The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-20
SAYINGS AND DoINGs.



PRUSSIA. since its adoption of the
Manser rifle, has been selling its old
needle guns to China.
WHAT are the most unsociable things
in the world ? Mile-stones. You never
see two of them together.
THERE is a Brooklyn man who wears
mourning for his mother-in-law. He
wears it on the lining Of his coat.
THE young lady out west who re-
ceived 81, 900 damages for kiss, is said
to be spelling to be damaged again.
PRETTY good land can be bought in
South Carolina for five cents per acre,
but there's S24 back tax on every acre
of it.
THE Kentucky topers, who signed a
petition TO have whisky put down,
thought it meant put down to five cents
a glass.
THERE is nothing more calculated to
weaken a boys moral character than to
get his fishing-hook fastened to a root
in the river.
The difference between perseverance,
and obstinacy is that one often comes
from a strong will, and the other from
strong won't.
Ix life it is dinicult to say who do
You the most mischief-enemies with
the worst intentions, or friends with the
! Dest.-IsIftCeT.
Mn. EZAysr14oH, n u7onabor Of 49,
British parliament, has neither legs nor
arms He holds his pen in his mouth
when he signs his name.
IL ENGLAND a man who spent all his
money in a dram shop, leaving his wife
to starve TO death, has just been con-
7icted Of manslaughter.
Mrs. GRANT cried, Nellie cried, Sar-
toris looked sad, the president blew
his nose, and then the newly-married
couple went aboard the steamer Bawl-
tic
THERE is as much greatness of mind
in the owing Of a good turn as in doing
it and we must no more force a re-
quital out Of season than be wanting
in it.-iSenec0.
GAsooz1ING" is a new slang word,
meaning to ''honeyfugle." If any one
shouldn't know what " honeyfugle is,
we explain that it is the synonym for
"hornswoggle.
THIS is a very rash spring. Nine out
of ten men who carry red noses lay it to
something throwing ont rash"
There's more lie about this nose busi-
ness than there ought to be.
IL Maine, recently, by the advice of a
clairYoyant, a body was exhumed and
rebzried with the face downward, as a
means Of staying the ravages Of con-
sumption in the corpse's family.
LOOK AHEAD
relican. flying home one day
With fine Fat fish from OYSTER Bay,
Was met by a crow who had sought in vain
For something TO still his hunger pain
]. f~-.r- srrtt. HF F..r "a
SO he -ivv said. " Why, friend. what's in you,
To carry fizh at a full necks length
Il that any way to economic strength?
call it a waste OF muscle and sincw.
just throw your head over your shoulder, So
Y0u distribute the weight over all yourh hame,
You can carry a double load Of game.
And thus, without tiring, home you
The pelican did ar his false friend bGne,
But striking a bough he came TO wreck,
And down he fell with a broken neck,
And the crow had a royal dinner Of shad.
I wrote this fable for three little men,
Whose names are Willie and Arthur and Jack
Aud this is the moral, clear and plain;
When You run forward. don't look back
John Hay, tH 81. Atctot1s-
They have dumb pianos in London,
fo- the benefit of those who wish to
learn Thalbergian lingering; and our
experience teaches us that they make
better music as a general thing than the
other kind.
to be paf'd tv ''tie prescnt baroret"
amount to e92 600. This sum does not
include the expenses of the trial for
perjury, which are to be paid by the
government.
THE rubber which lines the tail Of
lady's dress is a bad thing for a man
with weak lungs. II makes 50 much
noise over the brick pavement, that the
young man is compelled TO whisper his
sweet nothings il a voice OF thunder.
THE standard authorities on English
/ ceremonial enumerate 10 fewer than
| ninety-seven different kinds of ~, be-
/ tween each of whom there is a rcep-
/ tible cradation of rank--not counting
! common people, VIII, have no rank at
| all.
Az ardent lover, pouring out his
passionate devotion IN verse, spoke OF
! that night when, walking with bis
! sweetheart. lie "kissed her under the
silent stars" In print he was made to
say that he clicked her under the cell
| lar stairs"
/ IL INDIANA the bride never expects to
/ go on a wedding tour. She steps into
/ the old quill-wheel, her mother stufis a
| bag of dried apples under the seat, her
! father ties a COW behind, and the happy
couple roll away to the cottage Of the
bridegroom.
IT is a beautiful sight TO attend an
! Arizona wedding. The bride in white
the happy groom-the solemn minis
| ter-the smiling parents, and from
twenty-five to forty shot guns standing
against the wall ready for use, make up
panorama not soon forgotten
ARIZONA territory, which is popularly
| believed to be wealthier in minerals
| than California or Nevada, is fast recov-
ering from the prostration caused by
Indian raids. Many Of the mines which
have lain untouched for years on
account Of the Apacbes are again being
worked. and the results are said 10 be
wonderful.
WHAT a row the women would make
If men wore stove-pipe hats at concerts,
lectures, and the theatre. The dear
creatures turret their heads several
stories high, and 70 sit behind one OF
them in a place of amusement is equiya-
lent to not seeing any thing that is going
on in front No wonder the men go out
to smile under such Affections.
wEr1,. this is a sumner. Two young
ladies of Chicago, daughters of respec.
J table physician there, have been arres'
ted for carrying on a Wholesale conf.
dence game, by collecting money in the
name OF local half orphan asylum. II
is estimated that they have collected
$50. 600 during the year or more in
| which the game has been going on. The
/ thing worked well enough until they
} ran against the same victim twice, and
r then came the collapse.
5 CHICAGO is bound TO keep ahead.
Just look at this A. large building
: divided into FLATS for housekeeping,
: has been put up on the north side Of
e the city. rs roof--which is very
= strongly built and excellently drained
J. lis covered with earth and decked with
8 some forty or Fifty trees, which art
e growing luxuriently. 1t is garden OF
:, a house-top. Nobody not living IN the
g house can go to it. There will be mu
a sic there in the evenings and-need
u be added ?-beer.
II The Cars Nose.
> There has certainly, however, been
e deterioration in the physique OF th'
J. Russian imperial family since the TIM.
l. of Nicholas. Nicholas was undoubted