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The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
Medical AdYenfn.0

Medical adventure, which during the
last century has left few of tba b'Ii l-IL4ssicoI
penetralia of humanity unernloIraj has
just conquered the last delicota aI'e3acIe
to the rehabilitation of the body' Op.
erations involving the cutt;n@'cf the
throat and the introduction of food Inv
artificial means were thought - ba the
utmost venture that science wo,,,5 ever
successfully make replacing the s'-v Vested.
wounded, or decaying forces of ,oture.
But Vienna physician, Professor Bill.
roth, has invaded the stomach os a m.
tient, cut a cancer from the ;,,+ricate
tissues, and the subject is not o1IH- alive
but In better health than ever Refore
making the experiment the doctor prac-
ticed exhaustively on the ston,ach of
dogs, removing various parts restoring
the covering, and succeeded in establish
ing the basis of his scientific principle OF
resectlon. The human subject uos n yo-
man, and the cancer enormous leaving
some doubt In the operators mind as to
the elasticity of the stomach to adjust
itself after the cutting out .of such a
mass. But no difficulty was exnar;anced.
The woman began by drinking milk and
graduated TO more substantial aIimentary
nOurishment. The operation involved
the opening of the stomach, the cntting
of the masses of tissue-like covering
the removal Of several pounds Of cancer
ated accumulation, the reclosing of the
aperture, and the provision for artificial
distension of the new coating Physi-
clans the world over viii be delighted if
not surprised by this wonderful perform
ance, removing as it does another from
the list of generally supposed fatal NAL
aides. -PhiIadciphid Times.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
The Art of BEING a Bore.

''The other night at the opera ball L
met one Of our condolences, who is gen
orally recognized as among the most
amiable in her profession, and especially
fond of gayety.
Wen, you have plenty Of fun I
observed.
oh, so. so ! the men, and especially
the young men, are such bores.
I'm a single word the fair speaker had
mconsciously defined the constitutional
malady Of this French people, which
passes for the wittiest nation in the
world. and IS so in fact; but which occa-
sIonally expends vast amount OF wit for
the purpose Of appearing to be wltless.
a. may seem to be uttering paradox,
n ludicrous contradiction, but the fact l
speak Of Is simply the exaggerated result
of our instructive horror of all that Is
cold, sad and serious.
IS So great Is our horror of e7uiH that
we defy it. for the same reason that saw
ages worship what they most fear. This
is why, ia this insolent, skeptical, mock
ing, laughing France of ours 1t has be
come a profession TO be bore.
Not a vulgar profession, but an ex-
cclIcnt aud Incompatible one, without
risk or peril, which opens all doors aud
Is a safe conduct to all aspirations.
Nevertheless, it must not be sup
posed that one can succeed the first time,
or in one day in becoming perfect bore.
One Is not born such under this sun of
ours. One can only become so, just as
one becomes an orator, after long and
continued violence done to his own ma
ture. Even with the true vocation and
especial natural aptitude, one must pa
tiently practice for years.
" For it Will not suffice to be simply a
bore; one must also be serious, very Sc
rious.
a certain apprentice in diplomacy
who was not greatly worried by his ex-
cess of brain-power once asked NJ. de
Talleyrand for advice how to succeed In
his career.
'' First of all, replied Prince Bene-
vent, never laugh ?
:" Thanks, Monseigneur-and then
g and secondly-never laugh !
"There is no use denying it, the whole
secret lies in that. Fancy the influence
a man must have who never laughs p
LIE VoItaire.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
How President Grew Lives in Paris


