The Hickman courier., 1877-07-20
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sra IN Min.

Women vote for school officers IN Min
nesota. 80
A German girl in Buffalo waltzed her
self blind
At last the University of London viii
confer medical degrees on women.
Hayes saves he will not summer at
White Sulphur. .@
In New York thirty cents per 100
pound for ice.
Senator Lamar has recovered his
health since returning 70 Mississippi..
Jenny Lind says that her husband is
her truest friend. Every woman's ought
to be.
The Empress of Austria is said to be
the most beautiful royal lady in the
world.
A woman in Baltimore has been fined
500 and costs for sending scurrilous pos
tai cards to ladies'
Eight thousand bushels ofstrawberries
were sold in the markets of Cincinnati
on recent day.
Young county, Texas, claims to have
coal enough 70 supply the state, when
Iits.uiDfs are developed.
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sachusetts, have married si-teTs the
father taking the younger.
The Boston firemen wear straw hats in
summer. They have ribbon device
when the men are on duty.
Why cannot two slender persons ever
become great friends? Because they
will always be slight scquaintances.
1t has been noticed that the man, who
is fnll of "reminiscences of congress and
of anecdotes about big men, always
has to feel the longest for the price of
cocktail.
The LouisvilIs Chess club has beaten
the Chicago Chess association in match
game by correspondence. The Louis
vile side was managed chiefly by Judge
Bland Ballard.
Delightful California The San Fran.
cisco Bulletin says: The recent heated
term lasted seven days. The highest
readings of the thermometer, we believe,
were 113 degrees at few points in the
interior"
Hotel business in town is very dull,
and several of the larger houses are WELL
nigh empty and running with reduced
help. The summer is destined to be
very hard one for hotels, not only in this
but in all large cities throughout the
United States
The banks OF the Thames are lined
with mosquitoes, which have been
brought to London in cargoes of foreign
grain. One of the things upon London.
ers have always prided themselves has
been that this annoying insect was not TO
be found in their city.
The surmise that many of the persons
run over by railroad trains have been
previously murdered is usually not sus-
ceptible of proof. An engineer on the
Louisville and Chicago railroad, however,
applied the brake so promptly that the
body he saw ahead on the track was not
struck. 1t was found that the man had
been robbed, almost killed, and then
placed where train would be likely to
obliterate all evidence Of the crime.
The Greeks were disgusted when a
joke was explained, but the American
humorist has to explain, or his point is
forever lost. For instance, the Greek
writer would have said: Women talk
less in February than in any other
MONTH" and everybody in Greece would
have enjoyed the squib. The American,
however, has to say: women talk less
in February than in any other month,
because it is the shortest month"
The diploma distributed to each Pill
grim IN memory of the Pope's Jubilee Is
a finely lithographed and arabesque sneet
4 of paper, on the corners OF which are the
| four great churches of Rome-St. John
Lateran, st. Peters, Santa Maria Mag
/ giore, st. Pauls-and, in addition, the
portraits of Saints Peter and Paul, the
palm, the dove, and other sacred emblems,
surrounded by Latin words recording
the accession of Plus X to the apostolic
chair. On each diploma the Pilgrim 8
name and country are written.
The blackberry industry in Georgia,
North Carolina aud other Southern
states is about to open. The little town
of Salem, s. c., containing only about
two thousand inhabitants, has shipped
during three years over three million
pounds of blackberries for which nearly
half a million dollars was received. This
was equal TO over nine thousand bales of
cotton at ten cents pound, and is a re-
source certainly not to be despised.
The Egyptian ladies, as a rule, are not
as good looking as Cleopatra, but trav-
elers and connoisseurs of taste, who were
on the Nile last winter, report that there
are many handsome ones among the
modern lot The fairest of the fair, in
point OF beauty, if not of complexion, are
the Copts in Cairo Their tint Is the
darkest prevalent, but the best artists
proclaim them TO be admirably put to-
gether in form and features. The Egyp-
tians are not much blacker than the
Italians.