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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-26
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The public domain of the United
States, acquired by cession from the
several States and by treaty from
France, Spain, and Mexico, Texas and
Russia, amounts to 1884, 235. 81 square
miles, or about 1925, $40, 600 acres, and
Its cost was, in round numbers, 1922
600 600, of which sum the Government
has received back about 100000, 600
for lands sold. Down TO July, 1880. the
Government of the United States had
disposed, by sale, of about 10, 600, 900
acres by act of donation, 5000, 900
acres ; in bounties for military and naval
service, 81 600, 600 acres for internal
improvements, 7,000,00 acres; by
grant of saline lands, $50, 900 acres for
town sites and county seats, $50, 900;
by patent to railway companies, Al, 000,-
600; canal grants, 1000, 900; for mill
tary roads, ], 800, $50; by sale of mineral
lands (since 1860, 14S, 600 homesteads,
%, 600, 600 scrip, $500, 600 coal lands,
10, $50; stone and timber lands (act of
1879, 21,OO0; swamp and overtiowed
lands given to States, 90, 600, 600 for
educational purposes, 7S, 900, 900 under
Timber Culture act, $3.50. 900 Gradu-
alton act of 1854, %, 600, 600.
Mineral and timber lands are now our
L
lands are Of nominal value apart from
the mineral underlying them. Our re-
naming public lands, exclusive of Alas
ka, We're, in June, 1880, estimated as
follows Timber lands, 5000, 600
acres; coal lands, defined, $3.50, 600;
precious metal bearing lands, Ga 900, 900
acres, but this area will be increased as
the pastUrage and timber lands are ex-
plored lands in Southern States, agri-
cultural, timber and mineral, %, 900, 600;
lands irrigable from streams, 80, 000, 600:
pastuTage, desert, including certain
lands III Indian reservations and bar
rens, $50, 000,0 900. The above is exclu-
sive of Alaska
Sales of lands were first made In
blocks of townships and of eight sec
tons, but soon in tracts of $40 and 100
acres, and later of 120, eighty and forty
acres. The presumption act of 1S41 was
a progressive step, giving preference
to actual settlers, also permitting them
TO pay for their lands with cash or war
rants. But the most important of all
our land laws was the Homestead act of
1862. Down to June 80, 1880, there
were 469, 784 entries made under this
act, embracing %, 667, O49 acres, and
patents were issued in 1872, 237 cases, for
10, 265, 337 acres. The operation of the
Homestead act produces no revenue to
the Government, the fees and commits
sion being but little, if at all, in excess
OF the cost of survey and dispositions.
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A Salt Cure.

Here is a simple thing that is WORD
of attention. 1t may be the mea -
doing much good, and, at any rate,
do no harm
John Bland, an Englishman, writ1s
the New York Herald of a discover T.
claims to have made IN disease and !
prevention. The letter treats of t.
theory of disease germs, their develot
ment, and new treatment for their d1
struction The germ theory of dise,ai
admitted, common salt is the univesBS
panacea and antidote of germ pod
Salt kills both vegetable and ,-0sg 3
germs, and vegetables and amin -
administered in quantities large
Farmers sometimes steep the
grain in brine to kill the vegetable
which would destroy its growth
sailing process of fish and meat r "
the same office for their pres9 eek
People who eat little salt are more
to contract and develope disease - =
those who take mans allotted thrsi
quarters of an ounce daily portion os,-srl,
chloride of sodium BANDS cop~ =
is that salt-eating is the thing -
germs of cholera, yellow fever,
pox, or any other infections % =
tagious disease, when epidemiv
around. Salt is cheap and accca
Two or three ounces a day in ii n
danger from disease germs will - =
jure anybody even if it does no :
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and less heating The product of an
acre of barley is of moro value as food
Tor horses or other animals than the pro-
quot OF an acre OF oats of equal quality.
The grain being harder when dry than
oats, 1t can not be consumed so well in a
raw state, but if fed ground it should be
soaked IN water or boiled. When ground
and fed IN conjunction with cut fodder,
there is nothing superior as food for
working teams. Barley to keep the
system open and the skin soft. So long
as our American farmers grow bar
ley with no use for il in view but
mailing, so long viii it be subject to
extreme fluctuations in price. and the
business risky and uncertain one for
the grower. But when the value of it
for feeding stock is realized the markets
will be steadier and the profits of the
crop more certain. Many farmers grow
both barley and oats, the one to sell and
the other to feed. 1t would be wiser,
if the soil is good for barlev-as most ali
soils are-to grow portion at least for
feeding purposes insteado of oats. Ground
barley is an excellent food for fattening
hogs. We know from actual experience
that horses Will perform as much labor
when fed on barley as they do when fed
on oats During the Mexican war all
the gram that horses and mules had
from the time the army left Jalapa for
the interior was barley ard corn, but
mostly barley. Cavalry horses as well
as those used for teamine purposes,
could not have been in better condition
than they were. minneapolis Tribune.
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Pen and Ink sketching on Liz

