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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-05
Chinese Money.

Coined money was known among the
Chinese as early as the eleventh century
before Christ. but their inability to COM
prehend the principles upon which a
currency should be based, led them
into all sorts of extravagances, which
have been attended by disorder, famine.
and bloodshed Coins came at last to
be made 80 thin that l 900 of them piled
together were only three inches high
then gold and silver were abandoned
and copper, tin, shells, skins, stones,
and paper were given fixed value, and
used until, by abuses, all the advantages
to be derived from the use of money
were lost, and there was nothing left for
the people to do but to go back to bar
ter, and this they did more than once.
They cannot be said now to have g coin
age; two thousand nine hundred years
ago they made round coins with
square hole in the middle, and they have
made no advance beyond that since.
The well-known cash is cast-brass coin
of that description, and, although it is
vqlued at one mill and a half of our
money, and has to be strung in lots Of
one thousand to be computed with any
ease, it is the sole measure of value and
legal tender of the country. Spanish,
Mexican, and our new trade dollars are
employed in China; they Tass because
they are necessary for larger operations.
Science Monthly.
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The Outcome of 1t.

Hard times always have q soft side TO
them The fool OF King Charles cried
when he went down hill, but laughed
when he went up. Being asked why, he
said; If am going up hill now shall
be able to go down next, but if / am
going down now, shall soon have to
climb" The country has some things
to groan over; traffic is thoroughly at a
loss in its circulation manufactures are
bankrupt; and yet we never had q more
bountiiul harvest than in 1877. The land
teemed with every variety of pro-
duct There was enough aud 70 spare
for every citizen of the union. The
difficulty evidently had risen from the
fact that too small a proportion of our
population has been in the direct line of
production. The plentiful or super
abundant provision of nature fell |
lavishly into the hands of smaller num- /
Der than it was intended, for. That we
have land enough to provide comfort |
and competence for every one who will
werkis selfevident. The lazy viii be
badly off under all circumstances, and
neither nature nor Deigbb)r can make
them permanently contented or happy.
This the pressure of the times Is at last
driving the people TO recognize. Men
can live, and live well, on the land, if
they are willing to work and use ocon>
omv. The demand for farms, either to
buy or to rent, is vastly on the increase. !
While rents drop continually in the
cities, and town lots are unstable at any /
price, farms do not anywhere beg for
occupants and workers. This is not /.
notably true in the east, where the ten
dency has been for years to press toward
the cities. Young men are less ambitious
of rapid wealth, simply because they have
become satisfied that the avenues are
closed. They must learn to he patient:
laborious and saving. 1t costs less not
only cashwise, ,kbut demands less exhaus-
tion of vital force to live in the country.
This ebbing of the human tide carries
back to the farm life, intelligence, and
knowledge of the world accumulated in
the centers of trade and thought st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
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How to Make Ones Self Beauti-
fuI.

Two simple chemicals should appear
ON every toilet table the carbonate OF
ammonia and powdered charcoal. No
cosmetic has more frequent uses than
these. The ammonia must be kept IN
glass. with glass stopper, from the air.
French charcoal is preferred by physi-
clans. as it is more finely ground, and
large bottle of it should be kept on
hand. In cases of debility and wasting
disorders it is invaluable. To clear the
complexion, take teaspoonful OF CHAR
coal well mixed in water or honey tor
three nights; then use a simple purea-
tive to remove it from the system. IL
acts like calomel, with no bad Effects
purifying the blood more enectualiy
than anything else. But some simple
sperient must not be omitted, or the
charcoal will remain in the system,
mass Of fostering poison, with al 'ne
impurities it absorbs. After this course
of publication, tonics may be used Ihe
use of charcoal is daily better understood
bv our best physicians, and it is power
full, and simple enough to be handed ~
every housekeeper. The purifying pro.
cess, unless the health is unnsuan
good, must be repeated every 'n's'
months. ,,;a in
A quarter of spoonful Of Ammo1 ,,oht
half a glass of water, taken ess,y ,;,..ev ~, Of
and morning, viii prevent the a.. 7. ler
teeth. sweeten the breath q sDe en.rn,sla
injurious than the soda a. no,' n ths sioa
many ladies use for acie'g gs,snoDl. w
ach. A few drops .'r's Q, rsisl,
purify and soften thf '''
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-05
Doing Paris Cheaply.

