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The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
A Diver in the Clutches OF a
Devil Fish.

The diver engaged at the Moyne
river, Belfast, in removing the reef had
rather narrow escape from losing his
life on Thursday evening. 9TH instant
1t appears that Mr.. Smale had fred off a
charge ofdynamite and displaced large
quantity of stones at the bottom of the
river. He went down to prepare for
lifting these stones by the aid OF chains
into the punt. While engaged in rolling
a large stone he saw something which he
supposed at the time was q piece OF
cleAn-lookirg kelp moving about in front
Of where he was working In a few
seconds this object came in csntact with
the divers arm, about which it quickly
coiled, partly holding him. Immedi-
ately Mr.. Smsle touched what was coiled
round his arm he became aware OF bis
position, and tried to extricate himself
from the grasp of sea-devil," but
found it far more difficult job than ne
anticipated. Catching hold of the part
hanging from the arm he walked along
the bottom of the river toward The emo
of it, when he saw he was firmly held Dy
one of the feelers OF large octopus
better known among sailors as the
devil-fsh." Mr.. Smale tried TO pull
the fish off from its hold on the rocks
! but without effect for some time. al
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
snaiIs as an Article of Food.

Snails abound in Italy, Spain, France
and Belgium; they are also found in
large quantities in Algeria, and most
other points along the shores of the Med
iterranean.
In Italy snails anciently were and are
still much used for the table. They are
regularly sold in the markets of Switzer-
land. Spain, France, Belgium and Alge-
ria. and are exported alive in barrels TO
the French Antilles, and occasionally
even to the United States, where they
are relished only by the real "connois-
seur."
In the vineyards of France, the peas
ants collect, feed and fatten them till
winter, when the snails seal themselves
up in their shells, where they remain
torpid several months. In this state
they are purchased by the confectioners,
who prepare them in the shell, with but
ter and herbs, and forward them to
Paris. They are then ready for table,
after being heated in an oven for a few
minutes.
In Belgium the snails are fed on let
tuce under inverted fiewer-pots, for sew
eraI weeks before being sent to market.
Their price varies from fifty cents to one
dollar hundred.
In Transylvania the large wood snail
is tavorite dish. The animal is drawn
out Of its she'll, well rubbed in clean
cloth, to take of the slime, cut small
mixed with savory stufing, replaced in
its she'll, baked in the stove oven, and
served up hot. In some parts of the
country, instead of eggs and fowl, the
peasants pay their tribute in snails and
game. Mr.. Page states one lady'I
ordinary winter supply as being upwart
of 5000 snails.
We have occasionally seen imported
snails served up in the shell, at restau
rants in New York, and have watchee
foreign looking customers who seemed
10 relish the meal. These snails ar
brought to this country by the steamer
OF the Hsvre line during the winter
months.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
A True Man.

William Welsh, the brother of the
present minister to England, had a ma
tional reputation for benevolence and
integrity. He was chosen president OF
the Indian commission, from the reliance
which the country placed In his in
vincible honesty. He said once 10 a
young man, at your age, birth, posi-
ton and wealth appear enduring things;
but at mine, man sees that nothing
lasts but character"
There are few men whose character
exerts 80 sharp and powerful an effect
upon those with whom they come In
contact as did that of Mr.. Welsh. He
was tall, soldierly old man, whose
white hair and courtly bearing alone
would have inspired respect; but there
was a force Of truth in the keen eye and
simple, direct speech, which made It
very embarrassing for a corrupt man TO
endeavor TO deceive him.
The city Of Philadelphia holds In trust
certain charities, the income Of which
amounts to several millions of dollars
annually. Tho management of these
vast sums is confided to board Of men
selected for their unimpeachable honor.
OF these Mr.. Welsh was chairman A
few years ago, three of the most power
full political ringleaders in that city
maneuvered themselves into the board
for the worst purposes. They had great
wealth and unlimited political influence
"What Is to be done, Mr.. Welsh =, ne
was asked, Oh the day after their election
" They viii rob while you are looking
at them. Nobody win dare hint sn''
picion," ,lr
90. we win deal with them pleasantly
pleasantly" said the old gen''enA"
calmly. - The
The hoard met an hour later 40
newcomers ,vere in their places.
centlomen,D said the vene''o.- ".
Chairman. IL the gentIest Of voice. 4. - ~
eve full upon them, cit is - "en
ss.n1,Iv A. once that we know you -
,'a.~ s'~n svhv Won are here. twill y
cea.arv for you to leave your u'.-, .-..S ..r
outside of this board. no VI,
stsaliuo viii be permitted Y
assn,, ~;,l ,,osg procsed to budneas "A nM
wilIn0w LII p', pav,,s,. I, sre absolutely .''s
The men .''s;Is Ns'u sbsy rsn..I'.
hoard condscted tbe1s' ~. ~
--.i,,,u homer Sesgt J ns''
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
Russian Progress.

