The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-06-02

states form themselves into associations
for the purpose Of collecting funds for
the monument TO General Lee TO be
erected at Richmond, Virginia.
CoUNTERFEIr gold coin, made of pla-
tinum, plated heavily with genuine gold,
has of late been circulated in California.
1t is exceedingly deceptive being of the
right weight, color and feeling. The pa-
tinum is worth half rs much as gold,
making these counterfeits costly Of pro-
ductiOn.
| JUDGE THEM GENTLY.
Then gently scan thy brother man,
| Still gentler sister wOman
Though they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human.
Who knows the heart, lis lie alone
Decidedly can try rs;
lie knows each chord, its various tone,
Each spring its various bias.
Then AT the balance let's be mute
4 We never can adjust IL;
What's done we partly may compute, -
/. Bus know not what's resist IL.
r. -Rober Bwns.
How bad you the audacity, John"
SD q Scottish laird to his servant, TO
Z ,s1zgffU tess some people that WIS mean
ffell0w and no gentleman" Ma. ma,
sir, was the candid answer "youll no
catch me at the like o. that. / have kept
my thoughts TO myself"
ANNIE DICKINSON rolled her eyes at
the right places, and took a long step, and
said in tragic voice: " la, ha, coward,
craven, we have met at last. Give me
back my child, vile monster, or by the
gods I'll have your hearts bl-ud aud
give your-wOrthless carcass to the dogs"
but yet the critics say she is not a great
actress.
FIVE hundred and six applications for
divorces were made last year in the courts
for the single county Of Cook, in wAch
is situated the city of Chicago, in the.
state of Illinois. Six closely-printod
columns in one of the local papers OF the
city contain the names and other facts
interesting in that neigborhOod Of the
successful applicants. And yet we arc.
ending missionaries abroad
"Life, the seed-time of our being,
Swifter than the shuttle flies;
Bat the good or evil flowing
From our conduct never dies.
All who live are daily sowing
Seeds in distant fields 20 fall;
And the harvest from them growing
Ue must gather after oH.
"Gather, when the light has faded
When life's ileeiing scenes are DER
in some cline by sorrow shaded,
Or where sorroW's known no more,
From the memory unfailing
or our actions, great or small,
Perfect bliss, or weeping, waillnc,
ErcridSfIig 0ffcr 0h."
THERE are few who do not remember
the childish wonder they once felt at
hearing the resonance produced by plac-
ing a sea. shell 10 the ear, an effect which
fancy has likened b "the roarof the sea-"
This is caused by the hollow form of the
shell and its polished surface, enabling
il 10 receive and return the heatings Of
all sounds that chance TO be trembling
in the air.
FRIGHTENED BIRDS.
"Hush hush % said the little brown thrush,
To her mate on the nest in the elder-bush;
keep still. don't open your bill!
There's boy coming birdnesting over the
hill.
Let 90 your wings out, 80
That not an egg or the nest shall show.
Chce chce il seems 10 me
Pm a. frightened as ever bird can De!
44icri- -riif with ., ,ruiverins- iiB.
They watched the boy out Of sight Ger The
Hill.
Al, then in the branches again,
Their glad song rang over yah ANA glen.
oh! oh If that boy could know
How glad they were when they saw hisn go,
Say say, do you think next day
BosToN turned ont strongly at the
centennial inaugural. The heavy swell
Bostonian was one immense plaid suit
and high hat: the solid Muldoons of
Quincy Adams pedigree were all frock
coat, high collars and black neckcloth,
and the BacOn-street matrOn was impOs-
ing in furbelows and frills. And they
said to each other carnt," " sharnt,"
q arnt," you know" and "don't you
know" all day long.-N J. Nal.
TWO PICTURES.
An old farm house with meadows wide
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boy who looks from out
The door with woodbinc wreathed about,
And wishes his one thought al day:
oh if / could but fly away
From this dull spot the world to sec
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy / would beW
Amid the city's constant din,
4 man who round the world has been
is thinking thinking All day long,
"Oh II ! could only trace once more
The field-path 20 the farm house door,
The old green meadows could see,
How happy, happy, happy
dow happy / would beW
A RoMAN tomb was recently opened
at York, England, and inclosed in stone
coffin was found the body OF young
rirl. admirably preserved by the use OF
gypsum and furnished with what has
been considered modern device-a
chignon. This rested upon pyramid OF
pods, pIaits and coils, and, although
many Hundred years old, is good speci-
men of the present fashion.
DO WE girls trouble ourselves to dress
or each other? No, we do not we just
lit round in our comfortable wrappers
md loose slippers, and hair all tortured
ND for future revelations and beauty.
But Just let a gentleman come, and the
wav the crimpng-pins scatter, and the
toose slippers fly, and the bows and pretty
little trifes 90 on is something wonderful
10 behold.
III s.s8ey IS clouded, the rocks are bare,
The spray Of the tempest is white in air,
The winds are out with the waves az play
And / shall not tempt the sea to-day
The trail Is narrow. the wood is dim,
The panther clnes 20 the arching limb
And the lions whelps are abroad az play
And shall not Join in the chase to-day.
But the ship sailed safely over the sea,
And the hunters came from the chase IN gieei
And the town that was built upon a rock
Was swallowed uD in the earthquake shock.