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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-14
Cold SNAPS.

We're havin' some pretty wintrish
weather, said old Daddy WOtherspoon
to Uncle Sammy Honniwell, ms the two
gentlemen met near the City Hall.
Right for'ard weather for the season.
"Jist so; jist so, conceded Uncle
Sammy. Reminds me of the fall of
1881. 1t commenced long the fore part
of November, and froze stiff till March.
Good, smart weather, too. l remember
that it was so cold in Brooklyn that
November that bilin' water froze over
hot fire"
Daddy Wotherspoon looked at him
and braced himself. eyes, yes," said
he, q mind it well. That's the fall the
milk froze in the cows. But the cold
season was in 1927. 1t commenced In
the middle of October and ran through
to April. All the oil froze in the lamps,
and we didn't have a light until spring
set in.
GAY, ay," responded Uncle Sammy,
growing rigid /" It's just like yesterday
to me. l walked 140 miles due east
from Sandy Hook, on the ice, and slid
back, owing to the convexity of the
earth, you know. 1t was down hill
cold as the winter of 1921. That season
commenced in September, and the mer-
curry didn't rise degree till May. Don't
you remember now we used to breathe
hard, let it freeze, cut a hole In 1t,
and crawl in for shelter? You haven't
forgotten that ?"
mot l." said Daddy Wotherspoon,
after short pause. "That's the win
ter we used to give the horses melted
lead to drink, and keep a hot fire under
'em so it wouldn't harden till they got 1t
down. But that was nothin' 10 the spell
of 1917. We begun to feel it in the hat
ter part of August, and she doomed
stiddy till the Both of June. got
through the whole spell by living in an
ice-house. 1t was too cold to go ont
doors, and I jist csmped in an ice
house. You remember that season of
1917. That's the winter we wore un-
dershirts of sand-paper to keep up
friction"
"Wen, 1 should say L did, retorted
Uncle Sammy. "What remember
1877? Deed do That was the spell
when it took steam grindstone four
days to light match. Ay, ayl But
do You know / was uncomfortably warm
that winter ?"
"How sop demanded Daddy Woth-
erspoon, breathing hard.
huInln uIOunu yOuT lct-uOuSS ~
find out where you got In. 1t was an
awful spell, though. How long did it
last? E? From August till the Both of
June? 1 guess you're right. But you
mind the snap of 1913, don't you? 1t
commenced ON the 1st of July, and went
around and Tapped over week. That
wear the smoke froze in the chimneys
and we had to blast it out with dyna-
mite. / think that was the worst we
ever had All the clocks froze up so we
didn't know the time for 3 year, and
when men used to set fire to their build
in's SOS to raise the rent. Yes, indeed.
/ got So, 900 month for four burnin'
buildin's. There was heap of sufferin'
that winter, because we lived on alco-
hol and phosphorus, till the alcohol
froze, and then we eat the brimstoue
ends of matches and jumped around till
they caught fire. Say, you"
But Daddy Wotherspoon had fled.
The statistics were too much for him.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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FOote and Jenny Wright.

PASSING one day near the now demol-
lshed Kings Bench prison, Foote OBJ
served small BARRIERS shop, the broken
windows of which were mended with pa
per bearing the legend, "Shave for a
penny Over the door were the lines:
Here lives Jenny Wright,
ehaves as well as any man in England,
Almost-not quite
And thinking to obtain some fun from
the author of these inscriptions, whom
he Justly concluded to be an odd fellow,
he pulled off his hat, and thrusting his
head through paper pane, called out,
g is Jenny Wright at home?" The bar
ber immediately thrust his head through
another pane and replied, ''No sir, he
has lust popped out Foote laughed
hearuly, and gave the man guinea,
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VIZ pin as much in avoiding the fail

