The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-21
sAYINs AND DoINGs.

A DELAWARE man LuraSueu MS Nlle
almost to death because their baby
didn't get prize at a baby show. and
then he offered to trade the bady for q
pig.
A GENTLEMAN, on presenting a lace
collar TO his adored one, said, carefully:
"Do not let any one else rumple 1t. =
&c No, dear" she replied, 9TH take 1t
of.
AMONG tie modern improvements in
Persia which the Shah has ordered is a
guillotine, gallows and corps of bal
let-girls to be shipped TO him from Eu-
rope.
A MISSOURI writer speaEs of one OF
his contemporaries as poor old skin
ny-bony, whose knee and arm joints
have been held together for twenty
years with cotton twine."
One of the most cheering signs to in
dicate that the panic is over is the fact
that stranger can display n fifty-cents
shinplastcr in Chicago and not be hauled
! ont OF the river next morning.
THE Detroit Free Press mentions n
Kansas farmer who declares that n
grasshopper sat on the Rate-post and
threateningly asked " William Bryant,
! where In thunder is the balance of that
To Err Is human. w, Tfysss arc l,sssssd
without errors. The best and meanest
of Gods human creatures can, without
a great stretch of memory, recall the
time when they got hold of the wrong
end of the poker.
OMAHA has a mysterious and ghostly
% woman in White" She ftequents
the cemetary, hits the sexton on the
back, asks where her children are,
and sinks into a grave. She has been
twice fred at without effect, and the
sexton talks of resigning.
MILWAUKEE SENTINEL Notes of
the storm still come in. A visitor
from Louisville was struck by the
wind, and as he flew mp Wisconsin
street with bis ear unfurled, a gentle
man remarked, / knew that wind
would fetch the circus-tent.'
EPIGRAM.-
A waggish wight a shrewd one, too,)
Once told me that he really knew
girl that put her humors of,
And ceased TO scold TO laugh I'd scof,
To weep and sorrow DER romances.
And went no more to plays and dances.
/ doubted long-at last he said
The reason is, the wOman's dead"
THREE giraffes Just from Abyssinia
have reached the garden of plants in
Paris. This animal threatens to be-
come extinct. He is taken now in a
very small district, and has resistedRll
efforts to domesticate him as mad h
Africa, though these efforts are parSy
successful in European menageries.
A MADRID letter srys "Concha died
poor. He left behind him little but his
great name. His will declares his only
child, the Marquesa de Sardaol, heiress
of his little residue. He bad for years
been a great patron of agriculture, and
had spent his fortune in sugar growing
experiments in the neighborhood of
Malaga"
CIVILIZATION and christianity are ev-
cry day penetrating into Japan. One
of the latest signs OF the times is the
offer of various idols for sale. The
Journals of the country contain many
advertisements on the subject. Here 10
one "For sale, at Kama-Kura, very
fine idol, with six arms. 1t is fifteen
feet high, and was cast in bronze-at
Sheffield"
DUNNO the official life of Police
Chief Savage of Boston, that city has
had at one time free rum, at ano a
license law, at another a Drohlbltory'
Ia.=zhalIy spfo-cess aad - 2 IL tor q
forced, and Vet he says t6ere rs no ss,Es,
alton in his statistics furnishing the
least indication OF when any one policy
prevailed.
Now THE best way in the world TO
seem TO be anything, is really TO be
what we would seem TO be. Besides
that, it is many times as troublesome
TO make good the pretense OF good
quality as to have it, and II man
have It not, it is ten TO one but he Is
discovered to want in, and then all his
pains and labor to seem to have 1t at
last. ITiJOtsOn.
IT Is asserted that, for fall goods,
browns will take the lead. 1t Is a tint
which makes the complexion appear
finer. whittier and clearer than any other
color, and is selected by both blondes
and brunettes. Combinations OF purple
and grey are also predicted--the grey
being rough in texture, and the purple
of silk or poplin. Blues, too, from the
desp navy to the clear Marie Louise
will be popular.
A wRITR who has fiirted with the Yo-
men of Paraguay says "Only i~g.
inc yourself about TO salute tte ed
lips of a magnificent little Hebe, ar
rayed in satin ard flashing with dia-
monds. as she puts you back with one
delicate hand, while with the other she
draws forth from her mouth brownish-
black roll of tobacco quite two inches
long. looking like a monster grub, and
then. depositing the savory lozepge on
the brim of your sOmbrero, puts up
her face and is ready for a salute: How
ever, one soon gets used to this IN Par
aouay, where you are, per force OF Gus
tom. Obliged to kiss every lady You are
introduced to-"
DURING these warm days, the tempta-
tion always is to drink more hquio
than is best for us. A good way 10 op-
viate this, and at the same time 70 siahe
the thist fully, is to take water, lemon
ade or iced tea, through small grass
tube-the smaller the better. by thlS
method the LIQUID seems to reach the
naIate more directly, and certainly
6uencbes the thirst with half the guam
titv taken after the ordinary manner
| A humber of personsof our acq-.ntance'
who have been in the habit OF drinking
| so much water in summer as 70 render
Themselves uncomfortable, have trleo
the tube. and been surprised at the re-
duced quantity needed. and at the m
creased satisfaction gained. An orn
fashioned " straw" will answer inc
purpose we'll nough.-ScrtopeTs
THE fact that Patagonia abounds in
rich gold mining districts has been
known for years but it has been too
hazardous an undertaking for miners
TO 90 and get in. Information has peen
received from the party sent out bv the
Argentine government to explore Pata-
gonia. They went mp the Salinas river
about fifteen miles and then followed
mn the Santa-C Cruz three hundred miles
to its seurce-a lake twenty-seven miles
long and one hundred in circumference
The river is navigable its entire length,
and at low water has not less than nine
feet in depth. The lake has another
outlet that empties into the faclnc
ocean. which is but thirty-two miles miles
distant They brought back with them
such samples of gold dust and coal, ana
at-last accounts had started OH 10 eA-
plore the Galegos river.
ANNIE FRANKUM In court 1t WASH
her first time, and when recognized Dl
the Judge she didn't seem TO feel nat
tered. ssGot drunk, eh ?" he asked,
ono. I didn't get drunk, eh 2" shs
sneered. The officer said it was th.
,oaanest case of drunkenness he hat