One may, at ordinary times, live in
Paris very comfortably on eight or ten
dollars per week; and this will include
| car-tares and admission to the theatres,
! great and small. Possibly, during the
exposition, prices may rule a little
higher. In the Latin quarter an apart
ment need not cost more than a dollar
and q half or two dollars per week. Two
1 good .zpsali poous. there viii Keptat thirty
francs (about six dollars) per month
Breakfast, coffee and all the bread you
can eat, four cents; lunch at noon, or the
real breakfast in Paris, one and two
thirds franc, or twenty-five cents-this
includes the half-bottle of claret; thesame
rate for dinner, at five orsix in the evening.
Fifty or sixty cents per day will feed
you well. If you choose to eat in your
reOm, you may, in buying cooked food
(and every variety of food is cooked and
held for sale by the cut in Paris), live
for thirty cents per day on roast fowl,
various kinds of salad, fresh fish and
potatoes, baked aPPles and pears, potage
or bullion. 1t is not bad for change,
and far better than any cheap food you
can get in New York. To familiarize
your,elf with French quickly, buy your
own groceries Prices of such
staples as -four, sugar. coffee,
ETC., are more extensively marked
than with US, and every shop window
is practical edition of Ollendorf, only
there are no quarts, gallons, Pints or
pounds, feet or yards. These are all
changed to iters "a little over a quartz,
meters (three inches over the English
yard and kilogrammes or kilos" (twO
pounds three ounces avoirdupois) The
smallest French cein is the copper FIVE
centimes, corresponding to our cent. The |
smallest silver coin Is the fifty centimes, !
corresponding to the American dime. /
The franc is twenty cents American. The |
average seat in the uppermost gallery |
of the French theatre is rallied, !
cushioned, and as comfortable as the /
more expensive one below, and costs /
but shilling. You will rec0lIect that !
the museum and galleries Of the Louvre /
are always free; also the Jardin des /
Plantes of geological gardens also the
museum of the Luxembourg palace |
also the Hotel Cluny on certain days, ,
which is a palace showing the style of /
household royal furniture common five
years ago; also the palace at
Versailles. These alone will interest you
far more than the exposition, for they
contain the accumulation and historic |
associations of centuries New York !
Graphic.
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Foreign Intelligence.

The tsetse, known to entomologlsts as
glossina morsitans, is thus described by
Stanley: Not much larger than a
common house Gy, nearly of the same
brown color as the honey bee. After
part of the body has yellow bars across it
1t has a peculiar buzz, and its bite is
death to the horse, OK or dog. On man
the bite has no effect neither has it on
wild animals.
The famine in China was the oppor-
tunity of the English and American
missionaries. They devoted themselves
to relieving the dying people about them,
and helping the suffering as far as the
means st hand would allow. This
effected change in the opinion of the
Chinese as TO the religion of the mission
aries. They now concede that a religion
which sends its devotees on missions of
mercy is at least good religion, if not a
better one than their own.
The assistant adjutant general, depart
ment of Texas, has received a dispatch
from Fort Brown, which says: Mr..
EveesmaD, large merchant in Mata~
moras, tells me that the authorities
have fined foreign merchants about $780,
900. His house was to pay S22,O 900. He
and many others are preparing to leave
Mexico as soon as they can close their
business. Gen. Canales is opposed to the
fine, and revolution is confidently ex-
pected, with Garcia de Cardenas as the
head. He is governor of Zacatecas.
Brazil has made liberal appropriation
for the introduction to the people OF
Europe of sterva-mate, an article largely
cultivated in Parana and used in South
America to produce q popular beverage,
but as yet unknown abroad. Mr.. OConor,
of the British legation, says it will be a
capital substitute for the far more expen-
sive and too-often adulterated tea and
coffee, being more fortifying and alimen-
tary and much more wholesome, and an
article that can be sold at a price so
moderate as to place it within the reach
of all classes.
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Fighting a Whale.

