The Hickman courier., 1873-02-08
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+ A BEa6..FuL young widow of Me
phis, Tenn, has joined the Oneida Com
munity, and recorded a vow to remain
forever true to the members thereof.
A GIRL with $1,000 year advertises
for husband in the London papers
The trouble is she wants a lord, and
they are scarce at the price.
90 IT seems to me that Mrs. G. g hair
was nearly gray year ago." Eyes,
nearly" "But now it's perfectly
black" "Ah, yes; you know she's lost
her husband since then"
Mrs. SAM'L CoLr makes $500, 900 a
year by the sale of revolvers. She sup
plies the New York markets literally,
as it is proved by the frequent murders
that are perpetrated with her pistols.
A CANADA paper tells about woman
at Kingston who recently woke from a
nine years sleep. Her slumbers were
uninterrupted during that period, except
for short time each day at noon, when
she halted five minutes for refresh
ments.
THE chief clerk of the Portland (Me. }
pension agency is a woman, and is high
ly praised for her business talents. Wo-
men are working into public Offices very
rapidly all over the country There are
numerous postmistresses in the western
States, and a number in the eastern.
IT is rather expensive to tell town
clerk of Massachusetts, a young lady is
older than she really is, besides being
peculiarly narrowing to the feelings of
the lady herself There was n young
man who wanted to marry miss of four
teen. He told the clerk she was sixteen,
and for that little act of his imagination
he was fined $500.
A NORWICH gentleman of broad social
views wrote note to the handmade who
wrestles with his crockery inviting her
to take a sleigh ride with him. Unfor-
tunately the slave was unable to read,
and brought the note to the wife of his
bosom to decipher. Wretched and
heartsick, the miserable woman waited
in agonizing suspense till her husbands
return, and the family physician says he
didn't consider it possible for delicate
female to do so much damage.
A MISERABLE English charwoman, with
an exhibition of audacity which is be-
coming quite common of late among the
British peasantIy, called the Earl of
Winchelsea to court for debt, and his
lordship treated the matter with con-
tempt. An execution was issued against
his goods and chatels. The officer with
the writ was resisted by legion of fun
keys, whom he first whipped and then
sued. The charwoman got her money.
LIZ THE boy believed that the accumu-
lation of wealth and the acquisition of
power wero what the old man says they
are, the world would very soon be
stagnant. If he believed that his
chances of obtaining either were as
poor as the majority of men find them
to be, ambition would die within him.
1t is because he rejects the experience
of those who have preceded him, that
the world is kept in the topsy -turvy
condition which we all rejoice in, and
which wecall progress. n. Warner.
A PORTLAND sea-captain who has been
absent from home for eight years ar
rived last week. Calling upon n lady
friend soon after, he was panied to see
what he supposed to be the result Of
some terrible injury to the spine. He
delicately questioned her upon the sub
iect, but she was apparently at a loss to
comprehend his meaning. Finally, after
much canvassing at cross-purposes, the
lady discovered that the old salt serious
supposed her panier TO be tumor, or
some other unsightly excrescence, caused
by disease of the spine.