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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-20

Lucy Stone says that, although wo-
men have not secured the ballot, they
have in her time vastly improved their
condition. She remembered when a
woman WIS thought competent to teach
only the small children in the summer
schools, when her pay for such teaching
was dollar a week, and she was expect
ed To board around. Now women are
professors in colleges, with good salaries.
In four States they vote on all school
matters. Teaching, sewing and keeping
house were the only occupations regatds
ed as suitable for women. Now the census
records seventy-one oceu pations that are
open to women. No woman was pub
lie speaker out OF the Quaker church.
Now, all platforms are free 10 them. The
lyceum offers to the woman lecturer the
same open field that it does to man.
The pulpit and the bar are both occu-
pied by women. The woman physician
did not exist Now they have a success
full practice in every large city and many
of the smaller towns There was not a
college in the word that admitted wo-
men. Now there are not only distinctive
" colleges for women, but a large number
that welcome women to all their sdvau-
tages 1t is not many years since a
married woman could own nothing that
she earned could not make a viii OF
anything she possessed; could not sue or
be sued could not carry on business ;
had no lawful right to her children, and
could not be their guardian nor had
she the right to her own person. Now,
in most of the States all this is changed
or very much modified.
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To Dry Flowers in Sand.

There are many OF our brilliant flowers,
such as dahlias, pansies, pinks, gerani-
ums, sweet williams, carnations, gladi-
olus, which may be preserved Tor years.
White flowers viii not answer well for
this purpose, nor any succulent plant, as
hyscinths or cactus. Take deep dishes
or those of sufficient depth to allow flow
ers TO be sn inch deep with sand. Get
the common white sand, such a. is used
for securing purposes, cover the bottom
of the dish with q layer about halt al
inch deep, and then lay in the flowers
with their stems downward, holding
them firmly in place while you sprinkle
more sand over them until all place:
between the petals are filled and the
flowers are out OF sight.
A broad dish will accommodate quite 6
large number. Allow sufficient sand
between. Set the dish in dry, warm
place, where they will warm gradually
and at the end of a week pour off the
sand and examine them. IF there is any
moisture in the sand it must be dried
out before using again, or fresh sand may
be poured over them, the same as before
Some flowers viii require weeks TO dry
while Others will become sufficiently dry
10 put away in a week or ten days. BY
this simple process flowers, ferns, etc.
are preserved in their proper shape, as
well as in their natural color, which Is
far better than to press them in books
When arranged in groups and mounted
on cards, or in little straw baskets, they
may be placed in frames under glass.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-20
JOHN BROUGHAM's LOSS.
The Actor. Tender Reeorrecnons of L

The Actors Tender RecOIIecIIOns of His
Friend
John Broughsm has suffered q severe
bereavement. His wonderful parrot,
which for many years has been his COM
panion and friend, has succumbed to
illness, and when his master returned
from a meeting of the members of the
Dramatic Fund, he found him stiff
and stark at the bottom of the cage
The old actors attachment to the bird is
well known to his friends, and they
gathered around him in the Lotos Club
to offer their coincidence. &" He was the
most intelligent bird l ever saw Nh
Brougham said. @ He could associate
actions with the phrases he picked up
IN the most surprising manner. One OF
my girls had been in the habit of selling
rags and bottles TO the junkmen who
passed the house, and whenever she
came into the room after he found out
the fact, he called out, Rags and bot
ties, rags and bottles, in imitation of
the man. He frightened her by his cum
ming look. tell We that birds a
dyvil,' she said to me one day. While
l was sick last winter, a man who was
sent to mend the pipes in my room
Knocked at the door. | told MIN to come
in. He did so, anu was going to work,
when Poll shrieked, Say, what are you
doing there Pm mending the pipes,
as l told you, sir You old rat. come
out there replied Poll, and the nlsn
turned and saw the bird there for the
first time. Poll never heard an ami
mated conversation without feeling
called upon to join in it. Very good
good enough he'd shrek and when my
visitors would stop talking in astonish-
ment, he would cry. Ha ma har and
laugh and sputter as if choking with
merriment. He knew all the servants.
