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

any market. Charles Lamb.
"Prayed out of the town." are Il
words nailed on the doors OF several 81
looms at Xenia, Ohio.
MORNING aprons are of dark blu
silk, trimmed with small ruffies OF th
same material. They are very pretty
KING KoFFEE keeps his 3, 1888 wive
under the same roof with his magazin
of military munitions. They do abou
as he says.
CHARLES LAND, when speaking OF one
of his rides on horseback, remarked
that " all at once his horse stopped, but
he kept right on"
A DETROIT paper noting the fact that
a man lately dropped dead whiIMcomb-
ing his hair, says, "And yet there are
persons who viii persist in the danger
Gus habit"
In murder case in Kentucky three
hundred men were summoned as Juror s
before they coul1 get twelve who didn't
know anything and We're therefore eligi-
bic as jurors.
The Herald, at Canton, Ohio, ex-
listed seven weeks on a capital of forty
eight dollars, but the editor had to buy
a set of chairs for his house and the
| paper went unQ6r.
WHEN they find a man in Washington
who hasn't a plan of his own for the
solution of the financial problem they
\ drown him in the Potomac No one
has been drowned there as yet.
A MONTREAL paper, speaking of re-
cent dualin explosion, says, in most
pathetic style, that the bodies of tho
victims were spread over many rods.
"here piece al d there piece"
TEE7s sinns ans amigrant frQna. The
Thercs not mile in Ireland's isle.
Who're the dirfliy verrnin musthers,
But st. Pathrick put his hOwly fut,
And murthered them in clusthers.
The toads went dash, the frogs went splash
All jumpin in the wather;
And the schnakes committed shuicide
To save themselves from sclhaughter
AN Irish editor, who speaks with the
air of a man who has discovered a new
fact by experience, says that the way
to prevent bleeding at the nose is to
keen your nose out Of other peoples
business.
LOVE your neighbor as yourself-bor-
row his plough, hoe, or horses when
ever you can but if he wants to bor-
row yours, tell him that you are very
sorry, but you were just going to use it
yourself.
A CINCINNATI girl can write beautiful
poetry when asleep, and also speak three
foreign languages while unconscious Of
what she says. But, after all, it's better
to curl down under the sheets and sweet
ly sleep until Aurora beams dgain.
A KENTUCKY farmer refused - look
at sample sewing machine recently,
as he always "sewed wheat by hand"
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want threshing machine on his farm,
" for, said he, q give me harness tug
or n barrel staYe, and / can make my
family toe the mark according 10 The
law and Scriptur."
A PHILOSOPHICAL KentucSiaD, who
had but one shirt, and was lying in bed
while the garment was drying on the
clothes-line in the yard, was startled
by an exclamation from his wife TO the
effect that the calf had eaten it. "Well,"
said the Kentuckian, with n spirit
worthy of a better cause" well, them
who has must lose"
No MORE truthful sentence was ever
penned by man than the following writ
ten by Chancellor Kent "The parent
who sends his son into the world uned-
ucated defrauds the community OF a
lawful citizen and bequeaths TO it a nui-
sance." These words should be written
in letters of gold over the entrance OF
every school in the land.
IT IS a we'll known fact that harness
and other leather exposed to the action
OF ammonia in stables, soon becomes
weak and rotten, even though often
cleaned and CREASED. Prof. Artus re-
the addition of a small guam
tity of glycerine to the oil used in
PRes1pTST WaTTEa,. Of C6fheiir, Gays
that he knows OF but one single instapce
among the Young ladies at the UNIVERSE
ty of inability TO keep well up with the
class. He observes that as a rule they
average about ten per cent. better on
the .eHfinination papers than do the
youno men; that they have raised the
average of conscience and manliness
and decency more than ten per cent
The social and vital statistics of the
White House are reported as follows
One marriage, Miss Maria Monroe,
daughter of the president, TO Mr.. Gou-
veneur. in 1920. Two presidents have
died in the house and a third, Mr.. Lin
colin. killed elsewhere, was laid in state
in the east room. Several children
have died at the White House, but IT
has welcomed the advent OF but one
newborn baby, James Madison ran
dolph, the grandson OF Thomas Jei-
ferson.
ONE of those instances in which
good man speaks out the thought that
Is uppermost without considering all
hat might be implied thereby, occurred
, number of years ago in well known
church at the west end of Edinburgh.
Tbe late DIR. -, of London, during
1ne of his periodical visits, was preach,
MO an evening sermon to croweded
audience, when a noie was hanged up
% him to intimate that if DIR. So-and-So
was in the church he was urgently
wanted. Having read the note, ana
seeing the doctor moving off, he imme,
stately added, with great fervor,, And
may the Lord have mercy on his pa
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