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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
How to Dress tie Children.

The capacity OF our ancestors 10 ac-
commodate themselves to every climate
depended not only on their physiological
faculty of adaptation, but also on their
skill in protecting themselves by artifi-
cial means from the inclemency of the
higher Iatitudes. Houses and clothes
are blessing if they answer this pur-
pose by close imitation of natures OWL
plan IN sheltering her children from at
mOspheric vicissitudes, but IN degree as
they deviate from that plan their hygl-
enic disadvantages balance, or even out
weigh, the gain IN other respects.
swallows nest protects her brood from
cold and rain without deDarrng them
from the fresh air human domlclIe.
too, should combine comfort with the
advantage of perfect ventilation, and our
clothes, like the fur, a squirrel or the
feathermantle of hawk, should keep
us warm and dry without interfering
with the cutaneous excretlons and the
free movement of our limbs.
Measured by these standards, the WIN
ter dress of an American schoolboy IS
nearly the best, the summer dress of the
average American, French, and German
nursing about the worst that could be
devised. At am age when the rapid de-
quires the utmost freedom of movement,
our children are kept IN the fetters of
garments that check the activity of the
body in every way swaddling-
undershirts, overshirts, neck-wrappers,
trailing gowns, garnitures, fiOunces aud
shawls reduce the helpless homunculus
to bundle of dry goods, unable to move
or turn, incapable of relieving or init
mating its uneasiness IN any way save
by the use of its squealing apparatus,
and consequently squeallng violently
from morning TIL night. Outdoors, in
the baby carriage, "cold draughts "
have TO be guarded against, and load
Of extra wrappers completely counteract
the benefit OF the fresh air /; faint with
nausea and sutfocating heat, the little
dummy lies mouonless on its back, re-
splendent In its white surphce, a fit
candidate for the honors of a life whose
every movement of a natural impulse
viii be suppressed as a revival of bar
baIism, and an msurrectOn against the
statutes of an orthodox community.
Hence, in great degree, the dispropor-
tionate mortality in all northern conn
tries of Christendom among infants
under years. In Spanish America,
where infantile diseases are as rare as in
Hindoostan, babies of all classes and
sizes toddle about naked, nearly the
year round; and the Indians of the
Tamaulipas, between Tampico and Mat
amoras, raise an astonishing number of
brown bantlings who are never troubled
with clothes till they are big enough to
carry garden-stutf to the city, where the
police enforces the apron regulation.
Popular Science Monthly for June.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
A Yentrilnnuist,s Ioke.

Frederick McCabe, the ventriloquist,
is a great practical joker. Several years
ago he was on board Mississippi river
steamboat, and, forming an acquaint-
ance with the engineer, was allowed the
freedom Of the engine-room. He took
a seat in a corner, and, pulling his hat
down over his eyes, appeared lost in
reyerie. Presently certain part of the
machinery began to squeak. The engin-
e,er oiled it and went about his usual
duties. In the course of a few minutes
the squeaking was heard again, and the
engineer rushed over, oil-can III hand, to
lubricate the same spindle. Again he
returned to his post. but it was only a
few minutes until the same old spindle
was squeaking louder than ever "Great
Jupiter % he yelled, "the things be-
witched." More oil was administered,
but the engineer began to smell q rat.
Pretty soon the spindle squeaked again,
and, slipping up behind McCabe, the
engineer squirted half-pint of oil down
the ioker's back "There," said he,
{" guess that spindle won't squeak any
more !" The joke was so good that
McCabe could not keep it, and he often
tells it with as much relish as his audit
ors receive it.
At another time McCabe was con-
fronted by highwayman, on one of the
lonely streets of Cincinnati, as he was.
returning to his hotel from a moonlight
picnic The robber presented a cooked
revolver to the ventriloquist's head, de-
manding his money or his life. Nc
Cabe's quick wit saved him. He threw
his voice behind the robber, exclaiming,
f" Hold, villain, you are my prisoner y
The frightened scamp turned his head,
and McCabe dealt him a blow that
felled him to the ground He then Sc
cured the revolver and marched the
scoundrel off to police station.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
Immigrants.

