The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-03-11

A VERMONT railroad company has paid
passenger who lost an ear in an acci.
dent 81 800. -
OVER twenty-five thousand tourists
have visited the Yosemite Valley since
its discovery in 1866.
FRENCH railroads do only one-third
the passenger business that is done by
English lines.
The man who comes about solely to
kill time should coufine himself strictly
to his own time.
ST. LoyIs girls object to rubbers,
they draw the feet so. T" 1t must be an
awful load, even for India rubber
ADJEcrIvEs are the millinery of litera-
ture, aud Ike the trimmings of dress,
they should not be allowed TO obscure
the original fabric
If Americans would sit longer Mt din
-nerr table and be happy while they eat,
they would have less dyspepsia and o
more cheerful religion.
IT is n great pity that some people
grow bitter as thcy grow old. 1t seems
as though the more teeth they lose, the
more they want to bite.
Joaquin MmLER thus describes remi-
niscence of an old California friend:
Dear Dave Cotton. ! hear he is dead.
We first got acquainted one night in
Yreka while shooting at each other"
A MILWAUKEE Clergyman, asking n cor
rection in n published report of one of
his sermons, remarks: u dc not mind
so much being taken for hereto, but
seriously object to anything which will
condemn me rs n lunatic.
A BRIDGEroRT carpenter, while in fit
Of anger, threw n hammer at n fellow
workman. and swallowed a screw he had
in his mouth. IL was an unfortunate af-
fair. but il was better than throwing the
screw and swallowing the hammer.
"YEs," remarked musical critic re-
Gently from Kansas, ''the fiddlin' was
bully. but / tell YOU, when the fat chap
with the big mustache laid hold of that
bass fiddle and went for them low notes
in the violin-cellnr, Just felt as If a buzz
saw was playin' Yankee Doodle ON my
back bone.
A Texas girl wouldn't cross river to
reach the only minister who could marry
her and her lover, and the minister on
arriving at the brink of swollen stream
refused to cross to them. They there
upon joined hands and they shouted the
service across the river to one another.
That's the kind Of "high-tonedr we'd
dings they have In Texas.
A TRAVELLER out West stopped at q
farmers well to get drink of water
The water was warm and brackish. and
the wayfarer remarked to the farmer
that the well was not a very good one.
Its well enough for me, replied the
granger, somewhat gruffiy. ''Then l
guess 1 will let well enough alone here
after" was the travellers rejoinder
AIR. BEEcHER says that one-half the
human family are eaters, not producers
Speaking of immigration, he says that 4
there is no fear so long rs our institutions
have the assimilating power, and when
the lion eats the kid he does not turn
into kid, but the latter turns into lion.
When the children of immigrants get
through the public school they are all
Americans. The greatest needed revival
is not of religion, of temperance, or of
commerce, but of common schools.
THREE cotton mills near Augusta, Ga,
have during the past four years, with
capital of 81, 500, 600, paid their opera
tives III cash 81 500, 900. and their stock
holders $40, 900 in dividends, besides
s., GA, 900 for the purchase of
cotton and other material for manufac-
turing purposes. Suchsubstantial figures
as these ought to attract not only capital
but intelligent laborers from points
where work is scarce.