WE pin rs much in avoiding the fail
inCs ofDthers MS we do in initiating that
in whiG they excel
or an Ia, things by which mankind cursed,
Their ow. bad ienPers surely are the worst
TuF suggestions of conscience ought
in ever case to be regarded, not only
because they are true but because they
are important.
ArrpUGH it is dangerous to have too
much nowlcdge of certain subjects, It is
still mre dangerous to be totally ignor-
ant Of hem.
FvF.YrHGNG falls and Is effaced. A
few fed under the grounds reiEns So pro
found silence, and yet 80 much tumult
on thesuriace.
lis hat considers how little he dwells
upon he condition of others viii learn
how lile the attention of others il at
tractedby himself
Olp we r. the night Of life as night is
the oldage of the day Still, night Is
full Of sgnificance. and for many is more
brllian than day.
ATIINs OF beauty j. joy iorever,
J. invrlineSs increases; i; viii never
PA-s into nothingnrss- heGfs.
WHIST shame keeps its watch, virtue
Is not Wholly eXtiuguished in the heart,
nor vii moderation be utterly exiled
from tin minds of tyrants
MoRE hearts pine away in secret
anguishfrom the want Of kindness from
those wio should he their comforts than
for any dher calamities in life.
A MAxhas not time to subdue his pas
sions. establish his soul in virtue, and
come up 70 the perfection of his nature
before heis hurried off the stage.
TIE cup that Is full viii hold no more.
Keep both the head and heart full of
good thoughts, that bad ones may not
find room 10 enter.
BEAUTY, y,it A'sh birth, desert In .eryiee;
To euviols and cAlumniating time.
To spend too much time in studies is
sIotb. 10 use them too much for orna-
fneut Is affcctation; TO make Judgment
wholly -, tl.eir rules Is the humor Of a
scholar.
FoxrRNELLR daintily compliments the
sex when he compares women to clocks
-"the latter serve to point one the
hours. and the former to mske us forget
them.
IT is nm error Of the unlearned TO sup
poso that the knowledge of books is of
no account. and an error of scholars to
think there Is no other knowledge worth
having.
FKoM the remembrance Of our faults
VIC draw the most cfficacious counsels
and find the secret Of that language
which may make them understood by
others.
A MrD1ocRrrY of fortune, with gentle
ness of mind, viii preserve us from fear
and envy, which Is n desirable condition,
for no man wants power to do mis-
chief
II exaItation of the mind can only be
produced by what is extraordinary, it is
natural that it should be slight in com
mon situations. and pass entirely away
by continued experience.
MrN's Thought are much according to
tbeir inclinations; their discourses and
speeches according to their learning and
infused opinions, but thei- deeds are Of
ten as they have been accustomed
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The Difference.

Tennyson can take worthless sheet
of paper and, by writing poem on it,
make it worth $4,000 That's Genius.
Mr. Vanderbilt can write fewer words ON
a similar sheet and make it worth S50,-
600, 000 That's Capital And the United
States can take an ounce and a quarter
of gold and stamp upon it an Eagle
bird and Twenty Dollars. That's
Money. The mechanic can take the ma
terial worth fifty dollars and make it into
watch worth 800 That's Skill. The
merchant can take an article worth
TWENTY-FIVE cents and sell it to you for
800. That's Busines. A lady can pur-
chase n comfortable bonnet for ten dol
lars, but prefers to pay 500 for one, be-
cause it is more stylish. That's Foolish
ness. The ditch-digger works ten hours
a day, and shovels out three or four tons
of earth for one dollar. That's Labor
Richmond State.
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Reuef,ciaI Effect of yexation.

A French paper mentions the follow
ing as fact: "a shoeing smith, resid-
ing in the Rue Princesse, who had been
for some time partially deprived of the
use of his legs by rheumatism, perceived
that some thief had taken away num-
Der of horse-shoes. He was so excited
by this discovery that a profuse perspi-
ration burst out all over him, which to
his amazement, had the effect of restoring
the use of his legs, and the first use he
made of his recovered powers was to
walk to the commissary of police to make
9 declaration of the theft.
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II humanity continues as gullible as it
has shown itself in the last few years, we
shall advocate new kind of school
primer in order that people may learn in
their childhood what you can't beat into
some of them with q triphammer, even
when they are old enough to go to Con-
gress.
One lesson we should advocate having
fixed UP in something after this style:
'sWhat is three card monte ??
'sIt is bad, bad game"
'who plays three card monte?'
zone man who looks like farmer.
One man who looks like a new-school
philosopher.
''Can two play this gamer
Yes, my child. Even four can play
at this game"
"What does the fourth man do?'
He gets left, my child. He gets
badly left. He loses all his money. He
pulls his hair and uses wicked words"
''Then the fourth man is an ass for
playing"
HE Is an ass - Wheeling Leader.
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BE, oming as l. meet and At,
A lius among the 4 sys 10 Knit
The generations each with each