When Ellen came in with my breakfast,
he called out, Eight o'clock, Ellen
Chops and eggs chops and eggsP He
hated women and always snapped at
them when they came near. He got to
initiating the whistle of the speaking
tube at one time. and nearly set the girls
crazy. To correct him | used to shake
a switch at him. He'd hide his head and
look very penitent, but as soon as LETT
the cage he'd rattle his chain, and call
sitter me, Stop that, stop that; get out,
you old rat The last thing he did was
to brighten my shoemaker out of his
wits. / was being measured for pair of
shoes, and the man was kneeling with
my foot In his lap. Suddenly Poll
shrieked out from behind him, What
are you doing there? Get out of that
The bootmaker jumped up as ii he had
been shot and was white with fright.
As he left the room Poll called alter
him, Well, good-by.' He'd generally
say that to anyone who'd leave the
room. All, poor old fellow. Poor Poll,
he has amused me in many dull hour.
Was he profane? No; he was a we'll
behaved bird. Spitzbub and old rat
were the worst epithets he used. am
going to have him stuffed, and he viii
stand in his old corner. He'd look hand-
some with his light lavender gray wing
feathers and his new undershirt of car
dinal red. Poor PolI.''
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Sensible Views.

The facts of the case are that the
country this year has been scourged to
an exceptional degree, not only by yell
low fever, but by every form of mslaTi
Gus disease. The death rates in some of
our larger cities, rose during the warm,
muggy weather of September SO per
cent. over the same space of time last
year. The primary cause was doubtless
the prolonged drought and the uncover.
ing of the miasmatic borders of the
streams. but the seeds of disease thus
engendered would not have brought
forth such prolific death crops if they
has not found abundant soil in the foul
air, poisonous smells, and fermenting
| filth about our towns, country houses,
even resorts of health. In the South
this fact was patent from the first. Gre
nada is fair sample of small Southern
towns in its absolute neglect of drain
age of every sort bad or good. New
Orleans has been a breeding place of
pests fer fifty years. Burial is impossi-
BILE in most of the cemeteries, and at
high water many of the receiving vaults
in which the dead are packed are under
water. Thirty years ago the visitor to
one of these rose-planted, shell-paved
cities of the dead would be forced to
drive through it at a full gallop, so terri
bic was the oder. Nothing has been
done to remedy it since. Neither have
Northern cities any reason to boast.
New York, with the pure air of the bay
blowing constantly through her streets,
has managed in times past to load it
with as many vile, disease-breeding
smells as pest hospital. Boston is lit
tie better. The soil of Atlantic City,
Cape May, and the cheaper religious sea-
side resorts was pregnant this season
with malaria In Philadelphia so de-
fective is the sewerage that to live near
a culvert opening is to insure an attack
of fever These are unpleasant facts,
but they are facts which are telling on
our weekly bills of mortality What is
to be done Galveston, as our readers
know, from one of the most sickly, is
now one of the healthiest, because it is
the cleanest city in the Union. The
Commission will find out, probably, the
cause and cure of yellow fever, and
other fevers, but it will not hinder the
canse nor advance the cure. That Is for
each town, village, and household to do.
The matter is one of National import
anee, but it is also one of individual eff
fort.
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tons, distributed over the entire surface,
OF about 137 II tons on every square
foot of its body.
The materials for artificial light and
for the fabrication of machinery are now
supplied from many sources; and as the
whales are becoming scarce from being so
constantly hunted, the whale fishery will
probably soon be given up as regular
branch of industry. A white whale was
captured in the Gulf of st. Lawrence in
1861, and kept on public exhibition in
a water-tank for nearly two years. He
was ten feet long and weighed 700
pounds During his confinement he
showed some capacity for education.
He was sufficiently well-trained to allow
himself to be harnessed to a car, in which
he drew young lady around the tank.
He learned to recognize his keeper, and
would allow himself to be handled by
him, and st the proper time would come
ard put his head out of the water to
receive the harness or take food. At
times he showed playful disposition and
amused himself with splsshing about in
the water, and at other times with toss
ing stones with his mouth. He often
took in his mouth a sturgeon and 8
small shark, which were confined in the
same tank and after playing with thera
or q while allowed them to go un.
harmed. An anatomical description O
this animal. ii ustrated by plates has
| been contributed to the Boston SoCiety
| of Natural History.
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FAMOUS ANIMAL
The Death of Dan Rtee's Horse Ex-
ceIslOE.

The Dealn OI pan kstce n HORSE IN
ceIslOF.
