The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-05-30
SAYINGS AND DoISes.
YOUTH is genius. -Disrden.


ALger.
THE two colors which are indiscerna-
BILE are invisible green and blindman's
buff.
THERE is one town in Connecticut
that is not afraid of the measles. It's
Haddam.
HUSBANDS and wives in Illinois, under
the new law, may bring civil snits
against each other.
THE subject of cremation, says the
Graphic. might with propriety be dis
cussed during the berrying season.
COLORADO prefers cross-eyed womer,
as they have better facilities for per-
ceiving the approach of Indians.
" If the wicked flourish and then suf-
fer, be not discouraged. They are fat
ted for destruction thou art dieted for
healih.-FulLer.
THOMAS THUMB and wife have set ont
on their annual farewell tour around
the country, and will wind up the show
business in about twenty years more.
WOMEN are fast becoming familiar
with politics. We have hoard of a wo-
man who believes so thoroughly in in
hation that she blows her husband up
three times day.
GETTING up in the night to give the
baby a dose of soothing syrup is not
what one cares about, but it's hitting
fellows nose on the half-open door that
corrugates his feelings.
THE Mobile Register asks: "Why
should not the federal government build
and keep up the Ievees on the Missis-
sippi river, as well as build breakwaters
ON the Atlantic ocean 2"
A DARKEY gives the following reason
why the lored race is superior TO the
~sllsse kAl men. s.re made, 'os clex. and
| like the meerschaum pipe, they arc
more valuable when highly colored.
A SMALL Aberdeen child. being asked
| by her Sunday school teacher, What
did the Israelites do after they crossed
the Red sea answered, ] 10 not know,
ma'am but perhaps they dried them
selves.
THE Rev. Adirondack Murray says he
doesn't believe in borse-racing, but if
any fellow comes dashing up behind
with the expectation Of passing him on
the road, he will find himself most
-nably mistaken.
SHE lives in Douglas county, Oregon;
has been married eight times, has eight
of them. Her daughter, aged twenty
three, with energetic efnu'ation, has dis
posed of three husbands.
DAWN
There il a solemn stiffness in the air
The moon attended 10y a single star
Shines high in placid ether: eastward far
Along the horizons edge. there il n glare
or orange brillance, and above u fair
And pAlv blue the sky withOpt bar
afr al Ky cl
l. tinctured with the coming spleudor. There
The fulgent head springs, and million rays
Dazzle my study-room il charmed with light.
golden picture of its window plays
On the green bookcase, and shadowy wight
Behind me sits. and, az turn my gaze.
Mocks all my motions like an elhsh aprite.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS, who was married
to the daughter of very honest but
somewhat impecunious parents just
after the panic, says he did not find IT
half so hard TO get married as he did 20
get the furniture.
A BosToN millionaire offered a man
two dollprs and half tie other day for
stopping a runaway team and saving
tho life of his daughter. He can't hope
to be a millionaire long if be is going
to squander his money in that way.
ADEL1xA PATTI, the fair Marquis of
Caux, is said to he growing enormously
fat. Several cabinet councils have been
held at st. Petersburg about il, and the
car offers a liberal reward for the dis
covery of any means to thin her out.
To arrive at perfection, a man should
have very sincere friends or inveterate
enemies because he would be made
sensible of his good or i'll conduct,
either by the cen ures of the one or
the admonitions Of the other.-DiO-
genes.
Ia l2r. 4sQL " lals9 q i.sl a rlsurss -
land 70 go back on 2 bargain p The
opposing counsel objected TO the ques-
tion on the ground that 10 was not gram
matical, and the Judge sustained the
objection.
An engineer on the Western North
Carolina railroad shouted TO a crowd of
rustics, who had gathered to see the
first train of cars come in, " Put down
your umbrellas you'll scare the engine
off the track y The umbrellas were
lowered at once.
IF you suppress the exorbitant love
of pleasure and money, idle curiosity,
iniquituous pursuits and wanton mirtbi
what a stiffness there weuld be in the
great cities The necessaries of life
do not occasion at most a third part Of
the hurry. -Br1cyere.
WRITER'S of every age have endeav-
ored to show that pleasure is in us and
not in the object offered for our amuse-
ment. If the soul be happily disposed,
everything becomes capable of afford
ing entertainment, and distress will a.
most want a name. .-GOfdsD1ith.
A RETIRING Virginia editor says "I
have never been horse-whipped, revol-
l. l.
pummeled or cussed for any thing have
said, written or done or left undone as
an editor, and in censing TO be one am
filled with melancholy sadness"
A Missouri clergyman stopped his
discourse to cut off liberal piece Of
plug tobacco for his mouth. and when
one of his hearers reproved him, the
preacher started for Kansas, where the
folks aren't so particular, and where
ping tobacco and patriotism go hand in
hand.
CONFIRMED old topper soliloquizes
"They say whisky is a curse. And
they say brandy is a curse. And they
say tobacco is another curse. Well, i
wish all those curses would come home
to roost, and roost low, at that, so as 1
could pull 'em down whenever 1 want
ed EN-"
Mr.. GLADSTONE tells his private ac-
duaintances that he regrets having
given so many years 10 politics. "How
little" said he, the other day, 10 an adj
mirer, "do politics affect the life, the
moral life, OF nation One single
good book influences the people a vast
Miss LESTER, OF l5ulltAunOTv, isn n0uN
to Tennyson a wild daisy picked frsm
Poe's grave. The package was tied
with a white satin ribbon, upon which
was written, "The only blossom from
the nameless and neglected grave of
Edgar Allen Poe, 1874" 1t was the
only flower to be found on or near the