The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-18
SAYINGS AND D0INGs.

LOVE matches are often formed b]
people who pay for month OF honel
with life of vinegar.
THAT was bright little chill who in
quired, "Ma, when COWS die, do they
go tG the 'miliky-way?'"
A PHmANTHRoPIsr suggests that il
would lower the price OF small collins
to muzzIe the boys during the green ap-
pie season.
JAPANESE civilization has progressed
so far that they now allow a criminal
his choice between being sawed mp, be-
headed or hung.
NEVER visit friends without some an
nou0cement of your coming. Crockett's
motto is coed one: "Be sure you
write, then go ahead"
A LECTURER aptly demonstrates the
theory that heat generates motion by
pointing to boy who accidentally sat
down on a piece of punk
- MoTHER advise.e her daughter to
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spoils the gentlemen's vests"
THE French and English press con.
slider that the manifesto of Count dc
Chambord makes it impossible for him
to become king of France.
WHILE Texas women claim to ride on
both sides of their horses, the New
York Herald claims that all sensible
people ride only on the outside.
THE chancellor of the New York law
school told the graduating lawyers TO
marry as soon as they could. So as to
develop their argumentative powers
New ORLEANS has adopted the Lon
don and Paris plan, and the street car
companies are obliged to refuse trans
poftation to greater number of pas
sengers than can be accommodated with
seats.
THE Detroit Free Press tells us that
" the sable Georgia agriculturists fol-
low the plew or work among the corn
this hot weather without enough cloth
ing on to conceal good sized wart."
WAIT WHITMAN on the Beecher mys-
terry:
Himalaya Of bamboozlement
Great crawfsh OF the social seas and saeerdotal
likewise.
Odium theologicum. and go and come again,
Which If to be, or not, is why or which,
Here seeing that by what we think we see,
And nothing see at all.
The use of tobacco seems to be fall
of the importations for the first quarter
of the year was only 1922, 1902, against
9343, S75, for the same perIo6 of last
year.
THE beautiful and accomplished
daughters around Memphis go out
with their beaux, and on
home climb into the second
story window so as not to arouse the
old man.
THE FLOWER UNDER FooT.
The flower may hide its lovely face
Among the tangled meadow-grasses
1t cannot hide it's fragrance there
From any heart that passes.
Ah, gentle deeds, whose blessed wings
Alight in darkened doors unbidden,
Your lovely flower Is known in Heaven,
That low on earth is hidden.
An old chap, whose wife is as ugly as
sin, was reading an elopement case
which seemed TO affect him. Said he,
" should be tempted TO shoot a man If
if he ran off with your wife. Verdict
for hearer.
CAPT. SHAW, the chief of the London
fire brigade, will very likely lose his
position. Recently, in order to show
the efficiency of the firemen, he ordered
an alarm of fire at the British Museum
to be reported. The result was that
London, after having been frightened
from its propriety only TO find that no.
thing was the matter, is full of right
eous indignation, and demands the sac
rifce of Capt. Shaw.
WHEN the celebrated French chem
ist, Orfila, was on one occasion a wit
ness at trial for poisoning, he was
asked by the president if he could state
the quantity of arsenic requisite TO kill
fly. Certainly, M. lie Pfosident,"
replied the expert. But must know
beforehand the age of the fly, its sex,
its temperament, its condition and
habit of body, whether married or sim
gle, widow or maiden, widower or
bachelor"
THE MAIDEN's LAMENT
The setting sun gilded her soft brown hair,
And mellowed the gloom in her luminous
eyes,
Then reddened with bushes her bosom fair,
And sank in a blaze Of luxuriant dyes
Yet the sun comes up with the coming morn,
And the west will flame again. as Of yore;
But hope once set is never reborn,
And heart that IN broken is dead evernore.
So the maiden moaned with the moaning trees,
And lifted wet eyes TO the rising moon,
breeze
She must wear her spring hat till the end Of
June.
Nor bad joke is attributed to one of
the suite of the Russian emperor. The
talk of his English entertainers fell up
on the rather worn out talk of invading
London, when the gentleman alluded to
saw the merits of the subject and re-
marked, London il so immese that I
believe any small invading army land
ipg at the east end of your capital would
lose its way, and at the close of q week
or ten days the soldiers would be taken
up by the police at the west end for
begging"
THE records of the internal revenue
bureau show that the late temperance
crusade affected but very slightly the
consumption OF liquor in this country.
During March last, when the crusade
was at its height the special tax on liq-
uor sales was but eight thousand dollars
less than for the same month Of 1873,
but the excitement evidently made the
distillers fear its effects, for the pro-
duction of liquors during March was
less by eighty thousand gallons. The
receipt from both producers and sellers
of liduor since march have steadily in
creased, and now nearly reach the old
limit.
SIR ANDREW AoHEw was famous for
giving broad hints. The nature Of them
will be best ascertained by the follow
ing anecdote Sir Andrew having, Tor
some time, been pestered by an imper-
tinent intruder, it was one day remarked
to the baronet by a friend, that this
man no longer'appeared in his company
and asked how he contrived to get rid
of him. "In truth" said the baronet,
ct Was obliged to give the chief q
broad hint" I" A broad hint?" replied
the friend. CT thought he was one Of
those who could not take hint" By
nv faith, but he was forced to take il, ;"
answered Sir Andrew, for the fellow
would not gang out by the door, 90
threw him out the window"
DIR. E. G.. ROBINSON, president Of
Brown university, in a recent agrlcultu-
raj address said, what we fear is uni
yersally too true, that our farmers suf-
fer more from absurd ideas of life and
from bad diet than any other cause. lt
is so all over the country. He had
known large farmers to engage in 81
gantic operations, and reckon their
wheat by the thousand of bushels, who
had no more idea Of vegetable garden
or the adornment of q table or variety
in their food, than il they had just
como out of Asia Salt pork, salt beoi,
rye or corn bread are their continual
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