ST. LOUIS Republican.
The oil white stallion Excelsior, once
owned by Dan Rice, the Snowman, died
recently from debility and old age The
old horse was SO years of age. He died
at Arnot's stable, after an ailment of
only a few days. About the last exhibit
ton made of the horse was on the stage
of one of our theaters, about two years
ago. The horse was levied upon for
debt by the Missouri Pacific railroad
about two months ago, and his spirit has
taken its departure under that attach
ment
Dan Rice, who went on to Pennsyl-
vania last week, called at Arnot's stable
to see his old friend and shed tears over
him. He said that he was on his way to
Pennsylvania, and it was his intention to
send on money to redeem him and let
him die in peace, and havehis form pre-
served by the taxidemist. Excelsior
was in Dan Rice's service for about
thirty years, and has been exhibited in
every city and town of note in the
United States. He has been favorite
of millions of people, and men in the
downfall OF life remember his antics
when risky colt. Peace to his names
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when you will find the syrup as light and
clear as amber; put them in the kettle
and let them boil twenty minutes: they
never get hard. The water thew we're
boiled in may be used to make a Jelly of
tie parings; add one pound white sugar
to each pint of juice, and boil half an
hour.
MAKING FEATHER SCREENS. Cut
two rounds of cardboard of the size you
d esire, by putting plate upon it and
drawing the circle. Cover one OF the
rounds with feathers, letting the ends
stsnd out at least an inch and a halt.
The feathers can be sowed or Glued on,
Put ON another row in the same manner
and continue 10 do so until che round is
fiji ed up to the center. Cover the stems
W h rosette or bow of ribbon. Cover
tn circle with silk and paste the two
to ether. Add handle of an old fan,
and rnament with gilded paper.
BLACKBERRY PUDDING.--One ousrt
of -four, one pint of milk, ore cur ful of
chopped beef suet, two large teaSpoof-
fuls of baking powder, and twoH able
spoonluls ofsugar. Add to this one quart
of blsckberries. 1t is much better TO
steam than to boil it For sauce take
nine tablespoonfuls of sugar, two OF -four
and three of butter; rub them to a cram
with wooden or silver spoon, in stone
china bowl, adding part a nutmeg aud
any other favoring you like. Set the
bowl over a teakettle of boiling wster
and pour over the sauce one pint of boil
ing water, stirring it all the time.
OATMEAL CAKEs--Fill a quart basin
half full with fine oatmeal, aud Ssmall
piece OF dripping, mix thoroughly with
tne hands until the meal feels moist. more
dripping should be added if not bought
moist enough, then pour some boiling
water over the whole, stirring quickly
with spoon while doing 50; ssreE plenty
of meal on the board, turn out the dough
aud cover thickly with meal; knead il
well then roll out until of the desired
thickness, cakes should be knea5ed ou
/ until thin enough IN preferesz- % beint
| rolled; stamp into small griddle ate
strewing some meal over it until the,
are hard, and toast the other side in from
of the fire until ready. The dough tina
remains after the cakes are cut out SHOULD
be, if hard, put in the basin and som
more hot water, mixed with 1t, the
kneaded snd rolled out. The quicke
the cakes are made the better.
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Our seasons of rest are so short that
many hard workers have forgotten how
to enjoy them. Some men, long worked
hard, must 90 on working. There is no
other chance for them. To sit down is
to break down to rest is to die. Indul-
gence is in one respect like indulgence
in strong drink. Having got into it you
must go on, otherwise there come mani
fold morbid and painful experiences.
There are those who tell you that once
they could be moderately happy when
resting; now they dare rest no more.
