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The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
HANGING ON.D

One was Parcel-boy and the other a
cash-boy, and as they halted under
an awning for minute the parcel-boy
asked:
Do you get the same old wages yetf'
Yes, just the same"
Havn't you been presented with a
watch or cane, as token of esteem ?"
"Ne-not a thing"
"Don't the boss ever ask you up to a
Sunday dinner ?"
Not one"
"Never comes around and asks your
advice about the markets."
Never"
And he hasn't got daughter to fall
in love with you and suicide if she can't
marry you?"
"No."
Well, don't see why you stay there.
1t must be awful humiliating to boy OF
your temperament"
Z. So it is-it's Just awful on me, but
I'm hanging on in hopes of finding a
fve-dollar bill on the floor and buying
all the rock candy can eat. Seems as
if l could taste it now-yum-good-bye.
Few people know how we boys suffer
day after day. Detroit Free Press.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
PLEASANTRLES.

a Connecticut preacher says that a
! good congregation VII praise tine musis.,
the choir, the ventilation, and the civil
tiles of the usher, but as to the sermon,
"Well, l dunno"
A colored wedding party gathered at
Hartford, Conn, recently, and waited
long for the bridegroom. A policeman
finally found him about TO take the cars.
''T The times is so hard" he said, ." had
to give it up"
-" Young men of the middle ranks
are getting 80 shy and hard to catch that
parents will have TO begin to offer chro-
mos along with their marriageable
daughters" says the Turner's Falls Re-
porter.
..Arbiter observation-disclosures
-" G please, IN, could ] 60 out this
evening? cause cook mex doors got
lang age O. flowers Bee ard she's re-
quested me to be one o the judges -
Punch.
A gentleman entered a bachelors
room, and looking around said: Every
snug" Yes" answered the bachelor.
" Rather too snug But suppose if 1
had had better half / might have had
better quarters"
90" My SON." said mother TO little
boy four years old, whom above all
others will you wish to see when you
pass into the spirit world" "GOliahl"
shouted the child, with joyous antici-
patton; "unless," he quickly added,
"thd e's bigger feller there"
Ministers should remember that the
weather is growing very warm, and the
congregation which sits delighted through
two and one-half hours of fve-act COM
edy can't possibly endure more than
twenty-five minutes OF sermon and a
three-minute prayer. There is a limit
even to human endurance.
The strawberry-shortcake festival
held by our church societies might be
rendered more interesting and attractive
by announcing that the young man who
finds the strawberry in his piece of cake
will be entitled 20 kiss from the pret-
test girl in the room, or something of
that sort.
Scene at the seaside Youth with
sad, love struck air--"O O wilt thou net
be mine-my own dear bride? / love
you deeply, fondly, passionately, wildly !
/ cannot live without you Say, oh,
say thou wilt be minew Maiden, with
downcast eyes" Adolphus, is there
anything the matter with my dress? L
saw the Smith girls just now look at me
curiously. Does my hair set all right !"
Adolphus discontinues his love-making.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
HE MADE YER MAD.

A tall young woman with a sharp
nose was raking up yard on Masonic
street one day last week. She had her
dress tucked up, ridiculous handker-
chief tied over her head and looked
like fright generally. A cross-eyed
man dressed in suit of light clothes
came up the street, and noticing the
woman, leaned over the fence and re-
marked:
Glow sweet is the rosy-posy
"Eh! what's that ?" exclaimed the
tall woman, looking up.
"How charming appears the lovely
popsy-wopsy with its dress turned up,
replied the cross-eyed man.
Whore you talking to, any wayY
said the tall woman, in great surprise
and turning red in the face.
My own ducky-lucky is exouis
itely transcendental with the handker
chief" observed the crsss-eyed man
winking mysteriously with his straigh
eye.
"It's my opinion you're drunk,
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
A CAT CHARMs 4 SNAKE.

Mr.. J. H. Mann, of Osseo, has TOM
cat known by the name of Tim. He was
observed by one of the neighbors caPer-
ing and purring around somethingin the
garden. The neighbor, to her surprise,
saw in coil large snake of the blue
racer variety, the cat seemingly having
it under control, and fascinated. The
reptile on seeing the lady ran through
the fence and out of sight, but was after
ward seen by Mrs. Mann, who watched
its maneuvres. The cat finally sue
ceeded in bringing its prey to the door.
The dog Shep took in the situation and
soon dispatched the snake, while the cat
capered and purred around the dog,
given unmistakable signs of its satisfac-
ton over the result. The snake meas
ured three feet two inches.-Detroit Tri-
b,,.ao
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
DoN;r BE roo CRTTICAL.