Pen and ink sketching ON linen
popular favor. A preparation of
is first applied to the fabric, and v
it is dry the place should be presseee
a moderately hot iron. The Nless{
first outlined in pencil lightly. q
beginning with ink, or the out
be placed upon the linen by r.
bon or transfer paper and
other hard, fine point. Thre
should only Indicate the desisae
enough to serve as a guide. AIT \
sion and shading must be left to tie "a
Indelible ink must be used. fol
should be frequently shaken to e'o
evenness. The pen must not be pr 1
into the cloth. A broad line mgl
made by several light strokes of thH<
and not by one heavy stroke.y
the dtsign is completed it
exposed to the sunlight two and
to secure all the depth and sol,
sunlight can impart. The ~
color depends upon the length
the design is exposed before the pSo, !
ton is washed from the fabric. Hs9 +
chiefs can be beautifully marked
way with little care and attentidln :
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life Saved.

He wanted legal advice, and when the
lawyer told him to state his case he began:
''About two years ago [ was oolenough
to fall IN love"
''Certainly-I understand"
''And for a year past have been en-
gagged to her"
"Of course"
"a few months ago l found upon an
alyzing my heart, that L did not love her
as 1 should. Ny affections had grown
cold"
Certainly they had-go on.
81 saw her Pug-nose in its true shape,
and 1 realized that her shoes were No. 6. D."
Exactly, and you made up your mind
to break off the match? That was per-
fectly proper"
eyes, that was my obj6ce - -
threatens to sue me for breach of prom
Use.
Certainly she does, and she'll do it.
too. Has she any love letters from you?'
"That's the hang of it. She TALES
up 326."
"And do they breathe your love?"
81 should say they did; but 1 think
I've got her tight. All them letters are
written on wrapping paper and with pen
Gil, and I've come to ask yOu if such writ
ing as that viii stand law?"
.'Of course it viii. If you had written
with slate andpencil she could hold you. "
"Great hockey but is that sop
cit Is"
''And she's got me fast?"
''She has"
''Well, that settles that, and suppose
I'll have to give in and marry her? ?"
''Unless-"
''Unless what ?"
''You can buy her of. j"
''Egadi that's it-that's the idea, and
you have saved my lifel Buy her Off
why didn't think of it before? Say.
where's the Dollar Store? I'll walk in
on her with a set of jewelry, Irritation
fan, card case and two bracelets, and
she'll give me n quit-clainn deed and
throw in all the poetry ever sent her to
boot!"-Detroat Free Press.
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After a breach of l 500 years the aque-
duct built by the Emperor Augustus to
supply Bologna with water has been re-
stored TO use. Nineteen hundred years
ago the imperial engineers tapped the
Setta near Its junction with the Reno,
about eleven miles from Bologna, and
brought its water to the city through an
underground passage. They followed
the course of the Reno, tunneling lhe
hills, sinking their work beneath the beds
of the precipitous torrents which rush
from the mountains into the river, and
bringing the waters TO the gates Of the
city, where they were divided, one por-
ton going to supply the public baths,
and the other probably destined for the
fountains of streets and public squares
The work of tunneling and the masold
ry were so thoroughly we'll dQ2a6G
both stcnework aid brickwork arc
as solid as the rock itself, the only cons
siderable breaks being where the turbu-
lent Reno had washed away with its
clayey banks several portions of the
aqueduct, or where the headlong tor
rents which rush down into its stream
had excavated their own beds and car
ried away the artificial substructure.
The restoration of this important work
Is due chiefly to Count Gozzadini, who
caused an accurate survey of the aque-
duct to be made about twenty years
ago, and in 1864 published the results of
the investigation In an elaborate me-
moir. Since then the work of restor-
alton has been going on with a thorough
ness and skill calculated to make the
new work as enduring as the old The
aqueduct was originally made of brick
and stone cemented with lime and vol
canic sand, and the unbroken portions
remained as hard as granite.
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INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostratlon
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PEPToNIzED BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and DEMONSTRATING prop
critics: is Invaluable III all enfeebled conditions,
whether the resalt of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration, oyerwork, acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
we'll, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.
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A rightly proud man will do any sort
apf labor rather than have his wife labor
Dor him. If his wife have the time and
Ithe fancy to employ either her brains or
sher fingers in tasks that will bring re-
Enumeration, this money is hers, and not
his, and when he begins to look forward
TO her earnings as part of his income,
he also begins to lose his pride in being
the bread-winner and protector of his
family.
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"You can buy her of. "

