The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-16
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CURRENT PARAGRAPH
a LETTER in the Springfield Rer
hcan says Of Brigham's Ann Eliza: "s
now has home in Lockport. N.
where her mother and two stpdious he
Keep tbs latch-string. out, AMI where s
nastens when worn and weary, to SIT
her OWE heartstone, without fear
molestation, Independent of Brigham a,
poverty. She will receive every cent
ner almony, having already possession
2oO, and the marshal is colIectine n
prephet's rents for the rest.n
1HE London correspondent of the CHI
eago Journal says: "You will probabl,
oe as much surprised as l was to lear,
That bank of England notes. coed as the,
are all over the world, are not a leE
tender either in Scotland or Ireland II
Ireland they are not allsyed to circulate
at all. The moment they reach the
irlAn banks they are cut in two. and re-
turned weekly to the bank of ENGLAND
70 De exchanged either for gold or Irish
notes. : On the other hand an Irish or q
ocotch bank nste is as rare sight in
england as Chinese Embassador
Duflng my eighteen years of English
life have never once seen a Soo,oL
note, and only once an Irish onen
iHE st. Louis Democrat has printed
Ssssrai useful articles on the subject of
0.eaP schooi-books. It alleges that er.
orDiIans prices are now charged for the
11sst ordinary books, and instances in | ,
paIucuar the common primA Tn. ]
Price Tor which this book sells ia twenty. q
hlaszSssa No 1zaLasssa. % ia,
swriter puts the number of primers an 7
nually sold in this country at 3, ,00O, 900, I
which cost the people $4,000, 900, and F
bring the publishers in profit of $780, s
600. The lightning calculator has for
gotten one important item he has made 7
ne allowance for the proportion of profit !
that annually finds its way into the y
pockets of school boards and school B
directors.
A SCOTCH youth named Maealister has
just accomplished the unprecedented feat
prizes at one swoop, and becoming
Senior Wringler, too; he began his
studies at the London university and ii
left it because the work was too hard, al
the requirements then being more severe "
than at either of the cid universities he
Mr.. Conway says that the influence of ar
John Stuart Mill is still felt, particularly
at the London university, where the sh
unfortunate theory prevails that the or
capacities of young men to acquire III
knowledge are underrated. About two
years ago forty-ive tried to pass the sm
final examination for LII. B. at that in AZ
stitution, and not one succeeded.
THE Germans have curious way of TO
announcing deaths by what looks iii e a
flaming advertisement stretching seme- Du
times entirely across a wide double yo'
column newsnaner TIL follo,,;. his
literal translation OF one of those an ane
nouncements made in an Augsburg lew
Augemeine Zeitung one day last month.
but the whole is made to look precisely Ma
ike business advertisement Death Ma
Notice. Ithas pleased Almighty God how
ur beloved husband, father, grand moI
ather, brother and father-in-law. the new
-lustrious count BIoriz zu Bentheim- any
'eklenRerg Rheda, commander and goot
might of high orders, on the 9th of live
this month, at four O'Clock iastbe and
tsERoa III" +h;s ,,,ournful at tn
ympathy oegere' - o,d friends ward
Et-r1E I'm
end. w
e is much that is strange IN the witt
lass theory-for instance, the con- him
. l.SctioR of opposite electrieltles' the ne
Z mansion of the molecules of the glass, Z"
nd the generation of currents OF electro GOO
Another strange thing Is NAL
he occult relation existing between the Jen
,urnber of miracles wrought and the list
business enterprise of the glass dealers da,
The remedial action depends quite as TO !
,nuch upon the number of squares taken for
by the vitreous advertisers In the local old
papers as upon the number or size OF the u
names. In Providence blue glass Is work "a
inc well. A book-keeper who had been of
tortured with rheumatism for several Del
vears inserted six panes of blue glass In ,
his office windows, exposed his foot, arm of
and shoulder to the light, and within av
fortv-eight hours was cured. An elderly Iv
Iadv whose left knee, ankle and foot
were swollen to twice their natural size'
batbed in blue light, and in nthree-quarters IL
of an hour the soreness and Inflammation uo
disappeared. An old gentleman whose L
right foot has been useless for year Is y
slowly recovering behind three mazarine g
names. The wife of prominent manu- 'e
fscturer who has been afflicted with
uaraiysis and unable to walk for three W
vears- was carried down stairs to the ca
naYlor and immersed in blue light. In ci
the course of an hour or two the family
below were startled by sounds overhead,
and on entering the parlor what was y
their astonishment to find that she had {
risen from her chair and walked across T.
the floor. Strength had retNTned to her
limbs. she was able to move her arms, 8
and Immediately incredulity in the
efficacy of blue glass was banished from
that house.
sC4RCIrY OF AaERICAN SEIMES-
The United States navy is said to be
manned in the proportion of three to one {
bv sailors of foreign birth, and in the /
merchant service it is rare to find native
American before the mast. The British
navy does not appear to be better on :
The British representative in Peru states
that the proportion of native British sea-
Il d. t.- nj ohi