The Hickman courier., 1874-01-17
GRAVE AND GAY.

~ NJ
enough to make polar bear wear arc
tic overshoes.
BRIGHAM YouSG is getting particular.
He dosen't want any women converts
over thirty sent to Salt Lake
THx .straighten-up-M Mary -Jane-show-
your,breast- pin attitude has superseded Y
the Grecian. bend in Georgia.
No man is safe these times con-
vict at Sing Sing has. had notice OF
breach Of promise suit serve d on him.
PosrA1,-cARps cost fhe government
81. .39z per 1000, and, according TO es.-
mates, 100, 5000 viii be required IN
1874
JAox who is at boarding school IN
tba country. writes home, "Please send
me a GOOD trap to catch woodcnuck
and a piece Of carpet to say my prayers
u Fopry rairs of hands flying wildly in
the air. forty mouths in distressful pan
tomime. "What do You want9'' asked
sho teacher. ssYour hair is falling Of,
answered the chorus. 49,,
I When you have lost money IN tne
streets. every one is ready to help you
to look for il but when yon have lost
vopr character, every one leaves you 10
. recover it as you can
THE following popular "sampie
! going the rounds: Broker-how are
Won off for money this morningY CASH
ier-I am off with what little tnere was
in the bank. Good by. ..,. &C..
IHE arrangements o. nAAohs
nirable. exclaimed q Young lady dnf-
tbe late high winds. The same wind
g which disarranges our dress blows ous'
g into the eyes of the would-be opserverS,
"FEn1ow-orr1zENs, said colored
: n,aacher "ef had been eatin drled
arrles for week, an then took 10
dr;nkin' for a mont, couldn't feel more
- swelled up than am dis mlnl. wiz
!. - - o., 1anitv at seein' such Full ten
:, dance har dis evenin'.
s,aal-i,,e, NJ snow-'sThe beautiful snow
10 Tfool at it hving and drifting below 3. 1,,.t
r;II;,,e- the Pavement and street Win lIs Hi'nNi
Making OF soil an alu' lal lnuSh 5i o,d hair
,n | Vatfin1 our whiskers, mu5taches, anu , 10 10
no e'e1~,r,2 tbe stockiugs and feet OF the la,
10 S,;,s5 91si,,s mn cbblaips we had when chiid,
y 1oi;s,sri7,g our corns till theyra angry alu - "~
90 BhsI , rI,s si Sei a,,tbors of Beautiful Snow"
- Would take the snow with EN-, 10 resi0H' ~
AZ low, H.. MIGHT 90
D. | ,a and
10 A. Least they've permission, 40 far as we ''o"
90 Alexis has besought his father not
q % oond him around the world again.
a The stern old car consents on oon''',
90 90 tion that he will break with the glri OF
J 9 his affections. She is beautiful, high
os tonad aniable creature, but there ap-
30 rears 70 be something the matter Win
9 81 her "blood.
9 g9s 9s Tzr apparatus designed by the as
Q 90 ,ronomer royal to represent the transit
8 l5 of Venus consists of an opening cut II
I e. a screen. through which the rays OF The
2 2 10 10 sun are thrown by q mirror. Across ~
Q 80 oneninp is a glass slide, ON when
g g. biocl, d;slx. 70 represent Venus, is draw
Q 90 by clock work.
9 2S sprpaEoy observes Some prayers
4 2s remind me of the story of the Virgini'
% 90 ,,1onter who owned slave in partner
3 81 sbin with one of his neighbors, and be
$ s5 inc n pious man, was accustomed U
54 Is wind ND his prayers by saying "Oh
10 10 IS 20 Lord in Thine infinite mercy ant
y y 81 81 goodness, bless my half OF Pompey'
lo q DID any of our readers, asks the IL
IS 50 ter.,cT ever know of a congregation wh
So q went heavily in debt for new ehuici
os 9 and who did not 5000 thereafter snu
q IS and ship their pastor? The chure
$50 50 debt makes people .crs- .cress- .l-na'uIe
94 994 % critical, and the minister IS the in1, mo
- o. : ls0r, Ian ,evsassT "A tne Afnef1ca
y - Naturalist, ID iifs paper on economi
80 50 entomology, gives an instance IN whic
all the caterpillers in nine-acre piec
of woods were destroyed by diseas
lust which had been communicated to thei
Is bv silk-worm. The same prinoipl
might be used in destroying the cotto
zooo worm and Others Of like nature.
DO 90 IN FORMER times the government
zooo Iowance given to the widows OF Scotc
y. clergymen was nearly equal to u
s900 s9o0 clergymens stipends. A minister
Cranshaws, parish among the Ian
69 5900 90 mermoors, having wooed lass IN hun
% 90 BILE circumstances, the father OF IL
OOOO damsel. when consulted on the sublf'
81 90 said, "Tak i'm, Jenny, tax i'm, heS
- guild dead as livin."