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

e. ttftrqudence New \ ork IRA pre-.
N1ted The catacombs. Down among
10 Of dead
l&tf<sys and Saturdays OF each week
Free Required 70 be furnished with a
fapd* Went down with 900 visitors.
, a'# an hour in the courtyard on the
AoHard d'Enfef In EDglish it means
7Q'eyard of the Internal Regions. "
'sse:>ame for roal leading 10 a grave
yffF tTenchy. Each of the three hun
qrSe'ad candle. Waited for the vault
sin7# 10 open. Lit candies Waited.
en- out. Waited again. Lit can.
fst Waited. Blew 'em out. Occu-
r. p Of the 300 for an hour. Gate
o7sEa at last. Opered at the end OF
gFyafd, where least expected. Lit
eaNes Terrific rush 20 get through
~ Never thought people could be
f'xioua 10 get into the dark and client
Men, wsmen, girls. candles, boys
:: = 3 ilstns xnlanss Frencb, unlit can
-, Italians, Russians, candles, Scandi.
Ihavians, lighted candles, English and
Irish, All squeezed pelI-melI together,
|Tais in broad daylight, within 200 feet
of The door of the dark and silent tomb
Candles burned whiskers, clothes, lace
and blacked faces. Mans arm straight
Iup ia the air. Couldn't get it down
sgain for pressure of crowd. Lighted
candle in his hand. Stearine running
down on $500 dress below. Lace polo.
naise, silk velvet skirt. Her candle lit
too, and burning hole through rim o.
mans hat. Silk hat. Policemen blow
ing candles out. Also working hard tC
get Us ia r file. Then il rained. Can
dies put out, umbrellas put up. Slow
approach to catacomb door. Marrow
Down ninety-two steps. Twenty min
ute walk through underground passages
Material, stone, and no variety of seen
cry. Wondered where the bones cam,
ip. Arrived at last to skeletons. Wall
Of them. Thigh and arm-bone walls a
high as ones shoulders. OmamenteC
bottom, middle and top with three row
OF knlls. Middle frieze Of skulls anC
cross bones. Color of bones, black wal
nat. Some growing fungi. No smell
Clsvicles, sternums, tibulas, fibulas, ribs
ve,tebre, phlangsai, digital and meta
carpal bones piled up at random behin'
walls Tons on tons of splendid fertiliz
ipg material lying here, yielding n
profi. Thought sadly of the apples
Pears and peanuts it might raise if groun'
up and properly utilized. Man anea'
OF me, probably dentist. He pulled on
skulfs teeth. Eye to business. Hand
ditto. Couldn't sink shop. Ruling pas
sion strong in death. Bone heaps date,
thus: 1865, 1860, and 50 on five year
more er less down to the period ef tn
French revolution. In more ancient por
tions quotations from Scripture, nike,
witt remarks by Jean Jacques Rousseau
to remind one what a solemn thing dealt
IS As ii any Que needed prompting O
Gown here re- s,sonsk 81 kRtfIas RtIs dtaS ft men eniela a
at IaE to a well of clear water. Ton
and sbcks of bones all about it. Nobod,
was Airsty. Came at last TO bones 0
1896 md 1880. First French revolution
Citizn Jacques and guillotined Marqui
thrown into a ditch, all mixed u
Together. Lots of upper jaws in skull
whici roared the first Marseillaise
Very quiet now. Eyeless sockets, ou
of which eyes looked at the head O
Louis XVI. when it rolled into tn
basss. Very quiet. Still, night ant
day they kept on grinning at the bar
reculk clion. That is, as well as The lacl
of usder- jaws would allow skulls to grin
Curbus comingling here of under jaws
Dachess and fsh-woman, marquis ant
shoenakers cheek by jowl. Girls rib
and bIacksmiths' shsnks across eacl
otha. Toe-bone of Coult and finger
bopss of old washerwomen side by side
| Cr0ss bones OF Inhdel and priest Wlre'
together. But when these dry bone
ari@, according to programme, won
thee be row before they're all set righ
again 7
Csme out to air and sunshine about
miIe from starting place. Men more o
les. strcakcd with stesrine and whit
mui. Women ditto. Gave our hall
burned candles to old women at exi
door Ditto the 800 Somebody make
b. ul OF candles each visiting day
Cstacombs good investment for Paril
Keep strangers in town one more day t
Visit them. Hence bones of grandfathe
sre turned to some account. Probabl
pay rs well for show az if ground int
aFiilizing dust