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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1880-12-17
French Way Of Washing Clothes.

A system of washing clothes In
vogue in some French towns is worthy
of special mention. Its economy is so
great as to greatly reduce the cost.
This is the process Two pounds Of
soap is reduced with a little water to
pulp, which having been slightly
warmed is cooled in ten gallons of
water, to which is added one spoonful OF
turpentine oil and two spoonfuls of am
monia then the mixture is agitated.
The water is kept at a temperature
which can be borne by the hand. In
this solution the white clothes are put
in and left there for two hours before
washing them with soap, taking care in
the meantime to cover the tub. The
solution may be warmed again and used
once more, but it will be necessary to
add half spoonful of turpentine and
another spoonful of ammonia. Once
washed with soap the clothes are put in
hot water, and the blue is applied.
This process, it is obvious, saves much
time, much labor and fuel, while it
gives to the clothes a Wilderness much
superior to that obtained by any other
process and the destructive use of the
washboard is not necessary to clean the
clothes from the impurities which they
contain.
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Churches as Savings Banks.

There are in the city three penny saw
ings banks in connection with churches.
They belong to st. Andrews, st. James
and All Saints. The banks receive any
amount, from 2 cents upward, but do
not encourage the depositing of large
sums, the object In view being to pro-
mote habits of economy among the
poorer classes. Trustees and officers
have been appointed for each bank, the
former being responsible for all moneys
received. The bank is kept open every
Saturday evening from to 8. A COM
mittee of twelve manage the institution,
giving their services gratuitously. Any
amount from 2 cents upward may be
deposited, per cent. interest being al
lowed on every even dollar from the day
of deposit to the day of withdrawal
Toronto Globe.
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ULTON COUNTY KENTUCKY 1885, VOL XINO p
Food and Dire.t,o,-

=, 1l0tessor Hawkes., in q lecture before
tne Woman's Physiological Institute Of
Cnlcago, gave some palpahle instances
o. Widely different results attending 'the
disposition Of brain nutriment IN differ
persons. John Sherman. for instance
after assimilating the truths of finance
evolved the scheme of specie resumption
wnne ten Weaver, with access to Che
same sort OF brain food, evolved the idea
OF greenbacks, and plenty of them
Sanalarsy, one man became a Reuublic-
on, while another was known A Dem
ocrht and still voted for Andrew jackson.
Meneal digestion WINS involuntary. and
dyspepsia and diarrhea were not nm,
talniiiar attendants of indigestion of both
so1ts-mental and physical. The think
ers were Affected with mental dyspepsia.
tessse who do not think, but allowed
otziclSto think for them, with mental
dlarrhea, exhibiting itself wherever thew
We're afflicted with a rush of words. The
Professor enumerated rs the chief causa
OF indigestion the peculiarly American
stomachic vice of hurried eating Good
perfect digestion might be said to be al
most unknown to the average American.
What with rapid eating, lack of sufficient
sleep, and want of rest, nature had no
adequate provision for such extraordinary
expenditure OF nervous force. Ordinarily
some men swallowed as much in tan
minutes as 1t would require three-fourths
oil an hour to eat, and the result was not
only that they ate too much, but the
food which they took into their stomachs
was ALPHABETICALLY masticated, and
the stomach given a duty to perform
which properly belonged to the organs
or mastlcation. These unnatural drafts
on natures forces must, unless checked.
tell sooner or later ON the general health
The boiling Of food was almost universal |
Ill this country, and second to no other !
cause In producing indigestion. The
use OF nqulds during meal was all /
wrong, for the reason that it tended to a
nlsuse OF the organs of mastication.
while plenty of liquid before and after
meal was not onl y proper, but beneficial.
Nothing, however, should be taken
into the stomach that was either
hotter than the blood or colder
nan the atmosphere. Unnecessary
dessert, eaten when the appetite was al
'eady stated, was another evil. while a
It'll further cause of indigestion Law in
he growing practice of indulgine in
hearty 8 o'clock dinners. The Professor
omitted, however, that for certain
;lasses OF business men, such as bankers.
BOARD OF trade people, etc., a MONDAY
Inner would practically amount to
uicide but for people who could cat
learty dinner In the middle of the day.
nd who were in the habit of retiring
ariy, an evening dinner was wholly
for the reason that it al ,
owed too little time for digestion.
Office drinking was duly deprecated as 4
9th needless and injurious to health. {
nd reform in the directions indicated !
'as urged as the only remedy for the 9
reat American evil-1indigestion. ii
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Sound and Sense.