Whatever you do, never set up for a
critic. We do not mean a newspaper
one, but n private life, in the domestic
circle. it will do you harm-if you object
to being called disagreeable. If you
don't like any ones nose, or object to
any ones chin, don't put your feelings
into words. If any ones manners don't
please you, remember your own. People
are not all made to suit one taste, recel-
lect that. Take things as you find them
unless you can alter them. Even a din
ner that is swallowed cannot be made any
better. Continual fault-fnding, con-
tinual criticism of the conduct of this
one and the speech of that one, the
dress of the other, and the opinions of
the other, will make home the unhap-
piest place under the sun.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
CsUCCEssFUL RUSSIAN GIRL.

Mile. Zenaide Oukounof, a young
Russian lady, has obtained a doctors
diploma from the Paris faculty of medi-
cine. The subject of her thesis was the
effects of ether in subcutaneous injec-
tions, and its employment, instead of the
TRANSMISSION of blood. In taking her
place in the examination hall on the
opening day, DR.. Broca publicly con-
graduated her on her hospital studies,
and the presiding Prof. Verneuil on her
clinical notebook, which he said entitled
her to the highest rank among the pupils
who had come up to be examined. On
the degree day, Prof. Verneuil was,
moreover of opinion that her thesis
would have done honor to some of the
most eminent men of the faculty Of
medicine. He could not speak too highly
of the patient spirit of investigation of
which there was full evidence in her
thesis of her great scientific knowledge,
her facility of conception and soundness
of judgment. If she pursued as she had
begun, the questions she had so ably
dealt with in her thesis, it would suffice
to attach celebrity to her name. Mile.
Oukounohf belongs TO good family, the
head of which is in the diplomatic
service.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
LONG-LIVEO ORANGE TREES.

An idea of the age which orange
trees may attain is furnished by the
history of the magnificent one in the
orangery of the Palace of Versailles,
known by the name of the Grand Con
netable. or Grand Bourbon, which is
now 45O years old. 1t grew from some
pips of a bitter orange planted in a
Dot at the commencement of the fif
teenth century, by Eleonore of Castillo
wife of Charles Ill, king of Navarro.
The young plants which sprang from
the seeds were kept in the same tub at
Pnmpefuma Iau until 1899. ! In 1854,
more thar two centuries after, they
we're removed to Versailles. The
Grand Connetable, which may be re,
garded as the senior of living orange
trees, is still perfectly vigorous, and
does not exhibit any signs of decay.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
cArCHING HAYES

AS hawks are most destructive to
noultry, a method of catching and
killing these marauders will be in
order. 1t is well-known fact that a
hawk will always light on some cons
nicuous place close to the poultry yard,
from which to swoop down on bis vic
tins. Taking advantage of this, erect
q nole with a fiat surface at the top
lust large enough to hold a strong steel
trap. Fasten this trap by chain to
a staple in the pole, and await results
No bait will be needed, for the hawk
will be quite certain to light on the
trap and be caught. A gentleman
who has tried this method has sue
ceeded in killing all the hawhs in hi
neighborhood, and now can raise poul
try without loss except by accident
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
FOR THIS IRE WE DOCTORS.

Reading, Pennsylvania, has a doctor
who is a terror to robbers. DIR. VIM.
Harris keeps a drug store and he and
his wife live over the store. The other
night he woke and saw a man in his
room. He asked the intruder what
he wanted. Intruder replied Your
money or your life the old style of
bull-dozing. Mrs. Harris screamed
and the robber said if she didn't shut
up" he would kill her instantly. Mrs.
Harris shut up and then the doctor got
in his work very handsomely. He
grappled with the robber, and while
they were at it the robber fired two
shots into the ceiling. At length the
doctor knocked the robber down with
a rocking chair, and as he didn't show
any more fight the victor picked his
adversary up and flung him out of the
window, to V Mich he had ascended by
ladder. The doctor simply threw
down the ladder and quietly addressed
himself again to sleep with his wife.
He got comfortable nights rest after
all.
At latest mail advices Texas was com
planning generally of the long continued
drv weather
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

exclaimed the tall woman in a rage !;
.' clear out, or I'll call the police. "
"And would nv sweet cherry-blos-
som set the wickedPolice on her lovey-
povey?" said the cfoss-eyed man.
"Clear out, you great over-grown
windmill, . exclaimed theStall woman.
wrathflly, cor I'll claw you with this
rake" .
Would my pinkey>winkey clhx
her darling tooty-pootsy with a kefss
wei rake?' continued the cross-eyed
man; | never thought -"
Here the tall woman threw down
her rake in a great passion and rushed
into the house, slamming the door so
hard that it broke the knob. And
the cross-eyed man moved off, softly
murmuring:
What dreadful tempers some
sweet-looking women have l"-R Rock
sbu1d Courier.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
FOLLOWING Il TRAIL

