The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-29
CRAZE And GAY.

"A law has been passed in Germany
forbiding the construction OF school
rooms with windows on both sides OF the
room. 1t is said to be proven that rooms
so lighted are injurious to the eyes.
"A magazine writer asks: "Do BIRDS
die a natural death?' As birds do not
employ physicians we can see no good
reason for asking that question.
We should not grow angry amidst
testing and bantering, for we make our
selves enemies thereby; nor in discus
sions, because they then change into dis
putes; nor in instructing, because IN
struction then becomes our antipathy
nor in prosperity, because it adds TO the
envy with which others are filled.-P5t-
tarch.
.."Isit becoming to me ~ asked she,
as she paraded in the costume of one
hundred years ago, before the man who
is not her lord and master, but is her
husband. eyes, my dear" said he
meekly. "Don't you wish I could dress
this way all the time 2' she asked. "No,
my dear" he answered, but / wish you
had lived when that was the style"
A little miss, writing to her father
on the first day of her entrance at board
inc-school, says: 1.-The first evening We
have had prayers, and then singing, and
a passing round of bread, which | did
not take, not being confirmed, I thought
| had no right TO take communion.
Aftcrward l learned that had lost my
supper"
The food " alarmists" having scared
many persons out Of the practice Of
using brown sugars by reporting that
they were in the main full of a species Of
mite, a would-be scientist is now trying
to make US believe that refined sugars
are poisonous What next, gentlemen?
We await patiently further discoveries,
and in the meantime are thankful that
eve still live ;"
.''Mrs. Smith" says Mrs. Jones, at
Long Branch, 'your boy Johnny hit my
boy Jimmy over the head with croquet
mallet, and / am surprised you allow
him to act so outrageously." "My boy, 4"
says Mrs. Smith, drawing herself up to
her full Smithsonian Institute height,
'is perfectly well behaved; he was prob
ably provoked to hit your VIGOROUSLY
bad Jimmy, and I consider it rude and
impertinent for you to address me in
this excited manner"
Norwich Herald: 4 young man
disappeared from his home last spring
and his parents heard nothing Of him
until yesterday, when he came home
with a broken nose, four fingers fright
fully out of shape, one ear partially
gone, one eye missing and crutch under
the right arm. At first his mother
thought he was the victim OF a nitro
glycerine explosion, but when he sank
down into a chair and feelingly remarked:
d" Home base at last" she knew right
away that he had been travelling with a
professional baseball club, and charita-
/ bly, lorboIc questioning him.
Mrs. Golightly FISHING for a COM
pliment)-"Ahl Mr. McJoseph, beauty
is the most precious of all gifts for a
woman, Ia sooner possess beauty than
anything in the world" Mr.. McJosepl
/ (under the impression that he is making
himself very agreeable)-"Tm sure, Mrs
/ Golightly, that any regret you may pos
sibly feel on that score must be amply
compensated for by-er-the concious
ness of your moral worth, you know, and
of your various mental accomplishments
Punch.
Laura c. Redden, or Howard
/ Glvndon," the lady whose marriage was
coupled in the newspaper with an ac
count of her learning to talk after being
deaf mute until sixteen years of age
publishes a new poem in the Indepen-
dent. Doubtless it was written during
the honeymoon, for it contains this
verse:
There's beautiful country that CLEANS from the
Exceeding the country that Moses looked on
From Pisgah's high top sought the far horizon.
IT'S the land is loved Of the lowictning lover
IT'S the land that is loved Of the lass he leans
For the snake never hides in the sweet-scented
And clouds never darken the blue Of the SKY
In the Sweet BY and By
Rome Sentinel: Does it ever seem
to you, kind reader, that the AlIwise
Father has forgotten this world which
he has made? Do you ever, seeing
poverty and suffering on every hand
think that He comes but slowly to the
relief OF the children of men? When
next YOU have the shadow of such 8
feeling as this, just take hold and dc
what you can yourself. The Almighty
never instructed you to wait to see Him
do His ork. He only expects you todc
your own. Not by hasty aims, neither
felt .,or remembered, may you labor, fol
aims giving is most frequently the pro
moter of idleness, but by kind words,
hearty sympathy, constant watchfulness
how and when and where you may wisely
/ lift some burden from the shoulders Of
the weary. Once your mind set faith
| fully to this task, all your doubts rs to
| the wise oversight OF the great Supreme
will fade.
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