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

ed; waste of health, is seldom ; but the
waste of time never.
LOVE is all its shapes implies saNyi-
fees. Much must be conceded, much
endured, if we would love.
NARRow-MINDED 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 a 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 1000
Americans, 1000 Englishmen $4,000
Germans, 1000 Belg1ans, and 1900
Swiss.
THEY believe in fashion in Toreka,
and when Mr.. Williams wouldn't put
on q 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 Lah-ko-ts, the name by which
| the Sioux call themselves. The mean
| ing of Lah-ko-ta 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,
the great bulk of it is consumed else
where.
BRET HARTE is said to be a 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
1t. His work commands higher price
than that of any writer of the day.
JEAN INeELow, the English poetess,
has 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.
I DYE is not ripened in one day, nor
many, nor even in a human lifetime. 1t
is lie 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. 1t 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 OF church pro-
perty, in addition to the dissolution of
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 used 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
of gamet or Turkish red is much used
for them, as also a deep mauve blue,
verging on a purple. 1t is strictly en-
reqLe to wear 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 is
pretty.
THE recent legislation in Northern
India for the suppression of female in
fanticide appears to have been decided
" successful. The Calcutta correspon-
dent of the London Times states the
effect in less than two years "The re-
suit of the special police agency has
been this that in a population of near
" 500, 600 no fewer than II, 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 Sunday-school service held
n It 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, /
want to introduce water into my house;
1 have it pumped. The pipes and fau-
Gets are in good order, but 1 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
communication with the main in the
street But the boys were too intent
on plumbing and water rates. snow,
why do / get no water ?" I know"
shrieked little one; f'you don't pay -
Best Organs On Most Favorable Terms.
Cabinet or Parlor Organs are capital
things for peddlers to work with, be-
cause very poor ones can be made at