It has been estimated that the average
sum possessed by each immigrant when
he lands on our shores IS somewhere
about $50. The largest sum of
money are brought over by men over
80 years old, and represent the saving
of a lifetime, carried here for investment.
The people who can best be relied upon
to reduce the general average of capital
introduced by immigrants are the Slavon-
ians and Polanders. A great many of
them have to be helped with small sums
to get them away to places in the West
where they wish to settle. The Holland
ers, ON the other hand, frugal, industri-
ous and clean, come pretty well provid-
ed with money, as a rule, and are, apart
from considerations of personal beauty,
among the pleasantest to look at. One
of the most curious distinctive peculiari-
ties of the costume of their women is a
strange sort of helmet, made of brass,
silver or gold, according to the wealth of
the wearer, filagree work or exquisitely
chased-a thin sheet of metal, closely
fitting the head, and worn under a
snowy linen cap. On each side the
thing comes down ON the temples IN a
sort of metallic curl. They all wear
wooden shoes, and it Is really amusing
to see the children, even little toddles
Just beginning to walk, gathering about,
easily and securely, in the clumsy sabots.
OF all immigrants the Germans are least
demonstratiye in meeting their friends.
Hearty hand shakings, sometimes a
solemnly administered kiss on the cheek,
and an explosive ''Sol" or a formal "Wie
gaetes?" are about all they generally
indulge in. But that their hearts are as
warm and their affection as deeply stirred
as any other persons may easily be
read In their tear -moistened eyes and the
happy smiles that light up their counten-
ances. The Russians are great kissers.
The Italians greet with noisy laughter,
kisses, and irreFressible chatter. But of
all the wild welcomings, those OF the
Irish are the most vigorous. Shouts,
embraces, CALCULATIONS of "Glory be to
Godl" ''The saints be with us,
"Alannah, " and the like, make the raf-
ters ring. In cases where children liv-
ing and prospering have sent for parents
to join them, the greetings are even
more wildly enthusiastic.-Neo0 York
Herald
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HICKMAN FULTON COUNTY KENTUCKY FRIDAY JUNE IT, 1881

ceasing pleasure to the boys, and grew
up to be a very sagacious dog.
When grandma ceased, Rosy saw Ed
dies face grow sober again, and Rosy
was wondering why she did refer TO a
dog in her story: but then thought she,
'sgrandmama does not know Eddie wants
one;" when the old lady began again,
I've been thinking so much of Waif,
and how glad those boys were to have
him to-day that L thought I'd like lit
tie dog for you children TO play with
when vou come to see me; could you get
one for me, Eddie p
"Oh grandma, exclaimed Eddie,
"you dear good grandma, you know
some ones told you | wanted a dog /
will get YOU one, and well name him
Wait, wont we Rosa? aud grandma, I'll
paint you that picture one of these days,
as sure as | live.
You aldat salRk y Tq4E fE poi f NJ sa fafhg m
the dog to please her too, did you. But
there are no little children, and no fine
carpets at my house. so you may bring
Jamie's present there.
So grandma's story ended, and Rosy
had no further trouble about Eddie's ap-
probation of the beautiful supper table
with the ice cream doves. Long wears
after when Eddie's Waif was too old to
play, and Eddie himself was tall youth.
almost man. there was an exhibition of
pictures at an academy of design. One
picture attracted much attention, and the
painter they said was very young, GO
ing to Texas; and Intruder IN the camp,
1t was called, but as it has been de-
scrlbed once III the course of our story,
we viii not repeat The crowd stand
ing In front of ii moved on as some one
said, ''There comes the young man who
did 1t; we must give way that he may
show it to his friends" A very old lady
was leaning on the young mans arm, and
bright, beautiful girl walked by her
side. AS they stopped before the paint
ing and the old lady adjusted her glass
es, the young girl exclaimed:
why, brother, you did not tell us "
"Hush Rosy, he said. '1et grandma
speak first, success or failure, the picture
is hers"
Annie at the camp fire, said the old
lady, her face aglow with pride and de
light 'fMy boy. il is perfect. Deary
mel that l ever should have seen 1t ON
canvassl Andjyou remembered all these
years. told you that story only to amuse
you that day so long ago. / didn't re-
ally think You would some day paint it,
but l always knew you would be an art
list, and | knew that scene would be well
worth an artists pencil or brush Don't
You see one object not in the original
grandma" said Rosy There Is our
Waif close by Annie. see?" Il thought |
owed it to Waif'' said Eddie, ''to put him
In; wish he could see it, and know all
about how his name aud fame was won.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
A Mnch-Comnosed Yonth.

Among other compositions recently
produced in the Columbia Grammar
School was the following on the rhi-
noceros
"The rinozerus lives in Aznar and
you kant stick a pin in i'm cause hiz
werskut is bilt ov ole stoves. Wen a
rinozerus IL gonter be kid you mus al
waze go up to him from before so az
he'll kno somthin OF it an try an max
place for a built to git in His nose
is got upper teeth that's got no bust
nez ware it IL, an if boy shood set
down on it he better sta plugd up with
the tooth rels he'll be all won pore.
I'd rather be polliwog if 1 wuz a ri
nozerus, tho spose if 1 wuz L wood
ent. .''-NelO YORK Mercur.n
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
The Ranid Telegranh.

