The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-06-06
SAYINGS AND DOISGs.

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from Grundy county, Iowa, and vii
try to acclimate them.
AUTOGRAPHS of George Washington
are selling in Philadelphia at 81 apeice
The manufacturers are about introduc
ing some improved machinery, and wheI
that is IN they can be had at forty cents
a dozen.
AT a conference meeting in Salt Lake
city recently, Brigham Young, Jr., ex.
planned his System of praying for his
enemies 81 pray for our enemies,
brethren, but / always pray that they
may go TO hell "
DANIEL BOOK had a very brief relig-
ious creed. 1t was simply to love and
fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do
all the good to your neighbors and
himself that he could, ard as little
harm as he could.
EARL RUSSELL is not with the Wash
! ington treaty. He told the house Of
| lords the other night that it had "tarn-
isbed the national honor, lowered the
national character, and sacrificed the
national interest"
WOULDN'T be a cook for the whole
world, exclaimed a fashionable young
lady to her betrothed lover. OF
course not, he replied: if you were
cook for the whole world you would
neyfr est tSP2Fa4ebbr yoFk.i Rsgt You'll
long on a train to kiss female friends the
other day, and, trying 70 get off after
it had started, was thrown on her face.
4" If ever kiss anybody again !" she said
reveugefully, as she arose, "any woman,
at least, she added thoughfully, " then
it will be when / am crazy"
"WoULD nv little Ezra" asked n
fond mother, "like TO be a missionary,
and go preach to the poor, suffering lit
tie heathen p Tears-bright, pearly
drops of feeliug-glistened on little
Ezra's eyes as he murmured: Nav, 1
wouldn't but I'd like 10 be on the per
lice long enough TO put tin roof on
the big lummax that stuck shoemakers'
wax on my seat to-day. You hear me-"
Rev. Mr.. WALTON, Of Hightown,
y. Y, placed a sealed can of beans
upon the live Goals in the stove TO
to assist IN the opening thereof. An
instant explosion followed, shattering
the stove, upsetting the tea-kettle,
scattering the Goals over the carpet,
and plastering the beans to the ceiling.
The whole family had narrow escape,
and the dominic concludes that he
knows beans " now.
THE Chicago Times chronicles the
fall of an enormous @rOlite in the Vi
cinity of Farmersville, Livingston
county, Mo. The shock of its impact
with the ground is stated TO have been
like an earthquake, and the molten mass
is described as fully twenty feet high
abve the soil. and some twenty feet in
diameter. It presents the usual ap-
pearauce of such bodies, being black,
shining mass Of meteoric iron.
FROM the account Of the Sanders
vile. Georgia, Herald il appears there
was something to laugh at in the escape
of the convict from the Washington
gang hired for agricultural la
Dor. The overseer had some dogs that
he was training to catch any Of the
gang who might escape, and he turned '
this convict loose to exercise the dogs
and instruct them in their parts. BR
the fellow took his part in earnest, am
as the dogs failed 20 come up TO what
was expected of them be was not
caught.
TIE idea that Dickens intended a
Of his own thriftless sire in
the character OF wilkins Micawber sug-
eests to a sagacious London cores
Dondent that the latter name is but a
disguise of the literal expression,
81. the ii ITO &C, une NJ 10 W.
and the "h " TO "b and behold you
have Micawber at once This power
ful speculation reminds one of the old
explanation of the derivation Of Mid
dletown from Moses You drop the
'oses and add the 'iddletown
QUANTITIES of unsafe dams have been
discovered in Massachusetts, since the
williamsburg food. The latest dis
covery of the kind is that a dam near
Worcester, which confines a body ~
water twice the size of the Mill riv
reservoir, has been in q dangerous state
for eight years, and was six years since
by the county commission
ers and ordered TO be removed. The
order has never been complied with.
and when the dam bursts the city of
Worcester viii vanish.
THE old question, does lager intoxi-
cate came before a court IN Dayton,
Ohio, a day or two ago. A Germ
testified "If you drink five or six
glasses of lager in a little while you
will feel more pleasant as If you drink
five or six glasses Of water IN the same
time, and if you drink five or six glasses
of water in little while you will feel
more disappointed as II you utAnh ANS
or six glasses of lager in the same
time" The jury were ont four hours,
and stood seven TO five.
THE value of carrier-pigeons was so
plainly shown during the Franco-Ger-
man war, that the French government
has decided to erect large house and
to keep constantly in it for the next six
years 1000 pairs of pigeons for breed
ing purposes. Each fortress is 10 have
a pigeon-house, with capacity for l.
600 birds, and two general stations are
to be established, with accommodations
for GO. 900 birds. The Germans too are
breeding carrier-pigeons on large
scale for the use Of the army.
THE spring brain-work has began in
some of the principal newspaper offices.
The st. Louis Democrat says: "In
the spring, the spurs grow longer on
the gaudy rooster's legs in the spring,
a pullet's fancy lightly turns to thoughts
of eggs" The Minneapolis Tribune
says " In the spriBg, the vernal blub-
Der ripens in the FURNISHED whale in
the spring, a tadpole's fancy lightly
turns to thoughts OF tail. The Boston
Globe says In the spring, tn um-
breIla-owner gins to wonder which is
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