The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-07

You seem to walk more erect than
usual, my friend" Yes, have been
Strengthened by circumstances.
The wickedest thing woman can
do is to hand out a S2O-bill to pay for
paper Of pins when she has s41s in her
pocket in small silver-and then she will
look so innocent all the while.
49," Madame" said certain nameless
one to Mrs Brown, the other day, you
are talking simple rubbish" Yes
sir" replied the ever-crushing lady,
because wish you to comprehend me-
Or. Guthrie spoke of a ship builder
who paid him the greatest compliment
by saying During the preaching o
most ministers, be they short or long, I
generally contrive in my own mind 10
lay the keel and build the ship from
stem to stern, but during your sermon
cannet lay single plank"
81" Have you any blackberry pies2"
asked hungry traveller OF the mistress
Of tumble down shsnty by the roadside
Carolina. Thank you; five be poor
and amt got no bread, nor buttermilk,
nor nothin' we amt come down to black
berry pies yet"
The exploring party struck the store
where Pnam used % trade for his -four
and beans at Mycene, the other day,
aud found the Trojan monarchs pass
book, showing that his account was be-
hind by ffty-nine dachmg DR. Schlie-
man says this arouscs all the grocer pas
sions Of his nature.
A San Francisco photographer has
succeeded in taking picture Of Occi-
dent while he was trotting past at the
rate of 2:27, accurately timed or thirty
six feet per second, and about forty feet
distant, the exposure Of the negative be-
ing less than the one-thousandth part of
a second.
.(Scene Royal Academy, Gallery
No. 2)-Artful one (n0ticing the prox-
unity Of the refreshment room): Oh,
George, dear, IL feel 50 faint More
artful one (who has been served that
way before }: Faint, eli It's this
doosid unpleasant smell of cookery; let's
60 on a bit" (Exeunt) -L0Hdoa Fun.
Auntie and Little King were gath
ering wild flowers auntie could not
find many, and was going back to the
heuse. when King cried out, gleefully
" Oh, aunty, come over where ] am;
they aIa awful thick here just as thick
as your 7I-..l. head" Auntie vent -0i"'t"-
Wooden handles like a shawl-strap
are now put upon the watermelons. II
(adds the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser) the last generation had done its
duty in artificial selection and inter
breeding, nice handles would have grown
upon watermelons by this time, so that
they could be carried like a satchel.
.." What are those purple poises down
by the brook asked Gus. If you
mean" replies Clara, those glorious
masses Of eInpurpIe-f emOeosoence, eh@s
bloom in bosky dells and fringe the
whipping streamlets, they are campanula
rotundifora.' Gus plays billiards for
living and Clara goes to a girls college.
This lady and her daughter, as every
body knows, spare no effort TO repair tho
ravages of time in their faces, and are
not always successful:
- saw Nine. T." says a friend,
" How old and worn she looks."
e" Yes; poor woman. She is begin
ming to look as d as her daughter"
"A Connecttut dentist has got hold
of composition whereby he can make
teeth at a cost Of less than fifty cents
set. This will enable the female wearer
Of false teeth TO have a aet TO match
every suit she owns, both in color and
design.