A correspondent of the Raleigh OBJ
server, writing from Meorehead CITY,
coast of North Carolina, says: Last
week there was tbs most exciting and
dangerous whale fight that has ever oc-
Cured on this coast. 1t was with some
difficulty that the captain of the crew
could get his men to obey orders. When
the first bomb was fired into the whale it
failed to explode. This made the whale
furious, when at this instant he struck
one of the boats and knocked it some feet
above the water. The captain then
fred another bomb; this failed of explo-
sion; the fight was still getting more
furious. The third bomb was fred and
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-05
CarbOIic Acid and Catarrh.

The London Medical Record gives the
experience of DR.. Moritz in the use of
carbOlic acid spray in catarrhal disease
of the respiratory organs. Having had
much TO do with carbolic acid, ard espe-
cially the spray, he noticed that the
bronchial catarrh with which he wss
frequently troubled, did not occur, or
that, if it began, it was soon arrested.
A colleague of his, Dr. Asseldelifft, made
the same observation. DR.. Moritz used
the spray of two per cent. solution of
carbolic acid. He first tried it on two
children in whom the commencement of
whooPing cough was suspected. After
the remedy had been used two days, the
slight catarrh which was present came to
a stop, and in few days. disappeared.
In several children, with measles, the
cough vas diminished. and the nights
were more quiet after the use of carbOlic
acid spray. In two surgical patients,
also, whose lungs were in suspicious
state, the cough entirely disappeared
during the frequent use of the spray.
The carbolic acid does not act as eau
terant, for dilution produces beneficial
action, and it is not demonstrated that it
exerts any chemical action on the false
membranes, as some have thought.
1t appears more reasonable that it acts
as a parasiticide, destroying the proto-
organisms which constitute The funda-
mental part of the false membranes aud
which exist in the circulatory system,
since the local alterations are more than
the expression of zymotic influence.
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TYe PILGRIMS SONG

How sweet. 4, we're floating on lifes changing bill
low,
To thin of me dear ones in yender blest harbor,
And the BEAUTIFUL songs they are singing at home
How sweet 10 be thinking of pearly gates open,
and anreis in Whito robes so spOtless ana tsir.
With golden harps ringing in mansions OF glory,
And sweet songs of love floating soft on the air.
How sweet to believe that our Savior is Jesus,
And trust ID his strength as were gliding along
His love meier fail us il guides us forever.
And fills our glad hearts with beautiful song.
How sweet to be singing, while DER the waves Gid
AND braisisg the lord with our heart and our
And wo1tins and praying that, others may love
And iain IN His praise as we're floating along.
How sweet 10 be thinking of angels and loved ones,
And joys that await US In Heaven abovel
sweet strains will be floating, when Jesus our
Savior
Shall welcome US home to the MANSIONS of love.
Dear Savior We thank Thee, we love Thee, and
trust ihee:
We!l sing Of Thy love as we journey alOngi
And. Oh when We enter the harbOr of Heaven,
Wen praise Thee again with beautiful song
j. Emerson Walker, n Chicago Standard.
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All sorts.

Lawyers have feeced the Erie railway
out of 100000
Canada owes $3.50, 900, 600, or at the
rate of $40 head of her population.
Joaquin Miller, it is said, realizes
from his published works an income of
about "a, 600 year.
The Chinaman's weak spot is white
sugar. He'll pass over jewelry to steal
cut-loaf
Germany makes one-half of the phos-
phorus consumed in the world, or over
two hundred and fifty tons annually.
Galveston is perhaps the only city in
the land that can guard herself against
tramps. She is located on an island, and
all she has to do is to station policeman
at the end of the bridge.
A model of the New York Postofice =
to be exhibited at the Paris exposition.
1t consists of 284, 600 pieces, and has
occupied the time of one man six hours
day for eight years to construct it.
The number of Mormons in Scandis
navia is stated to be 2,249 in Denmark,
1905 in Sweden, S92 in Norway, and
Is in Iceland. During the course of
last year, 583 persons immjgrated from
Scandinavia to Utah.
In Hartford, Conn, women receive
twenty-five cents per dozen for making
corsets; and the cotton thread, which
must be bought of the corset manufac-
turer, is deducted from this sum. There
are thirteen stitches to the inch, and FIVE
Thousand stitches in one corset. An ex-
perienced needle, woman can complete
half a dozen in day, and thus earn
twelve and half cents.
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ESTABLISHED 1859

