The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-10
HUMORs OF THE DAY.

AN aged Ph1ladelpbla cOlored woman
has been married seven times. She is a
sad example of how a woman can black
male
The maple tree in an emblem Of
Christian forbearance The more it is
bored, the more sweetness it exudes.--
Boston Traascl9kt
For music by III sElzs or keg.
Or We'll @sI1sd; ;S not TOO 1st'yi
Apply TO Cincinnati.
The Tombstone Gossip. printed at
Unlucky Cuss, Arizona, is sending polite
requests to its esteemed contemporaries
to Exchange or else gravitate to Old
Nick. "
Now doth the busy iunny
Improve each stolen squib,
And gather hupor all the day,
And clip and paste and no.
-CeafrGt City tNe5.) nenl-
THE Legislature of Michigan will make
hugging girl against her viii penal
offense, but will say nothing about hug
ging her against the front gate.-Boston
Globe.
TUE new settlers in Texas will find
plenty of elbow room, if nothing else.
One of them writes that he has ''the Rio
Grande for bath-tub and all Mexico for
a backyard"
A PHILADELPHIA woman asked another
for charity, and when she opened her
purse to give her some assistance she
knocked her down. 1t is very hard to
please some people.
A pogBLE experience: /" Shall 7 read
YOU q a5s3stty stdry. EfIie 4 = Has 1t got
a mornf to it p s., astsss zen,
MumsAy. I'd rather not A story with
moral is like jam with a powder In it. "
81 DECLARE, John, never saw such
man! You are always getting some new
wrinkle" And the brute calmly replied,
matilda, you are not, thank fortune
If you had new wrinkle, you would
have no place to put it, dear.
"The thruble wild the country, sor,
is absenteeism, said an Irish car driver
TO the tourist. "But there are not many
absentees in this part, hear, was the
reply mot many absentees, Is 1t?
Well, thin, let me tell We the counthry's
/ iist full of bsenteesp'-LOnoon Punch.
/ THE process of depriving. a tuber OF its
/ cuticle differs according to the manner OF
/ of cooking. If it be baked, you take the
/ potato from the skin; if it be boiled, yon
take the skin from the potato; If IT be
hashed, you take-no, You don't take
anyl-DGaba~y Neaos.
A STORY is told OF an old gentleman
who always took notes of his minister's
sermons, and on one occasion read them
to the minister himself "Stop, stopP
said he, at the occurrence of a certain
sentence; 81 didn't say that" 81 know
you didn't, was the reply; 81 put that
in myself to make sense.
POSSIBLY mistake: James," said a
motherly woman to young man whose
first sermon she had Just heard, flames,
why did you enter the ministry%
had call from the Lord, said the young
man. and then came the reply: "But
are you sure it wasn't some other noise
that you heard ?"-Hdrtford Cottrant.
If young man in street car gives
up his seat to q pretty young lady he viii
be accused of partiality; if he gives it up
to an ugly old lady, it will be said he
does it for effect. The average mean
plan for him to adopt is to keep the seat
himself, and see nothing but the paper
he is reading. Orleans Plea
yttne.
"YoU amt taking any stock in wo-
mans love, eh?" mo" he answered
despondently, ''it's all flummery
every strange" added his friend; ''you
didn't use to talk that way" Perhaps
not, " he replied, "but I've been married
nearly two years and there are four pair
of trowsers hanging up in my closet wait
ing to be patched, and not stitch taken
in them yet. "-BroOkty'l Eagle.