The Hickman courier., 1874-05-16
SWINGS kND D0INas.

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he never so irreligious.
A GEORGIA clergyman has thirty-two
| children. His sermons are nearly all
upon the subject of ga better life than
this"
ArLAsr General Concha is going to
try the expedient Of striking the Car
lists in the rear. Just what they de-
serve.
THERE are twenty mills in Montana
cruthing gold quartz. The silver ore is
nearly all shipped t. Europe, much of
it going to Swansea, Wales.
To a BorTLE.-
HTis very strange that You and
Together cannot pull
For you are fun when ] am dry,
And dry when I ann full
ArA revival in a western town, ont Of
one hundred converts fully two-thirds
were males, which tho women explain
BY saying their own sex are mostly an
gels already.
IT IS astonishing how rapidly young
mans emotion viii change when lady
relieves her waist from his encireling
arms by inserting about one inch Of
hair-pin in it.
INSCRIPTION on n tombstone in Co
lumbia, Tenn: " Escaped the bullets
of the enemy TO be assassinated by a
covardly pup-r kind husband, an af-
fectionate father
ExPERnrENTs have recently been made
with dynamite as means OF clearing
J land OF timber STAMPS. Tie cXpicriFc
compound is said to do Tie work 6f.S
fectually and with little trouble.
II ONLY takes three hours and about
half a cord OF wood 10 put a millionaire
s-f r~s..~ crra11 r~Io.a hc4f1a Tho
only difficulty 10 be apDrehended is the
inevitable increase OF family jars.
CoRNELrUs @. LoGAN, minister pleni-
potentiory Of the United States to Chill,
has consented to act as arbitrator in the
question between Peru and Chill aris-
ing ont of the liquidation of the ac-
counts of the allied squadron during
the war with Spain.
"YoU never saw such a happy lot Of
people as we had here Yesterday" said
landlady IN Indiana TO n newly arriv-
ed guest " there were thirteen couples
of them" What Thirteen couples
Just married ?" "Oh. 10, sir thirteen
couples just divorced"
GEN JOIN @. BBECKISRIDGE is slowly
recovering from his dangerous sickness.
It viii probably be some time before
he will be we'll enough TO read with en-
tire equanimity The Cincinnati Gazette's
elaborate obituary notice of him, under
the title of A wasted life."
CON Mary, my heart is breaking"
said an Aberdeen lover 70 his Highland
Morv. Z" Is it, indeed? So much the
better for you" w2s her quiet reply.
" Why, my idol p " Because, Mr..
McSmilh, when it broken out and out,
you can sell the pieces for gunhints."
HAPPEEss.-
There is not i'm This wide world haprier life
Than 70 sit by the atoye-pipe and tickle your
wife
To kiss hcr warm lips in your moments OF glee,
And twi. tine cats tail when she jumps ON
your knee.
A CmcAGo paper speaks Of the great
American hag-toter as Sergeant Bates,
the sublime iackass, nI no unpreju-
diced mind can contemplate the SER
geaut's ears, towering heavenward IN
their pride Of place, without acknowl-
edging the well-merited character of
the compliment.
FIRST BUFFIAN. .-" Wot was hup for,
and wot ave / got? Well, l., foor'd a
woman and took her watch, and I've got
two years and q f0g7ing." Second ruff
fian.-"Ah L flung q woman ont o the
top floor window an I've only got
three months" First rufian.- All,
but then She was yer wife"
SoaIE OF tine planters in the tnunda.
TI~-f-ia-ia heve bod tfree crops washed
out in the last two months, and they no
longer feel interested in the question Of
less cotton and more corn, but have
begun seriously thinking if it viii not
be "no cotton and still less corn"
LAST year was a bad year for cham
Dapne. In 1873 thirty thousand dozen
N-.a lila H. inn.
ported into the United States than
reached here in 1872. Now that the
crusaders have got 20 work it may be
that 1874 viii show a still larger diminu-
ton Of the trade.
MUCH of the most vd,uable land in
Georgia was originally distributed by
lottery. and many owners Of real estate
have abstracts Of cit G going back TO lot
terry tickets Tie system IS TO be revlv-
ed. The legislature has authorized a
scheme for the sale OF lands by lottery,
and an Office is 60 be opened in Augusta.
1t Is expected that the owners of large
plantations viii subscribe.
TEE blandness Of expression that will
spread itself over the cOrntenances OF
all good and true temperance crusaders,
when they read the following, can not
be counterfeited Wednesday last the
parents Of b Y. five years OF age, hy-
ino, in Davenport, Iowa, celebrated his
birthday. and drank his health in punch
aud other Intoxicating drinks. They
left cup Of whisky, and in the morn
ING the child arose before the parents,
drank the whisky and died IN a few
hours in great agony"
THEoDoRE r. TYABY, the inventor Of
the revolving turret battery, having had
GREAT experience ia machinery for weld
I'M heavy ordnance, is contemplating
the construction of the largest telescope
lens, ever made. he proposes a lens
more than twice the size of that recent
Iv made by Alvin Clark Tor the Wash
ington Observatory. Preparatory steps
to casting a lens of five feet IN diameter
have been taken near Tarrytown, New
York. If his experiment proves as sue
cessful as he has rea on TO hope, Mr..
Tvmbv's Efforts viii place American az
Economical science far in advance of that
of other countries.
A PLANTER in Virginia, being dressed
for sorne speciaI occasion, said to Uncle
Ben. an old family servant. Uncle
Ben. how DO I look p Why, you
ooks splendid, narster, splendid.
! Why. you looks as bold as lion.
seWbaf do. Won know about q lion :
You never saw. one" Why, yes,
| did. marsfer, rs often seed a lion;
often" " Where, Uncle Ben ?" "Why,
! down on Master Johnson's plantation
they's got lion, and yon seed him,
/ too / know you has" Why, you
! old goose, you, that is not a lion; II Is
a iackass, and they have named him
! Lion" "Well, ] don't care about dat
II don't care for dat. You looks just
| like him.
AquatiOn vs.. cremation