The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-09-01

Sunday school scholars, 1t raised las
year s9,S1O,2s3.
1T is common thing when screw OF
staple becomes loose to draw it out plug
up with wood and reinsert. But screws
and staples SO secured soon come out
again. | has been found that much
better way is to fill up the holes tightly
with cork Screws and irons so secured
will remain perfectly tight as long as
when put into new wood.
The bill concerning the Washington
monument, which has now become law,
provides that the sum of $780, 900 shall
be appropriated, but that the expendi-
turc of this amount must run through
four years; that is to say, only $4,000
shall be expended yearly. As it is esti-
mated that it viii take S40O, 900 to COM
plete the work, at the rate named it will
be eight years hence before the shaft is
finished.
a NUMBER of Canadian cricketers Wis
tied PhiladelphiasIast week to engage in
a friendly contest AT cricket WITH tie
Geunantovnsclub. The Canadians were
inspired with the idea that they had
been selected by Providence to exhibit
the beauties of the game to the Yankees.
But they soon discovered their mistake.
The Americans went to the bat al eleven
o'clock, and at six o'clock had scored
three hundred and fifty-six runs, and
not been put out. The Canadians left
the next day in disgust, without finish
ing the game
ABOUT eleven years ago the last canni- |
bal feast was held in Kandavu, one of |
the FIJI islands. The remains of the |
pits in which the bodies were burned |
are still TO be seen, and the chairman
at the banquet is not only alive, but
has the honor to represent on the island |
IN an official capacity her majesty queen
Victoria. We regret that no journal of
that period has preserved "a record of the
speeches that were made and the songs
that were'c 'chanted on that occasion, but
we doubt not that ''the feast of reason"
which took place was accompanied with
all the hilarity tha, was suitable.
a BLIND Swiss girl, who is an adept at
fine needlework, recently sent TO the en-
Ieror of Germany a table-cover exquis-
itely worked with her own hands, and
to avoid the appearance of having sent
the present in expectation of getting
something in return, she omitted her ad-
dress, aud simply signed herself, 4" A
Blind Girl in Switzerland The old
monarch was so pleased with the gift ;
nd the manner of sending it, that he !
ne caused the German minister in Swift :
erland to ascertain the girls name and
address, whereupon he sent her a valua-
bic brooch and an autograph letter of !
thanks.
SIN JOSEPH VHITMoRE recently ex- S
hibited three hexagonal steel plates at I
the kensington museum, which were so a
accurately planned that when one was a
placed on the other it glided about as if
floating, and when one was dropped on h
another "cushion of air deadened the In
metaiic sound, while, when the air was ST
squeezed out, the contact was SO close tt
that the lower plate adhered to the'up- IL
per when raised. He next made meas tr
urement of i-200, ,0O0th of an inch with ht
machine which, at certain temperature, d
will measure the millionth of an inch, C
and lastly showed the tensile strength OF he
steel, specimen of which bore a strain
of seventy-five tons to the square inch, hs
without breaking. For bridges, ETC., only yC
five tons strain to the square inch, are 10
required for safety; for guns, forty tons to
for shells, fiity-fve tons. W
THE postal card has been the source of TO
more worry to the postmasters than one p'
would suppose could have been got out \
of a bit of pasteboard. First, the clerks pl
were ordered under no circumstances to d'
read anything but the address, and then
Immediately after were directed to stop -
any ycard of disreputable nature, though = !,
how they were to find that out without ., a
reading it nobody knew And then the -
country postmaster finds that they gave
him great deal to do. The writing is a.
often bad, and he gets the gossip of the ~
neighborhood hopelessly mixed. Occa- VI
sionally, as we have heard of the post
master doing, he calls in outside assis- y
tance to help him untangle some twisted II
sentence or semiIegible word. The latest a.
thing in postal cards, however, is the =
frankness of yankee postmaster, who
ran out from his wayside station the other
day, flourishing card and calling out X
TO a lady as she drove up to a lady II
friend, q You'd better read it She amt
cominslD "
TIE personals in the papers pub a
lished hundred years ago were as q
piquant as any printed in our own day. o
= Even Martha Washington was mentioned O
in London journal as having separated q
from her husband thus: Mr.. Wash
ingtons we hear, is married to a very r
alniable lady, but it is said that Mrs. '
Washington, being warm loyalist, has +
separated from her husband since the
commencement of the present troubles, ,
and lives, very much respected in the |
city Of New York" The following is
from some newspaper of the day: Thir-
teen is number peculiarly belonging to
the rebels. A party of naval prisoners
lafeiu -ntrrned from Jersey say that the
rations among the rebels are thirteen
dried clans per day; that Mr.. Washing
ton has thirteen toes on his feet (the ex-
ira ones have grown since the declaration
of independence, and the same num-
Der of teeth in each jaw; that the
sachem Schuyler has top-knot of thir-
teen stiff hairs, which erect themselves
ON the crown of his head when he grows
mad that it takes thirteen congress pa
per dollars to equal one penny sterling
that Polly Wayne was just thirteen
hours in subduing Stony Point, and as
many seconds In leaving it; that a we'll
organized rebel household has thirteen
children, all of whom expect to be gener-
ais and members of the high and mighty
congress of the United States when they
attain thirteen years; that Mrs Wash
ington has notified tom-cat (which she