The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-04-25
SAYINGS AND DoISGs.

ssunDrOfessional" IN Arkansas.
A GEoRG1AN who il to be hung in nj
has had tickets of invitation printed
mailed to his friends.
NEARLY fifty carloads of oysters ha'
lust been taken across TO California 4
planting in the Pacific coast waters.
ONE of the incest ways of commitin
suicide, and of revenging yourselt 2
youI neighbor at the Same time, IS
Jump down lis well.
Ir's a good time to get married nov
when butteris forty-iive cents per pound
as bridal couples don't require any soli'
food for the first month.
THE Suez canal appears to be doing
/ good business. During the month o
January III vessels passed through
paying tolls to the amount Of Si3S, ,OOO
People who didn't draw anything il
the Louisville lottery viii now swear of
forever, and in about six weeks will bt
hunting after tickets in another drawing
GERMANY has a number Of experimen.
| tai farms, where all new theories con
nected with agriculture or cattle-raising
are tried and their merits pronounced
upon.
TWENTY THOUSAND persons, IL is esti-
mated, have been drowned in Lake Eric
during the present century. This is the
most formidable argument the crusaders
have yet had TO combat.
THE Chicago Tribune prints poem in
which the writer wishes that she had "a
heart full of sweet yearlings."' How the
| persecuted author must have yearned 70
| tumble among that comp9sitor's hair.
THE disease known as trichina is
Cart-7ius> tor5Slsp ft., ssri',n.t5 MO isoHr
along the Kaskaskin river in Illinois.
| Not less than ten THOUSAND hogs have
died already, and the fatality is still
unchecked.
FROM Cape Town 70 is stated that the
diamond fields are under a cloud. They
have not only suffered from floods, but
their va ne is depreciating, and the de-
cline in price has caused commercial
embarrassment.
A MAGNIFICENT gambling hell, like
that of Baden Baden and at Homburg,
as they were when at The height Of their
popularity, is talked Of as one Of the fu-
ture attractions of Cairo. The Khedive
is said to favor the plan.
Two HUNDRED people in n Colorado
town recently turned ont in body 90
look upon a bedstead with castors, IL be-
ing the FIRST ever seen in the county. Tho
possessor had his hat ever his left ear,
and was for time greater man than
the mayor.
The American Register, OF Paris, in
forms us that dancing is going out Of
fashion in Europe, and says: of men
and women could hirt as conveniently
and as pleasantly without its protection,
it would be given up altogether in civil
lied countries.
TIE North lCarolina legislature has
passed a law which imDrisons for five
years .'any person Who manufactures,
sells or deals in spirituous liquors as a
drink, Of any name or kind, containing
foreign properties or ingredients poison
ous to the system"
THE rivalry for the emierant travel to
the west, between the Erie and New
York Central railroads. * progressing
fiercely. The Central leads the fftht now,
and has put down the rates 20 "a from
New York 70 Cleveland, s. 20 Chicago,
S7 50 to st. Louis. SO 70 Kansas City
and S14 TO Omaha. This is about as
cheap as they would carry pigs, and we
lear the accommodation viii ~ be
much better.
A FINE distinction was that the preach
er of the Richmond First Baptist church
made " My brudders." said he, "when
you we're all slaves dar might ha' been
sense for cuttin' n slice of the masr's ba-
con, or hookin' a handful o corn meal,
)r robbin' de hen roost ; for you all work
lard den, my brudders, and Won earn il,
ny brudders and sisters. But now vs..s
Tap smallest Toostofice IN the worldl ~
,rferrosF rorIr ~ tie rrodntnins over
,anoino the Straits of Magellan, oppo-
lite Terre del Fuego. Every passing
hin opens IL TO place letters in or 90
AXE them out. Every ship undertakes
o forward all letters in it that It is pos
lille for them to transmit. It hangs
here bv its iron chain, beaten and bat
cred bv the winds and storms, but no
,cl,ed and barred office on land is more
ecure. 1t is not in the track Of mail
obbers.
Texas is developing nm inexhaustible
upplv of salt. Her bayous are veri-
able mines of wealth, if properly
rorked. One OF these-the Laguna
Iadre-is one hundred and twenty
niles long. and from three to TX miles
,road, ard not more than eighteen
uches deep. The water Is rapidly
and the salt settles in great
Quantities in the bottom. The amount
II salt from this source Is estimated at
q. 900. 900 bushels in the season, which,
t is said, can be placed on navigation
It ten cents per bushel.
IT is stated that the Patrons of Hus-
,andrv in Iowa have perfected an organ
cation for the capture of horse-thieves.
Zach grange is 70 have Five riders,
ybo are. ON n robbery of stock being re-
ported. TO mount and follow the culprits,
70 this end the grange is TO furnish them
With funds not less in amount than SO,
nd on giving the hailing sign of tue
oatron, all other grpnges VIII entertain
hem free of cost, turn out to them, or
end them fresh horses. Similar organ
cations in other states would render
tealing horses a very Improbable busi-
less.
WHEN Napoleon the Great died at st.
Helena, an English physician took
harge of his heart, depositing 1t IN
liver basin filed with water. Two
apers burned near q, but the custodian
elt nervously anxious while Watching
{ through the night, and did not sleep.
n the silence of midnight he heard
ustling sound, then plunge lpto the
yater. and a rebound on the tioor-all
occurring WITH lne q qllchhtno Vi ehp"bHN'
lie sprang from his bed TO see an enor-
nous rat dragging the precious relic TO
ais hole. A moment more and the
leart which had been too vast in ITS
lmbitfon TO be satisied with the so~er-
signtv of continental Europe would
nave been more degraded tkan the dust
IF imperial Caesar.
THE smoldering of the fires in the
Durnt district Of Chicago continued for
a great length of time, and it was re.
marked by a gentleman that he had
lighted n cigar in the ruins months AZ
5er the conhaeration. Instances are
oot rare where fires have smoldered for
years. At Singer, Nimick & Co. Shelf
ieId steel-works, Pittsburg, an exten-
i've smoldering fire, that battles the
best efforts TO extinguish it, has been
dangerously near the new
neetinp-house. Tho ground fronting
IN the river has been formed by the de-
oosit of cinders from the mil, and may
nave been hidden mass of fire for one
Or two wears. The firm lost consider
.ble from fire some time since. Vari-
ous other Pittsburg rolling mills have
nad such fires-in one instance known
20 have existed for two years, and IN
another for some eight or ten months