The following is an illustration of pro-
nunciation and spelling in the use of
wrong words which have the same pro-
nunciation as the right words, and
which, properly read, would sound
right The story: A rite suite little
buoy, the sun of CRATE kernal, with a
rough about his neck, flue up the rode
swift as Ell dear. After a thyme he
stopped at a gnu house and wrung the
belle. His tow hurt hymn, and he
kneaded wrest. He was two tired to
raise his fare, pail face. A feint mOwn
of pane rows from his lips. The made
who herd the belle was about to pair q
pare, but she through it down and ran
with all her mite, for fear her guessed
wood not weight. Butt when she saw
the little won tiers stood In her eyes at
the site. GIVE poor deer! Why due
yew lye hear? Are yew dyeing7'
"Know," he said, 81 am feint to thee
corps" She boar him inn her arms, as
she aught, too a room where he mite bee
quiet, gave him bred and meet, held
cent under his knows, tide his choler,
raped him warmly, gave him some
suite drachm from a VOL, till at last ne
went fourth hail as young hOarse. His
eyes shown, his cheek was as read as
q -four, and he gambled hole our.
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me Photograph.

Another measuring instrument is de-
scribed in the French papers-the "pro-
Telegraph" so called because, when in
use, it traces mechanically on paper the
outlines of the ground over which it
travels. 1t is a small carriage mounted
on two wheels, drawn by one man and
attended by another, who marks the
levels at the proper places, and under
meath hangs an iron rod with a large
ball at its lower end, serving as a pen
dulum. This pendulum maintains a
constant vertical position, while the ma
chine inclines in one direction or the
other, according as it ascends or de-
scends a slope. To the upper end of
the rod is fitted a pencil, which marks
on a sheet of paper the ups and downs
of the country traversed, whether on an
ordinary road or across trackless fields
the exact profile being thus recorded
to given scale. At the same time one
of the wheels, acting the part of chain
bearer, measures and indicates the dis
tances travelled throughout the survey
the whole being accomplished with COM
plete accuracy.
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Remedy for Diphtheria.

N. Shishkin, Minister Of Russia to the
United States, sends the following to the
New York Herald:
"There is no harm at this time of year
in reproducing the remedy for diphthe-
ria used in Russia, from the Russian
Minister.
SIN view of the increase of diphtheria
in several places of the State of New
York, hasten to communicate to you
for publicity a very simple remedy,
which, having been used In Germany
and Russia, may prove effective here
Out of several Others, DR.. Letzerich,
who made extensive experiments in the
application of this remedy, has used it
in twenty-seven cases, eight of which
were of very serious nature, all of which
had a favorable result except in one
case, when the child died from a COM
plication of diseases. For children of
year he prescribes the remedy, for
internal use every one or two hours, as
follows: Natr. benzoic, pur. so solv.
in az. distillat 80. menth. piper, ana
400 syr. cort. aur. 100. For children
from l to 8 years old he prescribed it
from to 8 grammes for 100 grammes OF
distilled water, with same strip; for
children of to 7 years he prescribed
10 to Is grammes, and for grown per-
sons from Is to % grammes for each 1OC
grammes. Beside this he uses also
with great success the installation on
the diphtherial membrane through q
glass tube in serious cases every three
hours, in light cases three times day Of
the natr. benzoic pulver. For grown
people he prescribes for gargling a dilu.
ton of 10 grammes of this pulver for 2OC
grammes of water. The effect of the
remedy is rapid. After twenty-four Oh
thirty-six hours the feverish symptoms
disappear completely and the tempera
ture and pulse become normal. Thi,
remedy was also used with the same
success by DIR. Braham Braun and Prof
Klebs, in Prag; DIR. Senator, in Cassel
and several others in Russia and Ger
many"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1880-12-17
More Spanish Than Skunk.