One of the most remarkable features
of uncivilized life is the power savages
show of tracking men and beasts over
immense distances. Many travellers
have spoken of this as something al
most miraculous, yet it is only the re-
suit of careful observation of certain
well-known signs; and we have here
before us a collection of very common
sense hints on the subject. In coun-
tries like ours every trace of footprint
or wheel-track on roads and paths is
soon obliterated or hopelessly confused; ;
but it is otherwise in the wilderness,
where neither man S1or beast can con.
ceal his track. In Kaffirland when
cattle are stolen, if their footprints
are traced to a village, the herdnan Is
held responsible for them, unless he
can show the same track going out.
A wagon track in new country is
practically indelible. More esPe-
cially, says our author, "this is the
case if fire sweeps over the plain I'M
mediateiy after, or if a wagon passes
during or after a prairie fire. We
have known a fellow-traveler reeog-
nize in this manner the tracks his
wagon had made seven years before,
the lines of charred stumps crushed
short down remaining to indicate the
passage of the wheels, though all other
impressions had been obliterated by
the rank annual growth of grass fully
twelve feet high. Sometimes the
original soil being disturbed, a new
vegetation will spring up along the
wagon track, and thus mark out the
road for miles. Even on hard rock &
mans bare foot will leave the dus
caked together by perspiration, Sc
that a practiced eye will see it; anC
even if there is no track, a stone viii
be disturbed here and there, the side
of the pebble which has long laid mex
the ground being turned up.-Gam
hers TOlIT1lnI
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
POPULAR SUFFRAGE has been put to

POPULAR SUFFRAGE has been put to 8
singular test in the village of Ava,
Japan. The neighborhood was harassed
by midnight robber, whom nobody
could detect. The head of the hamlet
summoned the entire male population
under his control, and directed every
man to write the name of the person
whom he suspected, and to deposit the
ticket in box. Fifteen ballots bore the
name of Abe Tanihei, the rest being
blanks. The man whom everybody sus-
pected was so overcome with astonish-
ment that he made full confession and
went to prison.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

The Car wanted to buy 10000 horses
for the Russian cavalry service, and had
made arrangements to purchase them in
Germany, but the Emperor William
can't see his way clear TO sparing that
many animals, and will issue decree
prohibiting the expectation of horses
from the empire. 1t is said that this
precaution is taken wholly on the ground
of internal economy, but it is not unlikely
that the possibility that Germany may
have need of all her horses has something
to do with it.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
MORSE AND yELoCIPEDE.

MIR. I. X. Bliley of Atlanta is cons
structing a sort of machine horse, built
upon the velocipede plan, and operated
by a combination of motive power.
The power consists in the multiplied
weight of the rider, whG3 meves in the
saddle exactly as thoughde was riding
a horse. The driving wheel is three
feet in diameter, and Mr.. Bliley as
serts that the machine will carry q
man faster than any horse.-Atld''to
Constitution.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

But madam made herself even with him
when she rejoined, with quite as-much
quickness; Well, we read of only one
such man, and from the fuss that's made
about him it's plain they're scarce.n
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

The children of clergyman's family
IN Aberdeen were making themselves
happy propounding conundrums. Fl
naIlv one of them said, Who was the
meeLest womanY' The clergyman
seemed struck with fresh thought, and
REPLIED quickly, "We don't read of any"
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

The Parisians combine the useful ana
ornamental by constructing barome1e,1
in tI,e shape of bouquets. They are cor
ore by composition Of which chloride
of cobalt is one of the ingredients "nen
exposed to the sun and dry air the leaves
become a deep blue; when inc 90
moist they turn pink.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
THE OLD SILVER DOLLAR.

