The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-27


| thing.
THE Peoria woman who wanted to
| throw herself into her husbands grave
a few months ago has just married a
lightning.rod man.
NORTH CAROLINA is the state, after
all. Brttermilk will keep sweet thirty
six straight hours, and strawberries
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the one who has hold of the handle. y
PRoF. WArsoS says that there il
never more than a million stars in sight
at once, but it will be safe to count 'em
before swallowing the statement.
An Arizona girl shot her lover and
then nursed .him tenderly till he died.
His last words were, 81 forgive you
Mary you did it with an ivory handled
pistol.
MANY a man thinks it's virtue that
keeps him from turning a rascal, when
it's only a full stomach. One should be
careful, and not mistake potatoes for
principles.
No STATE but Massachusetts could
hold a summer session of the legisla-
ture, but there the members are too
lean to sweat, and too stingy if they
weren't too lean.
SOME ONE was talking to M. Theirs
about the state of France. "Don't say
France" interrupted the veteran states
man, " call it the Duchy Of Magenta"
Which was malicious but good.
NOTHING hurts the feelings of n Vas
sar girl so much as TO be told, in the
presence of strangers at the breakfast
table. that she must limit herself to
thirty pancakes on this occasion"
KATE FIELD saws she Poes on TO the
stage simply to get physical exercise,
as sedentary life is killing her. Physi-
clans say that raking in three hundred
dollars a night has tendency TO build
up the tissue.
SARAH BRIGGS (reading the local)-
" Sakes alive / would no more name
a child Alias than nothin' in the world.
They're allurs cuttin' up some caper.
Here's Alias Thompson, Alias Williams,
Alias the Night Hawk, all been took up
for stealin'."
ONE curious feature of American pro-
gress is the fact that this country con-
sumes as much ice as all the world be-
sides. It is also notable that dyspep-
STA is our national disease. The infer
ence is easy that too much ice-watsr
impedes digestion. There can be and
often is as much intemperance in drink
ing water as in drinking whisky.
Address by n Detroit Judge "H
it wasn't for your children, I'd put you
where the coach dogs couldn't bite you.
I'm going TO let you go this time for
their sakes, but look out for me in fu-
t5e Ie that tep c ya are eEeF FnDase pas1s
Trot out of here, and don't tarry to see
what becomes of the rest. ="
THE Paris Figaro contains a sensa-
tional mention of Mile. Croizette, who
is performing in the Sphinx at the
Theater Francais. In the enactment of
her character in the play she assumes
to poison herself, and dies upon the
stage-a personation which she is said
to perform with such truthfulness to
nature as to ca ! forth long comments
in the daily press. One physician
comes out in a card, and declares over
his own signature that she does virtual
" poison herself nightly, and that such
reality will sooner or later prove fatal
if persisted in.
PERHAPS the most amused of the old
philosophers, or, as we are in the habit
of calling them, " Fathers of the Rev
olution," if he had a chance to see the
post-offics department in the city OF
Washington, would be Benjamin Frank
lin. In 1855, when he was postmaster
general, he gave notice 'ethat hereafter
the winter northern mail from Philadel-
phia to New England, which used to
set ont but once n fortnight, shall start
once week all the year round, whereby
answers may be obtained to letters be-
tween Philadelphia aud Boston in three
weeks, which used to require six weeks.
AMONG the waiting passengers at the
Central depot, Detroit, were a widow
woman and five children, and by-and-by
a man who was waiting for the same
train opened a conversation with the
widow and soon remarked that he
would like to marry iust such a little
woman. Here, Susan, hold this
satchel % said the woman, turning to
her oldest daughter, and then, reaching
for the mans arm, she continued
GIVE been looking for you about five
years % Everybody shouted and jumped
with glee, and when the scapegoat
backed flat down they said he, ought to
be dumped into the river.
MEN seldom give pleasure when they
are not pleased themselves it is nec-
essary, therefore, 10 cultivate habit
ual alacity and cheerfulness, that, in
whatever state we may be placed by ma
ture - whether we are appointed to
confer or receive benefits, to implore or
afford protection may secure thu
love of those with whom we have deg
ined that he who grants tavors N
spare any attention to his behavior, an
that usefulness will always procur'
friends, vet it has been found that thereN
is an art in granting requests-an art
very difficult of attainment.
AN Iowa doctor writes of the remark
able grasshoppers that do so much
damage in that state e" In my opinion
they come from the lower portion OF
the British possessions. They are a
verv hardy insect. 1t takes quite a
freeze TO kill them. Immerse one IN
water for three hours, and he'll come
TO and have a better masticative and
digestive faculty than ever. They wil
deyour arsenic with the avidlty OF
modern belle. When their wings are
we'll developed they have better loco
motive power than the old western stage
company ever had, and those that are here
have at this date got a wing develop
ment now OF about a quarter OF an
inch in length, while the body is ABOUT
three quarters OF an inch in length.