The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-12

JO"i SO"cS 10 " h+i your nash rs about
correct, but amt your eggs a leetle TOO
| ripe?
Next to throwing kittens into mill
pond the saddest sight is that of lady
at church fair drowning two or three
poor little oysters in a gallon of thin
milk.
TWO MEN KKoN.. r
know a duke well-let him pe.---
| may not cali his grace an ass
/ Though n l did, ia do no wrong
Gave 10 the asses and MY song.
Tho duke is neither wise nor good
He gambles, drinks, scorns womanhood
And al the age Of twenty-fOur
Was worn and battered as three-seore'
I know waiter in Pail Mall,
who works, and waits aud reasons well
j. gentle teous and refined,
and las a magnet IN his mind.
What Is 1t makes his graceless eTsce.
50 like jockey out a place7
80 very like gentleman?
Perhaps their inothersl God Is great
Perhaps Ills sccidenf--Or fafei
Perhaps bccause-hold not my pen
We can breed horses, bat not men.
-Engiish Peysr.
e. = Dar's gsine 70 be wsh," remarked
a colored citizen, IAN all you niggahs
might jes' 5 well git ready for active
business" (Which eide shall we takeY
asked one Of his hearers. "You niggahs
can take jes' what side yer please; Pse
gwine to take de Canada sidew
Pull down your ear moment;
want to look down the street" said
man on Main street yesterday, TO trav-
eler just ahead of him. The traveller
meekly folded his ears under his hat aud
passed mournfully on. He was from
Chicago.
To an American nothing is more
stupid than English wit. The writers
for the many comic journals Of England
look into the daily papers and usually
pun, in 4 gawky way, with some word.
Is anything more stupid than this from
Punch: "The Russian feet---wben he
cuts and runs"-M j. HraH.
The Toys.
Nv little son. who look d FROM thoughtful eye-.
Ani moved and spoke IN quiet grown-up ~iSe,
/ struck hiiH nnd DISMISSED
With hard words and unkiss'd--
His mother, who patient oeing dtnd.
Then, fearing lest his grici should hinder ieep,
visited his bed,
With darken'd eyeiids, and thcil la6hes YET
From his late s0bbing wet.
KiSlfng aSay bis iears, left Others of my own
For on = table drawn beside his head,
he had put within bis reach,
A Inz Of counters and red-Hein'd stone,
A piece oi glass abraded 10y The beach,
And siA seven shells
4 bottle with blue-bells,
And two Frencn copper coins. ranged there With
To comfort his sad heart
So when that night Yrayd
To GOd / wept aHd said;
All when at last lie with tranCfd breath
Not vexing Thee in death.
And Thou renl' ini-sssi Of what toys
We made our JOYS,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good
Than whom hou hast moulded from the clay.
Thoul e We thy wrath aud say,
Pull MaH GGseaf.
George Eliot says that girls are deli
cate vessels, in which is borne onward
through ages the treasure of human at-
fection. George, George, you don't
know anything about it. Did you ever
take weeks salary into a ladies res-
taurant and try to fill one Of these "del-
icate vessels" with ice cream, layer cake
and chocolate caramels? Girly, it can't
be dds. Lcuis GloJc.
Col Dupressoir, who commanded
the regiment Of cuirassiers Of the French
guards during the celebrated attack at
Granville in 1870, has just died at
Nancy. The regiment, which numbered
forty officers and six hundred men, lost
in the attack twenty-eight officers and
four hundred and fifteen men.
Those moonlight mornings are very
fruitful of deception. When a man gets
up under the impression that it is day
break, and finds it is only halfpast three,
he may remember the Fad words Of the
astronomer that "the moon is a dead
world" but he is too mad 70 wonder
what it died OF, and in too much OF a
hurry to get back TO bed again, TO weep
over its death.--BrooklyB AryUs.
Peter Cooper walks down 10 his in
stitute every day, looks into the reading
room, with its 2O0OO volumes, where
, 500 people come to read every day.
visits the art schools, with their 1000
pupils; thinks of the two other fellows
who have no institute to comfort them
selves with, no Tree lectures, no iron
bowed zpectacles, no venerable one-horse
rockaway and no smart sOn.in-law, and Is
as happy as little Irish boy with whole
mince ME