The Hickman courier., 1874-08-28
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

THE smile on a mans face who coun.
ter 7eits Joy when he goes down on an
orange peel, is both gloomy and pc
culiar.
SIS THEM the common dog sassage 2
inquired a venerable looking lady, as
she surveyed a bunch of bananas over
her spectacles the other day.
Col. EaERroS, in the house of Com
mons, said philanthropy is so energetic
that sit requires good deal OF 1nfiu-
ence nowadays to get hanged.
GREAT efforts are being made TO in
duce Liszs to visit this country. One
manager offered him 1 200, ,000f. for one
season, but the Abbate politely declined.
A GERMAN at Terre Haute, Ind, sold
last year, 16, 600 pounds of grapes raised
on land, which, the same season, would
not have produced go bushels OF corn.
"I SHALL awaken in heaven" wrote
Boston girl before taking arsenic. But
! she took too much for a death dose, and
awoke with stomach-pump down her
! throat"
"I AN goiDg-I know am" said a
| dying Mississippian, and believe I'd
go easier If Jim would get down the
fid1le and play 'Sore-heel Sally once
more" Jim did.
A WESTERN postmaster writes 70 the
postmaster general ''that hell will be
full of country postmasters b fore long
if they do not get more pay than is al
lowed this Office"
GKn. MORN has Just exhibited before
the French academy, bottle contain
ing eight kilogrammes of osmium, the
most poisonous metal known. This IS
enough" he exclaimed, "to poison the
AN ACCOUNT of a fire in England fur
nishes a valuable hint TO volunteer fire
| departments. ssrhe London Scottish
was the first regiment on the alert, hav-
No, :, 'ss''1-. 'r----rs - Are
BATHING cloaks, which are 20 DC put
on dry when leaving the water, aud
worn across the beach to conceal the
moist figure, are made of Turkish towel
ing, trimmed with oriental braiding,
and cut loose and very long.
universe" as ore millogramme Of osmi-
um, diffused thrugh one hundred cubic
metres of air, renders it irrespirable."
We really feel very uncomfortable, ard
should like to know what the general
intends doing with that bottle.
McGRATH has had an operation per-
formed on the feet of Tom Bowling.
As the operation was radical and Sc
we're, it is safe to predict that the
mighty son of Lexington and Lucy
Fowler will not appear upon the course
in race again this season.
FROM recent camp meeting sermon
"Be not content with the hope Of mere
ly getting into heaven-of being driven
on to the heavenly shore, like batter
ed old hulk but strive TO go I'D like
grand vessel, with every sail set, the
colors of your redeemer flying at the
mainmast, and freighted with a pre-
cious cargo"
THE WHOLE police force of Jefferson,
Texas, were recently arraigned before
TIE Mayor Of that thriving city on the
cha ge of vagrancy. The charges were
preferred by the families of the police
men on the ground that the officers had
no visible means of support, as they
had received but S12 from the city in
the last five months.
"HERoDoTUs, nv son, what time is
it ?" inquired Mr.. Spilkins of his son,
who had Just come home from college.
"WeIl. father" replied the youth, pull
ing out his watch, "let represent IL
O'Clock and Y equal 10 minutes, and Z
2y is the answer" Spilkins pondered
for a moment and then said he thought
it must be about bedtime.
SOMEBODY has been finding fault with
the natural philosophy in Poe's Raven.
He asks: "How could the raven, sit
ting lonely on that placid bust of Pal
las-not only on the door, but above 1t,
and of course right against the wall
by any law of illumination 'thrown his
shadow on the floor for the poets soul
to float in and be lifted nevermoreP" ?"
Our TREASURES
Nothing is our own; we hold our pleasures
Eseifisd y 4 sSuil lilti1 AKA fsastl3t min az IL
They are ours, and hold in faithful keeping.
Safe forever, all they took away.
Crnel life can never stir IL at sleeping,
Cruel time can never seize that prey.
WHAT can be more startling, asks the
Washington Star, than-to see delicate
and fascinating young lady, with long
train, suddenly turn around, without
giving the unsuspecting individual be
hind her any warning whatever, gently
stoop. reach back with her right foot
and kick desperaely2 She is going
across the street, and is merely switch
ing off her train in a new direction.
HUSBAND and wife who have fought
the world side by side, who have made
common stock with Joy or sorrow, and
grown aged together, are not unfre-
duently found curiously alike in per-
sonal appe rance, and in pitch and tone
of voice. He has gained something
feminine which brings his manhood in
to full relief she has gained something
masculine which acts as a foil to her
womanhood.
THE house at Kissingen, occupied by
the Iron" Prince, as the German
papers style him row, is Distinguished
bv seven bombs, which it received from
the Prussians in 1866, and which were
left immured in it. A peasant OF the
environs. to whom the Prince, ipcog-
nito, showed the proper way Of moving
meadows, has, since the thing got
abroad, refused large sums offered for
the scythe with which the Chancellor
exemplified his practical knowledge OF
farming.
THE NIGHT clerk of Burlington ho-
tel was startled about IL o'clock the
other night by the following converse
tion, at a time when he supposed he was
alone in the Office: "Come along, yo1
hoodlum, let's 90 up stairs. Go
nothin'." was the gruf reTly, LETS
wait till the midnight train comes in (;
there's nothing you can get blood out OF
in tbe bouse now" And the amazed
and horritied clerk could sec nobody IN
the room except two old gray mosque
toes, doing on Saratoga trunk.
THE BEST THINGS
The sweetest songs are those
That few men ever hear
And no men ever sing.
The clearest skies are those
That farthest on appear
To birds OF etroneoet vgtng-
The dearest loves are those
That no man can come near
With his best following.
HERE. now, is bit of frescoing that
is ouite fresh. A negro woman living
near Carlisle, Kentucky, for the last
| forty vears-Jane Young, black as the
ace Of spades-began about four years
AGO to change coiof, and grad dally
grew white, until she bleached out to
a tolerably fair complexion. Within a
/ few weeks past her original black color
| - i -faQlf IN let