Gently they have been excited by the
Liberia movement, and they are in a
mood, as race, to change in hopes OF
bettering their condition. This Is an
evidence of improvement in their mental
condition, and evinces spirit of enter
prise. The Liberia movement will not
ne success, but we are inclined to the
opinion that the movement to the states
west of the Mississippi river viii be as
formidable as that of the whites which
sweeps annually across the Mississippi
river at Memphis.
While out hunting during late storm,
a Texan encountered a herd of bewildered
buffaloes, numbering one hundred grown
ones and about forty calves. The snow
lay upon the ground TO the depth of
foot. He was alone, but after several
days hard work he secured the entire lot
in a natural corral in the bend of a
stream, and, proceeding to the nearest
town, sold them to an enterprising dealer
for five hundred dollars.
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Iege Of wearing long hair was vigorously
denied to Carib slaves and captives,
says Edwards. The slavery that punished
criminalty wss similarly marked. In
Nicaragua thief had his hair cut of,
ana became a slave to the person that
iIau peen robbed, till he was satisfied" :"
Ana tnls badge of slavery was otherwise
Inllctea as punishment. By the Central
An3sncans a suspected adulterer " WAS
stripped and his hair was cut Ia great
dlseface-l" One ancient Mexican penalty
: was to have the hair cut at some public
pIsee, and during medieval times in
EsskQpe cutting of hair was enacted as a
Pe hshment. Of course there follows a
C 1ative distinction long hair becomes
ne prabie. If famong the Chibchas " the
81 fsest atfront that could be put on
meA OF woman was to have their hair
cfRped, the assimilation TO slaves in an.
PEance was the obvious reason, the
E9spfaoieness of long hair being an i'm
Htication. The Itzaex Indians" saws
feeprt, 9 wore their hair as long as it
would grow; indeed, it is a most difficult
thing to bring the Indians to cut their
hair" Long hair is a market distinction
among the Tongans, and none are per-
mitted to wear it but the principa-
people. Similarly with the New Gale
domains and various others of the unciy,
ilized, and similarly with semi-civilized
Onentals, " the Ottoman princes
have their beard shaved off, to
show that they are dependent
on the favor OF the reigning en-
peror." By the Greeks, Gin manhood.
the hair was worn longer"
and ga certain political significance was
attached to the hair" In Northern
Europe, too, "among the Franks = y
the serfs wore the hair less long and less
carefully dressed than free-men," and
the treemen less long than the mobiles.
"The long hair of the Frank kings is
sacred. 1t is for them a mark
and honorable prerogative of the royal
race" Clothair and Childebert, wishing
to divide their brothers kingdom, con-
suited respecting their nephews, "wheth-
er TO cut off their hair 50 as to reduce
them to the rank of subjects, or to kill
them" may add the extreme case of
the japanese mikado: "Neither his
hair, beard, nor nails are ever (avowedly)
cut, that his sacred person may not be
such cutting as occurs being
done while he is supposed to sleep.
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An Old BuiIfghter's Struggle.

The London Times Madrid CORE
spondent gives this incident of the bull
fights which made psrtef the festivities
following the marriage of the King of
Spain: Casas, commonly called Sals-
manchino, is veteran nlatad0r, seventy
years of age, who, having figured in
Queen Isahella's marriage festivities,
wished, although he lad long retired
from the field, to appear in Fridays and
Saturdays bullfghts. He appeared
dressed in blue, embroidered with silver /;
his gray hair was gathered into a knot
behind; and over his pure white shirt
waved long, red cravat. On the fourth
bull being let loose he advanced toward
the royal bex to request permission to
encounter it. All the torreros clustered
round him to protect him. The
bull is attracted toward Salamanchino,
who holds his scarlet mantle in one hand
and his sword in the other.
The struggle commences, but Casas is
old, he is not firm on his legs, his mus
cles are not supple, his arm is not sure.
Twice the bull throws him down. He is
thought to be dead, but he is up again
and returns to the fight. There is a cry
of "FaeraP' and pockethandkerchiefs are
waved to stop him; but the obstinate
naatddor wishes to win a last laurel.
Fortune, however, is unpropitious; seven
times he attacks the bull, seven times he
misses it. According to custom, after
seven unsuccessful attacks, the BULBS life
Is safe, and, shaking its streamers NAV
re enter the " Torir' amid the applause
of the spectators; while, on the other
hand its unfortunate combatant is hisaed
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-04-05
EDISON'S WONDERFUL. IN
VENTION.
An improvement on the Telephone Success. fUll,
Tested---The Ariphone or Speaking Fog
Hon and is MissIon


