The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-12-27
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I,rpoliticians.hsd the dame anoss.,,
ambition to be honest a. the avss.i
small boy mas 70 become cuve pitcher
the country would be safe. FifT'P'
GIVE the average American giyl H..
choice between going to- heaven. ana .,''s
marrying into the nobility, aud sec No.
few charms heaven has for her. \ ''sf'
ONE Of the saddest and nlost vexati.,.-
trials that comes to a girl W en- sbe nsr-
ries Is that she has to discharge her moth.
er and depend upon hired GIRL
Hawkeye. s------
81 AN inclined to believe" said a tcp
to lady who had refused 70 sing, 2 YOU
are fishing for cemphmeDts.p "Oh. no
replied she, 81 never fish in 80 shallow a
stream" ,. ~.
In New Mexico the colors os the
grains OF corn are numerousZblue, yei--
low, white and even black. Blue pre-.
dominates and Is most esteemed BY the
natives for making tortiIla, or corn cake
PHREEoLoGY as a science or sensible
theory, has only one advocate now where
ten years ago ii had a score. When the
wrinkles on a mans feet will tell his age,
then the bumps on dis head will indi-
cate bis talent. .'f.. r,d,-s .rs ~
A PAINTER's apprentice feh off A
scaffold with pot Of paint in each hand.
He was taken up insensible, but rs soon
as he was restored TO consciousness. ne
murmured: vent down with my
flying colors, anyhow
@WHAT have you had to do latelyY',
inquired Bubble of a hard looking speci-.
men who applied for work. "Do? What
have had TO dot Why. I've had to do.
without my regular meals and that's no
small job, answered the man.
MR. and Mrs. Terrell, Of Houston.
theytdecided to legally ad0pJ ner - tlarh
daughter; but, rust as the papers were
ready for signing, Mr.. Terrell made up
his mind that he would prefer her as a
wife--and he eloped with her.
A YOUNG lady of Bluffton, Texas,
writes to a LEGAL paper that she would
like to have a husband twenty-six or
twenty-eight years oid, and who Is
farmer; that ne must know more than
how TO measure q few yards OF calico,
and that no clerks Of any kind need
apply. -... rff
AwRITER in the Fortnightly Review
declares that the only really polite peO-
pie on earth are the heathen japanese.
Inc men never DecOuo angry duu Wotu~
en- and children sre always treated with
gentleness. If laborers accidentally JOS
Tie each other in their work, they bow
and beg pardon OF each other.
WE have ceased 20 envy Beaconsdeld;
he is seventy.thTee years CID II there
is anybody in tho world We do envy, II
is the young gentleman on the other side
of the street, who is making faces and
calling us names. He doesn't 20 70
school has hulled six bushels 0i walnuts
this fall with his bear hands, wears his
fathers vest for an evercOat, is thirteen
years old, and bas eaten eleven apples
since O'Clock this morning Hawkeye.
any dear" / said to fiveyear old
one last night, as she concluded her
prayer at her mammals knee, you have
forgotten to pray for your little cousins.
How did that happen2 Don't you want
your heavenly father 70 take care Of
them ?" She made n motion OF again
bending her knees, yawned sleepily and
tumbled into bed. " Can't help it,
mamma Baby is too tired Horace
and Eddie must scuflle for themselves
ust this one night"