- ArtFlAns
What comfort some pedagogues might
derive from the thought that wise pupils
can learn as much from fool as from
philosopher - J'cdder.
Instructors should not only be skillful
in those sciences which they teach, but
have skill in the method of teaching and
patience in the practice.-Dr. Watts.
And when the world shall link your
with gracious lives and manners fne,
The teacher shall assert her claims,
And proudly whisper, These we're Winel'
The eminences of their scholars com
mend the memories of schoolmasters to
posterity, who otherwise, IN Ohscurity,
had been altogether forgotten. Thomas
Fi1Hcr.
Pretty were the sight
II our old halls could caauge their sex, and haunt
With prudes for prictors, dousgrrS for deans,
And sweet girl-sIaduates in their golden hair.
Ennyl man who has kept a skool for
ten years ought to he made Major Gen
eral, and have a penshun for the rest OF
his material days, and a hoss and wagon
to do his going around in.-JOsh Bill
HRJs.
Der wsyward childhood wOuld't thou hold firm
Ana sun ,he0 In ,s@ IisAs Of happy faces;
Love, Hope, and Patience-thTse must be thy
And in thine own hOart let thom first keep school.
-CoeTid1>.
One-half of the children cried in cho-
rus, Yes, sirl' Upon which the other
half, seeing in the gentleman's face that
yes was wrong, cried out in chorus,
mo. sirl'' as the custom is in these ex-
amina tions. Dickens.
And while psltry stipend earning
lie the richest seeds Of learning;
No Joys alas! his toll beAuile,
His mind lies fallow all the while
-Robrf Lloyd
Still to be piniOned down to teach
The Syntax and The Parts Of Speech,
Or deal out authors by retail,
Like penny pots Of OKiorl ale;
q Ills r vice irksome more
Than Juggling 1t the slavish oar.
- Robert Lloyd.
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supported the suspended doctor, that lit
tie gentleman had offered many induce
ments for him to hold fast When ques-
toned he responded chiefly with a cav
ernous and mysterious smile, only say
ing:
master DIR. Jex is a gentleman;
starch in or starch out, he's de gentle
man straight" a"
And brother John, who is somewhat
acquainted with slang, said. with a great
laugh, 'Wel, old man, You had a bully
chance to Judge, SO you must be right. -
-HarpCY'S UCckTl.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-14

FLORIDA is an illustration of what can
be done to aid the prosperity of State
where systematic effort is made for that
purpose Soon after the close of the
war special effort was made to advertise
the advantages of soil, climate and pro-
ducts of that State, and the result is an
increase of 90 per cent. in the population
in ten years. There is no State or To-
cality in the Union but what has some
interest or advantage for some purpose,
and carefully prepared description OF
such advantages will be sure to bring Its
returns,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-14

A cRErAcEoUs chalk, which the natives
carves into grotesque figures of men and
animals, occurs on the Polynesian islands
of New Britain and New ireland (about
latitude four degrees south, longitude
13O degrees east), and some specimens
have been sent to England by the Rev.
q Brown, Wesleyan missionary to that
region. 1.-THE chalk of which the fig
ures are formed, he writes sis, 1 am in.
formed. found only on the beech after
an earthquake, being cast up there m
large pieces by the tidal wave; and only,
SO far as we know at present, in one dis
trict on the east side of New Ireland. T"
An analysis, made at Newcastle-on-Tyne,
shows that the substance is not as pure
a limestone as ordinary white chalk
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BRILLIANTS.


