The Hickman courier., 1879-11-07
A bouncing baby-a rubber doll.
A ship ruled by women-court-

Moderation is the si1ken string
running through the pearl-chain of
all virtues.
The way the farmers are work
ing this month is shocking-shock-
ing to the corn fields.
The Philadelphia Bulletin refers
to the prize watermelon as "green-
hide monster"
The Derrick thinks the cheapest
kind of country seat anyone can
have now is a stump.
How can we expect harvest of
thought who have not had seed
time of character?
The Jersey City Journal gravely
remarks that Eve was the most
beautiful woman of her time.
History says that Eve first mar
ried Adam, but we have never
heard her story.
"This is the rock of ages" said
the father after rocking two hours
and the baby still awake.
New York pedestrians hardly
know which way TO steer IN ssse
presence of wild Texas steers.
If an audience can stand it, it
makes no difference whether ban
| 10 player plays by his ear or his
note.
All the clothes Adam had for a
long time was the close of day
while the mantle of night was his
Sed-clothes.
No Hottentot is permitted to
marry more than eight sisters out of
one family This is right. Some
body else might want a chance.
| Why was Goliath very much sur
prised when David slung the stone
at him? Because such thing never
entered his head before.
Energy will do everything that can
be done in this world; aud no talents,
no circumstance, no opportunities will
make two legged animal q man with
out it.
Many woman dusts billiard chalk
off her husbands coat, and big tear
stands 30 her eye as she thinks how
late he works nights at his desk by
the whitewashed wall.
When John Monigrips wife asks
for dollar or two for current ex-
I. penses, he smiles sweetly as he
/, says, "True love, darling, seeks no
change"
The hardest thing in the world
/, for young woman to do is to look
j, unconcerned the first time she
comes out in a handsome engage
ment ring.
Some young ladies are opposed to
the telephone. They say they do
not care to have young man whis-
pering in their ears with his mouth
twenty miles away.
: Don't show my letters" wrote
> a young man to young lady whom
J he admired. Don't be afraid" was
the reply, "I'm just as much
ashamed of them as you are"
1t is stated that Indian corn charred
into charcoal will make valuable cons
diment for poultry. 1t will put the
e henssin good health and cause a gent
e eral toning up Of the system that will
, be seen in more and better eggs.
A certain young lady who was a
little behind hand in her summer out
Fl surprised her parents by asking VIII y
she was unlike George Washington
When they gave up, she told them
because she had no little hat yet.
In the Mexican county oil regions
/. of Pennsylvania about 10000 gallons
e of oil are running TO waste daily
: The market is over stocked and the
i oil flows on at $4,000 more than the
n pipe lines handle. All efforts to limi
4 the flow and stop the waste have failed
IL Forest fires are raging fearfully IL
g Northern New York, destroying farm,
houses, barns and farm property. Some
= of the woods are impossible on accoun
of the fires. The loss cannot be esti
Is mated, nor can it be known how much
damage will be done as the FIRE is still
q raging.
,r The Boston Transcript thinks it I
IF mistake to place anybody on a jur,
a but the deaf and dumb, who can hea
10 nothing to warp their judgment or g
ot about talking of case and expressing
! opinions. Better have them blind
,e too, so that they cannot read newspa
d; pers.
e The nominal strength Of. Russia
be army is four millions, but she coul
'ir not march more than eight hupdre
ds thousand, aud exclusive of the Cos
Ill sacks, not more than two millions ar
It to be regarded as trained soldiers
1g The army is fesrfully addicted to drinA
on 1t gives man a vivid conception {
the: hollowness of all earthly thing
when he sees the commander OF q bal
Il bershop with head as barren as th
wo bottom Of q washbowl, and then read
al. his name Oh a Dottle Of hair iByigors
VS. tor warranted.Y..to produce hyperio
enrls on a bald head in three month!
sh The munifcence of the Duke q
lot Norfolk as Catholics is wonderful.
. is calculated that within the past te
years he has applied over a millio
". dollars to bis religion. He has jus
~ - undertaken to defray the cost of a ne'
'.S church at Sheffield. and is about (
- build another at the east ead Of Lon
nj don.
AS we knock at door xe expec
mt to gain admission; so should we, i
to the affairs of life make all the pre