The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-05-13


can no longer blush.-Sprinfeld Re
publican.
BOYS are near-sighted They will yell
Just as loudly at a boy playing marbles
- same rms as ak enc tiye. BLOCKS
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H VfketNisN has taken much pains to
convince himself that four out of every
five murders are committed when the
wind is in the East
The meanest man in the country lives
IN Missouri. He pleaded in breach. of
promise suit that a contract made on
Sunday night was not binding.
a KNOWLEDGE of Greek and Latin is a
great thing in the cure of elaborate and
high priced diseases, but poultice is
the best thing for blind bile.
The heroine Of recent novel is quite
versatile in the crying business. In one
place the author says cher eyes were
suifused with salt tears" while in an
other he tells us that cher tears flowed
fresh"
DIR. HOLMES says that writing poetry
is not half as easy as some folks imagine
Don't let him stuff you with any such
nonsense. It's the easiest sort of work,
and poets always get rich.-Detrou Free
Press.
WISCONSIN paper discussing the
question of female suffrage, thinks one
OF the surest ways to cure woman of
the mania would be to 'force her to
serve upon jury with an unweaned
baby in her arms"
COUNTRY people pity the denizens of
city who have to use lake or river water.
but when an Ohio farmer cleaned out his
well last week he fished out two cats, a
paint keg, two old brooms, an old hat
boot and dozen. shingles.
Two men in Accomac County, Va.
engaged in quarrel as to whether there
were thirty or forty days in a month,
and the thirty-day man had to beat the
other man within an inch of his life be-
fore he could convince him of his error
A GREAT deal of the religion of nova
days is like that of the Boston clergyman
who was getting up petition to have a
murderer pardoned, when he discovered
that the crime had been committed on a
Sunday. He said he couldn't stand such
depravity rs that.-.Sdn Francisco Post
Miss GLADDIs HoMAN, of Mapleton,
Illinois, committed suicide rather than
have to get up in the morning before she
wanted to- This ought to show parents
how really unpleasant IL is for young
folks to practice that execrable maxim,
early to bed and early to rise" etc.
MEN sometimes say that, though their
lives may not be Just right, their hearts
are all right Impossiblel A farmer
never puts the poorest apples on the top
of his barrel, nor does the merchant
place the meanest goods in his show
window. The best part of us is our out
ward life. -IdIDlQge.
GAMBETrA is the most rapid talker and
writer among European statesmen; in
public speeches he has at times delivered
one hundred and eighty words minute,
and when he puts pen TO paper-which
is rarely-he writes at the rate of forty
words a minute. Stenographers find it
no easy matter to keep up with him.
The kind of tea that many persons
buy is shown by the testimony of a
Rhode Island lawsuit, in which it APP
peared that a shop-keeper had only one
kind of tea, but sold it to different GUS
toners for various kinds and at various
prices, suiting the price to the desires of
the purchaser. His stock was limited,
but he wished TO make it appear full;
and the success with which he accom-
plished his purpose showed how little
knowledge most tea-drinkers have of the
differences between one brand and quail
ity and another