Tested---The krphone or Speaking Fog
Horn and It's Mission.
The prolific brain of Professor Edison
has given to the world two new discover
les One of these is an improvement on
the carbon telephone. In the two pre-
vious inventions the diaphragm was
suspended from the carbon desk by a
section of rubber tubing. He has dis
covered that by bringing the diaphragm
into immediate contact with the disk, a
considerable increase in the force of
articulation is increased, and that the
thickness of the diaphragm could be
increased at least three times without
affecting it. By this method vibration
gives place to pressure. Experiments
were made with this improvement
between the Offices of the Philadelphia
local telegraph and resldenceof Professor
Edison, at Menla Park, NkR jersey, a
tlfstance of sfx7y-five miles. = .fe fsnAssrik7ss
made through the instrument at this end
were even more distinctly heard at the
other end. An experiment was made of
sending marks TO MeDlo, via New York,
a distance of one hundred and thirty
five miles, which was equally success
ful.
The second invention is the airophone.
1t is an instrument into which words can
be articulated and they gather such force
as to be heard for a number OF miles with
great distinctness. Indeed, it is in reality
a talking fog horn. By its aid captains at
vessels meeting at sea could converse
easily while three or four miles apart
signal station officers could warn vessels
coming on a dangerous coast to keep of,
and it is adapted to all uses to which
such instruments as fog horns, etc, are
now applied. This is a mostremarkable
discovery. Mr.. Adams, Edi'On's agent,
will leave New York on Saturday next
Tor London. A Company d English
merchants have offered Mr.. Edison
ESQ 900 if the invention can successfully
be applied to the local Telegraph wires
n London \. Y. Times.
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Sedentary Habits.

In " Nutrition in Health and Disease "
DIR. Bennett says; These physiological
effects explain the prostration of an in
valid, or, indeed of any one unaccus-
toned to exercise, after great muscular
effort. They feel languid and exhausted,
have pains in the muscles and cannot
sleep. They have used up, wasted part
of their muscular structures, and there
is not sufficient organic activity in the
economy to rapidly renew the destroyed
fibre; so the feeling of fatigue and pros
tration lasts. This, however, is not
reason for renouncing exercise as an inn
possibility, as not agreeing with the con-
stitution. A small amount only should
be taken regularly at first, perseVered in
whether agreeable or not, and gradually
increased as the muscular power increa~
ses. which it is sure 10 do. Active
people, even IN doors, take a deal of ex-
ercise. They are ever on the move, run
ming upstairs and down, fetching all they
want, and waiting both on themselves
and others and that even when surrOun-
ded with domestics, Such persons find
that they have walked several miles in
the course of the day, without even
leaving the house. This is the history of
female servants, who often never go
out OF doors from weeks end to
weeks end, and yet usually retain good
health. Sedentary people, on the con-
trary, persons of indolent habits, who |
never move from the chair or sofa, if |
they can help it, and who ring the bell |
for all they want, reach the end of the /
day with scarce a mile of exercise. Not |
only, therefore, do they eschew exercise
out of doors, but they do not even take
it indoors. Is it surprising that. they
should be obese and unwieldlY, and
prey to the diseases Of a torpid, sluggish
vitality?
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Stanley had great many curious
experiences in Africa, but none more so
than this which follows: One of his
servants was SO attached to him that, in
order adequately to express his friend
ship, he begged the explorer to kill, cook
and eat him. 1t is only genuine friend
ship which is willing to offer itself in the
shape of steaks ard outlets. When we
of higher civilization profess friend
ship it means that we are willing to re-
ceive presents or borrow money. "What
are friends good for except to be used ?
we ask but the African asked, Wha+
are friends good for except tsbe eaten %
Il N. Y. Herald.