The Hickman courier., 1874-05-23
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.
HEAD-L1aHT-Bright eyes. q

! <1Cfttttto 4 btftCtfyts
:, AN article you can always borrow
Trouble, and are not obliged to re-
5 turn it.
PURCHASE no friends bys gifts wher
|, thou ceasest to give, such wil cease tc
love.-FilLLer.
THERE is but one kind OF love, but
. there are a thousand different copies oi
: it.-ROchefoucdutd.
Q SUCCESS has no secrecy about it save
D this: Never attempt to do that you are
r not able to perform.
/ An old wine-bibbe says that an emp
, ty champagne-bottle is like ap orphan
g because ii has lost its pop.
E Az old Scotchman used to say " Pm
! open TO conviction, but I'd like to sec
the man that can convince me-"
AN AKRON, Ohio, man has had his
. wife Jailed for two weeks for hitting him
. prayers. -.
3 A KANSAS book agent says he can Aali
r ten dime novels to one work on; ;felig-
= ion, and he looks for earthquakes and
! hurricanes TO visit that state
SOME New York state men have COM
menced wearing linen Goa 9, but fire.
places ought TO be painted on the back
to give them an air of comfort.
CREMATION OBITUARY.-
Dear Jane is gone, my darling Dan,
She was calcined yesterday:
But the wind upset the tomato-can,
And blew her ashes away.
THE esteem of wise and good men is
the greatest of all temporal encourage
ments TO virtue; and it is the mark of an
abandoned spirit to have no regard TO
it.-BuTke.
Now that the word ''hymeneal" is 30
commonly used in reference to we'd
dings, it is suggested that births should
be headed ''crymeneal" and deaths"d die
meneal." q"
| WHAT foe the farmers have to con-
| tend against in the potato bug is shown
by the experience of a man in Joliet, Ill.
He placed some in a bottle eight months
ago. They have been exposed to the
extremes of winter and summer, have
had nothing to eat, and are still living.
A CHINAAIAN shot an American eagle,
near Sacramento, one day last we k,
and cooked and ate the deceased mon
arch of birds. A few hours later sew
eral patriotic citizens were "loyally"
yelling around a newly dug trench, and
there was dead Chinaman at the bot
tom of it.
In Truckee, Nevada, TIE other day,
We're conversing about firearms. One
offered TO wager the drinks that there
were not three revolvers in the crowd.
The bet was taken, AMI thdA,esult was
SIX revolvers, three derringers and
horse-pistol.
HE wheat crop is promising through
out all the grain-growinC states, aud as
result of a drain to India on account of
the famine, and the prospect of short
crop in England on account of labor
troubles, the chances of brisk demand
at good prices is such as to make glad
the heart OF the granger.
We once heard of a traveller at a hotel,
who sl2 Tfsf r0se dEEeh from his Psa atg2s atNaHA
az pitch, and smells of cheese"
1 WISH women to live first for Gods
sake. Then she will not make an i'm
perfect man her God and thus sink TO
idolatrv Then she will not take what
is not fit for her from a sense OF weak
ness and poverty. Then, if she finds
what she needs in man embodied, she
viii know how to love and be worthy OF
being ed.-1fdrgGrot Fuller.
Mrs. VAN Corr says that at one Of
her prayer-meetings negro brother
prayed ooh, Lord send dy angel to
pin de wings on Sister Bancot's heels,
de Everlasting GOSPEL" ARd one ad-
ded. Lord give wings on Ter should
ers, too, or the preaching Will not have
effect, for she'll fly upside down"
A LADY of Washington county, N. Y,
is a mother Of large family of children,
and theg are all rather diminutive. A
few DAYS after the birth of the youngest
a little niece of the 'ady called TO see
the baby. After looking at the tiny
specinen a few minutes, the little girl
said "Aunt Maria, don't you think
il would be better TO have less of 'em
and have 'em bigger ?"
CHUBBY, q three-year old boy, was
much puzzled to know what made 1t
rain. when his orthodox mother told
him that God made it rain. A few days
after. Chubby was discovered amusing
himself by throwing water from two
| story window on the heads of passers-by,
and, on being demonstrated with by his
mother, said: !" Why, mamma, wHs
only PLAYING God" OF course, the
mother was horrified at the comparison.
I FOUND myself moralizing on the SUI
periority of money over other virtues.
| It is always appreciated No ghost
need rise from the grave to proclaim its
transcendent merits. IL makes the hid
cons beautiful, the foolish wise, the
stupi1 witty, and the wicked saints. 1t
can patronize genius, and dictate to ma
tions It is very fine to be Shakespeare
after death, but how much more COM
Portable to be Rothschild while living J
Kate Field.
THE three-foot narrow gauge railroad
: system is rapidly becoming popular IN
this country, and but few people are
aware of the fact that since 1T came IN
4 vogue, during the last three or four
2 wears. no less than ,345t miles OF mar
ti1in country and IN Canada, which
roads, when completed, will have a
D mileage of 4,562l miles. while there
c are ], ,591 miles under construction.
: LET not mistakes or wrong directions
{ of which every man, in his studies and
: elsewhere. falls into many, discourage
i Won. There is precious instruction tc
g be got by finding that we are wrong
!. Let a man try faithfully, manfully &c
i be right, he will daily grow more and
g more right. 1t is at the bottom the
condition on which all men have to cul.
tivate themselves. Our very walking
is an incessant falling-a falling and 9
catching of ourselves before we come
~ actually to the pavement It is emble-
j. matte of all things q man does.-Cdr
}. yle.
: A CORRESPONDENT writes as follows o.
4 a celebrated place in Colorado Canon
!, called Echo Park "When gun is dis
= charged, total silence follows the erepor
> for moment then with startling sud
7, denness the echo is heard, seeming at I
- - great distance-say five miles to the
~ y south-wbence it comes back in separate
- :. and distinct reverberations. as II leap
- ing from glen TO glen. Louder anS
~ quicker grows the sound, until appar
= emily directly opposite, when q ful
= volume of sound is returned then ono
- more the echo is heard, like the SNAP
a ping of cap, far 10 the eastward"
r. POVERTY is the safest lady-love 10
e. an artist, as one Of Dante's friends wa
n, always telling him. With her, at least
ee they can enjoy the perfect freedom froI
ey care which alone makes want supports
ty BILE: they can throw around their dest
id tuition that halo OF romance which tn
de prosaic details of household invarli
in. bly strangle out Of existence. But
". the early choice Of wife more noP::
go down, more aspirations are sInosl ,sl