IT is a saying among shoemakers that
when one of their trade dies he is trans
formed into an old gray horse. If the say
ing is correct we mayexpect that the Ger
man cavalry eventually viii be mounted
on gray horses almost entirely, for Ger
many has nearly 10000 shoemakers,
or nearly ninety to every 10000 of her
population.
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One experience from, Many.

~ had been sick and miserable so long and
had caused my husband so much trouble and
expense, no one seemed to know what allied me,
that / was completely disheartened and dis
couraged. In this frame of mind got bottle
of Hon Bitters and used them unknown to my
family / soon began to improve and gained
so fast that my husband and family thought it
STRANGE and unnatural, but when L told them
What had helped me, they said, 'Hurrah for
Hop Bitters long may they prosper, Tor they me
have made mother well and US happy The
Mother,-Horne Journal.
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Ansrn's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
Arctic Explorers.

DR.. Isaac 1. Hayes, who was a mem
Der of DIR. Kane's party, reached, in
May, 1861, point, latitude 81 deg. 80
min, beyond which it was impossible to
20. Although a number of expeditions
have gone to the polar regions since
zen, that land reached by Hayes is the
est northerly ever trod by any ex-
brer up to this time 1t is, of course,
to tell how far north the
Kissing Jeanette and her party pene-
Iated, but Hayes is at the head thus
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-26

! Some years ago great London mer-
chant, who lived little way out of
town, frequently failed to get his letters.
Investigation showed that the postmen
,often destroyed them rather than ascend
b slight hill to the merchants house. A
Similar case occurred in Birmingham.
ffdwin Parsons was charged with delay
1hg 2,031 letters. Many contained
kSney, but none had been opened.
len he didn't feel like walk he some
Zines suppressed whole delivery.
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Those languid, tiresome sensations q
you to feel scarcely able to be on your feer
constant drain that is taking from your 4
all its elasticity driving the bloom FROM
cheeks; that continual strain upon vtu.
forces, rendering you irritable and fretfd
easily be removed by the use of that mar
remedy, Hop Bitters. Irregularities al
structions Of your system are relieved az
while the special cause of periodical pain
manently removed. VIII you heed thisX
cinndti Saturday Night
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PIroH paper, the same as that used in
, Covering roofs, when cut into slips and
a p.acea IN convenient situations under
lpe.s ana behind sofas and chairs in a
iar o INV wiz eIiectually repeI the moth mil
-. st,; ,loin uePositng its eggs. If similar
slips sre placed inside the backs aud
seats OF parlor suits they will render the
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-26
Sun Spots.


