The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-11-29

SwEErENING ones coffee is generally
the rst stirring event OF the day.
Thy friend has friend, and thy
friends friend has friend; be discreet.
SoAP-BonsERs and hide-workers have
proved TO be exempt from yellow fever
THE-great secret of success in life, is
Ior man to be ready when his oPportu-
nifty comes.
BOYS under sixteen years Of age are
not permitted to smoke in certain cities
nGerman y.s
IT is easier to neglect the debts you
owe 70 Others than to forget those which
others owe 10 you.
ONE of the most important rules of the
science of manners is an absolute silence
in regard to yourself.
TIE wise man stand firm in all ex
tremities, and bears the lot ofhis human
ity with divine temper.
JoNEs says he hasn't got a mother-in-
law. but be has father in jail, and 1t
amounts to the Eame thing.
THE worst thing about mosquito is
its long soliloquy as to when and where
it had better settle down and bite.
AMONG the most remarkable inven-
tions represented at the recent paper ex-
hibition at Berlin were paper teeth.
IF you should take to yourself little
Of the good advice you are 80 willing TO
give to others, it would do no harm.
"Two FOR scent" as the drug clefk
said when young couple entered the
store and asked for q bottle of cologne.
DID you ever notice how surprised you
were when you put your foot on the next
stair step and found there wasn't anyS
Mrs. PART1NGToS says the only way
to prevent steamboat explosions is to
make the engineers bile the water on
shore.
Envy is strongly characteristic Of lit
tleness of mind; truly noble and gener-
Gus man feels no enmity towards sue
cessful rival.
Iris difficult to understand the pedi-
gree of boarding-house hash.-Graphic.
Oh, ne, it isn'tl It's desired by the
Iandlady and damned by the boarders.
GRAHAM bread is said to be excellent
food for children on account Of its super
ior bone giving qualities, you can feed
a child on that bread until he is all bones.
SALAD-DREssIEe, according to Span
ish proverb "a spsndthrift to put in
the oil, a miser to put in the vinegar,
wise man to pepper and salt, and mad
man to stir"
Ir is all very we'll to say that "Adver-
sity makes men, but prosperity MAKES
monsters" The truth is that most of us
would rather be monsters than men, un-
der that law.
Az editor with nine unmarried
guaf1ehG6fs nae ecCcnlly lutuU JunIiJf ln-
dignant by the misconstruction his con-
temporaries put upon his able leader ON
" The demand for men,"
Glove is blind" and that's the reason
why it can get along with one small
hand-lamp, turned down as low as 1t will
go, as well as under blazing chandelier
of fifty burners.--Burdette.
WHENEVER q man begins TO feel that
he is SO great that the country is stsnd-
ing in the middle of the road waiting
for him to come by, it is about time for
his friends to look up some soft place in
a Iunatic asylum to lay him down in.
WE would like for some double-storied
modern statesman to tell us why it Is
that there are certain seasons when a
politician can see horny-handed son OF
toll clear across the street, and at otler
season. cannot see him a foot and halr
away.
il Africa the savages have a curious
way o praying. The wizard or priest
writes prayer on piece of board, and
the latent carefully washes 1t of and
swallows the water, chalk and prayer, in
the firm belief that be viii get rid OF his
disease.
No WORK, however menial, can make
an honest poor man lose his selfrespect.
Do whatever you can get to do, and do
it 80 well that yoar employer viii see
that YOU are fit for something better, and
the time is not far od when you will be.
gin tc rise.