mind. -
evil.
lHa heart is the first part that quick
ems, and the last that dies.
hftthst despairs, measures Providence
by ms sown little contracted model
IL = not the anger Of the wise TO raise,
psst can hear reproot who merit praiss.
iIsALs wear us into liking of what
possibly, IN the first essay, displeased
US.
>rSssssts' >rSsssss's AZ, -eeur shaiows
Or wishes isRssfs 81 .i7ar sun declines,
eH'g: Nighf Thought
GREr mea elfke meteors; they
g,5dd. gsor,i siia ans ms . s'sii'en 'ii9
savP Is not comPahy, aud faces are
- sss-ss-sss< stss:srGss. ~ ss..s2-e :
no idv6
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-14

IT is a curious fact, writes a mission
ary from China, that tobacco, sweet po-
tafoes and Indian corn have all been in
troduced from america; america; and are now 10Y
first so cordially has it been welcomed
that 9 out of 10 adult Chinese males
smoke il. They do not chew. Within
sIo she last five years the artichoke. which
in INV boyhood was found with horse
radish in every farmers garden in CEN
trail New York, is being introduced in
this region. 1t is picked and eaten as a
rsI;sh Oddly enough, it is called for
a;on Ginger. Sometimes we are asked
how t happens that foreign ginger is not
pungent.
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A CLERGYMAN, meeting an inebriated
neighbor, exclaimed, ''Drunk again,
Wilkins p to which Wilkins, in a semi
confidential tone, responded, ''Sho am i,
parson!'
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-01-14

THERE is some pleasure in superstition
when one can have gilded horseshoe as
an ornament and at the same time keep
all bad spirits away. And when bride
is about to leave her home it does no
harm certainly to throw an old shoe after
her. AS Tennyson sings:
For this thou shalt from all things seek
Marrow of mirth and laughter;
And wheresoeer thou move, Good Luck
Shall throw her old shoe after.
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TIE better I know men the more ]
love dogs, Is the remark of Q cynic.
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harcOaI.

If we wish for some substance which
will catch fire from the smallest spark,
we find that among thousands of bodies,
simple and compound, that exist IL
nature or are produced by art, the most
suitable for our purpose is pure carbon
in the form of tinder. On the other
hand, when we want crucible that will
bear without taking fire the flame of the
hottest furnace, we make 1t of pure car
bon in the form of plumbago.
The wax mold of the electroplater
is a non-conductor of electricity, and tits,
therefore, necessary to cover its surface
with some good conducting material 1t
is found that the best material Is finely
pulYerized plumbago; but this same ele-
ment, when crystalized, as in the dia-
mond, is the most perfect of all non
conductors.
Carbon, in one state, is as soft as
lampblack, in another it is the very
hardest substance known; in one it is
brilliantly transparent, in another it is
perfectly Opaque III one it is the most
costly ornament in the crowns of Kings,
in another it is shoveled out of the way
as worthless.
In all these changes in the condition
and properties of carbon no law can be
discovered, with the single exception
that the temperature at which various
kinds of charcoal will take fire are in
fixed relation to the temperature at
which the several kinds are prepared.
This is of the utmost importance to the
manufacture of gun powder; they have
caused it to be investigated with great
care.-NOnthiy Magazine, London.
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rnE TEACHER,s LOT.