Professor Wilson. of Glasgow CAV
IN IVA an observation which 0rea
startled the scientific world. He TONS
that sun spots behaved exactly as if u 4
were caverns with sloping sides dno,
the body of the sun. The botto1L
these caverns is generally black v =
the sloplng sides are less so. The -
portion Is, therefore, called the ~ ~
while the less black slopiug sic ~
called the pentIn1br0 of the spots 49,
easy to explain the nature of
reasoning. The sun, it is well KI
revolves on Its axis about once in tweli :
SIX days from east to west, so that n
Will take about thirteen DAYS to trs
across the visible disk or hemisphere
will come on the left-hand border s
hmb and disappear at the right. prov =
1t remains so long. Now, Wilson noz14k
That when spot Is near the lir1.k
penumbra on the side nearest I'll
visual center is hidden from SidHz
on the same principle by whicm ) <Sf
looking into n silver Jug, for ira 49,
from one side of it. that interior -
is nearest the eye is hidden fro5e e ~
view. In fine, he concluded, wifi aeSS
feet justice, that spots were pits or bfs
lows with sloping sides, and we al
justified IN adding that they are cloip,
pits, and not caverns of solid mats
These conclusions of Wilson have -
abundantly confirmed by the K
servers, Mr.. De La Rue and 49,
leagues. and also by the spectroscG
who have devoted themselves to the
1t has furthermore been shown by M
observers why the bottoms and a
but more especially the bottoms of -
caverns should be blacker than the 81 ~
ordinary surface. They are bIacker
cause cause they ,.s are colder, and they are
rush of matter from the high anaqwp-
paratively cold regions of the secss
atmosphere-of some kind of ceges&
hail, we may perhaps imagindA
magnificent is the scale of operaticrv
that fifty or sixty of our own earts !.
might be dropped into the cloud-cave.
formed by the down-rush-at leas
the case of large spots But
rush implies an up-rush, and we
add that down-rush of matter conf
lively cold implies an up-rush of ma.
comparatively hot. We have abundS3
evidence of the existence of such
rushes in the sun. Astronomers - q
been long familiar with the existed, -
two solar phenomena which occur -
gether-spots and facutB. Just as
spot represents something which "a
blacker, and therefore colder, than the
ordinary solar surface, SO facula torch ]
represents something which is brighter
and therefore hotter than the surrounds
ing regions. AS L have said, facule and
sun spots accompany each other. N
We have evidence from various quar-
that the former are not merely highs
in the solar atmosphere, but that {
frequently represent matter in the VI
act of ascending, just as a sun spot fro;
quently represents matter IN the very
act of falling down. -ProfesSOr Balfotir
SteiOart. in Nature.
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HArrERs say that the size OF the hui
man headin England and Scotland has
been gradually diminishing IN size with
in the last quarter of century. 1t IS
rarely that a seven and-three- elghths-
inch hat is asked for now. Is that the
case in this country, also?
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Practical Information.

What Is rack rent, dad 2 inquired a
Comstocker who had been read
y,e news from Ireland.
patient parent laid down the stock
and replied: "Do you know how
ch 1 charge Mr.. Boggarty for his
+ Ia upstairs ?"
~ Yessir; SD a month.
well, now, suppose Mr.. Boggarty
lld take it into his head to have, at
sn expense, new paper put on the
be ceiling vhitened, and all the
ire mended, the room would look
sight prett;er, wouldn't it p
r. % murmured tho intelligent
well, if the minute Boggarty had
all these improvements made | should
kp, and look around, and smile, and
le my money IN my pocket, and re-
R.rk, This is a pretty good sort OF a
3yout for a single man, Boggarty, and
Ou have altogether too soft thing;
pur rent viii be $40 a month hereafter,
That would you think of it p
f.; The innocent child giggled and said,
That would be cheek, wouldn't 1t,
Had p
"Bet your money on it, my boy" re-
Piled the father, beaming kindly upon
bis offspring "That would be rack
renting Mr.. Boggarty, and if he kicked
and claimed that all the improvements
had been made by HIM without costing
me a cent, and / should fire him out,
that would be eviction. I viii now,
continued the parent, warming up,
g briefly review the history of Ireland
lQr the past 700 years. When Brian
Aghu-"
-. 1: Ii Al ry....,~. M,
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FI,a. Cro.outtoes.

