The Hickman courier., 1878-09-13
PASSING SMILES.


IFaman says 1 haven't saw, ,,,,r3er. ~
from Philadelphia .--Lo"tss,t..s soS~ y
Journal And if he says ! qsaS qonS
he Is from Louisville GfdPn'fg -
SOME clothing was stolen LeCs1T,ii ass lTei.
from the Office of the New Lonuon n. +ak-
sorgm. The editor must have peen p9t,'nusi1> IN;
ing a bath at that time.--IIo''''e'''''''
NAN. who calls himself a hunter,
sbot a deer in the Adirondacks the olne,
dav. He subsequently STOOD oseI 49,,
farmers dead horse and sneiieu O
s5O.-Norlcich Bulletin.
By an accident at a Cape Nay iod ho.si
an empty champagne bottle was 'l"9Ie a.
81 q gnesf's liable. Turning, 10 Ine
waiter he said. - did not order ~
tra Drv5D The waiter saw lhrous"
-Philadelphid Butlettn.
THERE is a young woman III binlla2
New York. with hair thirty-nlne inonee
long. If she was only a man; 49,
superb corn doctor she woulo MAJ maSe'
All a man needs to make htin PiOiS
sional chiropodist is long hair
rupRr, is no pacnic ant, however lowiy
r,. M &C., hs LARGEST man up grandly, slowly
when II zoe browsing up his trousers reg
There ,s TO little bee however humble, .,,.-.
,,, "a, ~ r rredding with his tiny humble
Made great men Writhe ana ,,.l.a now B,,riege
swore.
SIDNEY SMITH condemn Wnat ne
calls the foppery OF unlFeIsali'y '3i
knowing all sciences and exc liing 10 ar
/ arts" "Now, my advice, ne sass' o. -,
the contrary, il % have the coe'@tS -
be ignorant OF great numhet % sia.;sy ~,
in order to. avoid the ca.auiily % D0'''h
ignorant of everything.
uYot- want TO brake on this road, 90
o,5 Well. YOU can So. down there
We have no vacancy just at present =
hut we kill about two brakemen oayg
.)r ia. .isis "a ,putes 80.
Fhear sfs0rne one l0SlpKfa 1sIiI'sf Z 80
! and then yon can have the Job. ne
man tfsoeaht he wouldn't wait
] "Dooror, ,2hat do you think is tie
matter with my little boyY Why
! it's only curruitifed exegesis anti
= spasmodically emanating from the germ
Of the animal refrigerator producing a
prolific source Of irri'ability in the per-
icranial epidermis of the mental pro-
, funditv." q" Ali that's what ! told
Betsy, but she lowed it WAS wurrums.
THE man who turns his wages over to
his wife every week is pretty near q
Mormon. He's q Saturday Saint al least.
-ReokuL Constitution. The man who
trusts his wife sufficiently 10 do this,
has a safer bank than any savings bank
IN the land and preserves himself from
the devil and the whisky bottle. There's
truth, wit and poetry om0ined in this.
--Brcaktaa Table.
a CHICAGO clergyman was aroused at
midnight last week TO 60 and pray by
the bedside Of a dying man. On ascer-
tanning that the unfortunate being was
a director in gas company, he said 10
the messenger: Well, I don't know
that there il any use in my going; ltll
Just be a waste of good praying; still, J
suppose. it's my duty" and reluctantly
accompanied him.
IT Is never best TO be in TOO much OK
hurry. A young woman at Madison
Vile. XIV, who married an old man Tor
his money, lost all hope after two years
of welded life, and went hence with q
rome around her neck. Immediately
after the funeral the old gentleman died
of apoplexv. She could have raked III
the pile by waiting q couple OF days
longer-Breqktas Table
THE ARROW AND THE SONG.
shot an arrow into q air.
For so swiftly q few, the ght
Could not follow % 90 its hi ht.
breathed a song into the cir,
Itf.ll 20 ear D.. ] knew moi Hheres
Tor who has sight 20 keen and strong
That u can follow he hight ~ songf
Long long afterward. in an oak
/ found the arrow, stI unu nurokei
And the song. from beginning 90 end
/ found agin in the heart Of q Trend.
THERE il a gentleman named John
w. Dooly. who lives near Braggyille,
Jasper County, who not only runs a
large plantation there, but is a natural
horn poet Of 10 mean pretensions. A.
q proof of this, a tenant, by the name oil
Mike Horn, called upon him recently ior
an order on a Mr.. Pease, grocer, io,I
and without ifitethfnss ft fs y sss - aip ipJe,iei.
rapidly wrote Mr. Pease, il you please
let Mr.. Horn have bushel Of corn.
Charge the amount 10 my account, ana
in the fall I'll pay you ALL Yours trolyj
John w. Dooly."
AT one of the Whitehall Sunday
schools a teacher was instructing her
class about the prophets. She finally
put the question, "Why don't We have
the prophets now?' and asked the boy
who could answer it 10 hold up bis right
hand. A little hand of a siX-year old
oy quickly went up. Well, my little
man, why is il we do not have prophets
now % " Because, ma am, my papa says
that the times are so hard, and 80 many
men have gone into selling goods, that
profits are knocked higher'n Gilderoy's
kite" The lad was Immediately pre-
sented with a gum-drop, and tod 10 go
out and play Whitehall TiDlcs.
WHEN a man enters the post-oiice,
and sees a woman standing at the de-
livery, he braces up, smiles, and con-
cludes to wait patiently few moments.
If there are two women there, he sneaks
up behind them and tries 10 wink TO
the clerk 70 get his mail. But twhen one
Of the women enters into conversation
with the official as to the reasons why
the magazine has not come, and how
long before it will be here, and If he is
sure he looked in the right box, the cit
izen Jams his hat down over his eyes
and rides out of the pOst-ofiice lobby
in q way that would do credit 10 pro-
fessional pedestrian. The next day he
negotiates for a lock-box.-Rome Sen
tiRei.