Jules Grevy keeps the thrifty Mrs.
Gilpin's maxims in view, who, though on
pleasure bent, had frugal mind. NJ
Greyy was well-to-do bourgeois when
elected for seven years to succeed Mac
Mahon. His home was far off IN the.
east of France, in the Jura Mountains.
In Paris he had a modest apartment
on the third floor in the Rue st. Arnaud,
Just off the Boulevard des Capucines,
the quarter best known to Americans.
From the 500, 000francs and perquisites OF
his place he has already saved enough TO
enable him TO buy three imposing build
ings in the court quarter of town, near
the most perfect bit of park scenery IN
the world-the little park Monceau,
whose shaded streets are inhabited by at
least three royal personages during GER
tain months in the year. We are apt TO
grumble good deal about the eXpendl-
ture of the White House, but it Is very
little, if any, more than the budget
given the French Executive. 1t Is true
that the French President, being IN a
great capital like Paris, is compelled to
entertain more than Is considered neces-
sary in Washington, but Grevy has not
followed the precedents established by
Thiers and MacMahOn. The hospitah-
IlGS ul1ltE IulbTb Nltu Win IllC L4Not
sumptuous foteS of royalty, while the
Irish in MacMahon led him to keep the
Palace of Elysee-the French White
House-open every day in the year TO
the young military men and mobiles Of
the Republic, whose pay gives them lit
tie opportunity to live well. The most
showy entertainments of the Republic
are, curiously enough, those given by
- I.lose R,a1trlg,, thn
place assigned the Speaker of the AS
sembly. 1t was originally the Palace of
the Princess of Conda, Of tho house OF
Bourbon. and hence derives its name
Under Napoleon III. it was known as
the Palace of the Legislative Corps, or
Congress. Here Gambetta lives III more
regal state than Grevy. He Is sur
rounded by aregimentof the Republican
Guard, strapping six-footers, with brass
helmets and long yellow plumes falling
down their backs When he goes out
officially a company of this glittering
corps guards the Speakers carriage,
and on public occasions surround him in
his official promenades. Anything less
democratic than the state and ceremonial
of Gambetta can not well be imagined
1t was this weakness for ceremonial and
luxury that first broke the cohesion of
his support in the Legislature the dep
uties who had known him living merriIy
on a roll and glass of wine at the cafe
Procope rejecting with scorn and bitter
ness upon his giddy adoption of the
forms of Imperialism that he had in his
youth and poverty cauterized with such
eloquence and persistency. But though
weakly fond of ostentation and high
living, Gambetta is not charged with
| parsimony. He has grown rich, but
/ iegitimatelv, through the lucky estab-
| lishment of his now powerful journal.
! La Rcp1tbIigue FTdncdise The French.
too, are not apt to be severe on lavish
| display 1t makes trade brisk, and the
FreDchman of to-day has become what
Napoleon sarcasically called the Eng
hsh seventy years ago-a nation Of shop
| keepers.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
UnSIlOd Horses.

In Mexico, Peru, Brazil aud else,
where, unshod horses are daily worked
over roads of all kinds, carrying heavy
packs from the interior down the coast,
the journey to and fro being often extend
ed to several hundred miles, and they
never wear out their hoofs. The roads
are neither softer nor smoother than
those of England and Ireland. On the
wllds OF EXmoor and DartmOOr, as also
III the Orkneys ana on the Welsh nils,
and III many parts of Continental Eu-
rope, horses run unshOd over rocks,
through ravines, and up and down pre-
cipitOus ridges, yet they never sutler
from contracted feet, or from corns or
cracks, until they become civilized and
have been shOd. Differences III the
quality of the soil, be 1t hard or soft,
stony or sandy, smooth and slippery,
are of comparatively little Importance
to the horse whose feet are rs nature
made them. The unshod horse can deal
successfully with all roads. In the re-
treat of the French army from Moscow,
the horses lost ali their shoes before
they reached Vistala yet they found
their way to France over hard, rough
and frozen ground. The natural sole of
the horses foot Is almost impenetrable.
1t is SO hard and strong rs to protect the
sensible sole from all harm. And all
horses feet exposed TO hard objects are
made harder by the contact, provided
only that the sole is not pared.-SIr
Geo. II. For.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
Why We Ask Pennlc to Dinner.

In asking people to dinner you shuuld
put 10 Yourself the question, "Wlly do
ask them2' aud unless the answer be sat
isfact0rv tlsry are not likely to contribute
much to the aCrceability and sociaEty of
the entertainment. They may be orna-
mental: it may be necessary, IN a give
and-take sense. 20 have them in return
for dinner already long received and
digested; but unless they are seusihlc,
social, unaffected and clever men, they
are not likely to contribute much 10 the
hilarity of the entertainment Non may
ask n man because he talks brilliantly
and eloluently; because hc Is a distin-
euished artists. author or orator: or be
cause he Is a "iolly good follow. But
do not ask any, however much above the
average. who IS pig, who Is pretcntious.
who Is disputatious or who has not the
feelings, habits, manners and education
Of a gentlemen. Tho presence of men
OF this stamp Is destructive of good fel-
lowship. They are social pets.-Gas-
TOHOHliSt.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
Thnt TerrihIc Mnstcr. Snperstition.