| The empire of Russia is nsw passing
through a mighty religion and educa-
tional change. The present metropolite
was appointed by the czar because of
his liberal views on religious liberation.
For the first time in the history of the
empire, foreign princess marrying in
the imperial family has been permitted
to retain the religion in which she was
educated. When the Grand Duchess
Maria, of Mecklenburg, was married 10
the Grand Duke Vladimir, her Lutheran
pastor performed, on her part, the mar
rage ceremonies in the winter palace.
More recently the emperor has granted
permission to the agents of the British
and foreign bible society, TO circulate
the holy scriptures throughout the
empire. The common mind of Russia
ia 70 be educated. The emperor has
ordered the reorganization Of the dis
trict schools. The standard of learning
has been raised. Education is now COM
pulsory among the children of the cos
sacks. Free public lectures are now
delivered for the benefit of the masses.
A female gymnasium has been estab-
lished in Moscow. Reading rooms.
scientific museums, and universities are
now open to all in st. Petersburg; and
ten millions in gold are annually ex-
pended for the advancement of educP1
tion.
With single bound Russis mas
cleared a whole century Of Efopean
progress. The spirit Of bett% civlliza-
ton has takes possessiopof the body
Doli+;c The emperor the most en-
Iiqhtened she most<iberai, the most
ss.o-s1sovereigpS1n Europe. He has
rtl< ecii, s<alA nioSa rcznssns W DC
accomplished. He has resolved on the
reformation of the clergy, difficult but
necessary task. He is developing the
vast internal resources of his dominions,
by which he hopes to render Russia
crest and Independent. He Gloves peace
and hates war. But with him an honor
able war is preferable to an inglorious
peace. He could no longer consent to
be excluded from the Black sea, but
demands for his naval marine access
TO the Mediterranean through tho
Bospborus. He is now doing single
handed and alone what the great powers
should do in combination; he is fighting
for the religious freedom Of the Sclavi OF
the Danubian principahties. He is
aiming at the overthrow of stupendous
religious imposture; the disruption Of
an empire founded on lie, and perpetu-
ated by fraud and violence; and the
emancipation of twenty-three millions
of Europeans and Asiatics who are kept
poor ignorant, and superstitious, by an
intolerant hcentious, aud selfish aristoc-
racv. Any rule is better than Turkish
rnle. To witness the despotism of that
rule you must 60 beyond Constantinople;
You must penetrate the interior, where
foreign influence is not protection. If,
in her war against the sultan, Russia
seeks for additional territory, this Is
lesser evil than the perpetuity of a gov
ernment without justice and without
roorcv--TNational Repository.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
Elephants Piling Timber.

The highly trained male elephants
with tusks manage the pushing part of
their work very skilfully. The trunk
is used as pad or buffer between the
ivory and the wood, and the pushing is
done steadily. An average log weighs
about ton and half. When it has to
be pushed into the river, the elephant
feels the end of it with his trunk; and
having ascertsined where he can place
his tusks with most advantage, he
adjusts the buffer and starts of, pushing
the log steadily before him. Should it
happen to be an extra heavy one, he
stops occasionally to take breath and as
it slides down the muddy bank toward
the water, he gives it finishing slap, as
if to say, "There, you're afoat at last p
Sometimes the logs are awkardly
lammed up together, so that the ends
have to be raised in order to get the
dragging chains fastened. This he does
BY putting his tusks underneath and
passing his trunk over the log to keep
it steady, lifts it up to the required
height. When it is q very heavy lift,
he win go down on his knees to get q
better purchase. He stacks the timber
most skilfully, also, by lifting the end
OF the log as much as nine or ten feet in
this manner, places it on the top of the
pile, then goes to the other end and
pushes it forward till he gets it quiet
flush with the rest. In all this he is of
course directed by his rider the mahout,
who uses certain werds which the ele-
phant has been accustomed to hear, and
signs the meaning of which he knows
perfectly. A push OF the foot behind
the right or left ear makes him answer
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
The Parlor.

A parlor ought not to be Uttered with
trifes Better few good and not costly
pictures, such as engravings, or Braun's
autotypes of celebrated paintings, in
inexpensive frames; ornaments sparingly
used, but beautiful in themselves and
from association very few thirty
plants, not TOO delicate, but those that
will give plenty of flowers and will not
require all the sunshine best Of all, good
books in plain cases. Leave space for
the new volume and magazine upon the
table, and for the bright evening lamp /;
space upon the floor for the children's
toys, and for themselves to frolic; and
let not even the honest dog or the gentle
tears. Self reproaeh. All was forgiven.
That night Liszt played at her csncert
and she consequently became rich. The
moral of this juts out like bay window.
The weakest point in every man is
where he thinks himself the wisest.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
TURNING GRAY.

