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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-03-15
The Good old Times.

In the last century the one prevailing
idea of education for women scarcely
included learning at all. 1t meant
simply and emphaticalIy the discipline
which fits for society. Through more
than half that period manners were the
thing IN qrestion-manpers, and how to
improve them; for clearly there was
everywhere great falling off from what
had been, whether in France or England.
We find Nine. de Maintenon Gin 1707)
confding to her friend, the Princesse des
Ursins, in very plain language, her feel
ings on this point fI confess to you
that the females of the present day are
to me insupPortahle their ridiculous
and immodest dress, their snuff, wine,
gluttony, coargeness and Incidence, are
all so opposite to my taste that it is
natural for me to dislike them" The
Spectator, at a date two or three years
later, remarks upon the same character
istics, and breads the conclusion of the
war for the influence peace may haze
upon English ladies. "The whole dis
course and behavior" he writes, "of
the French is to make the sex more
fantastical, or, as they are pleased to
term it, more awakened, " than is
convenient either with virtue or discre-
tien. TIC speak loud in public assemblies,
to let every one hear you talk of things
that should only be mentioned in private
or in q whisper, are looked upon as part
Of refined education. at the same time
q blush is unfashionable,a and silence more
iIl-bred than anything that can be
spoken" Under this teaching ne re-
cords the behavior OF arefned lady, newly
returned from France, at the perform
ance OF Macbeth, who. before the rising of
the curtain, breaks out in a lotd solilo-
guy, When will the dear witches
enter ~ and before the play is half
through has formed a.little audience for
herself. "This pretty childishness," he
says, " is not to be attained in perfection
by ladies Who DO not travel for their i'm
provement," to add, as It were, point TO
their ignorance, in imitation of those
ladies Of the court Of France who thought
it i'll breeding to pronounce hard word
right-tor which reason they took fire.
quent occasion TO use hard words that
they might murder them This author
ity further adds: That a lady of some
quality q court having accidentally
made use of hard word in q proper
place and pronounced it right, the whole
assembly waseut of fcountenance for her
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rhe Silver Bill.

The silver bill has been passed over
the presidents veto by a vote in the
senate of 46 to 19, and in the house bJa
vote >of 196 to 73. This settles the
question of bi>metallic currency, and
emphasizes a great popular victory. Il
remains nNw for congress to proceed to
such supplementary legislation as viii
perpetuste the fruitage of this victor.
The wrong which was pepetrated by the
stealthy demonetization of silver has been
righted, and the fegal tender character
of the old silver dollar has been restored
but the bill, as amended by the
senate, leaves silver a subsidiary coin,
and future legislation should be directed
to placing it on an exact equality with
gold, where it stood previous, to the act
of demonetization. The relation of silver
to gold can be fixed by law so Mat the
owners of silver bullion can receive coin
certificates for all they deposit with the
government, receivable for customs, taxes
and public dues. The silver dollar Of
4123 grains may, by full coinage and free
circulation, through proper ancillary
legislation return to the value it bore at
the time of decentralization 100. 46
cents in gold.- Courier>Journal.
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Pretty Work for Leisure Hours.

Among the pretty things for the par
lor which may easily be made at home
are lamp shades and window Transparent
cies cut from bristol board. For lamp
shade take five pieces of bristol board,
three inches wide at the top and five at
the bottom, and sloped like q dress gore
on both sides. On each of these sketch
lightly in pencil, or if your skill is not
equal to this, trace with impression pa
per any simple picture you please.
Flowers, leaves, a spray of any sort,
vine with leaves, grapes with tendrils are
all effective and pleasing patterns
Vick's or Bliss catalogues furnish
abundance Of pretty designs. After the
pattern is traced take a sharp pen knife
and cut through each line, taking csre to
leave enough of the board intact at the
base of each, so as to prevent any part
from being wholly detached and so fall
ing out The design may be colOred on
the reverse if desired, and for this no
skill is necessary-bold stroke and dashes
Of color answer perfectly, provided there
is no burning Of the links. We have seen
some such shades where. instead of using
a knife, the lines were priclzed with pin
or with a large needle. When the parts
of the shade are all done bind them with
narrow ribbon or gilt paper pasted on,
and join them together, This may be
done by making hole at each corner of
each gore and tying them together by
means of narrow ribbon passed through
the holes. II a larger shade is desired,
six pieces may be made, but five will be
sufficient for the ordinary size. The
effect Of such a shade will, when the lamp
is lighted, be found equal to the finest
bisque or porcelain transparencies. For
windows cut the board in rectangular
shape and proceed in the same manner
with yolH picture. We have seen q
head of christ and a Madonna and child
beautifully executed in this easy art
work. Your knife must be sharp and
your hand steady. It is we'll to fasten
the work to drawing board, as artists do
their drawing paper, to hold it in place
while doing it, since this insures more
regularity in the strokes.-[ Philadelphia
Times.
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The New silver-DoIar Coinage.