They may try to make work less urgent
less feverish but it will not do TO stand
still. Theyare Kept sane and serviceable
only by giving the mind perpetual occu-
patton. Every one remembers how Luther
said 4" / rush out among my pigs rather
than sit still and do nothing" 1t is
sad, but it is true, that human being,
not much like Luther in any character
istic are like him in this that they dare
not have a quiet think. Hence the
sorrowlul resort to alcohol, opium, chic
raj hence the crsvening for unconscious
ness, which is temporary humiliation. If
pigs can help you, as they helped Luther,
be thankful. Some folk, clever and good,
need more than pig can dO-even
such an animal, poetic breeder, proud OF
his age and dimensions, called his Aud
Lang Swine. In any case few minds are
self>sufiicing. All human beings who
have attained middle age must be but
tressed from without. 1t may be sacred
nature, green grass, green trees, garden
ing, pigs, horses, human companions,
worry or quiet occupation but the
longer / live, the more assured | am that
most men live in mortal terror of them
selves Years ago, short years, but q
good MANY, when this hand was young,
it wrote 3 discourse of Michael SCOTS
Familiar Spirit, which Gas the legend
gees) demanded that its master should
provide it with constant work or it would
tear him to pieces. Thus in parable i:
set forth the educated mans relation tc
/ his own mind. You must find it cease
/ less occupation, or it will make you mis-
7 cradle. The little girl of seven year,
/ had found this out who cried, Oh
/ read me story to make the time pas
/ quick" People find it out waiting
/ three-quarters of an hour at countr!
railroad stations. They viii diligently
read all the advertisements stuck abou
! the squalid sheet rather than sit down
! idle They will read right through tn
/ leading article of the Liddie PeddingtOl
Courier. One saw all this early. On
sees it yet more plainly now.
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FROZEN beef tea will be often taken
by invalids, when they could not be in
duced 70 take 1t If vS4rna.
CURTAINS, Ottomsns and sofas covered
with worsted can be cleaned with wheat
bran, rubbed on with flannel.
RAILROAD SPONGE CAKE.-One and 8
half cups of sugar, two even cups oil
flour Jour eggs, one teaspooniul OF
baking powder. Mix and add one-third
of cup of hot wsier.
Sort GINGERBREAD.- One egg, one
cup of molasses, two>thirds cup OF melted
tbutter, two-thirds cup of sour milk, one
seaspoonfui of saleratus, one dessert
opoontul of ginger, and two and one-hali
ups of -four.
HoE>CAKEs.--Take a piece eff your
light bread dough early in the morning
and make it into thin batter with cream
or new milk. Let it stand to rise till
just before your breakfast hour. Pour
the batter then in spoonfuls on a hoe,
and bake quickly. Have ready bowl
of melted butter to dip the cakes in, and
serve quite hot.
CAPER SAUCE. = Mix two ounces OF
butter and one spoonful of flour together
in small sauce pan, then add pint of
broth, set on the fire and stir till thick
ened, when add capers to the taste
Give one boil, remove from the fire, add
salt, the yolk of an egg beaten with one
teaspoopful of water, and serve with
boiled mutton or boiled fowl
PREPARED GLUE-In half pint of
water in a wide-mouthed bottles put
eight ounces Of best glue, place the
bottle in water, and heat uatl the glue
is dissolved. Then stir in slowly two
and half ounces of strong nitric acid.
The glue thus prepared is always ready
for use, and may be applied to mending
furniture, broken vessels and other ar.
ticles not exposed to waite
PRESERVED OUNCES Pare and quar-
ter the quinces; boil in enough water to
keep them whole; when they are tender
take them out, and TO each pound of
ounces add one pound of white sugar; let
them stand with sugar on until next day
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"Heat is Lire-CoId is Death"


Ihere Is no greater fallacy than the
opinion OF many, particularly the young
and strong and vigorous, that winter -
especially sharp frosty one, with plenty
of snow - is the most healthy season OF
the year. Very few persons seem to
realize the fact that cold is the condition
of death, and that in both warm and
cold climates it is our unconscious effort
to maintain our bodily heat at temp
erature of 9S deg. that wears out. To
this temperature called "blood>heat,"
every cuoic inch of oxygen that serves to
vltalise our blood must be raised by our
own bodily heat, or life ceases. Since IN
coid weather the maintenance of sui
hclently-elevated bodily temperature be-
comes very often too great for our
strength, the advent of a severe Winter
Is really more to be dreaded than the
VISITATION OF a pestilence. The saying,
Heat Is hte--cold isdeath;" has strik>
ing illustration and confirmation in the
reports now regularly submitted by DR..
Russell to the Glasgow Sanitary Com
mlttee. The death-rste rises and falls
with the regularity OF the thermometer.
