The Hickman courier., 1873-02-15
GRAVE AND GAY.


How to prevent tits-Buy ready-made
boots.
A GAME of pitch and 5Tss-s-E 5Ts--ss-,E1 lie on
the ocean wave.
CoRS-FIEIDs that require neither
plowing nor sowing feet.
NoTHSG is more injurious to a new
truth than an old error.-Goethe.
Cop appoints our graces to be nurses
to other mems Weaknesses -Beecher.
A Man that don't know any thing
VIII tell it the first time he gets
chance.
WHY is the road of the transgressor
so hard? Because it is so much travelled.
1t don't take as much sense to pick
locke forge a check as it do as to not
do it.
THE first and last thing that is re-
quired Of genius is the love of truth
Goethe.
DoS'r take too much interest in the
affairs of your neighbors. Six per
cent. VIII do.
WE desire Immortality, not as the re-
ward of virtue, but as its continuance.
-Richter.
MAS must cling to the faith that the
ineoneeivable is conceivable; else he
viii not seek.
POETRY is the true. expression of an
excited, exalted soul, without aim or
purpose Goethe.
THE chief difference between man
and man is a difference of impression
ability. Emerson.
No man is so insignificant as that he
can be sure his example can do no hurt.
-Czarendon.
WHEN it rains pudden you hold up
your dish but don't spend your time
watchen for a shower.
How to get all the music out of n
grand piano-Let a steam fre-engine
play on it a few minutes.
A MAN, in this world. is bov speI-
Ing in short syllables; but he VIII
combine them in the next.-Beecher.
TINS world is full of compensations.
The more Priegf go up, the more we
have to come Town for everything
If wise men never made mistakes
this would be hard world for fools
OF whom a great many are which.
WHEN Jonah's fellow-passengers
pitched him overheard. they evidently
regarded him as neither prophet nor
loss.
We must be afraid OF neither poverty,
nor exile, nor imprisonment of fear it.
self only should we be afraid.-E,pic-
tet,ts.
The superfuous blossoms on a fruit
tree. are meant to symbolic the large
way in which God loves to do pleasant
things
If man speaks or acts with an evil
thought, pain follows him as the wheel
follows the foot of him that draws the
carriage.
A YOUNG lady of Is, who had worn
short dresses, positively told her mamma
she would wear them no longer
THE world, nowadays, presses a gen
eral education upon us we need not
therefore trouble ourselves further
about that, but should rather devote
ourselves to specialties.
Alas if the principles of sentiment
are not within rs, the height of station
and worldly grandeur viii as soon add
cubit to a mans stature as to his hap
piness.-Stey7le.
GENTLEMAN coming into the room
of DIR. Barton, told him that Mr.. Vowel
was dead What, said he. Vowel
dead? Let US be thankful that it was
neither u nor /.
SOME ingenious observer has discov-
cred that there is remarkable resem-
blance between-a baby and wheat, since
1t is Graded, then thrashed, and finally
becomes the flower OF the family.
THE mothers yearning, that COM
pletest type of the life in another life
which is the essence of real human
love, feels the presence of the cherished
child even In the base, degraded man.
George EZiot.
wrrTr boy, sufferIne -,-csa the ap-
plication of the birch, said. Forty rods
are said to be furlong. know better.
Let anybody get such plaguy licking
as I've had. and he'll find out that one
rod makes an acher
GRACE is in garments, in movements.
III manners /; beauty in the nude and in
forms. This is true of bodies; but
when we speak of feelings, beauty is In
their spirituality, and grace in then
moderation.-Joubert
'TIs the good reader that makes the
good book; good head cannot read
amiss; in every book he finds passages
which seems condolences or asides hid.
den from all else ard enthusiastically
meant for his ear.-Ehaerson
THERE is no despair so absolute al
that which comes with the first moments
of our first great sorrow, when we have
not yet known what it is to have suffer
ed and be healed, to have despaired and
to have recovered hope.-Ada1s Beds.
WISDOM is like electricity. There is
no permanently wise man, but men ca
pable of wisdom, who, being put into
certain company, or other favorable
conditions, become. wise for a short
time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric
power for a Emerson.
Miss TEMPERANCE ANDERSON, resi-
dent of Baden, Beaver County, Penn
sylvania, has hair six feet and hal.
long. 1t is quite thick and fine, blonde
in color.
A LADY with very unmusical voice
insisted upon singing at recent party
What does she call that inquired {
guest The Tempest, I think, answered
another. Don't be alarmed, said sea
captain present. It's no tempest Iti
only squall, and viii soon be over,