The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-01
SAYING AND DOINGs.
ROMANTIC school girls now spell
alIvO with n final die -


were you, I'd sit in the gallery.
Cart. FRrs widow has started a
woOl-yard in New Orleans. She num-
bers her friends in that city by the
cords.
TEE number of Jews in Jerusalem at
the present time is said to be 10000,
thus forming more than half Of tho en-
tire population.
IT is shrewdly observed that sawdust
pills would cure a great many diseases
if the patient would only make his own
tawdust.
ESTHER SHAW, Of Davenport, Iowa,
worked thirteen years in one family be-
fore asking for a cent of pay. Needn't
write for her she's dead.
A CNc1NNArI boarding-school girl,
while indulging with her companions
in the amusement of kicking at a mark
the other day, dislocated her thigh
joint.
CoNNECrIcUr loses $500 sheep every
year by dogs, but if it wasn't for
spotted dog under the buggy who
would take any pleasure in driving
out?
TENNYsoNIAS, MORE or I4Ess;-
Low ore her brow she pastes her hair,
Down curving to her Grocian nose;
Her frizzles once her fondest care,
Are wilted as u last years rose.
LAxD1ADY (fercely) -" You must
not occupy that bed with your boots
on 81 Boarder r.. q never mind,
b5cs cs5f fafFp els1 4H2 u rfsf 4s an hs5
how"
TEN years from now Germany expects
| TO be able to put into the field trained
army of one million six hundred men.
! This, for a country that has no Indian
war on hand, viii be rather enterprisiDg
IT is estimated that it costs the peo-
/ pie of the United States s., 5,O0O,OO0
/ yearly to keep their teeth in repair. All
! the consequence Of drinking ice water,
which, say the dentists, cracks the en-
amel.
WHEN a Tennessee husband will
! horsewhip his wife for washing potatoes
in his Sunday plug hat it is time to in
/ quire whether this generation Of men
! isn't getting to be too confounded high
toned for the age Of the country?
Az interesting little boy, timid when
left alone in a dark room, was over
heard recently by his mother 70 say in
his loneliness, go Lord, don't let any g.
one hurt me, and I'll go to church next
Sunday, and give you some money"
TURN for a moment from the Beecher
scandal and ponder over the fact that
the footprints OF a Chicago lady on
the prairie near Michigan city got a
crowed of men out to hunt for a stray
elephant.
" WHAT do you know Of the character
of this man 2" was asked Of a witness at
police-court the other day. "WhPt
do 1 know Of his character ? ] know 1t
to be unbleachable, your honor" he
replied with much emphasis.
WHEN an Indian chief comes down
| to making AK handles and selling them
at eleven cents apiece, as the case
with Big Wolf, of Nevada, it's time TO
chip in for a monument 10 Cooper and
Longfellow.
OYE reason why Wisconsin hired girls
get four dollars per week Is because
they have TO 60 down stairs at midnight
to investigate strange noises, while the
man of the house takes up a position
under the bed.
"DEsERTED by all but his aged bob
tailed dog, his life went slowly out as
the shadows of the setting sun crept
over &c front stoop of Darhng's gro
cery," is the way they express them
selves in Georgia.
FATHER TAYLOR, while lecturing on
tgansranse Yss. hisssd by one 81 his
stopped, pointed to the offender and
said. "There's a red nose got into cold
water don't you hear it hiss?
AT High Falls, n. Y, the other day,
a young lady, while crossing n field,
was knocked down by a ram, and the
next time the damaged damsel saw her
lover she informed that astonished
youth that he might go about his busi-
ness, as she was disguised with the sex.
BECAUSE st. Louis paper said some
thing about the boot of public indig-
nation" !" the jealous Louisville Courlor-
Journal must 90 and say On St.
Louis foot such boot would be cap
able OF kicking the stufing out OF
range of mountains"
A serpent saw an eagle gain,
On soaring wing, mountain height,
And envied him, and crawled with pain
To where he was the bird aligh
So tickle fortune Oftentimes
Befriends the cunning aud the base,
And oft the groveling reptile climbs
Up to the eagles lofty plaee
THE Detroit Free Press gives this
study: "It is a very pleasant picture
to behold a fat woman seated on the
front steps of her vine-clad cottage,
putting a pitch on her husbands trows-
ers with one hand and motionlng on
with the other what she'd do II she
were Beecher."
COLUMBUS, Ga, is enthused with wild
DELIGHT over the establishment in that
CITY of an artificial ice manufactory,
wherein the crystal Jumps are made at
cost of less than one-tenth OF cent
per pound. In consequence, wonder
ful stimulus has been given to the con-
sumption OF juleps, smashes, and other
iced drinks hitherto strange to the
parched Columbian palate.
HALLoo you black rascal, what are
you rubbing your sooty nose against
| that fish for ?'' "I amt rubbin' my
nose apin nm. masr." "What are you
doing 3 "Me talk to um, dat's all"
ssTalk to a fish p Yah, yah. /" " And
what do Won saw ?" Me ask um what's
| tbe news at sel." "And what does the
! fish answer TO that ?" " BY golly he
saws be don't know. he haipt been
thar desc tree weeks.
JOHN MoRRIssEY's club house at
Saratoga is in full blast. Most open
and shameless is the various gambling
carried on in this really elegant estab-
Hall, and young gentlemen and old steal
away from gay partners in the waltz IN
the evening, and go from the parlors OF
the Grand Union and United States
over to the gambling den of the illus
trious law-naker.
"OH, LoRDl thou knowest, prayed
a Connecticut deacon in church meeting,
ss that I am afflicted with a most impious
and depraved son. Thou knowest that
he will swear, and lie and steal, and do
all sinful things. Thou knowest that
on last Sabbath day he was seen walk
ing down the principal street In the
village, with his hands in his pockets,
whistling the following ungOdly tune
and the congregation we're astounded
to hear Z. Yankee Doodle" flow melodi-
ously fr0Ethe deacon's pursed-up hpF'
COLONY of such men as the late
Simon Sturges, of Allentown, Pa, sent
into a state whe0 the female portion
i of the populations out numbers the
males six to one. might accomplish a
great. deal. "He had been married
four times, the weddings having been
on his fortieth, fiftieth. sixtieth and
seventieth birthdays. His last wife
was dead, too, and il is likely that, had
MIR. SturQes lived another year, he