- many degrees less heat, so many more
deaths, and Vice rersa. In one of his fort7
nightly reports, DR. Russell says: ''The
death>rate IN the first week of the fort
night was twenty-one, and in the second
week twenty-five. Themean temperature
in the former week was 40 deg. Fahren-
heit, in the latter 395 deg" He attrib-
utes the low rate of the first week to the
high mean temperature OF the preceding
fortnight, which was AZ .03 deg, and adds:
"This is a goodillustration OF a law which
we frequently observe TO these reports OF
temperature anddeath-rates-that week
of low Temperature produces a rise in
mortality the week following" In our
climate it would probably be difficult to
find q more t5sraept. cause of serious
AILMENTS than taxing cold. Whatever
weak place we have, whatever coustitu
tional disorder we be subject to, cold will
surely discover. We take colds because
our vitality is too low to ward off the
effects of the reduced temperature around
us. As matter # first Importance,
/ then, to resist cold md the various de.
engagements OF the sntem consequent, ii
! is necessary by proper nutrition 10 main
/ tain our natural animal heat; second, to
/ retain this heat by asutIicient quantity
| of clothing; third, to regulate with care
/ the temperature of ihe air we breathe
+ Contrary TO the option current among
lovers of cold weather, fire in bed
room in the winter cheaper and better
than 8 doctors bill for, owing to oul
inactive condition during sleep, the cir
culation of the vit,lizing blood is both
slow and imperfect, ind hence the danger
of taxing cold by Breathing cold air i
greatly increased. A cold Is the begin
ing of everything that is bad. II any
enc conscious of having caught one feel
cold chills creeping up fhe back, let hin
apply a mustaId-plasier to the bottom o
the spine and lower part OF the back a
once and by so dong he may avert
dangerous illness befCre it is too late an,
medical advice can be procured.
should never be forgotten that Cheat /
! lile-cold is death"
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:. WIN, Arc You coiur to do About It:f .

:. What Are You Going to do ADont ~.
Because the penalties of physiological laws
are not executed speedily, some fancy they
are void. But when the system breaks down.
and almost hopeless complications ARISE,
which the family physician, by reason OF ms
limited experience, fails to relieve, the per-
tineney of the above inquiry is apparent;
Many remedies have been specially prepared
for these cases, and many physicians are pld-
ding for their patronage. As before making
a purchase of land, search is required,
and the title carefully examined, so invalids
should carefully investigate the claims OF
any physician offering to treat chronic DIS
eases. DR.. Pierce's Family Medicines are
well known, and have effected many cures
where eminent physicians have failed, yet
to accommodate surgical and complicated
cases, and those DESTROYS OF being restored
speedily, DR.. Pierce has erected an elegant
ssnitarium, at a cost of nearly half million
dollars No institution in the world offers
advantages superior to those found IN TINS
establishment. Half a score of physicians
are in attendance, several of whom have
been prominently connected with leading
American and European Hospitals. Every
improved facility for Fastening cure that
a liberal expenditure Of money could secure
can here be found. Before fully deciding
where to go, address Invalids' and Tourists
Hotel, for circular.
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Dressed Poultry.-We offer me fol-
lowing timely directions for the dressing
and handling Of puitry- Live poultry
during the tall is generally drug on the
market, and dressed lots when in good
order are taken in preference. Poultry
should never De killed by the wIingins
of the neck, hut should be killed BY
bleeding, by means OF opening the veins,
or By cutting off the head, so as to let
them bleed freely. If the latter be dore,
care should be taken and draw the skin
over the meek and tie secure before ship
ping. Deisce the neck "a little as pos
sible, "a tie looks will materially aid in
bringing outside prices. Poultry should
bepicks d dry, which can easily be done
by plucking before the bodies are cold,
and always give poultry a nice appear
ance. However, when scslded, the water
should be as near boiling as possible and
yet not really boiled The poultry
should be dipped, so that the water will
have proper effect on the skin, and pene>
tTate the feathers, The feathers should
be picked Immediately, but care should
be taken and not break the skin, Poul-
try, before being killed, should be kept
twenty~four hours without food. Before
packing, it should get thoroughly dry
and cold, but not frozen. Moderate
sized boxes or barrels should be used but
avoid very large packages as much as pos
sible, as there is considerable trouble in
handling. besides being more difficult to
sell. In packing, use clean boxes, and
line the ends and sides with paper. Al
ways pack as closely as possible, and fiji
the boxes well, so there viii be no chance
for the poultry to move about.