The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-07

MHs. CLoaGRRs wet her feet the other
morning by going ont into the dswy
grass. She now appreciates the maxim
"giYe the devil his dew"
THE passenger train between Colum-
| bus and Macon, Ga, took IN S1.10 dur
! ing a recent trip, and yet these bloated
railroads talk of hard times.
TIE Protestants appear to be making
/ headway in Mexico. Five years ago
they had less than six churches there,
and they now have ninety-eight.
Our on Fowl
The ball came whizzing red-hot through the air
The iederr al looked for fy;
II just tipped the bat, but Barney was there
And took it in under his eye.
The Turkish government has formal
ly stated to the Unitel States Minister
tfiss IL intends adhering to its recent
prohibition OF the sales OF Bibles IN
Turkey.
NEXT to music, nothing so powerfully
tends to soothe the savage breast IS TO
see the young man who parts his hair
in the middle showing baby-wagon on
Sunday.
A PHILADELPHIA girl called young
man thief, and when requested by the
mother of the accused 20 prove the
charge, said he had stolen several kisses
| from her.
RATHETIc appeal from Chicago 0x-
want to ses your family 6Seggaretd 6ef6F6
vour face? Wake up and be man J
! ri save you for fifty dollars :"
THE German military authorities have
dofermined TO revoke their absurd or
de- which prohibited soldiers from
| drinking water while on the march.
This privation caused many deaths dur
ing the Franco-Persian war.
"KArE, I understand you have ao-
cepted a situation as governess. hath
er than that, I would marry widower
with six children" Yes, dear oophie'
and SO would 1, but where is the Md
over 2"
ONLY half as much land as usual is
planted In tobacco this year IN Massa-
cbusetts and Connecticut, but as less
manure has been used owing to the
hard times, while labor IS cheaper, The
crop ill be relatively more profitable.
MosoUITos are described in certain
part of Minnesota as thicker than the
surrounding foliage, with wings like
Appollyon's, beak like an arteslan au-
ger. and voice like the sound OF many
waters"
Az TO that paragraph about Esther
Shaw, of Davenport, Iowa, who worked
fifteen years in family without asking
a cent, it becomes necessary to say That
il was very large family Esther worked
in. and they boarded in the state prison.
An,.U in n New York rural settlement,
who has been an inveterate smoker Tor
twenty vcers. has suddenly and per-
manently given mp the practice. DE
knocked the ashes Of his pipe into keg
of blasting-powder.
TIE great western railway com pany
of England has abandoned the oroao
for the narrow guage. The change Oh
guage Of the whole line was effected 10
three days, and with il ends the broad
guage system in Great Britain.
A PENNSYLVANIA man has in his pos
session a cigar seventy-two years old,
but If he thinks the papers are going
TO nominate him for Governor on that
account he will be disappointed. The
time has gone by when cigar seventy
two wears old VIII get mp a tidal wave.
DR.-, entering military hospital
surgery, met Doyle, the orderly, ana
asked which he considered the most
dangerous of the many cases then IN
nOEnlTHl.
with an indicative jerk of his thumb he
,.ois,fed tnS-here o. fbe table, lay q
lANfTof sl5l t5,Aa will deyate a little.
- THE suear-beet planters. near Brigh--
ton. Sacramento, have 2, 400 turkeys ia
their fields battling against the army
worms. Each turkey eats on an average
600 worms per day, making total loss
TO the latter OF ,440, 900 daily. Not
withstanding this heavy loss their num-
bers seem undiminished. The query
now is, where do they come fromp
A YorNe man who was recently tried
in London. Eng and, for the murder OF
his aunt by hanging her, was acquitted
although he declared the act to have
been his. The jury took the ground
that finding his relative, who had COM
n1itted suicide, hanging in the house
when he entered, the shock affected his
mind and led him TO imagine that he
had murdered her.
The first external revelation of the
drv rot in man is a tendency to lurk
and lounge to be at the street corners
without intelligent reasons to be go
inc anywhere when met TO be about
many places rather than any; to do
nothing tangible, but TO have intention
of performing a number OF tangible
duties. tomorrow or the day after
! Charles Dickens.
DEscR1B1Na the culinary arrange
ments of the Grand Union hotel at Sar-
atoga. a correspondent of the New YORK
Commercial Advertiser says that all the
grinding of coffee, turning of icc-cream
| freezers. roasting spits and dozen 9th
er things. are done by little steam-en-
eines that you could carry on IN one
hand. DUR g the regatta week the ho-
tel fed five thousand people a day, and
on one day thirty head of cattle we're
consumed.
IF we view the human body in re-
card TO its maladies and the season of
the wear. SAYS an English observer, we
| sbali find that summer is divided from
winter by a line drawn from somewhere
by the third button Of the waistcost.
AS the murcury in the Thermometer
goes up, our ailments go down. In cold
weather the respiratory organs, IN not
weather the digestive organs, are sever
ally the places in which we go wrong
THEY are trying TO build the largest
hotel in the world IN San Francisco.
II is to be known as the Palace hotel,
and will contain 700 rooms. There VIII
he 400 bath rooms and 374 bay windows.
! Accommodations will be furnished for
| / 900 guests. The hotel rs TO be com
pIeted in August, 1875, and will cost al
together 81, 75O, 900. OF this amount
Al 600 600 will be the cost of the lot,
81 $50. 900 of the building, and $500, ,OOO
of the furniture.
GREAT thoughts and books sometimes
disappear for generations, and turn up
again unexpectedly, like messages drop
ned in the sea, and carried to FAR en-
shores.-The ocean of time has hidden
currents as well as that of space, and
curious history of them might be writ
ten from the re-appearances. Insy
help us to believe that no true word or
deed is finally lost. and that q time IL
coming when, in this sense, also, the
sea shall give up the dead which are
in it.
THE old heir of the Bourbon monar-
ebv of France and the young heir of the
NapoIenic empire, tried TO rival each
other in fiattering McMahon as long as
they thought he would surrender his
place whenever the proper moment
came for the establishment Of the mon
archy or the empire. But both of them
have ceased to address their compli-
ments to him since he announced that
it was his fixed and irrevocable purpose
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