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

EVERYTHING is bitter ID him who hsi
gall in his mouth.
HEAVEN lies about u IN our inian-
cy," and we do our lying for ourselves
when we get older.
A CUBIC foot OF standard gold ID worth
$292, 500. A cubic foot Ol standard sil-
yer is worth $l0,S9l.
THERE is no disgrace in being poor
the thing is TO keep it quiet, and not LET
your neighbor know anything about r.
CALIFORNIA is now shipping her honey
direct to Germany and taking Linz
burger cheese in exchange. Sweets 70
the strong.
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and a widow to the widoWless."
"Ir will come" said candidate for
Mayor of st. Louis the other day, while
making a stump speech, ''iust as sure IS
it was that Romeo founded Rome"
If you were to offer ten thousand
dollars for a sewing machine that did n'b
take the first premium 1t the Paris ex
position, we don't suppose you could gef
one.
The Nation thinks that n part Of tlio
drill of every girls school ought To be
the reception by wiio in an Old gown
to dinner of corned beef aud cabbaee
of an unlOoked-for guest, thoughtlessly
brought home by reckless husband.
EDITORS like brevity, but man who
was recently hung in Indiana suited
them too well. He made no remarks
about heaven, but nodded to the preach
or and said, "Pll see you later" and
then the trap fell.
A DYING man in Burlington crawiei
out of his bed, dragged himself to the
rocking-chair, pulled the tidy down,
rolled It up and sat uFOn II, and died
with sweet smile OF triumph Lighting
up his face.-Haaokeye.
"IT seems to me, said a customer 10
his barber, " that in these hard tlIaes
you ought to lower your prices Tor shay.
ing" Can't do It," replied the bar-
Der. " Nowadays every body wears such
a long face that we have a great deal
of surface TO shave over"
TnE melancholy days have come,
The taddest Of the year
When taxes reach maturity
And myriad bills appear
When irosts from norihon latiiuaea
Upon the broez1G float.
And sighs the editor 20 think
he has no OYoTcoat.
"LET us no longer cling to the old
FORMS" says the Aatioa. Shake, You
staid old monument OF superior respect
ability, shake were with you. Bung
us some forms ranging from sixteen %
nineteen wears old 10 cling 20. But We
are surprised to hear the Nation propose
such a thing.-HalCbeye
"PM n touch cuss from Bitter Greek"
4 I.rsf NsIlf IrIr
desperado TO inform everybody that he
is "on the fight. Farther cast mo
corresponding member of society says
" Pm a wolf, and this is my time g.
howl" In Kentucky he says, tm o
yard vide, and All Wool
A YOUNG clergyman, whose maiden
sisters were " awiully E0t against his
entering the marital stste, kicked over
the traces and got married. lie then
sent friend to break the news gently
to the girls, with instructions to open
the negotiations by saying that he was
dead, and then gently work up % tho
real fact.
A New HAVEN policeman has de-
vised new kind Of policeman'a club.
The invention consists Of q brass cover
ing TO an ordinary club, attached 70 il
by springs and cOlored 10 resemble rose
wood. If a rough should seize II, he
would only get the brass cover leaving
the policeman ample opportunity 10
WELD the club itself.
A PERSIAN populace is not Ike q
European one. In Europe a monarch
returning to his people after lengthy
voyage, would be received by lsud acr
clamations of JOY and welcome, bl1
when the Shah recently landed IN ms
own denninions, on his Ieturn from his
European tour, the people OF the towns
through which he passed merely boEeA
down their headsiD silence.