Acting under the instructions of the
secretary of the treasury, the director of
the mints has been engaged in making
the necessary arrangements for running
the mints to their tull capacity ON the
new silver dollar, in connection with
which gold only will, for some time, be
coined. 1t is probable supply of work
ing dies will be ready in about ten days;
and, in the meantime, silver bullion will
pass through all the processes of putting
it in shape for coming the dollars, except
that of stamping, and for which par
ticular operation the capacity OF the
mints is in excess of other operations, so
that in reality but little delay in coinage
will be occasioned by the dies not being
now ready. 1t is thought that by the
middle of April the coinage OF the silver
dollar will be at the rate of three million
five hundred thousand dollars per month,
The supply of fractional silver coin at
the mints and different treasury offices
is sufficient to meet the demand likely
to arise for several months. The mints
are al in excellent condition, with a
sSillful force of workmen, and everything
in shape to meet the large amount OF
coinage devolved on them by the new
law.
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If night air is unwholesome, how
about the longevity owls?
.."Go west, young man." is what
California says to the Chinese.
Every angry man thinks he is right,
and nine outof ten can see that they
were wrong when anger cools. The tenth
man is a fool.
Mr.. Emerson viii please inform us
if in saying "the hand that rounded
Peters done," he meant 10 insinuate
that somebody put a head on Peter
ION City Derrick.
1t was a rich manufacturer of New
Jersey who said to his guests: "Ladies
and gentlemen, after the grapes ye shall
have beefsteak and musharoons, and thea
venison. straight from Venice"
The Countess Joannes Moore, 1h8
sweet singer Of Michigan, hastily fune
off the following the other day; TIT you
feel a little pale, think of joiner and
the whale and the frightened place Of
joiner when he thought himself goner."
The superiority of woman over man
is never more apparent than on the APP
proach of railroad train TO q station.
Every man who is going to leave the car
gets out of his seat the moment the
brakes are applied. But every woman
sits as imperturbable as Niobe till the
car stops.
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Foreign Intelligence,

/ y is lumored in Japan that a notifica-
ton viii shortly be issued ordering the
adoption of the foreign style of clothing
by all officials CT Imperial or Govern
nent appointment in daJo kuan and
department of the imperial household
Y A. likely that this orsLer .gsiIl slsosbe.
extended 70 al government depart
mehts.
The administration of the Eastern
railway of France hiss intimated to the
Geographical society of Paris that or
ders viii be given for iDscribing on the
wall Of each station the altitude above
the sea, the distance from Paris, the
name of the chief town of the district,
the name of the department, etc. Thus
railway travellers Will 'learn the sgeo-
graphy of France noJens uoLens.
Much alarm has been created at Mos
COW by the appearance of the Siberian
plague. One day = laundress at the
university, who was suspected of having
died from it, was subjected to a post
moItem examination, with the result
that the suspicious of the authorities
Were confirmed. Since then several
other persons have succumbed to the
same lnalady, which is more disastrous
than either smallpox or cholera, and the
police are now taking energetic meas
ures to prevent the disease from spread
ing. 1t is believed that the seeds of the
plague were brought from Tihis either
by Turkish prisoners or Russian in
va,ids.
It is stated on authority which cannot
be Questioned that 10000, 900 human
beings are now starving in the famine
stricken provinces Of north China. Imsg-
nation fails TO cope with so gigantic
calamity. The London Times says we
cannot doubt that if the Chinese have /
found their way to America from the /
comparatively prosperous eastern pro-
vinces by thousand, they viii pour forth .
in myriads from the famine stricken dis /
triets of the north as soon as way Is /
opened to them. The Chinese difficulty /
may speedily become a greater menace to |
the future of the United States than the
negro difficulty was at its worst. Negro |
immigration was never voluntary, and
ceased with the abolition of the slave
trade, while If the Chinese tide begins to
iow IN force, it is difficult 10 see where
md when it will stop.
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How Indians Hunt Buffalo.

