The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-11
SAYINGS AND DOrNGs.

rope-and- -hyphens-will- now-have-a-rest.
STRAW is in demand, but in lengths OF
about twelve inches with glass at the
end.
GREAT places are great burdens f; dis
tinpuished conditions in life exact great
servitude.
ScoTr Rooms carried his shotgun
ont on a slippery log, in Missouri, few
days ago.
NorHrNG, it is said, contributes so
much to the Emusic Of the future as
matrimony."
NIAE is the merriest species of crea-
ton all above and below him are Sc
rious.--Addison.
THE worm of concience is the com
panion of the owl the light is stunned
by evil spirits only.-.Schitter.
TENNYsoN is writing another "Idyl of
| the King" Writing idyls should never
be encouraged during the corn-hoeing
season.
TASTES differ with localities. In Foe
| Wayne man with red nose is looked
mn 10 as a profound thinker and deep
philosopher.
TIE Leghorn fiat of the season has a
wide brim without any wire, so that 1t
NAV be shaped at will After the wearer
has been ont in a shower the fiat shapes
itself.
AUGUSTUS LEONARD dressed up like an
Indian. and descended on the cabin OF
Missouri family for fun. They kept the
BODY on ice three days for his father TO
arrive.
A BRooKLYx husband comforts his
-ss- g. .,,a trs~ et .sair asgr h.ttlee h.ee
eight-months-Old, by reminding her thht
there will be more room on the clothes-
line now.
"OLD PROBABILITIES" predicts light
winds and hurricanes for July, but ne
can't scare n man who lives in rented
house and has his furniture insured Tor
its full value.
THESE old fellows are perfectly resist
less. -Four months after the death Oh
his wife, Asahel Mix, Of Bristol, Conn,
AGED eighty years, committed matrlmoDy
with a girl fourteen years and six
months old.
AN Evansville damsel witnessing a
foot race between a number of younN
men a few days ago, became disRusteA
with the performace, pulled on her
Shoes challenged and beat the whole
crowd.
bovs find that their hats have grown
too large for them, and walk into school
with long faces, amid sympathetic
whispers Of "Why didn't you have
your head filed, instead of sand-paPer-
ed ?"
An Idaho school teacher has intro
duced a new feature in his school.
When one of the girls misses word,
the boy who spells it has permission 10
kiss her. As a result, the girls are fast
becoming poor spoilers, while the boys
are improving.
CYRUS W. FIELD is confident that the
San Francisco moneyed men Will take
stock and advance money for laying the
Pacific cable TO Japan as soon as the
survey is made. The stock will be
owned in London, New York and San
Francisco, and Will amount to ABOUT
$50, 0,0O0,0O0.
A cADAvERors, melancholy-looklng
man. in a suit OF threadbare black
clothes. and battered silk hat, excited
considerable interest yesterday alter
noon, by rising in the ladies cabin oil
Fulton ferryboat and solemniy obsery-
ing, "There are very few red-eyed Wlo-
ows nowadays. Brooklyn Argus.
NArURALIsrs bewail the apparent
fact that the elephant, like the whale,
is being driven into extinction by the
prosecutions Of mankind. In India the
hunters have pursued him so lar lnland
that he is scarcely more common now IN
the habitable part of that country thhn
is the red deer in England and IN buI
nab qsd snd! Csyl9sn eeEHdly Aas the a2ss anu
tion.
MARRIED men who have extravagant
families, which they are IN duty bound
to support, get no credit Tor reirainlIg
from suicide. Just hear Louise STOCK
ton at is worth noticing that, while
the men who commit suicide are almost
alwavs unmarried, the women are mar
ried or widowed. This leads to the IN
ference that, while men can not i've
without women, women find life unoear-
able with men"
A FIRM dealing largely in coal IN one
of our western cities had in their SER
vice an Irishman named Barney. One
dav the head of the firm, irritated be-
yond endurance at one of Barney's
b1unders. told him 10 go to the office
and get his pay, and added : fon
are so thick-headed / can't teach you
ANYTHING" Begorra," says Barney
{" / larn wan thing since I've been wld
We - "What's that ?" asked his en-
ployer. " That sivinteen hundred
make ton"
THE San Francisco Alta makes the IN
teresting announcement that the
amount of money, in round numbers
nineteen millions, realized from the
sales of the surplus wheat crop ot the
state for the past year has exceeded the
value of the gold produced from the
California mines. The remark does not
embrace the bullion product of Nevada,
which is the result of California capital
and labor. 1t merely points out that
the soil of California for the past year
has rewarded industry with more valne
in wheat than in gold. II we were 10
take the whole production the dluerence
would be much greater
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN writes to his
favorite paper Having eaten no
meat. eggs, fish, oysters, poultry or aro-
NAL food of any kind for many month,
all the ancient argument, antagonism,
ferocity of my nature has died out, ana
vet am in savage health and terrible
mental vigor. never imagined Ben
gal tiger could be transformed into a
Mongolian sheep by Turkish baths and
a vegetarian diet. / suppose the new
religion of evolution has helped to make
the change. / am either incubating
some gigantic power to develop love
aud truth in mankind, or have culmi-
mated in the most magnificent tizzle pro-
duced for centuries.
ANsosSe the. I@fty who AFFECT rryybit9
crayats are numbered " Boss" Tweed
and Commodore Vanderbilt. The lat
ter, from his spare build and gray hair
and whiskers, is frequently mistaken
for clergyman. The other day he was
coming down town in street-car, when
two Young men entered, both being IN
toxicated. Perceiving the venerable
gentleman with white tie, one OF the
young men addressed him with, Il
spose yer think I'm going straight down
to hChic)ell, don't yer?" "Why-no,,,
said the commodore CT hope not"
The young man nudged his companion,
and nodding toward Vanderbilt said
"He's (hic) Univers'list.
A "Lightning Newspaper Train"