The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-10-13
GRAVE And Cay.

signed COleridge.
Rage is for little wrongs; despair is
dumb.-Hannah Nine.
Some. noble spirits mistake despair
for content Walls.
Despair makes victims sometimes
victors.-Bulleer Lyfton.
Sick in the worlds regard, wretched
and low. Shakespeare.
What we wish for in youth comes in
heaps on us in old age Goethe.
Heartsease is flower which blooms
from the grave of desire.-W. r. Algcr.
According to the latest fashions black
pantaloons and maroon necktio are
suitable for suicides.
20 what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to deceive
Waller Scott.
Cowards die many times before their
death the valiant taste of death but
once.-SAakepear.
Death is as the forcshadowing of life.
We die that we may die no more
Hooker.
-. Commonly they use their feet for
defense whose tongue is their weapon
Sir P Sidney.
The surest way of making dupe is
to let your victim suppose you are his
Bui,cer Lytton.
That man that has tongue. / say,
is man if with his tongue lie can no
win woman.-lShakcsDear
"A gentleman that loves TO hear him.
self talk will speak more in minute
than he will stand 70 in month
Shakespeare.
Have you so much leisure from your
own business that you can take care Of
other peoples, that does not at all be-
long to you?-TTene.
.Covetousness is sort Of mental
gluttony, not confined to money, but
craving honor, and feeding on selfish
ness. Chamtort.
Poor in abundance, iamished at
feast, mans grief is but his grandeur in
disguise, and discomfort is Immortality
- Young.
.Ce nest que le Second Pa--.-To
what length may widow 60 when Size
desires a new parent for her children?
She ma go one step farther.
The old probverb about having too
many irons in the fire is an abominable
old lie. Have all in, shovel, tongs
and poker-Aaam Clarke.
Books like proverbs, receive their
value from the stamp and esteem of ages
through which they have passed
Sir. W. Temple.
Discussion between wise child an /
its tutor: "That star you see up there
i bigger than this world" "Noit isn't"
"yes tits" "Then why doesn't it keep
the rain off?'
" The republican party is party Of
convictions said Bristow in ono Of his
speeches. Yea, verify; convicted Of
every crime in the catalogue Of crimes
and almost xecuted.-Nashuitle AmTi-
can.
The opera, house which is TO be built
in san Francisco and leased to the
Strakosch brothers is tohave one hundred
boxes. halt of them owned by. stock
holders. The building is to be plain in
exterior, but very elaborate and beauti-
full internally.
Summer has faded into the irretriev-
able past, foated out Of the gates that
never will open for It's return, going with
its memories Of blossom and bird, and
frayrant hedge and swaying vines, tine
clink of the scythe down in the meadow
and the whirr of the rcaping machine
eating ue farm hand, but the scent Of
pennyroyal and the red lump that marks
where the last mosquito stopped for re-
fre.hments still linger round the scene
burlington Ha'okeye.
During the course OF some proceedings
instituted by the society for the suppress
sion of vice in England, the point to.be
decided being whether or no certain
photographs were indecent, the judge
observed that it was difficult to deter
mine by how many inches women might
exhibit themselves without coming un-
der the notice of the society for the sup
nression of vice. He had seen portraits
of ladies of rank in the Royal academy
more exposed than any of the photographs
before him.
Jones says that the white flannel
suit he bought year ago proved very
economical investment, and has been OF
much use in his family. Jones weighs
two hundred and fifty pounds, and when
he bought it it fitted him remarkably
well. After the first washing, his eldest
son. who weighs one hundred pounds less
than Jones, senior, found it an excellent
fit. Two washiDgs more made it delight
full COR youth of nine, and at the ehu
Of the season the baby was adorned with
the habiliments, which had shrunk just
enough to make them fit for chiid OUT
of creeping clothes. This year Mrs.
ZONES uses them as dishcloth. Where
all that flannel has shrunk to Jones
doesn't see, and says he would willingly
take his whole family and his moihei'in-
law to a lecture which would explain IL,
and pay double price.