- i7E OlO olLV6H DOLLeH.
How dear to my heart are the coins Of my
childhood,
When fond recollection -recalls therd to
view:
Dads scanty gifts in an occasional mild mood;
The hardly-gained Pelf which my infancy
The soslssS S!srSsd'cspPsr' = 2 with green rust
The smooth.sided levy, the sixpences small;
The pilastered quarters. by long use eroded;
The old silver dollar, loved better than all;
The old silver dollar; our dads legal dollar;
= The bright. shining dollar, loved better
" tnSnT~
It's broad, cleaning disk hailedes a treasu
Y The promised reward OF long hours in the
= hdldS- Nf~
To grasp itsdear form was exqpsite-Wessure,
The strongest and keenest that~1noney
- could yield.
And quick to the iSpg pockets bottom it
fell
TRe<e carefully guarded from wasteful be-
witching,
Till yielded at last to the circusman's spell;
The old silver dollar; our dads legal dollar
sthe bright, shining dollar, that they loved
80 well.
How good. from the huckster's grimed hand
10 receive il,
AS pay for.our butter, QUO eggs, and our
sass;
The crispiest Eill could not tempt me to
leave il,
Though the bauknote-detector pronounced
II firs.-clsss.
Since now is discarded that loved legal
tender,
The tears of regret will increasingly fall
A. 70 IN - cfy aud ifg snIpnunr
vearn for the dollar loved better than all !;
The old silver dollar; our dads legal dollar;
The bright. shining dollar, loved better
than all
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

WOMAN's SPHERE.-As house-mistresse
and as mothers, women have duties to
erform quite as important in their re-
suits, if not so extensive in their area, as
any that fall to the lot of men. As to the
former, the comfort and happiness of a
greater or less number of people depends
principally on them as to the latter, they
influence and mold the future genera
tion, and so are the ultimate sources
whence flow the current of events, and
the creators of the characters in which
history is to be written. But for the
most part they enter on these important
duties with no preparation that can be
called serious or sufficient, and act as if
knowledge comes by the grace of nature.
A NUMBER of American women wrote
to Charles Reade, thanking him for his
defense of the woman doctors in Edin-
burg in his new novel. In reply, he
acknowledges the courtesy of the letter
and returns thanks for the encourage
ment it has given him. The American
women who seek to become doctors have
not, Mr.. Reade, says, obstacles of so Sc
we're nature to contend with as their
English sisters have The American
women have higher degree of fNrtitude,
and their nation is too brave, chA5alrous,
and just to persist in siding with the
strong against the weak. Mr.. Reade
wishes he were twenty years younger
and in better health. so that he might
become the champion of cause the sue
cess of which he has so close at heart.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

THE cost of larcerating an alderman's
feelings in England is S25. A verdict
for that amount was rendered against
the turrey Comet because it said Alder
man Wenan attended a baby show.
Wenan proved the frightful charge to be
completely unfounded and consequently
regained the respect of his townmen and
also $25-
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
ESTABLISHEDlS59.
4 SONG OF SUMNER.

Always in your darkest hour strive TO reme1
your brightest.-J. p. Richter.
Sing me song OF summer.
For nay heart is wintry sad,
That glorious bright newcomer,
Who makes all nature glad
Sing me a song OF summer,
That the dark from thesbright may borrq
And the part in the radiant whole Of things
May drown its little sorrow.
Sing me a song of summer,
When God walks forth Ia light
And spreads his glowing mantle
Ger the blank and the grey OF night;
And where he comes, his quiekening touch
Revives the insensate dead,
And the numbed and frozen pulse Of things
Beats music to his tread.
Sing me a song of summer, "a
With his banners OF golden bloom, -
That glorious bright newcomer,
Who bears bleak winters doom,
With banners Of gold and of silver,
And wings of rosy display,
And verdous power in his path,
When he comes with the pride Of the May
When he comes with his genial sweep
Ger the barren and bare ef the scene,
And makes the stiff earth to wave
With an ocean of undulent green;
With fioarish of leafy expansion.
And boast OF luxuriaBt bloom,
And the revel of life rs ii triumphs
Ger the dust and decay Of the tomb.
Sing me song of summer
- 9 s.ss s; e ers + II hSf 81 he m
With sPle2siar 81 Iils on his yingg : -
And maketh all feebleness strong,
Till il spread into blossom of beauty,
And burst into paans OF song
Sing me song OF summer
Though my heart be wfntry and sad,
The thought of this blessed newcomer
Shall foster the germ of the glad.
Meath the veil of my grief let me cherish
The Joy that shall rush into day,
When the bane of the winter shall perish
In the pride and the power of the May.
Prof. BiGckG
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