A Collection Of qaotstfons rnon theA
Au,~nIslr. and TribuIailom. OF T-nchsnE.
Teacher And the Lord said INTO
Moses Maggie Ford, put down that
slatel"
Del,rh,ful taxi = rean,he tender thought
Toteach the zssng idea how to shoot
9% -Ihos,IOn's " Spring"
To sentence man of true genius to
the drudgerx Of school is to put race
horse In a nlill. Cotton.
Set sIi n m" Srsished maser bears the bsms
The schoolnaster is apt to be a favor
ite with the fennale part of creation, es-
pecially in tlp rural districts. FIRING.
Uneasy lie ~ lthe4dsei al who rule;
The most 50 = y bose Kingdom is $ school.
"a. " H9imes
can easisr teach twenty what were
good to be ID r than be,one of the twenty
10 .follasg Es.E .Mn tepcllng -,Shdks
! llgfs51s ~
Came the, Preeeptar. g,zing iol- ronud
NoN ~ the clouds an now at the gredn~raEs
Ant al absorbed IN reVsrios profound
Oi iair AlmiTa in the upper al -
Worried and tormented into monoton-
ous feebleness. the best part of life
ground ont of him in mill of boys
Dickens.
She dwsns by great Kenhawa's side,
In valleys green and cool,
And all her hope and al her pride
Are in her village school.
Losqf> iolc. ~
II a student convince you that you are
wrong aud he Is right, acknowledge it
checrfully, and-hug him. Emerson.
The twis Is 50 easily brndoi
have hiui.hei the rule and the rod;
have Taught them the 20 pdlcS, Of knowlet.e,
They have taught m4 he goodness ol God
-CHariss DjckiHs7n.
If vcxed with n child wheri instructinG
it, try to write with your left hand. Re
member a child is MI left hand +,
BDVcS.
To rear, TO teach
Be oming meet and htr
A liuk among the 4 VS. 10 nit
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" Wish l was in Tennessee,
A-settin' in my cheer,
jug o whisky by my side,

This was his favorite Who shall
doubt that it expressed to him all the
poetry. romance, passion, of life?
After time Uncle Brimmer fell III
and we sent for n doctor.
DIR. Trattles Jex was the medical man
of our county. Hell ived in Middlebnrn
seven miles away, and he came trott;ng
over on n great bay horse, with a pair o}
saddle-bags hanging like Gilpin's bot
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ApRussuRE on our columns for two weeks
in succession and our absence last week
have prevented an earlier notice of the re-
v;ved Nutshell. So long as that sheet was
entirely printed abroad, and had no office or
local habitation here, we by proper re-
spect for our vocation, felt bound, at the
risk of apparent discourtesy, not to recog-
nize it as Legitimate enterprise. But now
that it has an Office, aud is partly printed
here, the case is different, and we look
upon it as fairly in the field as newspaper
venture. As to the wisdom of that venture
"a second newspaper in this town-time
will determine. Suffice it to say TINT if our
neishbor should succeed in demonstrating
that two papers can live and prosper where,
as we happen to know, one has received on
ly meagre support, no one will feel more
gratfied than we at SO cheering an in
dication of the progress of the country.
We continue to have strong uubelieving
doubts ON that subject. But however it
may turn ont, the FREE PRESS at least will
continue, as heretofore, Fl xture in Hays
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Sensible Talk.

There is good sense in the following ex.
tract from an address delivered by Richard
smith of the Cincinnati Gasette, before an
editorial convention, recently held ut Wa
bash: At
"A small paper, well edited and with live
advertising. looks better and takes better
than a blanket sheet that looks more like o
poster than newspaper. The work that
IA editor does for dear charity's sake ~
enormous; no one in conmu-
nifty contributes near 30 much in this
way q, does the editor. People have an
idea that it costs nothing to net up and in
sert a notice. They think the editor IL al
ways in want of something to I'LL up. The
live editor is always in want Of space and
not OF matter. Anewspaper costs money,
therefore no one has right to expect it for
nothing no more than an editor has right
TO ask for food and clothing without paying
fof the IN"
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Pstersons magazine il on our table for
November ahead of all the Others aud better
than ever. II leads off with charming
Steel engraving after Meyer Won Bremen,
Half Afraid" This is followed by one of
hose double size steel fashion plates, su-
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lalys book. Then comes another engrav-
INK, Lacy Hall, illustrating an exquisitely
told Iowa story and then some fifty wood
cuts Of dresses, patterns in embroidery etc.
Th are is also o superb colored slipper pat
terd. for braiding in crimson aud gold.
and then the Magazine is overlooking
viii choice reading matter, profusely illus
trated and highly entertaining Peterson
Always gives the best. With this number
also came the prospectus of 1882, giving
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you want to get several times your moneys
worth you Should at once address Charles J.
Peterson, BOG Chestnut street, and get this
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