The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-14

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too proud to sleep on corn husks.
| DEATHS take place, the world over,
at the rate OF one every two seconds.
There is a sense of profound relief in
the thought that every time n man
goes ont of the world, baby and a
half are coming into it.
"BoY," said a traveller Co a disobedi-
ent youth whom he encountered, "do
you hear your father speaking to you p
''Oh, y-a-a-s," replied the youth, +" but
L don't mind what he says. Mother
| don't, neither; and twixt she and j
we've about got the dog so he don't"
On. the skeeter, the beautiful skee-
| ter, filling the air with melodious me-
tire. Under our hat, and tickling our
nose, taking bite through a hole in
our clothes in through the window,
opening the door, filling our chamber
and singing the sweeter, ever is found
the untiring muskeeter.
In the time of the second Emperor Of
the Ming dynasty, some learned China
men began to make a digest of a num-
Der of Chinese books. The digest was
completed fourteen hundred years ago,
and has never been printed, because it
would make twenty-five thousand eight
hundred and seventy seven volumes,
work much larger than the Chicago
| tax-list.
Az ingenious fellow in Lewiston, Me-,
has been selling keg, supposed to con-
tain ten gallons of liquor. BY an in
genious arrangement in the kegs a pint
of rum was sealed up inside these kegs
and so placed that, taking out a small
cork, the purchaser could test the liq-
uor, but while there was pint of liq-
nor there were nine gallons and several
pints of water separated from it.
MORE than fifty women applied fqS
admission at the Agassiz School at Pen
ikese. Only seven women offered them
selves this year for examination at Har-
ward Apparently there is difference
between studying at scientific school
open to men and women and passing an
4" examination for women" under the
auspices of celebrated university. Bat
the former seems most popular.
Do YOU chew gum? The prices of
three piece at one cent piece, am
cunts to 81 56 year, or in sixty-seven
wears TO S104 80. That sum will pur-
chase a complete set Of Appleton's Cy-
bonlbazine dress for yofii aunt, a DER
man silver coffin-plate, and a cheroot
Cut this out, young man, and paste it
on the back of your girls photograph.
An ENGLISH writer in q recent article
gives a cooling description OF Iceland.
After stating that there are no trees, no
vegetables to speak of, no town except
the capital, no inns, no hens, no pigs,
no roads, no shops. no manufactures,
no army, DO navy, no criminals, only
one policeman, and two lawyers, he in
quires of himself, What, then, is
there?" and himself replies, Snow,
mountains, glaciers, hot springs, eartL-
quakes, volcanoes, northern lights, cav
erns, morasses, and, above all, deserts"
This is hard on Iceland.
EUGENE LAWRENCE writes in Harper's
Weekly: "The war party in France en-
ploys in private language that seems
the extravagaEce of bombast. Newspa-
pers may be cautiously silent, and min
isters Welding and submissive, but the
politicians of the cafes and the clubs
have no hesitation in confessing the
future policy of aggression. France,
they assert, is gathering an army that
nothing in Europe can resist. All its
youth and manhood are TO be converted
into soldiers. In some unguarded mo-
ment they will strike Germany. The
war will be one of unsparSng severity,
ana bueY ldll, VIII AoNCA W
the ground and the name OF France be
blotted out from among nations."
AS though il hadn't enough on its
hands already, the German government
has undertaken to regulate dueling IN
the army. Boards of honor are to be
formed. and without the sanction of
such board and the presence OF its
nresident no duel is hereafter TO be
fought. Officers complying with these
conditions are TO be exempt from Grim
inal prosecution for casualties occurring
on the field of hsnor, except in peculiar
ly fragrant cases OF unprovoked insult.
The old emperor is quoted IN the Lon
don Times as saying: i Will no more
tolerate in the army an officer who wan
tonly attacks the honor OF comrade
than an officer who does not know how
to guard his own honor"
SOME ONE has said that man who
can play good game of chess has all
the mental requisites necessary lot
GFcot aenoIak uALrRfftaRr ~, the. 0'aR.
who can spar we'll has attained u
highest point Of physical developmenr
In this exercise every nerve and MUSCLE
is brouoht into simultaneous action at
the command of the brain. Dancing
and fencing are graceful sparring is
more graceful than either, because 1T
demands both body and mind, More
over no man can spar we'll unless he Eas
his temper in perfect control. A COM
mon objection is made to eparr1ng on
the ground that it makes men pugna-
cious. more ready to seek than 10 eVaoe
a quarrel, in order that they may uis-
play their superiority. On che contra
rv. il is almost invariably found that
the consciousness OF power makes man
more forbearing to an opponent, caimer
in disposition. with larger mixture OF
that perfect self-possession, which Is
one Of the best tests Of true manhood
The New York assay Office furnishes
some very interesting statistics. Ihirty
million dollars gold (bullion) were op-
Grated upon in the last eighteen months
and 81. 600. 600 silver TIE shipments
of silver from New York to Philadei-
phia amount to several tons a month.
Last year there passed through the
laboratory forty tons of gold, worth
about $500. 600 each. Most silver
carries gold. and the presence OF
cold is especially noticed IN the
the silver ores of Utah and Nevada.
The assay Office does not receive cfnue .ls'
ores of any kind, only bullion, wnic1 ~
signifies either coin or bars. mh1y %
the jewellers send samples OF tne.l
goods TO the assay office in order 20 tess
their value. A few days ago mnenLn-
cent golden chalice from Mexican eon,
vent was thrown into the cruciDie. ~. ~.
an old family plate, frequently s..t- msst-
the same fac. During the lasI ,"es-y .s.cr
wears gold bars TO the amount o. 49,
S2I9. 600. 900 and silver bars " e-r-
amount Of S15, 600, COG. Were '.c'ce' ~.
tured in the New York hsssy ons
l NJ Y. Herald.