The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-08-29
CuEsOry remarks-SweOriug.
Rsol happiness-Getting drunk


look out some of bis creditors do not
Suez canal.
Charles-"What did that spring
suit cost you, Al?" Alred-"Can't say.
dear boy-haVen' been sued for il yet"
y Bank clerk becomes quite dead
shot in detecting bad bill, = soT. Of
William teller, as you might say.
We know man Of 80 years Of ago
who hasn't gray hair on his head
nor one Of any other color Bos-
ton Post.
y man who has neither fgieuds Dor
influence has no business 10 break The
Law. 4 man who has both should.
Well, nell break it often enough sith-
out advice.
The man who has studied Shakes.
peare Cor years may find out how l!tlla
he really knows about these things by
sitting on the veranda Of county
tavern one Sunday evening.
Rhode Islaud promises to take care
of the rest of this eoanuy ii the @kfate
aFrop4n sottersStatss ran she Sas a.
ways just that bigbearted.
Under new rule ut Auburn Prison
conyicts are not allowed to receive any
newspapers giving them putfs on the
way they took in the sentence
a Pennsylvania man with two wood
en- legs is the accepted suitor Of d
New \ ork widow with a wooden arm
and glass eye, Let them be happy.
principles, not men, is what ae,u-
ates a Chinese washee man TO plunge
the shirt Of State Senator iuto tho
same tab with laborers socks.
Those people who want j bath the
most arc the ones who cant get to the
sea. They have to stay home and pay
a tax of SO per year on bath tub.
The pump Of curiosity was more
largely developed in forty seven
Chicago men than IN the same num-
Der of women examined by phreuol-
ogist.
The price Of four column report
/ of an execution has fallen from $50 to
Z
no longer much encouragement for
authors.
A Virginia Judge holds that has
band cannot be slandeIed by his wife.
They are one in the eyes Of tbs Law,
and she has right to slander either
half
The penitentiary IS crowded full Of
prisoners, and the courts continue to
send them iu. The Legislature will be
compelled to make some change iu the
present system.
The Legislature will be asked to
provide for the cali of Constitutional
Convention again. \ simpler plan
wlI be prepared this time, aud the
ConEeution may yet be held.
Eat oysters ouly 10 the months that
have an ~ in their names, aud drink
whisky only in the months that have Z
+ *" in their names.-Albauy Journal.
y Baltimore tailor worked all day
to finish suit Of clothes for cust0-
mer who committed suicide Monday
morning before paying his bill. Twas
! u mean Tuck.
Manton Marble used 70 say that it
was as easy to love rich widow as Is
/ poor school girl, aud when he got
). ready TO love, he loved widow and
r $3.50, 600.
/ DR.. W. l.. Coleman. Of San Autonia
D.. is working among tho germs il
. Memphis. lie thinks he has diseov.
cred that the fret one Of this season
came from. the West Iudie5 10 Junc
= and that it managed to hoat past New
l. Orleans without multiplying its kind
The Mississippi River Commission
g met at Washington last Tuesday auC
h organized By the election Of Q. A. Gil
more as president, and asking thi
Secretary of War to detail member o
the engineer corps to act as secretary
The headquarters of the cOmmisslo
I0 will be at st. Louis.
- The penalty for punching holes in
gold or silver coin is two years im
lie prisonment aud $1,000 fine for eaci
II offeuse. Now quit punching thos'
1t little pieces of metal out of the coin .
in your country, for it lessons the vaiu
:. of the coin, and is very slow way 0
y stealing fortune.
re
At There are quarter Of million
Jews 10 the United States, and on
)" )" Jewish population is ever increasing
is We have nov a larger Jewish popula
T. ton than any country except Germany
at Austria, Russia and Turkey. Th
:. Jews in the United States have fftee
20 newspapers, fourteen public iustitu
Is. tions under their control, and ow
p over S5,QO0,000 of church property
'ir Particulars of the strange death Of
st lad from mosquito bites are given b
the Salisbury Advertiser: "One de
re last week James Stewart, twelve yea
re old son of James Stewart, residing nea
" WHY'S Neck, Lake district, Dorche'
~ ter county, was sent into an out fiel
rs to make a smother, to keep the mo:
Dy ouitoes from the cattle. Not cOmiu
nt back after a reasonable time had clap
sed the father went into the field {
search for him. He was found iyin
10 face downward on the ground, deac
n, his mouth, throst, nose aud ears litei
H. ally packed with mosquitoes"
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