The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-07-25
SAYINGS AND DOISGs.

been dramatized by Mr.. Dion Bouci-
= cault for the Queens Theater.
AT 8 o'clock at night, when you see
the big dipper with the handle toward
you, and the tail of the comet in the
bowl, it is about time TO take drink.
III is painful to hear an ungodly man
remark during the heated term that
! ''it's as hot as ginger" when everybody
r knows that he means something else.
r SAID Young America to his papa
" Pa, be you Britisher ?" Yes,
my son, 1 was born in England"
"Well, We whipped you, retorted the
youngster.
The Austrian expedition which sailed
for the Polar seas two years ago has not
been heard from since, and the scien-
tific people are turning themselves into
Interrogation points.
YES, sir" said a Michigan Fourth
of July orator, I" Putnam went right
into the VOLTS den, dragged her out,
and the independence Of America was
secured.
THE Virginia youth who wouldn't
enter college because the faculty
wouldn't let him bring his three coach
dogs along, struck strong blow at the
very roots of despotism.
From every grain growing county in
California there is now demand for
a2n eIsn wnd and Sn IL btb9Ssaaas s Of fields th hs
until hands can b. procured to cut it.
An eastern paper contained no edito-
rial and only one local item for four
days, on account of repairs TO the Office.
The "repairs" consist d of putting a
lock on a door and washing the win
dows.
| Tn &c ,apnr,Coo1 -, 81 os-N 1,1 T.
] quiu valley, Cal, with the eucalyptus
or blue gum trees. For length of two
hundred miles, and with a width vary
ing from forty to fifty miles, the bottom
is level and almost treeless.
CIRCUMSTANCES alter cases. For in
stance, when a Virginian arose in
church and said "Here's a hundred
dollar bill for the old boss behind the
pulpit p no one thought of having him
put out.
WHEN you see a young fellow strike
a match to light his cigar, and then re-
store the unconsumed fragment to his
vest pocket, accept 1t as a sign that he
has been reading some good book on the
Necessity of economy for young men
about to marry.
THE amount of gabble performed by
a parlor crowd on wet day at the sea-
blue ID hNlu 10 DG PERFECTLY uDDdillDKs
1.-THE women, God bless them, is not
exactly the expression of dyspeptic
guests at the hotels who are forced to
listen to the din.
LITTLE Penelope Marrowfat is n child
who is keenly alive TO what is going on
about her. Wiping the molasses
from her mouth, at the breakfast table,
the other morning, she sweetly said
" If I should ever die Of hydrophobia,
papa, you won't let EN- cut outmy liver,
will you !"
THE acme has been reached in the
pathos of titles by a music publisher,
who has produced touching piece of
mew-sick under the pathetic name of
" Mother Bring My Little Kitten"
We propose getting out n companion
piece, "Daddy, Have you Drowned
the Puppies !"
PHEBE CoUzINs doesn't dress like her
brothers of the bar" says the Chicago
Tribune, by way of commencing an item.
That's undoubtedly true she dresses
bv putting on her clothes over her head,
while they don't, and, what's more,
they can't. But what business is it Of
the Tribune's, anyhow?
There is another big streak of light
from hh sl q 4isfs fa2nSa 81 seRosI.eEiIdfssnHs dsHs
from 80, 600 to nearly 1000. There is
encouragement in these figures, and
hope.
"MY spirits is crushed, Jane, crush
ed ," sobbed Mrs. Marrow at to Mrs.
Quoggs. "That lovely bowquette-
You remembsr-which it was 1, Mar
gerry Marrowfat, as sent il 10 Mrs.
lost, and nobody kuowed as who it
came from" And here her great an
guish stopped over afresh.
A MAN in Iowa, according to The Bur-
lington Hawkeye, died recently who
has taken his county paper for twelve
years without paying for it. Upon the
day of his burial the kind-hearted, for
giving editor called TO see him for the
last time, and stuffed linen duster and
a couple of palm leaf hats inb cofiu.
He was preparing him for warmer eli
mate.
RECENTLY, ut a church fair on Ida
Hill, large and frosted cake was Of
fered to the person who should guess
nearest to the correct weight, at ten
cents a guess. The pastor urged
young lawyer to invest dime. The
replied, iii play you a
game of euchur TO see who gets the
cake. but / don't understand the other
game"
MOUNT ARAFAT has been encroached
upon by journalistic enterprise, and
a newspaper, Whiffs from Ararat, has
been established by the American pill
grims at the very foot Of the mountain.
The paper contains some local topics,
quotes the price of girls as wives In the
Armenian villages, varying from e2 to
eI6, and discusses the peasant notion
that the world rests on a large OK which,
being irritated by fly, tosses its head
and thus causes earthquakes.
DANBURY NEWS Have you letter
for Bridget Murphy ?" mo" said the
Danbury postmaster, the other after
noon. "Or for Kate Murphy NO
+" Or Patrick Murphy" mo" cor
Michael N Murphy" ..No - No; .o. T;n 0r
Marphy ?" q No no letters here for
anybody named Murphy" "Fhat
post-office P" exclaimed Mrs. Murphy,
E.;FF 1:s..sr 20. :! ~ ie tcted
QUEEN VICTORIA. not content with
dressing very plainly herself Cand even
sbabbily at tines, and with repressing
every tendency to dressiness on the
part of the ladies of the royal family,
is in the habit of snubbing those ladies
of the court who indulge IN what
her majesty is pleaseu 10 cOnsiIeh az
| over-dressiness of style. i wish she
would get the English danes and dam
sells to have their evening dresses made
a little higher in the corsage. l am
told that the bad taste in dress OF the
Duchess of Edingburgh is something
fearful to contemplate. Her latest IN
novation in that line consists IN appear
ing at the opera in n large lace-cap,
rientifully bedizened with bows and
flowers. which novel head-dress causes
her royal and imperial highness to look
more like a middle aged dowager than
a blooming bride.-Ltcy Hooper an
Phil. Press.
THE Virginia City Enterprise says
" AS the o'clock train left town last
night. the inevitable last man made
his appearance at the corner of Union
and 8. streets. He had no more than
marked the train moving away, and got
his mouth into swearing shape, before