have read many articles published
in the Chicago papers from various
writers trying to prove that Chicago was
named after a skunk, none of which did
1place any confidence in, for 1 could at
one time speak the Indian language as
well or better than could the English.
came West in 1882. 1 now find the
following on page 81 of the Pictorial
History of the American Revolution, ("
in regard to Hernpndo De Soto, in 1910.
1t appears that he had Just had great
battle with the Indians, at Mobile, de-
stroying 1000 Of them and losing forty
two of his own men, and that on the
18th of November, same year, he turned
his face northward, and in five days he
entered the province of CHICAGO, where
he remained al winter. Had another
fight with the Indians and lost forty
men more.
Then what does this prove? Improves
that as early rs 1910 there was a PROV
ince five days march north of Mobile
called Chicazo, and presume it extend
cd as far north as the northern lakes,
and that the name of our city Chicago
came from it.
Lie HOIu Sl1lCdZO Is eVlucnblY ODhn-
ish, and when spelled with the English
pronunciation, combined with the In
dian, we have Chicago. De Soto was
evidently as brave and gallant q gentle
man as ever trod American soil. He
was always dreaming of finding gold in
the western wilds of America, and also
the elixir OF life, the FL Dorado of per-
petual youth. Gold was long since dis
covered in California, and now, perhaps,
this new late great mineral discovery in
Texas is De Soto's elixir of life. 1t does
appear that Chicago is more Spanish
than skunk.-COr. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The New Zealanders are destroying
their forests In manner so reckless that
there is fear not only of a scarcity of
timber, but that the climate will soon be
changed for the worse.
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Ia Ia
c.;.AsAsS;;ulating to I was a
missionary abd6s Z - pr India, and
ask you for a small donation. You
wouldn't have given me a cent, would
you?"
"No, SIR"
"That's plump, and it pleases me.
Now, then, I'll tell you the truth. I've
no money, nothing to do, don't want
work, expect to have close rub this
winter, and will be much obliged for the
loan of 10 cents"
Cant spare it. !"
"Not even when I tell you the
truth ?" - f. a
"No, SIR" -rrs-
"Then you don't care whether lie or
tell the truth ?" ... ... ....-..
ono, sir. 1 can't see how it affects
me any,"
Every well. It does me good to find
frank, honest man, and, on the whole,
Pm not disappointed. If you had lent
me a dime it would have gone for whisky
and been wasted if you had believed me /
should have lied to you. Seems as if
you might recommend me to some one
in the block on whom q pleasant lie
would have effect; but won't press the
matter. Au revoir I"-R Wall Street Daily
NelDs
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'stantial na5Lre

~ thes 1.sfW1EHFg paper Widowed
Houses. Oiies q two~ steam engines,
maintained by the joint subscriptions
of the foreign insurance companies who
have agencies here and are interested in
property in Japan, and number of old
fashioned hand engines belonging to the
Japanese Government, and managed by
natives, from the fire guard to the for
eign settlement and native town of Yo-
kohama The Hong Kong Fire Insu-
rance Company, being an English house,
provide their volunteers with uniforms of
English pattern-brass helmets for the
officers and black leather helmets trim
med with brass, for the men; blue fan
mel shirts, faced with red, corduroy trous-
ers, top boots and belt, with Ratchet
and spanner ON either side. The relief
men wear the American fire hat and red
flannel shirt, but in other respects their
dress is the same as the Victoria. At the
sound of the alarm bell the steam en-
gines are not long in reaching the scene
of fire, and the steady streams from
their hose as rule soon have very per-
ceptible effect on the fame, though at
times the men have to work unremitting-
ly from night till morning, and when at
last the fire is extinguished the tired vol
unteers draw the engine back to their
houses and retire to the rest they have SO
fairly earned by their labors. After the
steam engines are drawn off the Japs are
left to play on the smouldering ruins with
their hand engines, which, though al
most useless when fire is at its height,
are sufficiently powerful to keep it from
breaking out again. The Japanese po-
icemen, though brave and quick enough,
are absolutely worthless at fire. They
iabber and shout like parcel of monkeys
struck suddenly mad, give orders where
they have no right to interfere, and chop
ut windows and doors with their hatchets,
destroying property unnecessarily, where
In most cases it should be saved with no
other damage than would be caused by
the water pumped from the engine. The
uniform of the Japanese policemen, like
that of all government officials, is of for
eign pattern, and is made of navy blue
cloth, faced with yellow; their caps,
something of the same shape as a navy
cap, have yellow band sewed around
them, and brass chrysanthemum, the
crest of the Emperor, is fastened just
above the peak. At some of the fires
three or four hundred houses are burned
to the ground, and as many poor fami.
lies left homeless. -ErchGnqe.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1880-12-17
An Editors Reasons.