LIES sands are running fast away;
The buoyant step ef youth is gone,
The falling hair Is turning gray,
And Time seems now TO hurry On
More heeDY than In days of yOre-
Before the heart became its prey
Before twas saddened 10 the core
Yes, turning grayi Age comes like snow
As stili-gnd caTves each cGTeworn line
It's wrinkles on the brow will grow;
The hair With silver streaks will shine;
The eyes their brightness lose, the hand
Grow dry and tIemulOus and thin -
For life, alas is quickly spanned.
And Death its gates soon closes in.
Al turning gray We isin would hide,
The sign how iOog with Time we've been
These deepened wrinkles side by side,
Cut by the 8orroWs we have seen
For feeble heats the heart as years
More thiekly cluster on cur hend-
As Autumn rain-drops hang like teaTs
On some fair TioWer that nearly 2eai.
Like perished petals from the flower,
Our hopes and widest joys are laid
Burn only for a day CT hour,
Sweet gambOls by the fancy played,
As age. comes on, we long for rest,
As saints near Ehrines wia long TO pray.
Put stlil we love that time the bsst
Before the hair Is turning gray.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
-Self-Respect.

Always remember no one can debsse
yeu but yourself. Slander, satire, false-
hood, injustice--these can never rob you
of your manhood. Men may lie about
you, they may denounce you, they nav
cherish suspicious manifold, they nav
make your failings the target Of their
wit or cruelty; never be alarmed never
swerve an inch from the line your JUDI,
ment and conscience have marked ont
for you. They cannot by all their efforts
take away your knowledge of yourself
the purity Of your motives, the intecritv
of your character and the generosity Of
your nature. While these are left, Won
are, in point of fact, unhaTmed.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

last the ilsh, perhaps thinking it had not
got suincient hold or power upon its
prey iposensd itself from the stones and
qulekly transferred its feelers or arms
arouad the Divers legs and body. In
thispesitien Mr.. Smale thought the best
thing ioT him to do was to get upon deck
as son as possible, and he quickly made
tracks for the ladder which reached from
thedeck OF the punt TO the bottom of the
river The diver was certainly a curious
loOkirs object when he came up. This
bage. leiy-looking thing appeared to be
enlgnt ledall over him, holding him in a
fi1n embrace. However, Mr.. smale's
foaoes' Eorkmen we're not long in freeing
hip 8 a the unfriendly hug of his sub
nisrin companion. The body portion
efthe octopus was only about the size of
ahre soup-pIate, with eyes in its head
lie sbse Of sheep but it possessed nine
aans, zach about four feet in length, at
te butt aa' thick as mans wrist, taper
~ he end to as fine point as
l531lsknife; thus It could spread
9veE.An area OF nine feet in diameter
All the way along the underneath part
Of each feeler are suckers every quarter
Of an inch, giving immense power. Mr..
Smale declares it was powerful enough
to keep three men under water War;
nambaol (Australia) Standard.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

..One of the most remarkable things
in human nature, however, is this will
iDgness of women to sacrifice girls life
for the chance of saving the morals of
a scapegrace man. If pious mother can
only marry her son Beelzsbub to some
good, religious girl, )" the chance of his
reformation is greatly increased. The
girl is neither here nor there, when enc
considers the necessity of saving dear
Beelzebub.--[ Edward Eggleston.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

An anecdote of List Is told. A
poor young girl advertised herself as q
pupil of the great master, and brought
large audiences to her piano concerts.
One day she was confronted by Liszt
himself. A confession followed. Much
cat be banished lest they break or mar
some frail piece of fancy-work. So shall
we he kept from the worry and care OF
too many treasures, and find time for
reading. for study, for play with the little
ones, and, perhaps for practicing at times
the almost lost art of sewing
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

