The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-05-17

Afeoouy "a Aun tAho hoNuu WLtu ltH NuHn
u nobody's eaten bis brad irom your store,
Hob0dy'll call you misoriy bore;
u nsbodY's slandere1 you here is our pen
sign yourself g Sobo1Y " 9uieE az you can.
Think Of the lila from which you
are exempt.
"A lawyer, after drawing a convey
ance, said he had worked like hoFse-"
1T is singular how early in life
child gains the reputation Of resembling
the richest and best-looking relations.
Happy is he who makes another man
trust God more than he did before. He
has done a great and influential work in
creation.
..Pephaps il is wrong to go fishing on
Sunday, but if fish are wicked enough TO
bite on Sunday they ought to be made
to suffer for it.
. The man who leaves two-thirds Of
a cigar in dark nook on the front stcop
when he goes TO see his girl, viii make
thrifty husband.
!" Go ont, young man she AZ not
here, said q parn.s vanisl. s,rasnL,ar last
Snnday, In the mids of his sermon. to q.
youth ne saw standing hesitatiDgly in
the doorway.
One may study nature all his life
time and yet never be able TO explain
why the man who misses one step in
going down stairs is certain to miss three
or four more before he brings up.
81 renlem Der. / remember
The fr trees dark and nigh;
used 70 thinK their slender tops
ere close against the sky.
1t was childish Tenor nee,
But now It's little isv
To know IN farther % from heaven
Than when was boy
Mr. Emerson objects to the best ]
ever saw" 81 never heard anything
like it," "My hair stood en- end" and
"my knees smote together" because
such expressions are untrue and exces-
sive.
There are thousands OF ponderous
books, written by learned doctors. on the
means of attaining happiness, whi' h do
not ssy as much for the peace Of the soul
as this simple sentenceof the Our Father
Thy will be done.
"A saloon-keeper in & western town,
while bewailing 10 a friend the bad state
of business, looked towards a new spire
creeping heavenward, and with a wave OF
his hand said; "Th.m's the things
/ that's ruinin' the country"
Jones was always complaining OF bis
wife's memory. "She never can remem-
Der anything" said poor Jones; it's
awfulp' "My wife was just "a bad"
said Brown, "until found out capital
recipe" "What is it p said Jones, eager
ly. "Why," said Brown, whenever
there's anything particular ] want the
missus to remember ! write it down on
slip of paper and gum it on the looking
glass. See ?" Jones is now cOntented
man.
"A teacher in one OF the st. Adams
Sunday-schools was endeavoriDg to tx-
plain 10 the infant class the theory of
the watchful care and goodness Of God.
She used the familiar figure Of bis iather-
hood aud spAar ssv~s - y---
playing In the yard and should fan and
hurt yourself, your father would run out
and pick you up" A bright little seven
ysar-old spoke up and said, " No, he
wouldn't-my father wouldn't-he's too
lazy" The truth Of the remark is said
70 have made it doubly amusing.
The late Jacob Little, regarded in
his day as enc Of the most shrewd and
perspicacious operators in Wall street.
had no faith in the telegraph when il
was first introduced. In 1876 somebody
asked him to subscribe for some stock
for putting a line between New York
and Boston, but he replied that it was
all nonsense; that it would be money
thrown away and that he would not
advance a dollar. He afterwards ad-
mitted that this decision was the greatest
mistake of bis life.
"A young lady in Nashville remarked
to companion in conversation, the other
day, that she would never paint her
cheeks agail before attending funeral.
"Why not ?" asked her friend. Be
cause" replied the young lady, " / was
painted up when I attended a funeral
last summer, and never wanted 10 cry
so bad in my life, and was getting my
handkerchief ready, when glancing round
at Mrs. Maggs, saw that coarse, yellow
skin Of hers through the tear-trscks, aud
It looked horrible. never bad such
hard work to hold my tears in tince ]
was born. I'm done painting for fun
erals