THE invalid finds in "Dr. Lindseys Blood
Searcher' Natures great restorer. 1t is Won
derful Sold by all druggists.
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1T Is simply marvellous how quickly constipa-
ton biliousness, sick headache, fever and ague.
and malaria, are cured by Sellers Liver Piils-"
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What the Ancients Thought of the

4uVOns
Nor is it to be marveled at, when we
consider that this planet was tie most
brilliant and ehangeable, as well as the
nearest and apparently largest celestial
body that presented itself to their night
ly view, and that In the clear. exquisite
ether of Arabian skies, and the calm
nights of India and Egypt, it shone
among the heavenly host with a luster
unknown to dwellers in the crowded cit
les of northern cline.
But the children of these tropic lands
did something more than gaze, speculate
and admire. With supreme patience
they reared lofty towers and grand pyra-
mlds, and invented instruments which
have led us step by step to the transit
instrument, the micrometer and the tel
escope of to-day. A college of astrono-
my was founded by the priesthood of
Egypt. the worship of the moon growing
out of their frequent use of her pictured
or carved image In making their meteor
illogical announcements to the people
as, for instance, when the Nile was about
to overflow, warning heralds were sent
through the streets bearing aloft the ia
miliar symbols of the river goddess and
a gilded figure of the moon in the phase
it would present at the date of the ex-
pected rising.
In the course of time, the significa-
ton was forgotten, the symbol was
worshiped, and finally what it repre-
sented deitied. The moon no longer APP
w to the unlettered populace as
a brilliant lamp suspended from
wing dome, and shining until ex-
by the waters of the ocean.
looked upon with awe as n
y stAtilss A.a.y -t<,ries
- eratlon of the moon gradually
with population to ali parts "
e world. We have records>of ancient
Chinese ceremonials, relics found among
Druidical remains in Western Europe.
accounts of astronomical picture writ
ings of a religious character, and lunar
calendars of gold, silver and stone, dis
covered IN ancient temple-ruins in Mexi-
co, Central and South America.
Among the buildings devoted to lunar
worship may be mentioned the wonder
full Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, built
at the combined expense of the nations
of Asia, and the magnificent mansion of
the moon, adjoining the Temple of the
Sun, in ancient Cuzco this building
WIS in form a pyramidal pavilion, with
doors and Enclosures completely incrust-
ed with ghttering silver. Within, on
the southern wall, was painting in
white, presenting the moon as a beauti-
full woman ON either side, along ihe
eastern and western walls, on massive
thrones of silver, were seated the dead
Queens of Peru, embalmed and arrayed
IN regal splendor. -EOpuidr Science
NOJlfHfI-
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Is the BEST sALvE for Cuts Bruises, Ulcers,
Salt Rheum letter, Chapped Hands, chilbisns corns
Get HENRY's cARROLIC sALvE, all others are
coun terfeIts. Price Is cents.
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Flies and Mosquitoes.
15c box Trough on Rats" keeps a house free
from flies, bed-bugs, reaches, rats, mice, DC.

HUH 1IIO', DVV1- DUo'' 1 0'1S111'' 11'47' =
Mr. VANDERBILT's income is marvellous so is
Amberg's Letter File Try it. Cameron, Am
berg Co., Chicago.
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Mountaineering Women.

ASK your druggist about Kidney-Wort. He
will tell you it, always succeeds.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-26

Is the best remedy fer Dyspepsia, Bousness, Malaria,
Indigestion and Diseases Of the Blood, Kidneys, Liver,
Skin, etc.
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Where the Letters Went.

TO BE strong and healthy, women should take
lila E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.