The pioneer editors of MICHIGAN verr
frank and truthful lot of men, as can be
proven by an incident called to mind in
connection with the name of Mark VIII
hams, who gave up his life for q better
one not long ago. Mark had paper in
Clinton County. It was a wee little
sheet with hundred subscribers. printed
the handiest way, and the Office was 40
poorly supplied that several different
fonts of type had to be used to set up the
reading matter. I One day the paper
4 came out with.a fierce attack on a STATE
official at Lansing. He was called q
robber, har, thief and various other cpl
tnets, and no pains was spared to skin
HIM and hang his hide ON the fence.
About week from that date Mark sat
smoking beeeb leaves and tobacco mixed
IN equal Fa<S, swiaeaA stranger entered.
He was a big broad -shouldered man.
with awful fists and wicked eye. and
he got down to business by asking:
Are yOn Mark Williams?"
well, Yes, / suppose So" was the
hesitating reply.
"And you run this paper?"
well, kinder run it, suppose"
every well. 1 am Mr. =, of Laus-
ing, the man whom You abused so saw
agely in your columns last week."
mol"
Yes, am, and 1 propose to give You
the worst mauling Western slanderer
ever received
Say, are you really Mr.. -" asked
Mark.
g am, of course am, and while am
taking off my coat YOU may give me
your reasons for publishing that SANDER
Gus article"
had two reasons, sir."
"What are theyi''
"Well, in the first place. I Thought |
you were little runt of man, about /
four feet high and about dead with the
asthma, and in the next place thought
the roads were so internal bad you could
never get over here!'
The straightforward confession should
have saved Mark, but it didn't. The visi-
tor made dive for him, took ont hand
ful of hair, and when the editor jumped
through the only window in his Office he
was followed and chased into an old
slashing, where he had to remain hidden
until midnight. That incident shaped
his future policy, as he one day ex-
planned:
"The editorial pen is an alfred big
ever, but have made it rule for the
asst thirty years not to abuse a man un-
ess l think can lick him in q rough
md tumble fight around the editorial
Dom. Free Press.
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GEORGE wARRENsEa,tou
nr.s nIxsavK,. p N Az q

fNsi~ .- -A---- !. -
Te', Dsssy iva: disappointment; and. though
10 'eok Is a aAant mind IT. wont sell you he
feses he'd ben a-cOmIn' Study, and our folk. sea
ITS you. M0eryy, that he's after; he's sure to DOT
He'd s.ik in with the e.enin, .hadder, 80, an a.,
easy chair, -- - 80 - - '
And gs.issa ny dOushnu,4 kinder sishn' abou.
- .s@eez - stsosh s. vs.sss. = -
And then HIS talk was 20 improvin,, he made the
And ned pat ! moral, always looked straies,
sst Mary Jane :. - = go
shed laugh, and give such silly answers that no one
But iaw,. the men can't fool me- Debby-it isn't
sense they love. -
It's rosy eheeks, and eyes a-sparkliu, We. n. vo,
That wbsnS SO@an's smart and hHr dy, knows how
to bake and mend, ~
f fss': I, ss:. =: husband Why the
nekase SHE'S spent her youth a-learniu' their wants
sItossatistE- - - ""N''
No" e; 81; sssa gas alsa taHtin, Of What vile
So Dsdsz - il any wonder I thought his hint.
And taes .,s shsn Mary Jane would giggle, and he
NoHtI Iurn 50
COnld 20 hass guessed that they were cOurt,D,
"hen not word was said?
1t oil came rec out at lastsO sudden. Twas Wednesday
when M Il. Reed e11e ia quite hustered Thinks 1,
I'll own my heart beat quicker, Debby: for tbouo,,
90 sBrses it's lsJid - - " '"sn'
49, : 9se Pelss' Ae Sfsa' thought him good
We'll, there We sOt: talked and waited; he bemmed
sBdl6nagtpd awhile; -N0U
lie seemed 50 most uncommon bashfuI I oouIan,, !
help but smile.
THOUGHT sdmJ Out my PiDe-tar balsam that drives
ApsEsss sAsn We was fairly married, I'd dose him
eVcfy day. ~ A
Jdssseen ne spoke: " Dear Miss Minervy. M.
rS,. i %g; :, hey ,s..s seen 81 quite plain
VIZ "a Essss' L nearly tainted, twas such a
Yet there had to set, as quiet as eff WAS rock,
And hsa ., asog! he, g srlish sweetness and bud
Don TAX 'sls to me Of martyrs Debby-I know what
I've gone through.
wen fkzfss ne end The veddfu,s settled t,, Inn.
he's in sach haste. 1870
Lsgiyen her the spreads quilted, 50 they won't
damned new cartains ior;his study, all trimmed
F-Ffth hands of blue : ~ -
q sure her cookin' neFern suit him-he's fond Of
e1tin', 100. -''-O VI
Wsfb No, I Want at meetin' Sunday. 1 don't find
Mr.. Reed U
Is quite as edyfyin' lately; he can't move NJ, in
And Debby, when you sec how foolish man in
= lOFs can act,
can't have sech high opinion Of him. and that's
u daAf leek uepf' Spring weather, mebbe: IT,.
gettin warm, you know 80
5ood-byi Pm gOin u Uncle Jothsm's to stay week
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BITS OF INFORMATION.