The commandant of a post generally
gives the Indians under his control per-
mission to go on a buffalo hunt ABOUT
twice a year. A party from two nun
dred to three hundred is allowed 70 90
out at once, and may be out from thirty
to ninety days, being, during that tlme'
accompanied by two or three SOLDIERS
from the garrison. The party IS dlVioeo
and the herd is surrounded, the circuit
being about half mile in diameter.
When about half way around the
signal is given to charge, ana tne
bucks commence to ply their arrows.
The excited buffaloes run backward
and forward, until probably one-nlth
of them is killed, when the nunt
is temporarily over, at least. Inc
souaws have, in the meantime come
along and picked up their huspauus
clothing, and follow after TO complete
the work of the chase. The bueK, K,naVlne
shot his buffalo, rushes forward 70 pass
the animal over, so that he will NOT TAI
on the side which the arrow has pierced
and break it. He cuts the arrow out o
its place, puts it back in his quiVer' and
then marks the buffalo with his peculiar
brand, which may be cut ID 1ne nos
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THE NEW PoPEs POLICY

What the President Of tho Italian censsnn'sl
Commission Thinks Of Leo XIII
Count D'Assi, president Of the Italian
centennial commission, who is still re-
siding in this city, studying the institu-
tions Of the country and the manners
and customs of the people, being psr
sonally acquainted with the successor pf
Plus X, and belonging to what is knoFu
as the liberal school of italian polities,
his opinions concerning the election g
Cardinal Pecci to the papacy ought 20
be of come interest TO the public st tbs
time. Such opinions he gave yesterday
just after leaving the cathedral, whq
lie had been attending the services
held in oomnieinotstion of the death of
Plus TX.
The count is enthusiastic in expressi0rn
of admiration for the learning, tact sHH
dignity -o-nFsned with the ssr14sssssss s. =
and sterling piety Of Leo XIII. In his
opinion it would have been impossible
for the conclave 10 have made better
choice, and it is probable that it could
not have made any other so good. The
welfare Of the italian people," says
the count, "demands now, more than
ever, that the occupant of the papaf
throne be a man of peace, and
such a man is Leo XIII. AS
some one has said of him, 'he is q happy
medium between Ultramontanism and
Liberalism I regard his election as a
most auspiciOus event for the church and
for Italy. While blessing to his flock
Of over two hundred millions, the choice,
am sure, is highly satisfactory to the
government of King Humbert, between
whom and. the new pontiF predict
there will be no threatening clash of di-
plomacy. His policy has ever been one
of sincerity and love, and by it he has
conquered potentates who would never
have granted the least concession to die
tatorial movements or uncompromIsing
By such a policy all who
know him believe that he viii be guided
as pope, and will be enabled to carry out
all his ecclesiastical measures without
sacrificing right or justice in the slight
est degree. His eminent fitness for the
position was the subject of comment in
Italy years ago, while the extreme Ul-
tramontanisn1 and incorporating spirit
of C5rdi lal Panebisnco caused his best
friends OF church and state to hope that
under such circumstances as those at
present existing in Italy, his aspirations
to the chair of st. Peter would and in
Times have changed,
and Leo XIII. is not only up with the
times, but possessed of extraordinary
powers, which, as ne has given
US every reason to hope, he viii exercise
for the best interests of both church and
state. ~ Philadelphia Times.
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Life of the Fifth Avenue Belle.

