The Hickman courier., 1874-09-11
SAYINGS AND DoINGs.


A cASNIBA1's epitaph-Write me as
one who loves his fellow-man.
A THIEF running away is scamp
but the policeman's chase after him IS a |
who thought he could get out without
stopping the omnibus, and-sat down IN
the mud.
"YoU do not black your boots in
Pittsburg," says a traveller. You hang
them out Of the window at night, and
they are black enough in the morning.
AN Irishman, in writing a letter to
his sweetheart, asking whether she
would accept of his love or not, writes
thus: 'sIf you don't love me, plaze
send back the letter without breaking
the seal.
TEMPERANCE is encouraged in the
British navy by giving the men who do
not want grog its equivalent IN tea ana
sugar or in money. Nearly all the strict
ly temperate men in the navy wear a.
good conduct stripe.
THE Georgia system of farming con
victs does not work we'll. Middle,
Smith & Co., who hired ore hundred,
having lost seventeen, have been order
ed. on their own request, to return the
remainder to the state.
| SEPTEMBER -
| A vybispering silence broods Ger all around,
| As IN cathedral when the praise and prayer
| Are lingering pulses on the waves Of sound,
] And naTight disturbs but muffied heart-throbs
there.
Yet all is bright-the san scarce past the
And stealing ont from dusky. DARLING wood.
From OF her ewes she T % tie 18Th lEEq2fsy is s6o2
When 10 her ehestnlt locks float on the
I breeze
/ Like silken alge on cerulean seas.
/ The flowers have hing their heads; but all
/ gay things
That buzzing iIi. o. hsas-.es 80. er.
-e1SE evening, after long and weary
march over the desert, Mahomet and
his followers pitched their tents for the
night. Said one of the tired men, g
will loose my camel and commit it to
| God" His master overheard it and
said, Friend, tie thy camel, ard com
NIT It to God"
Z Baron RoTHscHILD, just dead& &t
| Vienna, leaves no part of his fortune to
his daughters, though each was already
rich. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, the
| eldest son, fares far better than his
| brothers but the greater part of the
fortune is left fixed as the capital of kle
/ bank In which Ma haniel, Ferdinand
and Albert are partners.
IT IS greatly IN favor OF the use oi
| heavy petroleum and coal oils as lubri-
/ cauts, that according to some of the
best authorities, these oils are incapa-
| BILE of producing combustion IN contact
with wooden materials. Vegetable oils,
| such as olive oil, are on the contrary
| very liable TO such combustion when
mixed with wool, sawdust, and similar
material.
IN the French penal code it is pre-
| vided that any person or persons who
shall combine TO raise or depress the
price of articles of food above or below
what II would be in the natural state
of trade at the time, hall suffer two
months imprisonment, and pay q fine
| Of not less than 5000 nor more than
S400. They propose to operate viii
| this against men who are making
q corner" on grain.
HORSES that are kept in the stable
du,ing the summer should be give1
daily the luxury of roll on the earth
Rolling is the means given by nature
for the animal to rid itself of vermir
| and skin diseases, and il tends to make
| the animal healthy. Some owners OBJ
| ject to allowing q horse to roll on the
bare earth, because It gets dirt IN the
hair and makes extra work to keep the
animal clean, but the extra work paws
if Tightfully understood.
THE pride Of mankind is great. A
| night or two ago a family IN New York
| was awakened by unusual noises IL the
house, and, on turning out, saw the
! eldest hopeful rushing about braudish-
| ing new Wessou, and shouting,
| There's man IN the house = A
| long search failed to show any founda-
ton for the young mans warlike de
! monstration, when he mildly informed
| the breathless and exhausted tribe that
it was his birthday. He was twenty
one.
THE salary of the governor of Louis
iania is IS, 600, that of his private sec
| retary 900, OF his clerk 81, 500, OF
| two messengers 81, 200 each, of his cor
responding secretary 81, 500. Includ-
| ing contingent expenses, the governor
Office costs about S25, 600 annually.
! The salaries of the secretary of state
and his assistants foot up 50. 760, and
OF the attorney generals office SO.
/ 600. The auditor and his assistant
receive 10 all S4z, $40, and the tressu
| rer and his aids ST, 600. The state
printer gets ebout $50 600. and the
other official journals about S12, 600.
DURING the last session of congress q
bill was passed directing a gold medal
TO be struck and presented to JOIN
Horn, ir., of Detroit, IN recognition oi
his services in saving persons from
! drowning. He has saved at least oue
hundred persons from a watery grave
and has given the names and circum.
stances attending their rescue. In sew
| eral cases he came near losing his Owl
! life by struggling with his victims, and
was repeatedly confined to his bed by
! sickness resulting from his efforts. The
medal is soon to be struck at the Phila-
delphia mint, and viii be presented in
due form.
NORTHERN papers suggest that if en-
| ployers would initiate the example OF
some of the English merchants and
manufacturers IN changing their pay
| day from Friday or Saturday to, say, the
| beginning or middle of the week, the
habits of our working men would he
| considerably improved. "The tempta-
| tons, " says a contemporary, TO a man
who has money IN his pocket Saturday
! night are very great. and there can be no
doubt if the change indicated were
made We should have less drunkenness,
lighter police calendars and happier
homes. The experiment in England has
been a great success"
CALIFORNIA will soon be competitor
of the Spa 1sh ana italian, EoeI1iIsssI las
IN the American rsaifir xnsarl<sse- yVlaiss,
Muscat grapes are grown Tor this pur-
pose. and large nUaltlty of his vear's
crop WIN be converted into raisins, and
they make such good article that they
are expected 20 command an -eqR4!i
price With .t4ee-A.f1ststcs5 variety is also
coming into favor in California, and
Will soon be extensively grown for raj
sins. The crop was never in a more
promising condition, both as regards
quantity and quality, than it IS this
season, the vintage being placed at tn
million gallons, against a yield Of four
millions In 1873 and two million FIVE
hundred thousand in 1872.
Springing Out of Bed.