Unreasonable haste IA the road to
error.
1t Is easier TO believe an i'll report
than to inquire into the truth thereof.
To extol ones own virtue is to make
vice of it.
Too much sensibility is the foppery
Of modern refinement.
Show may be purchased; bat hap
pinesa is home made article.
"A wise man seeks to shine in him
self; fool, to outshine others.
=" Sweet lipsD is the luscious name
of a postofice in Tennessee, established
last week.
Excess of ceremony shows want of
breeding; that civiIity is best which
excludes useless formality.
Let young men be patient in their
wooing, for a maiden's love may be
cold on her lips yet warm in her heart.
Look out for the man who makes
liberal use of the personal pronoun "I"
in conversation, for the chances are that
he is liar.
There is somewhere q fool key 70
your friends nature, aud If you can find
it you can make him dance to any tune
you may whistle.
The large number of people who
own the snuff box that once belonged 70
Thomas Jefferson will learn with sorrow
that Thomas never carried snuff box.
-" Jennie, what makes you such a
bad girl ?" Well mamma, God sent
you just the best children he could find,
and if they don't sit you, can't help
it,"
He that does good to another man
also does it to himself, not only in the
consequence, bufin the very act of doing
it, for the consciousness Of well doing is
an ample rewsd.
If you wluld be exempt from un-
easiness, do yothing which you know or
suspect Is Wong. And If you wish 10
enjoy the Jurest pleasure, do whatever is
in your JSwer chat is right.
Tyre is no such thing as poslbu-
mouycharity. There may be equity, or
pra5riety, in last designation Of earthly
,5ods, but in real or intrinsic generosity
)or beneYolence there is not.
1t is not worth while TO think too
much about doing good. Doing the best
that we know, minute by minute and
hour by hour, we insensibly grow 10
goodness as fruit grows TO ripeness.
"A boy with a patch on his knee
can't be hired to go on an errand TO the
next house, but be wiz follow a band
! VII s1n slt uytir -rsyn ssi.' ssexrs t'''A,.'.'
that he isn't dressed in broadcloth.
An exchange asks: Where il our
boasted yirtue2" The question is easily
answered. You can find heaps Of it IN
every patent medicine manufactured.
There is where it is gone. See advertise-
ment.
Every man of sense and refinement
adnaires a woman as a woman, and when
she steps ont of this character, a thou
sand things that in their appropriate
sphere would be admired. become dis
gusting and offensive. The appropriate
character Of a woman demands delicacy,
of appearance and manners, refinement
of sentiment, gentleness Of speech,
modesty in feeling and action, shrink
ing from notoriety and public gaze,
aversion to all that is coarse and rude,
and an instructive adherence Of all that
tends to indelicacy and impurity, either
in principle or action. These are the
traits which are admired and sought for
in a woman.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

emperor of France. Can / say these
great divines and these great men of
England in this group have but a
moment ago left are shsping themselves
to meet the age or mould it9
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

The wisest of men is he who h.
most complaisance for others.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21
WAITS AND wnrms.


The House that Stewart Built
This Is the hoaIs that Stewart tullt.
This Is the maid that went 20 board
And do Whate'sr abe could toward
The lame OF the house that Stewart buut.
This Il the man All brazsn and shorn,
That Ogied the maid who every morn
Looked 0utfrofo the house that Stewart built.
This r. the Judge. who said, 90. mol
These things can't be the viii Il %
That you must drop this chap or 20
Right cut Of tns house that Stewart built.
This f. the maid, and this Is the man;
They are getting away ~ fast as they oan-
like the Eve of old and Adam, they ran
From out Of the house that Stewart built.
II
This u the bar With the gaudy glass,
And none but males are allowed % pass
Where vester q Lifted the chirrupy lass
That minced Ia the house that Stewart built,
-lCourier-J0urnai.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

This Is the man All brazsn and shorn,
That Ogled the maid who every morn
Looked out fr0f1 the house that Stewart built.
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

This Is the maid that went 20 board.
And do Whate'sr ahe could toward
The lame OF the house that Stewart buul
The Hickman courier., 1878-06-21

This is the hou'' that stewart hula
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iiberlieB? Ssur3 mad 0alIaue'S Sobe trat
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qrelIe nit aler Artoritdt su Iagen, baB biz
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! nit benz 3ujamnentrttte beS &ongreiieS IN
f! Berlin; baB Der burf Yerbaftungen in gan,
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bic YreBreptilien erregten Stanbpolfen nul
@ahlman1Yer iinO, nm einen Reitstag au'
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aufsu5mlnsen.
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aI,td, ei,, Mtfentats.Gp Gp,,plpt.

llnlere QSehielbldtter baben pi6blld baS
Girfular Der Deutih h=Nmerifaner an ibre oentz
ihen Briber i'm alien GaterlanSe bonn WfdrS
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Grmorbuns Der beutihen 0iiriten seieet wa=
rem unb snar fir bic &erttlgung bes Ditreihis
i4en &ailers 10000 @ulben, fiir bic Bertil~
gnna bes YreuBeufoniss $4,000 @uloen, fir
Die Sertiigung trgenb etnes anoeren &DnigS,
9er5oSs ooer 8uriiiriten $1,000 @ulben, fir
ben &opf bes semeinen 9enfers @inbiid, ,@rdt
10000 @nibeu. = Sn benz @irfulare beiBt es
bann ueiter: rg8ir slauben, bieie NaBregel
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bie5er Waieltdten BON benz VOlfe einft BODICE.
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