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

WIN DIcl
THE fence corners demand attention so
ong as we keep up the Improbable Gus
tom of having fences at all. The moving
machine cannot get into them but weed
seed and unsightly bushels can. half
days work in the fence corners and along
the walls will add greatly to the thrifty
appearance of the place. A general clear
ng up OF all rough places about the farm
should occupy the semi-leisure hours of
this time, before the rush of harvest
Scientific farmer.
THE largest diamond at the centennial
exposition, of unrivaIed splendor, is
lemon color and once belonged to the
mad duke of Brunswick. 1t may be
found in the Tiffeny collection. This
gem, it is said, cost the duke $4,000
in gold. 1t now forms the central por-
tion Of an ornament for woman's head
surrounded by white diamonds, but over
the pale stones the great yellow king
filings his golden rays, and the whole
ornament CLEANS with q splendor en-
III ef3 JIls css-s7s 80 ~
THE hard times have cast blight on
American matrimony. "Griselda," in
her letter from Saratoga to the Hartford
Times, describes the beautiful dresses
seen at the beautiful resort, and adds:
''In short, a lady is now dainty from
head to foot and an object of mans
alteration, but they don't adore as they
did when there were dozens of worship
pers at every girls shrine and men
thought themselves fortunate when they
obtained wives. Now it is all reversed"
A SPORTING judge is of use in more
ways than one. Recorder Hackett added
to his other sound decisions one upon
gums, the other day, which bore against
prisoner who pleaded that the shotgun,
with which he had shot some children,
went off from blow against the window
sill. The recorder examined the gun,
declared it impossible, and offered to let
the prisoner try it in that way against |
him with a double charge in it. The |
jury was convinced by the judge, as
an expert rs well as judicially, and |
the sentence was years imprisonment. |
PROFESSOR BLACKIE has all at once
become immensely popular by saying of |
woman: ''She will be fitted for the |
rough and thorny walk of the masculine
professions when she has got a rough
beard, brazen front and hard skin, but
not sooner" The professor seems to be
one of those happy men who have never
encountered any coarse women. The
noble red man, not to speak of the in
habitants of some parts of Europe, could
enlishten the professor good deal as to
feminine endurance. Many of the most
Protuberant cheeks in this country are
feminine, and beard would scarcely add
anything to them.
The London Lancet gives some useful
advice as to how one should eat and
drink during exceptional heat Very
little tea or coffee, plenty of milk with
ish, and but little meat, and that we'll
cooked, and a moderate indulgenco in
iced drinks, are whst the London Lancet
recommends. Spirits and heavy wines,
of course, it ipterdicts. 1t should be
known that frequent and excessive thirst
is often aggravated by an injudicious
of ice. Such extreme thirst :
viii often be Immediately allayed by hot
drinks, fact which has been often veri-
fed. 1t cannot be too strongly insisted
on that over-feeding and over-drinking |
are most pernicious, especially either
before or after prolonged or considerable I
exertion. {
THE brutal Turks have disregarded
the Geneva Cross. This is the emblem
of hospital attendants-the angels of
mercy on the battlefield. The wearers
of the Geneva Cross have always moved
about with immunity upon the battle
field, Indifferent as to which side they
aided, and all civilization soldiers have
treated the emblem with respect and g
reverence. The ferocious Turks would
seem determined to place themselves G
outside of the pale of civilization. 1t is
strange that with the entire sympathies v
Of Europe against them they are per- I
mitted to continue their atrocities day
after day. The time must come when
the Mussulman with his crescent and
his implements of torture will be swept i
across the Bosphorus.