The Hickman courier., 1874-09-04

/ and the faculty WHffbLl
tional progress TO all newcomers.
THEY that deny God destroy a man'sS
nobility, for certainly man is of kin to
the beasts by his body; and, If he Is
not kin TO God by his spirit, he is a
base and ignoble creature.-Bocon.
THE little mind that loves itself viii
write and think with the vulgar but
the great mind will be bravely eccen-
! trio, and scoru the beaten road, from
universal benevolence.-G Goldsmith.
"THERE will be no newspaper in
| heaven" said a Brooklyn clergyman ~
| exultingly. Then you can't give me-
the first proof Of it" retorted man in !
! the congregation. He was an editor. "a
SPEAKING of engag, ments, there is "a
| lovely little blonde, aged ten, at Sarf
| toga, who wears a diamond solitaire
| her engagement finger, and is actual
| betrothed to a young man of ninete I.
"HAvE you got little Indian ths
said the engineer, rs we passed
sduaw with papoose, standing
depot on the Pacific railroad.
said she '' hef In51-' heaf ls.lut, g
--THERs is one. recent decr -
| treasury department IN which
full public, or the adult portion
! least. will readily acquiesce. It
I
"not musical Instruments.
A FIRST IMPRESSION
reeollect nurse called Ann,
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day fine young man
Came up and kissed the pretty lass
She did not make the least obiectionl
Thinks L "Ahi
When I can talk III tell mamma, - 4
And that's my earliest recollection.
WHEN they told an Indiana woman
that her husband had been sliced mp
bv a reaper, she impatiently replied
90 We'll, take the pieces to the barn
I can't leave the gooseberry sauce just
now.
THE expression of nervous woman's
face. upon getting into a dentists chair,
is something that no man can initiate
until he gets letter from bis mother
in-law, sharply inquiring if that spare
room is ready.
HERE is a recipe for getting mp a
fashionable summer bonnet: Let the
lady run her head into a sheaf of oats,
and afterward stick in a few field-how-
ers here and there 10 light up her colt
fure, and the thing is done.
AN Irishman found a government
blanket. and rolling IL up put it under
his arm and walked off. saying Yis,
McCarty be me sowl, but this learnin'
is a foine thing, as me fayther would
say for if ] hadn't an edication /
wouldn't have been afther fndin' me
blanket"
THERE is a time in the going TO sleep
of weary men when a noise, continued
for fifteen minutes, deprives the would
be sleeper of an entire nights rest.
With q saoacity which is of the devil
himself, the dog in the next yard, hits
upon that particular time to DO its
barking, and only its tbick-headed
owner can rest.
THERE is still trouble as TO the sort
Of statue that shall he placed on the
Vendome column In Paris. Some want
the Imperial Napoleon, others prefer
the Little Corporal, others would like
the Goddess of Liberty. One OF the pi-
quaint suggestions Is that magnificent
political weathercock would be both
ornamental and useful.
fN Tg4et M ths Es EEsRca SEASIDE bsSca rss ElgoF
second, a breakfast dress third, q
morning dress fourth, an evening
dress and as a lady cannot wear the
same dress every morning and evening,
there must be several of each sort, ex-
cent the beach dress. At least thirty
for months stay, and not more than
three in trunk.
Nor long since, at the meeting Of
club in New York. Jelly was exhibited
on the table, and alongside of it an old,
well-worn leather boot. The spectacle
of the boot was a mystery until u was
explained by one of the members that
from the fellow Of the boot the jelly
had been made by some chemical pro-
cess Jelly for the table made out of
old boots
THE Titusville Herald wants TO know:
90 Is there ANYTHING in the world more
irving to the soul of a man than to find
that his quarterly gas bill exceeds the
highest figures his prolific imagination
had whispered ?" Yes, there is. IL is
70 have vour wife come home from the
country and find thft bill, and sniff out
a remark to the effect that "you said
that Won went 10 bed early while she
was away"
THERE is such thing as having too
MANY children If your memory is poor.
The other night Spriggins counted his
brood, but could only make up fourteen.
How is this ?" he asked his wife, 81
thought there we're fifteen OF them at
the last" census y so there were,
she answered. "but one of them died
since that" Indeed - said Sprig-
gins. meditatively, "why, IL seems to
me heard of that at the time"
TIE following testimony TO the virtue
of n patent manure was received by it's
owner "Dear Sir-The land compos-
ing NV farm has hitherto been SO poor
that a Scotsman could not get living
off IL. and so stony that we had to slice
our potatoes and plant them edReways \
but hearing of vour manure, put some
on ten-acre field surrounded by a rail
fence. and in the morning I found that
the rock had entirely disappeared, d
neat stone wall had encircled the fela
and the rails we're split into fire-wo
and piled up Systematically in my b
yard"
Coae1A's comet has scarcely
peared before another erratic &C
visitor daVns upon the vyorld.al
relli, at Marseilles, has discovered
comet. It's position is reported IN
ascension. 15h 25m, and its pola
tance 40 deg. It cen be seen ifi
latitnde. and it is described as "mda
ately bright" and having moveme
| toward the northwest. Boreli is We
| industrious astronomer, and. like nj
colleague, Coggia, has made, hereto-
fore, some important astronomlcal ols.
coveries. Whether his present comet
will rival Coggia's is yet to be demon
| strated.
A WICKED fellow couldn't or wouldn't
nav his bill at one Of the summer resortA
| hotels in Pennsylvania, whereupon the
caravansary proprietor sent him from
Office TO lawn-a distance OF thirty feet
with a rapidity suggestive only OF an
oir.o And what does the impecuni-
ous youth do in the revenge line bur
| tell the nurses there were two cases OF
whoopipg-cough in the house The
nurses told the mistresses, the mis-
tresses tolled the bell (to send for their
bills), and in ten hours only fifty out Oh
one hundred and fifty people remained
A chrome is now offered for chat young
man.
The Real Rich Man:
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