between 8, 900 and 1000 years ago, and
though it hardly grows now IL Egypt,
where lately searched for it in vain.
aud whence it came, you will remember,
1 always recall with satisfaction that
saw that venerable plant in 1888 grow
ing Wild at Syracuse in Sicily. near the
fountain OF AIethusa Emerson
l.. l..
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

DURING the fervid summer heats, ripe
fresh fruits are the most desirable fruits
we can procure. do not mean the sun
withered, long gathered fruits of the
hucksters, but those that come to us
wet with the morning dews. freshly
picked from trees or vines, and lus cious
as those of Paradise.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11
The mnnthlr nnhlic deht stnteme.

The monthly public debt statement
shows no greater reduction, or account
OF the purchase by the government OF
the thirteen and one half million dol
lars worth of five twenty bonds though
that reduction has in fact been made,
so far as the accounts OF the treasury
now show. However, the transaction
is simply an exchange Of assets for liza
bilities, but these bonds cannot again
be issued, and the interest on them
is stopped. It is only after they
have been examined and destroyed that
they viii enter into the monthly state
ment as a reduction of the debt.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11


domestic servants ended. It is because
women derive 50 much pleasure from
discussing the subject Place two wo-
men together, and Il makes 20 differ-
= s.s9 ~1sg1ner the conyersataon eiaFta
'-<.la.>it lKill X !, cerfnsp ~ 1r1ft nround
70 the hired girl ducsti0n before MANY
minutes have elapsed. We have seen
on elderly housekeeper, with expert
ence in conducting the talk in the right
direction, break into q discusaion Of
Pythagoras and the doctrine ofokhe
transmigration of souls, and switch
the entire debate with such expedi
that an unsophisticated listener wo
for some s,moments have an indis
impression that the conversation rem,
red 10 the insufficiency of Pythagoras
as a washer and ironer, and TO the ten
dency of that heather philosopher 10
take two Thursdays out Of every week.
And when a woman has an unusually
villainous hired gifl who burns up the
coal, wastes the butter, mixes her hair
in the biscuits and stuffs her relations
with the sugar, it is interesting TO OBJ
serve how she glories In the superiority
Dbf her suiferings TO those of her neigh
'bors, and Low, as she tells Of them, she
gloats over her misery and feels good
about it. A woman who has a really
competent servant is always in a condi-
ton of abject wretchedness on such oc-
casions. -Afd1 Adeler.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

A VERY cu5. ~ s--s=- - pos
session CT Queen ssctorM twas made
at the celebrated ne9lle factory of
Redditch, and represens the column of
Trajan in miniature. This well-known
Roman column is adorsSd with nume-
rous scenes in sculpt 6Sehich immor-
talize Traian's heron IONS in war.
On this dinninutive needle scenes in the.
life of Queen Victoria are represented
in relief, but so finely eut and so small
that it requires magnifying glass to
see them. The VictoEia needle can,
moreover, be opened itcontains num-
Der of needles of smaller size. which
are equally adorned with scenes inrelief.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

MAKING THE BEsr OF rF.-Little
Minnie, only three years old, to anluse
a home-sick cousin who was visiting at
her house, brought out her choicest
playthings. Among these was a tiny
trunk, with bands of gilt paper for
straps, very pretty toy, but Freddie
bent the lid too far back, and it broke
off. He did not mean to do this, and
when he saw what he had done, he was
frightened and began 70 cry. Then little
Minnie, with her own eyes full of tears.
said: '' Never mind, Freddie, Just see
what cunning little cradle the top will
make?" That was certainly great
deal better than fretting. She made
the best of Cnildren's Hour.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

Bors IN HoRsEs.--In the Popular
Science Monthly there is short article
relative to the power of endurance
manifested by the larvae of some in
sects, and among them of the bot fly.
1t mentions case where piece of the
stomach of a dead horse. which was
covered with bot worms was spread on
a board and spirits of trUpentine was
poured on the worms yet after an
hour not one was detached from the
flesh. Then whale-oil was poured on
them, when they all let go their hold,
and died almost Immediately. Hence
the Inference that whale-oil should be
used to detach the worms from the liv-
ing horse, when attacked by bots.
The Hickman courier., 1873-10-11

BONDS IsSCED TO PACIFIC EAfI.aOAl f.51frkSIg,s
TEREsT PAYABLE y LAWFUL 1I0SEr.
Bonds issued 70 Pacihc ralrcad
company. interest payable IA
money, principal outstanding. O., ,623 512 %
Interest accrued aGd not yet paid. 9d9, ,352 90
Interest paid by United States. 2O,447,9S5 90
Interest paid by transportation ~
malls. etc, .....-........:... s,A22,ll
Balance interest paid by United
T. &