The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-15

Gently tisaccomplished by matchmaker in
PfoVience, r. /. who drilled hole through
the enire length of common pin. from
neaa point, just large enough to admit
the passage of fine hair.
IheRussian leather, so much prized
for duHbility and grateful smell, is prepared
5y the Sc of the essential oil of the birch
tree. hles OF it will lie for a long time in
oshar, oainP sfehouses without spotting or being
other"f injured by mildew.
Act!e opposition to the billiard saloon
Is cohuFe in Oberlin, Ohio. A committee
u "o.le took seats in it every evening
uutli thi proprietor excluded them, and
now twesre constantly on duty on the side
"aiA' shading young men from entering.
Bars pure gold, weighing twenty
ouucSs e@h, have been plOwed up at or
Hto go odo Asgton, n. c., to the value Of some
etV3oOV. - w is supposed 10 be the proceeds
e. q sN'ge robbery committed some forty
metal. NJ
1he American exhibitors at Paris have
ulose s than proportionate share of medals
ahu other awards. Specimens of American
eeai and wheat receive gold medals, and IL
sssssoa tat te ishest apfa paizes asii N
their eos
A Teent calculation says that the de-
mand 70 lumber increases in the United
States a the rate of % per cent. per annum.
beforsts decrease at the rate of 1000, 600
acres a ear. the fences alone are valued
at 81, 80 100000, and they cost each year
SOS, ,0OOo0.
Kauas City, Missouri, expects soon
q b. Bhtad with natural sas. In various
placesround town people who have sunk
artesia wells have struck gas veins AT
NVunntte mill CH -
aonedalt bore that for years has given off
zo.O00eet of gas day.
In ne Armagh Jail, in Ireland; one of
the russ requires the prisoner to lie on a
pAnklnd sleep with his clothes on for the
hFst onth- Judge lately gave a shorter
senteee than he otherwise would on ac-
eoantlt the rule, remarkiDg that he con-
sderel 1t nothing more nor less than tore
t1re.
Muh litigation is likely to grow out
oi themin explosions in Minneapolis. The
iHsuraice companies refuse to pay for the
MaoIe laIaage, on the ground that they are
liable ,nly for the actual loss by fire; but
tas mil owners hold that FIRE caused the
explosion, and that, therefore, the entire
loss was in consequence of fire.
henry Jackson, aged seventeen. took
lOuIger boy out into deep water at Leaven-
westh, Kansas, aud deliberately drowned
ma. The deed seems to have been without
a motive, except to kill somebody. Jackson
says hat he had no ill-wiI toward his vic
TIN bat he had made up his mind that he |
w@ldlike to be hanged as a murderer.
A horrible murder was committed re-
eeitly at Neriad, in India A religious
msdieant and frantic seized boy from
aISng several of his play-fellowsand stabbed |
hn in the throat. The murderer made no |
restance, but calmly told his capturers |
thG the boy was an enemy of his god |
hsaa, and that he was moved by the god TO |
XII him.
here is tradition in the East that |
ontof the tests by which the Queen of |
Shea tried to prove the wisdom of solomon |
vasby placing on 3 table before him two |
boquets, one of natural the other OF art |
hcli flowers, and requiring that he should |
the one from the other; where /
uHn the wisest man ordered the windows /
toe thrown open, and in came the bees.
forty-fye millions of pairs of sewed |
she's and 55,OO0,OOO of pairs of pegged shoes
wee made and sold by the manufacturers /
OF ne United States in 1877, and S5 per |
cen OF the work done on these shoes was
dor by machinery. The uppers are cut out /
by and, simply because of the variable.
nesof the quality of leather in the same
- The -ofe3 are cut out by zEHaasslsIHisssri
- he binding, pasting, closing, crimping,
telling, heeling and polishing are done by
lchiIerY, without the aid OF human
lnds.
The construction of steel-clad turret
ips the next step to be taken by the
htisl admiralty. A vessel protected with
ahi6zness of from fifteen TO twenty inches
ost,el viii be very costly concern, but
itbs effort is TO be continued of making
sbs of war resist eavy shot, recourse
mt be had to steel. At the target tests at
Szzia the 100 ton Armstrong gun belong
into the Italian Government easily sent
piectiles through the heaviest iron plate
I'D; but, though the shot cracked the steel
PIES, there was no penetration.
young lady Of Goa, in Portuguese
liza, has aG opted a novel way to procure
ashland. She has posted at the NUM-
cal Chamber at Margaum sn announce
mt that young lady of eighteen years,
opretty good appearance, and having an
aiual income of 1900 xerafns, wishes to
nfry q man under thirty years of age, who
q command 900 xerahns yearly income;
iaddtion, he should understand the Eng
Ii and Portuguese languages and the met
rhl system OF accounts. On the 25th ult.
s. w01ld pass at noon through the public
seetsOf Margaum with q green umbrella
az a handkerchief OF the same color in
h lefi hand, after which she would receive /
storswith their proposals, and choose one
bm them possessing the stipulated quail