The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-04
SAYINGS AND DOISGs.

QaQQle their llnDB III lilc HstNCAClo hdl IA
er than go to a summer resort.
THE individuality of each man is that
peculiar influence with which he is in,
trusted for the good OF society.
MEx1cAN editors don't care about an
extended circulation. The fewer sub
scribers they have the fewer times they
are shot at.
THE most untalkative person seldom
fails to make few remarks when with
bare feet he steps on carpet tacks at tWo
O'Clock in the morning.
You can Judge something of the weight
of Milwaukee woman when it is stated
that the crash of one falling on the side
walk can be heard two blocks away.
THE price of steamboats, has fallen
ten per cent. along the Ohio and Missis-
sippi, and poor folks who contemplate
LAYING in a steamboat should buy now.
IF Won want to find out mans real
disposition. take him when he IL w,t
add hungry. If he is amiable then, dry
him and fill him up and you have an
angel.
WHAT is even poverty itself that a
man should murmur under II? IL IS
but as the pain of piercing a MAIDEN
ear. and You hang precious jewels IN the
wound. Richter.
ALoFr. on the throne of god, and not
below. in the footprints of tramphDg
multitude, are the sacred rules oirght,
ir-nss.ly.t 80 l.slssl'iace Qr ezsrs
turn. n.-ChdrIes Sumner. -
OLD AGE is never honOred among us,
but only indulged, as childhood is and
old men lose one of the most precious
rights of man-that Of being judged
by their peers.-GOethe.
NEVER burn kindly-written letters,
the mute utterances of those afar, yet
dear. whose faces you may never lock
upon again. Remember how many
little notion in tinware they will pro
cure.
CHARLES MATHEWS, the comedian,
brought up his son as an architect.
When asked what profession the young
man was intended for, he replied that
he was to draW houses, as his father
had done.
CoGG1A's comet is now approaching
the ca tn, and persons who know where
In look for II can see it, It's tail is half
4 degree long, and resembles, to the
heated imagination OF the astronomer,
l3lf-Opened J IAN.
CoLoRADo hailstones weigh pound
apiece. This is taken right from Col
,rado paper. and it offers to forward
ew for inspection. The story of VIII
lam Tell may be exaggerated, but TINS
S straight case.
THERE are a good many pious people,
Who are as careful of their religion as OF
heir best service of china, only using IT
N holy occasions, for fear 1t should
ret chipped or fawed in working-day
gear.-DougJas Jcrrold.
New ORLEANS contributed 100000 TO
jhicago when fire rendered thousAEds
4 people homeless. Up to the 6tlSln-
tant, Chicago had contributed to Louis-
ana Sc, O29. 50 for the inundated parishes.
The figures don't balance well.
"SAM. what kind oh fish in salt water
7eigh de least? ?" "Why, Julius, what
questions you AK your breth-
en- Minims weigh dc least, ob course.
No. sar-dat's wrong, now 1T am de
.orpus weighs nothing--cos he's got no
Gales"
LoNGFEILow says that Gives OF great
nen all remind us we may make our
ives sublime :" but the melancholy fact
emains that they remind us OF quite
be contrary. However, 1t doesn't mat
er much what poet says provided the
ingle is all right.
THERE is a Judge in Nevada who re-
nses to listen TO argument from shot
- nc ,,tee IA that a u.ette.~-s -
10, ne naLnTls, uOvy q D0wIes 0GS ne
links n six.shooter is apt TO revolVe
round the question at issue.
RECIPES for the preservation OF iurs
bound in all the papers, but the old
Ian promulg gated by Punch long ago is
be best. This is, to pull out all the
airs with tweezers and varnish theskin.
q the spring remove the garnish and
arefully stick all the hairs il the old
laces.
TH1s is the way it generally is, Mrs.
ones will say TO her undutiful little
1n. "Why amt You like Willie Brown
Lrs. Brown will remark TO her hope
n. Why amt you like Jimmy
ones?" The boys have lots OF fun
bout it, especially W zen they are steal
lg watermelons together.
THE new liquor:law of Mississippi re-
uires that no person shall be hceSled
, retail liquor until he has first secured
he recommendation of more than half
ne men over twenty-one years OF age,
nd more than half the women over
ighteen years of age in the corporation
r township where he desires the hcense.
THE cleansing of cotton which has
cen used for oiling machinery is now
egular business in Westville, Conn.
,y the aid of machinery the oil is ex-
racted from the cotton and sold Tor
1bricatinR spurposes. The cotton IS
hen subjected to bleaching process,
" which it is restored to its original
yhiteness.
NovFITY has charms that our minds
an hardly Withstand. The most valua-
lie things, if they have for a long while
ppeared among us, do not make any
as they are old. But when
he influence of this fantastical humor
5 over. the same men or things viii
ome to be admired again, by happy
eturn of our good taste.
PRoF. TYNDALL exhibited hisnreman's
,espirator at recent meeting OF the
Royal Society in London. 1t ID attached
20 a mask, and consists of an iron cylln-
Ter packed with cotton wool, glycer1ne,
and charcoal. The wearer is enabled TO
remain in an atmosphere OF smoke,
which he could not otherwise breathe,
for a quarter to half an hour.
SETH GREEN says that the death 81
gold fishes that inhabit glass globes iS
1ue to one of three causes" handllnr,
starvation or bad water" A precociops
boy of eight sun1nsrs with whom We
are acquainted attributes the death Ct
a pet gold fish-his sisters idol-to tho
fact that it couldn't take a joke. dc
used to catch it occasionally with
bent pin.
BECAUSE her Britannia majesty be
came indignant at being introduced to
divorced American woman, the Chicago
Times is also indignant, and 1T asks
4" Can il be the same queen who wrote
to the sultan informing him OF Alfred Is
wedding, and received an autograph
letter in reply addressed to his august
friend and ally2' Is Victoria, who IN
shifted woman because she had legally
taken a second husband during the
lifetime of the first, the friend and ally
Of man who has concubine IN every
corner of palace bigger than the expo
sition building ?"
The Gloomy Western Outlook.