Rev. !. Pcarse, of the London Mis-
sionary Society, writes that every vest
ige of idolatry has been swept away
from the districts IN Madagascar In
which he labors, and vet that they ar
great believers in charms, superstitions
and witchcraft. 1t was reported that a
dog had spoken and had announced that
n hurricane, causing grievous famine.
would devastate the district; that i'm
mense hailstones would descend, and
that even the heavens would fall I,
avert this the people were told to get six
black and six white beads and to weal
them round the neck and no harm would
come to them. Soon after tins men
women, and children were seen with
twelve beads strung around their necks
The fear of witches and witchcratt is a
great evil among this people. They arr
not idolaters, but their Christianity has
in it a bad mixture.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
Wooden Rollers

The almost incredible feat of making
steam boilers of wood was accomplished
seventy-six years ago in Philadelphia,
where they were used to furnish steam 10
the pumps for pumping up the river
water for the use of the city water works.
They, however, lasted only two years.
when it became so difficult to keep them
steam-tight that they were abandoned for
iron boilers. How was it possible to heat
water in wooden boilers? 1t was accom-
plished by having an iron fire-box twelve
feet long, six feet wide, and two feet
deep, placed inside a rectangular wooden
chest, fourteen feet long and nine feet
square, made of plank nearly half foot
thick, securely bolted together by iron
rods passing through the planks. The
iron tire-box had eight vertical fues of
one foot in diameter, through which the
water circulated, and around which the
fire acted, and passed upward through an
oval flue, first above the fre-box, carried
from the back of the boiler to near the
front and back again, when it passed cut
into the chimney. 1t was expected that
these boilers would be very economical,
on account of the non-conducting prop
erty of wood and so they were to a GER
tain extent, as the boilers did not need
any protecting covering.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
About Hornets.

Old Jerry Greening, the hunter, says
that on one occasion he shot bear and
was going to drag the carcass home,
when he discovered the bear had Just
been robbing a yellow jackets nest and
was still covered with the fiery little in
sects. "'F that bar he'd only been
wounded I'd waltzed right in an fixed
i'm, said jerry, 'tbut couple O. them
cussed little hot-tailed critters came arter
me an L skipped, an l didn't dare go
arter thet bar N two days"
Hornets build their nests high up in
the branches of trees or fasten them TO
the rocks. But as cute as these insects
are the bear is more than their match
4 bear discovers a hornets nest far out
on a limb beyond his reach. He climbs
the tree, breaks the longest branch he
can get, and, holding it in his fore paws,
hits the nest until it drops to the ground.
Sometimes he dances or stamps on the
limb till the nest is shaken off Should
the nest be on a rock the bear goes up to
the top of the ledge above it, where he
gathers stones and sticks and rolls them
down the side of the rock till one hits
the nest and sends it tumbling to the
ground below. The hornets appear to
know what has caused their ruin and all
remain in the fallen nest till the bear
appears, when they attack him.
"a hornets sting" says jerry Green
ing, "is bout S strong s q whack from
n sledgc-hammer, an one hornet II
knock bull down, but their bite won't t
raise a lump bigger'n n buckshot on a
bar, an the shaggy critter thinks its
fun. He'll stan on his him legs an
square of with his fore paws Jest as eff
he were a boxin' with somebody, only
he's durn keerful t keep his eyes shet
Jest ez if he didn't keer a cent for 'em.
Once't l seed she bar knock hornets
nest bigger'n a half-bushel basket off n
a rock an pick it up an tuck it under
her arm an walk off with it ez cool ez if
t were one o. her cubs. - Correspond
ent Philadelphia Times.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
Denver Pennle.