What q picture would the life of the
average woraau Of Fifth Avenue. or
Beacon street present to usIf we sh5dld
Law it down without exaggeration on
paper! Her school days over, it is her
habit to walk into the breakfast-room at
nine o'clock, just from her bed, her front
hair twisted over pins or bits of silk.
She lounges, residing the newspaper,
chatting with others as Purposeless SIS
herself, warming her feet or gazing out Of
the window, until eleven: then she retires
to arrange her toilet for the evening,
perhaps 70 examine clean clothes from
the wash, er perform some other house
hold duty-duties not to be omitted,
but which the economical woman Zone
who has learned the value of time)
would have completed before the day
began; then she dresses for afternoon
calls, and, list in hand, descends to the
lunch table. Here nearly another hour
fades away before she begins her after
noon round, fitting from house to house,
cheerfully chatting of the Shaughraun,
Nilsson, Kellogg--of everything, in short,
which concerns the shows of lite, but
careful as one walking over pitfalls to
avoid every object of vital interest either
to herself or Others. Then, she visits, or,
drive ended, she hurries home in season
to dress for dinner, and go somewhere
afterward, as if to exhaust to the LAST
drop her own vital strength and the
hours of the day. This little record is
not overdrawn. With certain modifica-
tions, this is the substance of the life of
wives and daughters of well-to-do mer-
chants in our cities. These days are
varied by certain mornings given to
music and others TO painting. But how
small the average of those who achieve
anything worth doing A man to be q
painter must not paint with half his
mind The same law holds good for the
women.
Let every woman apply to her own
life the doctrine of selection. The man
is bred TO this. What is your son going
to be parents are asked, and boys in the
public school confide to each other the
profession Of their choice. No one ssks
the girl what is to be her employment,
what is she preparing for. The days OF
her pleasant school lite glide by, one after
another; frequently no accurate scholar
ship has been required of her and when
the routine stops, she is without rudder
and without aim.
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wOman'sNeed Of Mental Exercise


We have heard great deal Of late Of
the danger to women's health of over
mental strain or intellectual labor.
don't say there is never danger in this
direction, that girls never Study too.
much or too early, or that ;the
the daughters of women who have never
used their brains may not have inherited
ETHER colt and tender organs of cogita-
ion to start with. / am to enthusiastic
for excessive book learning for eitner
Women or men, though in books read and
bolxs written have found some of the
chiei pleasures of a happy life. Per-
haps II it were py duty to supervise the
educatio. of girls should be rather in
clined to sy, like the hero Locksley
hall -
They shall ries and they shall run.
leap thtrainbOws Of the brooks.
Not with blinded ey'sight poring over miserable
But Of one thingT am sure, and that
is, that for one womai whose health is
injured by excessive study (that IS, by
study itself, not the banebql anxiety of
examinations superadded to study,
there are hundreds whose health are
deteriorsted by want of wholesome
mental exercise. Sometimes the vacuity
in the brains Of girls simply leaves them
dull and spiritless. Mere often into
those swept and empty chambers of their
skulls enter many small imps of evil
omen. " The exercise of the intellectual
powers" says an able lady MD, "is
the best means of preventing and coun-
teracting an undue development Of the
emotional nature. The extIavagances Of
imagination and feeling engendered in an
idle brain have much to DO with the
i'll health of girls" Another observer,
an eminent teacher, Gays, 4 sm per
suaded, and my experience has been
confirmed by experienced physicians,
that the want of wholesome oc-
cupation lies at the root Of the
languid debility, OF which we hear 80
much, after girls have left school" And
another, the principal of one Of the lar
gest collegesIor women in England, adds
I" There is no doubt whatever that sound
study is an eminent advantage to young
wemen's health; provided, of course,
that the general laws OF health be attend~
ed 70 at the same time"
Let women have larger interests and
nobler pursuits, and their affections will
become, not less strong and deep, but less
sickly, less craving for demonstrstive ten
derness in return, less variable in their
manifestations. Let women have sound~
ar Htal-esaItIsre, and their emotions--sO
long exclusively fostered-will return 10
the calmness of health, and we shall hear
no more Of the intermittent feverish
spirits, the causeless depressions, and all
the long train of symptoms which belong
to Protean formed hysteria and open the
way to madness on one side and sin on
the other.-C Frances Power Cobbe.
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Salmon IN the Mississippi.