Mr.. Ralph Waldo Enerson's speech at
the dinner given to President Hayes in
Boston was as follows: "Mr. Mayor,
have to return my sincere acknowledge
ments for your invitation to attend your
most welcome entertainment, and wish
l. could express in fitting terms my
thanks. But was always bad speaker
and am more so in my old age. The
president, l am surc, will forgive me for
endeavoring to sit down.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

Governor CuLLoM, of Illinois, has
inaugurated his new system Of proceed
ings in cases where pardons are asked for
A convict recently sent to the peniten-
tiary for year has given public notice
that be viii apply for pardon on a
given day, and al1 pezzgrIs s.s,ss's- ..s-ssSl !
tions thereto are invited to file them at
the governors Office, where they will also
have an opportunity to examine the
papers in the case.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

Tomatoes twenty-five cents a bushel-
that is at Key West, Florida.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

A singular drowning accident occurred
at Grand Lake. Nova Scotia, recently.
An English girl named Emmett, aged
twelve, sat on log at the shore of the
lake to bathe her feet, and getting into
day dream, did not notice that the log
had foated out into the lake. Suddenly
realizing her position, she lost presence
of mind and sprang into the water.
Strange to say, this is the sixth child
her parents have lost by drowning.
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

Adirondack Murray has pacing mare
that ne expects to make trot a mile in
two minutes, by attaching loaded
leathern sack to each of 5r forward feet,
and decreasing the weight asshe becomes
accustomed to the trotting gait. Wouldn't
Murray make good cavalry leader for
the Cossacks, since he is such great
horseman--and so rushin' in his fastest
The Hickman courier., 1877-07-27

WILL give to any clergyman in San
Francisco 81 900 in gold to substantiate
that the death of Voltaire was not as
peaceful as the coming of the dawn.
They say Tom Payne died in fear, in
agony, hearing devils rattle chains in the
other room, and that the Infinite God
went to work to frighten a dying man.
1 viii give a reward of 81 900 in gold to
anybody who will substantiate the truth
of that story.-B0b Iagers0H.
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BSsHHESS ~ wa ST nES nF I6R ASP PRgNTfNs 0pAEts
OF ANY DESCRIPTIONS, WILL
FIND THE CARBON a ADVOCATE
OFFICE THE BEST and CHEAP.
EST PLACE IN THE COUNTY.
GIVE Us A TRIAL AND Bh
CONVINCED.
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WASHINGTON, DC. November "A, 1875.
take pleasure in expressing my entire eOn1-'
Law, Patent ana Collection House of GlLAoRH
& CO., Of this city.
GEORGE II. b. WHITE,
Cashier of the National Metropolitan Bank.
Dec. 0. 1876 tt
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VARIETIES,

France exports to this country an
nually S40O, 900 worth of hair.
-Esthetic Boston bellies, have, en-
masse, taken to wearing eye glasses.
in many parts of California the
sheep pr"st be sheared twice year.
lola, Kansas, has a mineral well
which throws aloft stream of water
and gas.
The New York Society for the Re.
lief of the Poor relieved 1865 persons
last month.
"A London newsboy found $4,000
diamond, which he carried about in his
pocket for month without knowing
its worth.
WIN. Gibson, of Franklin, Texas, a
precocious child of eighty-six summers,
recently distinguished himself by cut.
ting four front teeth.
A half pound of powder in a chest
nut log demoraliZed an Atlanta family
the other night. The wood was bor-
rowed without the owners consent.
The number OF hogs packed in this
country up to Jan. 4th, 1877, was 3,
675, 900 up to the same date in 1876 il
was 3, 1875, 600 and for the season OF
1875 it was 4,SS0,000.
DIR Petermann, the distinguished
geographer, is now in London, consult,
ing with the promoters of a new Arctic
expedition. 1t is to be private under,
taking, sat on foot by the united club.
of the Kindgom.
"A new society has been formed in
Paris, whose members are to dine to-
gether on the first day of each montl
till Jan l, 1900, when the farewell ban,
quet will take place. The member!
must have been born later than Decem
ber 81, 1S40, and the club is called "thC
Men of the Twentieth Century,"
Eighteen tramps climbed into thu
boiler lofts Of the Lehigh Valley IroI
Company, at Allentown, the othe
night, to sleep. One slept the sleep o
death, and five others were nearly sut
focated by tho fumes Of gas before the,
were rescued by the furnace hands.
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