The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-04-11
SAYINGS AND po1Sas

more dangerous enemies than ones
friends.
AFTER many failures, the introduction
of salmon into the rivers Of Australia
has at length been successfully accom-
plished.
HEREAFTER no portrait is to be placed
upon any of the bonds, securities, notes,
fractional or postal currency of the
: United States while the original of
, such portrait is living.
A RECENT lecturer on "FOod" gives
! this laconic advice: "Let women feed
their husbands on oatmeal porridge and
apples. Possibly the husbands may
have a voice in this matter.
THEY were going to put man ont of
a San Francisco tneater for creating q
disturbance, when voice cried Hes
all right, he's killed Chianman r. and
they let the man alone.
"a DETROIT hotel-keaper writes bis
own bill of fare, thereby saving the cost
OF printing. 1t announces "Coffee.
soupe, rosie befe, fride ham, boyled and
bakt potays, fride coul puddin and minis
pie" q
Mrs. MARRowFAT's oldest son, John,
has taken 10 writing poetry for the
newspapers-a vicious habit which she
attributes 10 the fact that he tumbled
| dOWA rluiIfs Nltu II uGIt CilllQ. ana
sprained his intellect.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE and Harriet
Martineau have signed an address to
Mr. Disraeli soliciting him to use1.is in :
fuence toward extending-th6 fight o.
franchise TO women in the. British Is
lands. He is thought to be favorable
to the project.
iN somo nafures the loftiest unseI-.
nshness - often strilringly manl1cateo.
There is a Brook yH1naff@yho keeps his
family at a cheap boarding house In or
| der to spare the means for his mother
in-law to travel abroad.
The Iowa legislature has enacted a
law against baggage The pen
atty for recklessly iniuring baggage is
fine Of not less than fifty-dollars, nor
more than one hundred, and imprison-
ment not exceeding thirty days.
In the preparation of epitaphs, says
Lord Kames, conciseness is quite as de-
sirable as truth. We do not remember
to have seen any epitaph in which a
mans virtqes are more concisely stated
than that UPON the late Mr.. Mink
The angels tonight, in their MANSIONS Of light.
He faithful and kind as any you'll hnd,
And gin was his fayor4te drink.
\ AT a Dubuque wedding, among the
presents SYSTEMATICALLY displayed was
one-hundred-dOllar bill, present from
the doting father to his darling daugh-
ter. After the guests had departed,
the old man coolly rolled up the bill
and put 1T IN his vest pocket, and that
was the last of it.
To MAKE an imitation OF rosewood,
without using nitric acid Dissolve four
ounces potash in one gallon of hot water,
and four ounces red sanders-wood; when
the color of the wood is extracted, two
and a half pounds gum shellac are add
ed, and dissolve over a quick fire. Usa
this on a ground work staine with -
wood.
THE American Register, of Paris,
speaks of the new temperance move
ment in this country as a curious and
amusing illustration of the extent to
which fanaticism can be carried" and
says that the ladies engaged in praying
al saloons "show lamentable want of
dignity and self-respect, for there is no
tyranny like that of fanaticism.
A MODEST young husband in New
York sent the following message over
the wires to friends, the other day
"See ninth chapter sf Isaiah, sixth
verse;" The dusty old bible was hauled
down in an instant, and the above chap
ter and verse we're hunted out aud found
to explain all. The-verse reads: For
unto us a child is born--unto us a son
is given"
A SPANIEL named Curley is the regu-
lar mail carrier between a settlement
called I,ake Of TEo I, %,ooass \, ,pak9ta.
O sack and tfed nDout thc uo3-S ficck
he is told TO 60, and never fails 10 reach
his destination. Arriving, the mail is
overhauled, the faithful servant is treat
ed TO a good dinner, and started on his
return trip.
THE greatest bell in the world, the
emperor William Bell" destined for
the Cologne cathedral, has Just been
finished. 1t weighs about 5000 pounds,
is Is feet high and IA feet wide. The
first moulding Of the bell proved fail.
ure, and considerable difficulty has yet
TO be overcome IN transporting the i'm
mense affair from Frnnkenthal, where it
was cast, to the top of the tower of tho
Cologne cathedral.
A FEARFUL illustration of the mis-
takes of Judge Lynch comes from Mer-
Ger county, o. In June, 1872, two men
mar ed Mcleod and Kimmell were hung
by mob of infuriated citizens forNle-
ing the supposed perpetrators of an
outrage upon a thirteen year old girl
named Belle SecOr. A few days ago,
Thomas b. Douglas of Fort Wayne,
Ind, on his death-bed, confessed that
he committed the outrage, and after
ward participated in the hanging OF the
two innocent men.
THE SuBTLETY OF SrRYcHNrNE. AT a
farmhouse about four miles from Du-
buque, Iowa, the other day, the remnant
of some strychRine, in bottle, which
had been used TO bait prowliDg wolves,
was cast into the kitchen stove. In two
or three minutes the bottle burst vio-
lently, sending ont the flames in every
direction, and two women burned IN
the face thereby we're so virulently
poisoned also that only the promptes
administration of strychnine antidotel
suflced to save their lives.
In ancient days, the people OF Grime
by, England, formed an admirable no
ton Of wisdom required for corporatio
houors. The bnrgesses assembled
the church, and Sc ected three Of then
selves as candidates for the mayoraltl
| The candidates were conducted, with
bunch of hay tied TO each of their backs
to the common pound, in which the
were placed, blindfolded, with a cal
and he whose bunch of hay was fir
eaten by the calf was thereupon declare
mayor for the ensuing year.
Mrs. r. J. ScREvES, of Liberty con
ty, Ga, has sent TO the editor OF Il
Albany News package of black tea
her O vn raising and curing. In her le
ter she describes the mode Of manip
lating and drying the leaves, and how
raise and protect the plants, and sn
that the tea plant grows beautifully
high up the country as Athens, Ga, M
is more sensitive TO heat than TO col
She saws that grove of tea plants, on
started will last a lifetime, and aft
the roots are well established in {
ground the plants require no moro
tention than any Of our fruit trees
garden Shrubs.
Comb Manufacture.