The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-25
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

WASTE of wealth is sometimes retriev-
ed !; waste of health, is seldom but the
waste of time never.
LOVE is all it's shapes implies sal u
fees. Much must be conceded, much
endured, if we would love.
NARRow-M1NDED and ignorant per-
sons talk about people and not things !;
hence gossip, the bane of our age.
THERE are very few men in this world
who can find sealed bottle floating in
the ocean and read the message, with
out having first smelled the bottle.
THE foreign resident population of
Paris is made mp as follows 4, 600
Americans, 1000 Englishmen $4,000
Germans, $4,000 Belgans, and $4,000
Swiss.
THEY believe in fashion in Toreka,
and when Mr.. Williams wouldn't put
on mourning band for the death of
his wife they dragged him through a
creek and shaved his head.
Truth enters the neart of man when
it is empty and still; but when the
mind is saaken with passions, as with a
storm, you can never hear the voice OF
the charmer, charm he ever so wisely.
DAKOTA is the white mans pronunci-
alton of Lab ko-ta, the name by which
the Sioux call themselves. The mean
ing of Lah-ko is "the cut-throat,
and in the sign language they indicate
themselves by drawing the hand across
the throat.
The handsomest men in the union
are Kentuckians, and the preservation
of their good looks is said to b: due to
the fact that while all the Bourbon
whisky is manufactured in Kentucky,
L, ~f 1rad oil
where.
BRET HARTE is said to be sufferer
from a chronic complaint that is by no
means uncommon. He cannot keep
money. He has no bad h. bits, and vet
money melts away as soon as he touches
it. His work commands higher price
than that of any writer of the day.
JEAN INGELow, the English poetess,
has a nephew, Edward IDgelow Putnam,
to whom she is giving a collegiate edu-
cation at the college of New Brunswick,
New Jersey. This youth, fifteen years
of age, came to this country alone and
unattended, to satisfy an earnest desire
to see America and be educated here.
DYE is not ripened in one day, nor
m&nv. nor even in human lifetime. 1t
is le oneness of soul with soul in APP
probation and perfect trust. To be
blessed, it must rest in that faith in
the divine which upderlies every other
emotion. To be true, it must be eter-
nal.
THE ancients had but one word for
manners and morals. II might be well
if the same were the case for us-yet
with this essential difference, that,
while they degraded morals to the level
of manners, "a higher culture would
tend us to raise manners to the level of
morals.
THE revelations of the chambermaids
at the watering-places, about this time,
are exceedingly interesting. They say
that the soap, matches and towels that
have been taken away by mistake, the
past season, in astonishing, ard that the
powder and paint rags found behind the
bureaus, and the pieces of pink saucers
discovered in the wash-stand cup
boards, are too numerous to mention.
THE German Ultramontane papers
mention, as an instance of the severity
with which Roman Catholics are treated
in Germany, that during last week five
arrests of priests took place, and there
were, besides, eleven explosions and
twenty representations OK church pro-
perty, in addition to the dissolution of
four Catholic societies and inquiries
into others, one of which has since been
dissolved.
THE most fashionable jewelry is of
gold in three different shades, red, yell
low and green. A little platina is often
added to increase the effect of the mix
ture. Transparent enamel is mostly
blue it is now made in the Byzantine !
shades, and when 1sed for the mount |
ing of precious stones furnishes glow
ing background on which their relief is |
very prominent. The lichen. heather |
and moss shades will be preferred to |
any other for the shooting season, also /
for walking and travelling dresses.
ONE of the latest innovations of fash |
ion at Saratoga is the wearing of ribbon |
upon most all toilets. The new shade 4
of gamet or Turkish red is much used !
for them, as also a deep mauve blue, t
verging on a purple. 1t is strictly en-
regle to wear a bow of ribbon upon the /
top of each sleeve, one at the base of /
the ruff at the back of the neck, while
a ribbon of the same color, about two |
inches wide, is passed around the waist |
in place of a sash and hangs in long |
loops and ends at the left side. With |
black and white costumes the effect isl
pretty.
THE recent Legislation in Northern /
India for the suppression of female in
fantieide appears to have been decided |
ly successful. The Calcutta correspon-
dent of the London Times states the !
effect in less than two years 1.-THE re-
suit of the special police agency has
been this: that in population of near
ly 500, 600 no fewer than -, S54 lives
have been saved. You may imagine The
frightful disproportion of the sexes
when I say that even after this gain
there are still in the guilty population
only 81, 712 girls to 101, 072 boys"
ONE of the saddest things about the
small boy of the present day is the un
certainty which seems to attend him as
he bounds along through life. You
can't always ton what he is going to
say. At a Sunday-school service held
not long ago, an amiable clergyman, en-
deavoring 10 illustrate the necessity of
the christian profession in order rightly
to enjoy the benefactions of providence,
spoke as follows "For instance, I
want to introduce water into my house;
I have it pumped. The pipes and fau-
Gets are in good order, but get no wa
ter. Now, why do I get no water %
The reason. he wished the young peo-
pie TO see, was that he had made no
with the main in the
street. But the boys were too intent
on plumbing and water rates. Now,
why do L get no water ?" sc I know"