A Denver correspondent of the Hart
ford Times says: To discriminate in
speaking of society here is to prepare to
receive the censure of some and the ap-
proval of others; but your correspondent
can safely assert that it is decidedly n
mixture. Culture Is not a necessary
qualification. Itwould seem that wealth
is taken for an equivalent for education
and refinement. Recent discoveries in
the mines have made ''bonanza kings -
and paved the way to social as we'll ms
official position. But this city is not
alone in this respect. During the day
the city is thronged with people rushing
to and fro, all full of business or cares Of
some kind. Let it be great or small
business, man goes about it lust the
same as if his success depended on the
days work. This is a noted Character
istic of the average Denverite.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

The moon is in a state of decrepitude, des
Nrrld.- Professor Proctor.
The moon is dead--defunct-played out
so ssys a very learned doctor;
She Iooketh WELL beyond doubt;
Perhaps she's IN a trance, dear Proctor.
At any rate, she's most enhancing
For one Of such decrePit age;
And on her radiant beauties glancing,
She charms the eyes Of youth and sage.
And 80 the man upon hers perishedl
He lived In dnletul isolationi
Poor wretch No wife his bosom cherished,
Nochildren squalrd his consolation.
Yet she's adored by all the Gypslcs,
Whose lovers sigh beneath her beams,
She sids the steps Of staggering tipSies,
And silvers Ger romantic streams
And once she caught Endymion sleeping,
And she stopped 20 kiss him in grove.
Upon him very slyly creeping;
lie was her first aud early love.
But that's very ancient story,
And was n youthful indiscretion,
When she WAS in her primal glory,
Ere scandal schouls had held a session.
Dear. darling m0oni lote upon her,
watch her nightly tn the sky;
But oh, upon my word Of honor,
Ia rather she were dead than |.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
Did Him Ennd.

Mr. Charles H Bauer, editor of the
New York Union, and Notary Public, in
n late issue, mentions the following:
Patrick Kenny. Esq, some time ago, sui
fered much from rheumatism aud tried
almost every means TO rid himself Of this
painful evil, but in vain. Hewas advised
to use st. Jacobs Oil, which he did so
successfully, that all pain has left him
and he Is as healthy and strong as ever
before Mr. Kenny Is an enthusiastic
advocate of St Jacobs Oil, and it has
done him good-Nc,o York Union.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
The CoIored Porter.

1t is a well-known fact among people
who travel that the sleepiest in the
sleeper is the colored porter. The
shrieking of the locomotive will some
times cause him to open an eye, and the
derailment of the car has been known to
arouse him suddenly, but no passenger
mas yet been able to produce similar
effects, although human ingenuity has
been violently exercised in that direc-
ton. But Just as the thirsty occupant
of berth or section is about to give up
in despair, or get up in a fury, Trojan
inventor throws himself into the situa-
ton, and instantly all is changed-the
porter is at last at the mercy of the pas
senger. This gratifying transformation
is accomplished through the aid of
electricity. The wire from q powerful
battery in the car is connected with an
electric disk in the cushion of the porter's
seat. If you want him at any time, all
you have to do is to touch a knob at the
head of your berth, thereby permitting
the electric fluid to make a sudden trip
from battery to disk, and the thing is
done. With yell of dismay the African
rises to the roof the car, and when he
comes down again, with the whites of
his eyes the most conspicuous features
of his perS wleI, he is ready for business,
and proves to be both obliging and effec-
tive. Whether or not this admirable in
yention has been patented, we are not
informed. Troy Times.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN' s PRPToNIzED BEEF Tonic the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and hfe-sustaining prop
critics; is invaluable in all enfeebed conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion nervous pros
tration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
well, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

THE London Medical Journal insists
that Bright's disease is the result OF the
immoderato use of iced drinks. and seeks
to prove this with figures showing that
the disease prevailsin any countryin pro-
portion with the amount of ice consumed
there. We of the United States nsa 90
per cent. more ice than any Enroneon
country, and the disease Is Is Der cent.
worse than in Europe England comes
next, while in the wine drinking conn
tries the disease is very seldom seen and
in semi-civilized nations, where ice IS not
used, it is wholly unknown. -
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
MANY people are busy in the world
gathering together handful of thorns
to sit upon.


