The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

Sioux Cry hotel IL.
tan dog that killed a
month This is a good
but hard on the hotel
IT is a rule of etii
that no true gentleman
legs thrown over the Lad
boris chair, if he can helI
SINCE the temperance q
menced one man in Ohio r.
forty-tvo temperance pledges
" sworn off " fifty-four times.
IT IS singular that the most garrulou
speakers, no matter whether in public
or private are invariably those who are
'' unaccustomed to public speaking
From SEA TO SEA-
We glide through golden seas OF gram
We shoot shining comet, through
Aud then below the walls OF snow,
We blow tho desert dust amhli II
We brueh the gay madrona tree.
We greet the orange groves below
We rest beneath the oaksi and we
Have cleft a continent IL twain
-Jodgtas Muller. - tE. - .'
THE oyster beds OF Virginia cover an 4.
area equal to 10000 '6orre and tnQse -.
great ai,.Iei, %ipss ss S9i, q iassl s =, ~.
ne Of SIS No6. .O00s Ar
ut the end of three montlsswds ns blac'
as the surrounding cuticie.
Ak Indisna lawyer used the word
" "disparagement in his plea, and the
Judge told him that if ne couldn't quit
using Latin words he could sit down.
The lawyer undertook TO define his po- n
sition and was fined twenty dollars Tor
contempt of court
A SAILOR dropped ont of the rigging III
of a ship of war some fifteen or twenty II
feet, and fell plump OF the head of the
first lieutenant. "Wretchl" said the
l.
up. "Where the deuce did you come
from?" "An' sure i came from the
north Of Ireland, yer honor"
THE nan who ans vered an ADVERTISE
ment to the following effect had his GU
riosity satisfied If you would learllaQ
to make home happy. SEM fifty cents
postage stamps to A. b., -. etcs v
receipt of postage Stamps,
" Your home woul be
you were less frequently
A YOUNG lady has the let
a. engraved on one corner
ing cards, which she hand
gentlemen visitors. At first{
pose she belongs to the Young
Christian association, but it is nd,
before they rightly construe the lette
to mean, Z" You may come again.
LIBERTY OF THE PREss.-
Around her waist put my arm
II felt soft cake -
" Oh dear, says She what liberty 4
- Whv yes my Sal, my charming gal,
q squeezed her some, guess.) n
Can You say aught, my love, against
The freedom Of the press 2!
kissed her some-I did. by gumi
She colored like beet;
Almost too good TO eat
1 gave another buss, and ther--
Says she, . / do confess,
The freedom Of the.
A FRENoHAIAS, oon3| - Z all
for numbering hisHifel I'D with
Ped SSi 'a5'nua'lns id tRe ssSts 5sssass ssaa aa
punishment had' abolished in
France for politicn offences, and lie
had killelu his wife and child for ITO
other - but because thay we're
legitimists.
AT juvenile ap party young @ ASeraesn .A, ae1a
stCorse and -.ay anJ called to lin ''~s.s /.
Choose one. Sc ,na rra. dance, my dear "A
wife" IT. ssIls laE Kaar
want tc k.fbe BODY ~
poor pap Rcest liter II
man of
that the human syhtsr>
per cent. of water =.
thirty per cent. twenty -. ~
disappears in gas at the burning,y
as the watery seventy evaporates.
your "solid man " possesses real
about ten pounds of soGdity.
IT is suggested that the Centennial Al
celebration be spread out all over the q.
country like an ordinary Fourth Of MY
and not ,nfined tcsPhiladelphi
is no reason why it should DC ~
The country is wide and NJ, -
Oregon has as good a right
as Pennsylvania or New u
the hardy pioneers of the ~ -
many. descendants of tho. =. y
Let The rejoiciDgs and tbe -
tional, and not crampei &&[z
The NegroSi