These fishermen are phlegmatic fell
lows, and, while they wondered, said
nothing about il, but left 1t to chance 70
come TO light. There they we're, fat,
shining salmon, sPlashing and gasping
hard for breath, on the fish dealers
tables in Beal street market yesterday
afternoon, evidently fresh from their
native element.
Why, where did you get these sal
mon ?' asked the passing buyer with
wonder.
"Out of the river. Buy some, sir p
as ceony as though salmon, not cats,
were the natural piscatorial inhabitants
of our muddy river.
What river, man"
"Miss'ippi, of cose jes over by the
bar there"
"Many of them7"
"L,ots. Buy some, sir7 How do you
like this fellowY Noteven dead yet you
see sir"
There is but one explanation OF the
presence of these fish of northern waters
in the great mud river. Two years
ago the planting of fish eggs IN iore'g1
rivers was given great attention. anu
congress made a small aPproPnA1lOn
for the stocking of rivers as an ehPeI--
ment Several hundred thousand egg
were brought here and placed IN W. ~
river near Wolf rivers mouth NJ "
W. Mcdowell footing the eapeS y I.
The result, long since desPailso ~. :. .;tv
seen now in the fine fish sofa ~, - ~ !. ob.
markets. The theory, founded - S..nru
servation, is that fish wal. A'.a' = .nawn;
to their place Of incubsuon = .bIs rsa-
hence the pressnee Of salmon .. :, NUMBER.
son at this point IN sgcn y .',s5t 's should or
1,,ca ILL., ~ furthey attempts VA "a desirable
Miss Nf;ssissippi river with new ~ -"
f;sh.-I Memphis Avai'non'
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without the Porte's consent, and that the
chances of Austria's going to war are
smaller than ever.
The Russian and Turkish lines 1T San
stefano ere separated by the little river
Karasu. Russian and Turkish sentries
stand at either end of bridge one hun
dred feet long. Officers and men of the
two armies fraternize in a most remark
able manner. Raouf Pasha, minister of
war, has thanked Grand Duke Nicholas
tor the excellence Of his arrangements.
Crowds of visitors and petty traders
from Constantinople are seen in the Rus
sian camp daily.
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Niagara Falls Wearing Away.

The approaching disappearance Of Nj
agara Falls announced. A correspond
snt, protesting to write :froni the Falls,
saws: "The theory that has for some
time been discussed with regard to the
caving in, or wearing away of Niagara,
has this season found new fuel to add
to the argument in its favor. Consid-
erable comment has been going the
round of the leading gpapersw.ithr relation
to the changed appearance Of the Falls
from that OF last year. The Horseshoe
has evidently given way some thirty feet
in that part Of the cone where the
green water is seen, 50 that the horse
shoe appearance is metamorphosed to
that of a triangular shape. 1t is
thought that about one hundred and
fifty tons of rock must have
fallen in the Horseshoe alone,
and old habitues are taking landmarks
to notice the recession that may take
place before another year. The American
fall has evidently given way at points to
a considerable extent. There is no doubt
but that Niagara Falls is crumbling
away and falling back, but the present
recession is probably the greatest wit
messed by any one generation. The heavy
ce-6elds which pass over it in the
spring, the strong current and ceaseless
wear and tear of time, and the mighty
laundering cataract, must inevitably tell
heavily upon the rocky crest Of the
grand old shrine; but of course its falling
away must be so slow as not to be
observable to the eye, except when, from
time to time, some of the immense
boulders give way"
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The War in the East.

Russia announces that she wsuld i'm
mediately occupy Belgrade in the event
of hostilities with Austria.
A Vienna dispatch states that negotia.
tions are proceeding between Russia and
Servia, the object of which is to allow
Russia to occupy Belgrade if conflict
with Austria should become inevitabJx
Latest telegraphic advices from vi.
emma say that the Russians are still bent
on occupying Constantinople, with or
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horse, and vigorously pushed With my
feet against the carcass of the wretched
animal, which rolled down into the
abyss. I then arose, and cleared at
few bounds the distance which separated
the place where was FROM the plain
and under the irresistible reaction of the
terror which had 50 long repressed, I
sank in swoon upon the ground. When
I reopened my eyes the colonel was by
my aide.