The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-05-09

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that letter to mother prUmptIy.
A MARRIED WOMAN of fifty in Dayton,
| Nevada, has eloped with youth of fif-
teen, and it isn't stated whether she pro-
poses TO be his mother or grandmother.
SfSKentucky man will shoot his best
friend dispute about q ffty-cent
| umbrella, what would he do IN case
some one drove his best COW to the
pound?
JENNIE JUNE wants the women to
] wear cork bustles to save themselves
} from drowning, but a safer way woulH
be to strap on yawl boat and provisioi
for three days.
| DANIEL, GRAVES, an Alabamian, W
PRAYING in church the other day, WI
his revolver went of and shot hi4
| the leg. There seems to be n
here somewhere.
| A NEW YORK paper says that ~
! Rinia mule is two pegs above New
York coroner in point of intelligence and
sagacity, though it doesn't want to hurt
any coroner's feelings.
| lave Iut tskItt0 t1hCA
| sheriff. as he met court attache on the|
stairs with large pitcher in his hand
eyes, sir they agreed to have hal
gallon of beer, and sent me out for y
An Iowa Judge has decided that
m-re of sin to steal n horse thar
| elope with another mans wife, bee
there are 10000 woman in the u
ted States and only 5000, 900 horses.
| al
| following a COW through the front gate,
and filling the air with garden imple-
ments and profanity, you may know that
his cabbage plants have been set ont.
A WHOLE generation of parents al
ready occupies this mundane sphere who
cannot describe TO inquiring childhood
a warming-pan, foot-stove, tinder-box,
| a brick-oven, a crane, or a candle-mold.
BosroN claims to have diamond ring
which once belonged to Sir Isaac New
ton. That is nothing. st. Louis has
the lead pencil with which Noah checked
off the animals that went into the ark
THE BishopofMancheste has declared
in favor of cremation, and states that the
| Almighty can raise a man from the dead
whose body had been burned, just as
easily as he could raise one whose body
had been burieae -
WHEN New Orleans proudly Shows
| Quebec a shirt front stained with fresh
strawberry Juice, the latter triumphantly
| exhibits to New Orleans sore on the
side of the nose, made by n mosquito of
this years growth.
-Advices from Little Rock represent
Brooks men as out of meat. When
those Arkansas fellows complain of being
| out of meat you may rest assured that
the chickens of the neighborhood are
roosting uncommonly high.
THE West Chester (Pennsylvania)
News takes practical view of the Gre
nation question. it says With some
people cremation is only a question Of
time. If it don't come in this world it
is sure to come in the next"
THERE is something very sensible in
the impromptu remark of a pretty girl /:
eff our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to live single when there was nok
q woman on earth, how criminally wrQl
are the old bachelors, with the wa
full of pretty girls !"
-Sylvanus thinks it would be
thing to say, when the governor bio.
up and you as obstinate as a mule
Like enough, when you have an as
for father" Sylvanus does not meal
to try this himself. He has no occasion,
Any boy that wants it may have it.
SHE entered the omnibus and looked
around, and said loudly to her grand
daughter "No seat Well, let's get
ut; unless that man will give me -
seat" The man didn't do anythiH
the kid, but she sat down, and p
two dress skirts off the belts and
happy
A MAN in the Philadelphia ins
asylIm imagines himself a woman.
| dresses in female attire and parts
hair in the middle. During the day,
associates with the females and do
sewing and embroidery of the fines
kind. He has been reserved for the
centennial.
A NEAT reply was made by Minneso-
ia edjF)r to a man who stopped his
papc.t giving as one reason that his
wife said cit won't even clean lamp-chim-
news" The editor stated that the sub
scriber could be no gentleman, for he
had f'no right to betray what his wife
told him in confidence"
THOUGH many are familiar with the
word blackguard, few know its origin.
1t was given, according TO Ben Jonson,
to a regiment of low, mean dependents,
who hung about the palaces Of the great,
doing the most menial services, and
when they we're en- route, with pot and
pan, coal and ashes, the people said,
"There go the blackguards."
IEsthe will of the late Countess of
Loudo, n, Just proved, her ladyship,
after desiring that her funeral may be as
quiet as possible, goes on to say: Il
futher wish my right hand TO be cut off
and burie in the park at Castle Doning<
ton at the bend of the hill to the Trenf
and a small cross or stone over it, W 4
the motto, Il hyde my TYNE"
SCIENTIFIC men say that if pi
stand north and south, the tone "a
instrument is much improved III
| true-especially when the piar
thumped by learner. About one
| dred and fifty miles north and sot,
You is the proper position for tfjU4
strument to stand when being manipr~
lated by a young thing taking her hrs4
lesson.
! THE editor of the indianapolis Sen
tinel wagered 800 with a youn,
lady that she could not refrain frort
speaking during an entire week. IN
escorted the young lady to the opeT
bribed members of the family to "A
and entrap her, and resorted to VAR
other expedients for starting
tongue, but she won the bet, ant
editor of the Sentinel is probab
wiser man on the woman business u
he was one week ago.
AN electric light of new invention has
been put in the tower of st. 1Qnatious
college, San Francisco. The apparatus
cost So, 900, and weighs about as many
pounds. It consists Of a great number
of coils of copper wire revolving close to
magnets, in such a way that sparks Of
electricity are produced in unceasing
streams. These currents are conoentra-
ted and carried through heavy copper
wires to the Illuminating point in the
tower, where the focus gives light
equal to four hundred gas jets.