The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26

Detwten the nhst oi-a"--JuiJ an"-h"-ioo hot
-lPunch:
In the midst Of life we are in debt.
Never bother a bee when he is busy.
Red napkins should only be used
with red cloths.
"A soft answer turneth away
wrath" but you can't TOOL tramp that
way.
The weather is favorable for a man
to earn his bread by the sweat Of his
brow.
Somebody has said, "a man devoid
of religion is like a horse without a
bridle."
The evening song of the nightingale
is nice, but the morning lay of the barn
yard fowl is nicer.
Edgar Fawcett wishes that "man
could make love like bird" He does
Edgar, he does; like goose.-[Hawk
eye.
Little green apples nesting amid
apple blossoms and leaves, appeared re-
Gently on the dress of rich California
lady
The time boy begins to think his
mother doesn't know enough to select
his clothing for him is a dangerous period
in his history.
Jonah ought to congratulate himself
on how much safer ne was in the whales
belly than he would have been in an
iron-clad man-of-war.
There was a man in our town who
didn't advertise, thst's why 30 lively
from his store the sherif's flag now flies.
Il Whitehall Times.
"A little urchin being asked, "What
is Rhode Island noted for 7' replied, at
is the only one Of the New England
states which is the smallest"
Love is deaf as we'll as blind. II Lit
wasn't, how could the tendrils Of
woman's affection wind themselves about
the man who talks through his nose
az suppose" said little five-year-
old, in her quiet, thoughtful way, 81
suppose there are men under ground
that push up the flowers, don't you,
mamma?
"A good listener. Enthusiastic young
lady" You are fond Of music, Col
onel ?" Colonel F." Music Aw-yes,
1 think may say like-aw, noise Of
OF any kind I F"
IF you are bent on getting into
quarrel, you will not have 10 search long
for an opportunity. There is a proverb
which runs, ''Who wants TO beat dog
soon finds stick"
If you wish to preserve continual
harmony in your family, the great secret
lies in being sometimes blind TO things
you do not care 10 see and deaf to things
you do not care to hear
Passing the carly radishes at the ho-
tel table, an amiable guest empties them
all into his plate. "Hi, there, you
cries another guest; some Of us like rad
ishes, too" met half 30 much as do"
philosophically replied the first guest.
The Beautiful Blue Danube"
waltzes through 800 miles of country
where one-half the people never change
their shirts, and the other half never
bathe. Tia dumty thum, To deet To
deetl
"A little maid Of some eight or nine
summers, while eating ice-cresm on a
veranda on Chestnut street last evening,
electrified the others similarly engaged
by remarking: " Mercy, how it tickleF
my teethl !"
In the commencement exercises ol
the Western Female High School, In
Baltimore, the Rev. DIR. Wilson prayed
" Oh, God, grant that not one of these
young ladies may be victims of unre-
Quilted love-"
An indignant man who had chased
horse-car a long distance had only
breath enough left to say to the conduc
tor that he "never need fear the fate ol
Lots wife, because he never turned tc
look behind"
"A little Cincinnati girl, when asked
what God had made her for, replied
"To wear a red iedder in my hat" Many
an older person of her sex has, TO all ap
pearances, pretty much the same con
ception of Heavens designs.
The things which the people ar
willing to give us are the things we d.
not want. When Lincoln was sick will
the smallpox he said to his attendant
"Send up the olIice-seekers. At last Pv'
got something for each one of them"
.."Ohl how dreadful" said an 0ls
lady in London, reared in an atmosPher
. of conservative clericalism, when, tn
other day, Mr.. Gladstone was points
out to her at the funeral OF a distin
guished friend " trust he isn't com
n TO make disturbance"
: "A quack in a neighboring village Y
' so proud when patient does not di
v that he takes him out and exhibits him
t the astonished and admiring multituI'
d Of course, his exhibitions are few CON
70 pared with the professions Of bis undel
Ie taker.-[Chester Journal.
70 In Maine a man got too much OF th
. ardent aboard, and was put into a com
a TO sleep off the effects of the liquo
= When he awoke he sprang out In h'
10 haste, exclaiming, "Glory. The renul
: rection morn has ceme, and I'm the tn
,e man on the ground."-[Boston Post
e AT popular store famous iOr y y
C. prompt and polite attention Of -
clerks, a woman of perhaps thirty yea
IN was examining some goods, when you.
of man stepped towards her, and inq11a.. .91n..
ro- s.Is any one waiting upon you w, ','
a what question: I've been mAE'''' n
BIS ten years.
re 1t was little hard on the W, Z.
go he meant well and had sincer' .-- .''.- 4
sd' tion for the girl. They were J. 4'.''. ,.s.s
de the tea-table with a company e \, 60
no aud as be passed Der tho 'us .,.,' Il n|
Is mur. in "a undsrtone ..'.&..l
ad ;,,.t l1ke vou," lle H" .I .