The Hickman courier., 1874-03-28

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into his watch fob or pocket-book.
A wATcHMAN who lodged in the boil
err room of "A factory was asked if he
wasn't afraid of being blown up, and
answered, with a sickly smile, +" No; I'm
a married man.
ANDREW JACKSON was accused of bad
spelling, but John Randolph defended
him by declaring that a man must be
a fool who could not spell a word more
ways than one"
AND now here comes a cleaning light
through the midnight darkness. Rev.
Meekam, of Green Bay, says that u ~
MS belief that most of the editorial
sraiSs SSGs iaStSa iata al ami aaaallIE "a
Seated on thy floiOua throne;
Hear the pleadings OF thy people,
And thy mighty power make known.
God Of Israel
Send US swift deliverance down.
Io. the slain Il Moloch strewlng,
Like the sand the ocean shore
Hark the drunkards death-hnel wailing
Wailing DER "a eyermorel
God of mercy,
Hast thou lost thine ancient p0werl
Shall the widows piieous crying
Waste itself in Wild despair?
Shall the orphans bitter signing
Die unhseded on the air
God OF judgment,
All thy majesty ueclHfP-
IT is not so much poverty that makes
men drunkards, as drunkenness that
makes men poor. No scriptural truth
was ever more apparent than the prov
erb that the dTunkard shall come TO
poverty.
In one of George Sands stories she
makes n man say " In one short hour
/ suffered death a thousand times over"
But what was that TO having young
mans paper-collsr bust on him at an
evening party
IT is understood that Gen. Joe John
sons book on the war reveals good
deal that has been hitherto mysterious
in regard TO Confederate military oper-
ations. The general goes largely into
the controversy between himself and
ex-President Davis.
An OLD Judge, on being asked what
was the longest circuit court he had
ever held, replied "The longes cir
cult, as 10 distance, was when / used 10
court a gill TO reach her house j had
to make circuit Of eleven miles, but
the time was a mere nothing"
THERE is an old story Dat st. Peter,
when revisiting the eartH, was obliged,
amid the multitudinous changes on
every hand, to have a guide through
most of Europe, but on entering Spain
he dismissed him for here, said the
saint, everything is just as 1 left it.
ADAMS apple as the name given to
the protuberance in the fore part of the
throat, occasioned by the thyroid cartil-
age of the larynx. This name origi-
mated from a superstitious tradition,
that a piece Of the forbidden fruit,
which Adam ate, stuck in his throat,
and occasioned the swelling.
"PATRIcK, dear, come, in and e 20
I-bed. Sist," said the wife OF. a. Jolly son
so state - q You must be dreadful
tired, wild yer long walk" "Arrah
git away wild yer nonsense" said Pat.
{" 1t wasn't the length av the. way that
fatigued me. Twas the breadth av il"
THE report of the growth of the Pat
rons of Husbandry shows that 1,566
oranges have been organized since the
middle of December. The whole num-
Der of oranges is now 11,000. The
largest increase took place in the former
slave states, where sos new oranges
were formed, against 459 in the Western
states. The national membership Of
the oranges now numbe1 $1,000
A PUBLISHER in Yeddo, Japan, has
Just issued a life of Washington in for
ty-four volumes, printed in Japanese
characters, and illustrated with numer-
ous engravings. On the irontispiece is
the portrait of the frs. president Of tho
United States, in the costume OF the
present day, wearing a heavy mustache,
carrying.~a cane in his hand, and es-
corted bya terrier dog.
THE teacher of.an infant school had
her attention called 10 one little fellow
who was listening 10 what she said.
She had been teaching her class the
elements of English history, and wish
ing to see if he knew what she had been
talking about, Ahe suddenly asked
Johnny, who killed King Rufus 2
With a surprised look, he replied,
Why, didn't know. he was dead !"
A V1RG1SIA railroad was made 10 pay
S25 for killing q rooster. The engineer
said he spoke 10 the gentleman with the
whistle as kindly a possible, but when
the fellow dropped one wing on the
ground, raised his good eye heaven
ward, and commenced whetting his
spur on the rail, forbearsnce ceased TO
be n virtue and he lit into him with
thirteen freight cars, and forwarded
him to bis happy scratching-ground
by lightning express.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
on the 2d instant one of the railroad
Mississippi river forty-seven thousand
counterfeit nickels, all of which had
been received by its liues in payment OF
fares during the year. The spurious
coins, il says, are manufactured IN New
Orleans, but the makers have not been
discovered. The railroad companies
offer "A reward OF one thOuHnnd dollars
for the discovery Of the counterfeiters.
THE game called shadow-show is
thus played A sheet is suspended
tightly across a dafkened room, can
die (never n kerosene lamp lighted and
placed upon the floor few feet behind
it, and the selected players are ranged
behind the candle. All being ready for
the show, the players, dressed in any
comic way, may perform what funny
pantomime they choose between candle
and sheet, snd their shadows Will be
projected upon the latter to the up-
roarious amusement of the audience ON
the other side. BY jumping over the
candle, from before it, the jumper is
made to disappear very laughably and
surprisingly in the air.