The Hickman courier., 1874-03-07


ture refiection)- -" What have yo1 put
down for the lady overhead ?"
THE Oldest fireman in Utica died the
other day. and he wanted to be buried
with his red shirt on SO as to be ready
for an alarm.
An English Judge, Baron Anderson, on
being asked TO give his opinion as to the
proper length of n sermon, replied,
"Tweniy minutes, with leaning TO the
side of mercy"
THE world OF spirits, we are told, is
sixtv millions Of miles distant, which
will be some comfort TO those who are
blamed for taking all the spirits they
can get in this world.
In seventeen years Spurgeon has re-
ceived Is, 600 persons into his church,
erected thirty-six chapels in Londo
and supplied the same with mini
trained in a college of his own ia
ing.
ALLuDNa 10 the death of a
recently, the Danbury News re
Il" With the single exception OF
three years ago, when he took
lessons on a violin, his life has beN
blameless."
A COAL field with seams varying from
| Eve to thirty-fiye feet in thickness, and
extending over a region of 2JO miles,
has been discovered in the new terri
tories on the line of the Northern Pa
eific railroad.
LOVES LAND
In the south Il loves land,
Where the roses blow,
Where the summer ngerrs
Fearless Of the
There NO winter chilla IL -, "A.
50 its life - long
Gcnfie brftz tfen n,
N6llhtcFsis tta rJ3rong-
Ff.4nT4 IN. -.
Which the wintefsthillf, -
But too eager summer
With its kisses kills.
FoR pure grit and long-continued pfs-
tience you ought to 60 TO Toledo. A
young lady in that town has sent one
hundred and sixteen pieces Of poetry tp
the newspapers, and though all have
been rejected, she is struggling with an
other
ONE might write n column obituary
notice ON an office-holdcr and then not
equal the brief announeement IN an
Iowa paper - Harvey Jackson, county
treasurer. ~ dead. He was lenient
with the widowed, and his books alwal
balanced"
"Do You go to Sabbath -schoo
lad?" kindly asked a city missiona
a sdepraved little Dubuque urcHg1
Nary" answered the innocent child
"but I've got n fghtin' cock that
walk over any bird in this town
wears gaffs."
GLOOMY and dissipated youth CvhOV
has discovered that life is not worth
having)-"I hope shant be alive atte
thirty - Unsympathetic elderly party
-"Is there any particular necessary
that You should be alive till thirty
THE Illinois Central railroad is about
to inaugurate the planting of trees to
furnish a supply Of ties for the road. =.
The particular portion OF the line on
which the work will begin this season
is that part of the branch" between
Chicago ard Champaign.
M. MULLER ststest that in n series of ex-
periments recently made, frogs that were
frozen in brooks If ice for eight hours
were alive and breathed normally as
soon as the.ice was thRwed. OF two OF :
these creatures of equal weight, thar
most vo acious consumed the most
ygen. .
A PEORIA naturalist, in attempffh
warm the ears of frozen wasp ov,
gas Jet, discovered that the tail Of
insect thawed ont first, and worked vi
a rapidity that was as astonishing
the nideous profanity of the natuL
ist, who held the insect by the t
while thus experimenting.
A WOMAN applied 10 the police justice
in Detroit the other day for a warrant
for another for slander. The justice
stated that it was a case for the record
er's court, but asked her what the
n qseasfrsa sa0ll lelli-,,'a.esslisal.
did-look a-here," replied the COM
plainant, showing a scalp-wound four
inches long "Shed a qualified me
again if I hadn't knocked her over with
a brick !"
THE philosophers of India once pos
sessed a book so large that it require
a thousand cannels 70 carry it. ki
desired to have it alb idged, and cert
scholars reduced it so that 1t could
carried by a hundred camels.
kings came. who demanded thu
should be diminished still more, ut
at length the volume was reduced to-
four maxims. The first of these max
inns bade kings 10 be Just the second
prescribed obedience TO the people the
third recommended mankind not TO eat
except when they were hungry; the
fourth advised women to be modest
TT ia n circumstance worth noting that
the native British regiments who are en-
gagged on the gold coasts have been !.
found to withstand the climate much
better than the West Indian troops. all
OF whom are cOlDfeu. Inc A"OiiuJ
which the British race becomes accli-
matted has long been we'll marked and
recognized by authropologists but the =
contrast afforded in the present in
stance has not often, if ever, been OBJ
tainable before, and it is OF some sclen-
tifc value.
A PARIS letter says the Empress
genie has aged sadly. There are
lines at each side of her mouth, and-n
whole face looks drawn and hagg2rs
TlA little fat Grape hat which she
pushed back from her temples, sed
youthful for her worn face. but
relief not to see her lips set in that
smile, artificial as the gold of her tres
es or the rose in her bonnet, wherewith
she used to greet her subjects OF Paris
in other days. The young Prince I'm.
perial is her very image, but the slgn
moustache lust budding on his upper
A., III aoon mar the present perfection