HE meaning of the word amen is SIS,
De II. 1t was introduced from the Jew
lsn INTO the Christian church about 39(
| A. d. CO. = Wv
HE drink known as "punch" wa.
introduced into Europe from the East
indies by Anglo-Indians at some date
between 1746 and 1850. 1t is so named
rom S the Hlndoo word pGntsoh persian.
PAM, because it consists of five in.
gredlents, which, when irst made. were
arrack, tea, water, sugar and lemon
luce. The famous Vauxhall punch was
an admlxture of arrack, brandy. sugar.
lemon-juice and water.
The President of the limited Statcs
cannot be arrested. If he commits any
mgh CRIME or misdemeanor he can be
lmpeached by the House, tried by. the
SENATE, and If convicted can be removed
from office. After removal from Office
ne can be arrested and tried, the same
as any other citizen, for any crime which
ne had committed while in Office. IL
the President could be arrested ON
charges preferred against him, any petty
magistrate might endanger the peace of
the country.
The mammoth trees of California are
the largest known. The dimensions of
one tree, IN the Tulre group were, ac-
cordlng to the measurements made by
members of the State geological survey.
40 feet high, log feet IL circumference
at the base, and rs feet at a point
twelve feet above the ground. The red
wood tree frequently grows to height
OF 800 feet, and.a diameter of Is feet
The bark of a California tree on exhibit
ton is thirty-five inches thick.
The origin of the game of philopena
is said to have been as follows The
people of Alsace and Lorraine were for
merly under German rule, as they now
are but while a part of France they
lost In a great measure the use of the
German language, and what they re-
tanned became corrupt 1t was an old
custom among them for young couples
to engage themselves by eating the
halves Of double almonds, and then to
salute each other as "well beloved"
each time they met. The word in Ger
man was UieItie6che1a, but, having for
gotten the meaning of this word. they
gradually changed into "phillipo." |
which sounds like it, and "phiflippina."
THE first meteoric shower which at
'racted attention in modern times was
hat witnessed by the Morayian mission.
lries In Greenland, in 1899. This phe-
lomenon was observed over a wide ex-
ent OF territory. Humboldt, then travel
ng In South America, said "Toward
he morning of November ID, a most ex-
raordinary scene of shooting stars was
cen. Thousands of bodies and falling
tars succeeded each other during four
hours. Their direction was very regular
rom north to south; from the begin
ing of the shower there was not a space
n the armament equal in extent to three
lameters of the moon which was mott.
lied every instant with bodies se1l =
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The competition for the proposed
monument to Victor Emmanuel has
been thrown open to sculptors of all ma
tons. The cost, when completed, is not
to exceed 81 100000. Three prizes of
$4,000, $1,000 and $4,000 are to be
given respectively to the authors of the
three best models, these models to re-
main the property of the State.
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The Spanish Marshal Serrano's eldest
son, who has lately been residing with q
gentleman in London in order to acquire
the English language, has Just married
Mile. Santonta, young lady with dow
ry of ESQ, 900; and the eldest dauph-
ter of the Marshal is about to marry the
brides brother, who has a similar fort
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IF you want to be sure you're right,
young man, work yourself into tower
ing passion, and nobody can convince
you That you ever made mistake or said
wrong thing in your life. But then
you Il nave to keep in a rage all the time
70 I2s AVOID knowing what fool you are