How many children and women are slowly
and surely dying, or rather being killed. by ex-
cessive doctoring, or the daily use OF some drug
or drunken stuff called medicine, that no one
knows what it is made of, who can easily be
cured and saved by Hop Btters, made of Hops,
Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion, &c, which is
so pure simple and harmless that the most frail
woman, weakest invalid smallest child can
trust in them. VIII You be saved by them?
See other column.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

WE never saw any one joyous when
suffering from pain;-neuralgia, for in
stance. In relation to this malady Mr..
George Guyett, Prop. Guyett House,
thus informed our representative: L have
used St Jacobs Oil for neuralgia, and
can confidently recommend it to any one
similarly affected. FttIls,
.ShebOyQd1l co. NeI0S.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

WHAT is the world? A dream within
a dream; as we grow older each step is
an inward awakening. The youth
awakes, as he thinks from childhood;
full-grown man despises the pursuits of
youth as visionary; the old man looks
on manhood as feverish dream. Is
death the last sleep?
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

THE Elmira Free Press says that
"Adam was the first man that was evict-
ed" but as that paper failed to spell it
sEve-icted" it allowed an opportunity to
unpardonably slip away.-Neto Haven
Reofster. Yes, we recollect; Adam paid
no rent. and his absentee Landlord COM
pelled him to leave early in the fall.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

Expose yourself day and night; eat too rnuch
without exercise; work too hard without rest:
doctor all the timei take all the vile nostrums
advertised, and then you viii want to know
How to Get Well
Which is answered in three words: Taka Hon
Bltters! See other column.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

TICKLING induces laughter, except tickling in
he Throat. which causes coughing,-at once
emoved by DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. rs cents
a bottle.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08
CoaId Never Have Done

They that govern most make least
no ise.
The Hickman courier., 1881-04-08

n,v household duties had 1 not been strength
oned and sustained by Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-02-19

The Dubuque Telegraph headlines it's
telegraph news: Cream of the Wires"
A brief whey, we suppose, to show what
Sss se-curA.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-02-19

The many SCARED veteran Of the re-
publican party, both physically and
mentally, who has done more towards
making the prominent men Of the terri
tory what they are, than their own exer-
tiers, and whose life has been wasted in
one long self-sacrilicing struggle Tor the'
good o fthe party has the folding from
the Press:
'The resignation of the engrossing
clerk was received and accepted, and u
number of nominations made. Among
the number was John l.. Taylor, of Gus
ter who was nominated by Fred J. Cross.
He got left as he usually does at every
thing he undertakes, and a Yankton
man Was elected to fill the vacancy"
Wen bet that the truth from the lips
Of John L. Taylor will disclose the fact
that this is another case of sclf-sacriice,
and that Taylor withdrew in order to
benefit some ~nappreciative friend.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-25
FEARFUL WRECK.
A PASSENGER TRAIN PLUNGEs OVER
AN EMBANKMekT.
One Car Falls One Hundred and Fifty Feet
Eight Persons Killed Outright and
Many lnjured-A List Of the
Killed and Wounded.
OTHER GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
A PLUNGE TO DEATH.

A Passenger Coach Rolls Down Q $50
Foot Embankment-Eight Persons
Killed and Many Injured.
DENVER, April 23.-A special passen.
ger train left Antonio for Oh anna yester-
day at IL o'clock, and when near Ozier,
N. NJ, thirty.eight miles from Antonio,
a passenger coach jumped the track and
rolled down an embankment one hun.
dred and fifty feet, killing seven males
and one female, and injuring all the
other passengers. The following are the
killed: Mrs. G. Dectededet, residence
unknown; James Lynch, jamestown,
Kan; d. G. Brewer, Springfield, Mo-;
G. Hall, Indianola. Iowa; L Isaacs,
Terra Amoesita, New Mexico; d.
D. Wilson, Leavenworth. Kan
sas; ID. G. Shoales, Lawrence,
Kan, and one unknown. The remains
are now awaiting directions from friends,
and the wounded will be taken to Den.
yer. The passenger coach was smashed
to pieces. The cause OF the accident is
supposed to be softening of the ground
caused by late heavy rains.
The wounded are: Geo. Innman, OF
Kansas, broken leg; George X. Page,
Pleasanton. Kansas, broken rib; ID. r.
Brewer, Marshfeld, No., bruised; A. ].
Brewer, Mashfield, Mo-, badly bruised.
Several others are badly hurt. The
wounded are under the care OF the rail-
road surgeon and two assistants, and
will probably recover. The railroad
men are very reticient, making it diff.
cult to obtain particulars.