The capacity of a single line of tele-
graph wire has always been limited 10y
the quickness of the operator. The
electricity passes from end to end of the
longest line without appreciable loss of
time.
"A sep9ty-fi1e words a sc2ilitKi iliife can ot ttranIs- Rps
messages an hour. This being the limit
of single wire, many lines have be
come necessary between large cities, to
provide for the constant increase in the
use of the telegraph by all classes.
A few years ago, Mr.. Edison discov-
cred and applied the quadruplex sys-
TEN. By this invention, four messages
can be sent at one time over the same
wire, two each way. As its name implies,
it increased the carrying capacity of a
wire four-fold.
But the new system of the Rapid Tel
egraph Company Il even more wonder
full BY this method the messages are
transferred to paper-tape which is per-
forated by a machine with a keyboard,
operated like a typewriter. Many per-
sons are kept busy at these machines
preparing these messages. When the
tape is ready 1t is wound on a wheel.
Now, instead of the operator making
each letter by successive clicks of the
telegraph key, he simply turns the
wheel, and steel points, ike the nibs of
a pen, trace their way over the perforat-
ed tape, and wherever there are holes
the circuit is completed and the electric
current reports at the other end of the
line, in dots or dashes, long or short, as
the perforation may be.
The messages are then translated from
the telegraphic code and printed in full
by the aid of the typewriter, ready for
delivery.
wire is increased thirty-fold. In a min
ute 1000 words may be sent, involving
500 pulsations a second of the electric
current. All these improvements are in
the direction of cheap and efficient teleg-
raphY.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
Chinese Version of the ProdigaI Son.

. A man, he two sons. Son speakee
to father; father got money give some
he father he take it all rightee. Just
now give you half. He gives him half :;
he go long way-likee me come China to
New York. No be careful of money,
use too much money oil gone he velly
hnngly. He went to man. He wantee
work, he say all right he tell him
teedee pigs. He givee pigs beans he
eatee with pigs himself He just now
taikee My father he lich man-muchee
money. What for me stay here hungry?
L want to go back and see my father. [
say to him, l velly bad. He knows L
bad Emperor (God) see L bad. No be
son, me be coolie.' He go back hugee
way, father see him. He takee him on
the neck. Son say, / velly bad. Lust
now no be your son. His father talkee
to boy and say, 'Gettee handsome coat !;
gives he ring, gives he shoes; bring fat
cow-kllle COW, give him to eat They
vely glad. He alice samee dead, just
now come back alive he lost; he get
back. Number one son come. He hear
music; he tellee coolie, What for
makee music 2 He saw. Your brothe~
come back your father velly glad he no
son veliy angly. Father he comes out !;
he say, No, no be angly.' Number one
son say, stay all time by father; never
mnkee ia1 him angly. My father never
klilee one fat cow for me- My brother
ne Veily bad he use money too muchee;
he nave fat COW and music Father
say, lou no sabee; he just dead he
now comes to life he lost /; now comee
pacA- They makee music.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
What Is Man 7

This little life-boat of earth with its
noisy crew of mankind, and all their
troubled history, will one day have van
ished-faded like cloud-speck from the
azure of the sky. What, then, is man?
He endures but for an hour, and is
crushed before the moth. Yet in the
beginning and in the working of faith-
fui man is there already (as all faith
from the beginning gives assurance) a
something that pertains not unto thus
death element of time that triumphs
over time, and is, and will be, when
time shall be no more.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
The Point We'll TaLan

'I object, your Honor, to this witness
testimony" Upon what ground?
said the Judge My point is, your
Honor, that evidence from person oc-
cupying the professional position Of the
understand the witness to say his occupa-
ton wasp" asked the Judge. washington
correspondent OF New York daily pa
per, ;" was the reply. "Ah !" said the
Judge, +" the point IS well taken; the
court sustains your objection, Mr.. Coke
stone" f.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
A Boot-Buttoner.

"Please draw upon the blackboard an
interrogation point" said teacher to
one of her pupils.
"Can't make good one, y replied the
boy.
s'Draw a boot-buttoner, said the
teacher 81 that will answer"
The boy took the crayon and drew
hair-pin. Sharp rebuke by the teacher
Other pupils smile.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
A Yankee Housewife.

A Portland lady has invented per-
fectly reliable device for protecting her
clothes line from sneak thieves. She
hangs her clothes on a reel in plain sight
of the street and attaches to it large
dinner bell. Her room is within hearing
distance, and if any one is bold enough
to attempt to steal the clothes he invari-
ably rings the bell, which generally
frightens him SO that he makes off at the
top of his speed, leaving the line as full
as he found it.-Portta'ad (lhe.) Ad0er-
tiser
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
nARGIE's TRIAL.

NV beautiful Evelina,
Come listen to me, my deari
/ want to tell ycu a secret
That nobody else must hear;
We're going away to the country
Mamma and baby and /,
And grandmamma doesn't like dollies,
Now please, my darling, don'Icry.
Oh, don't you remember last winter
She called you an image, my petl
Just think, like those ugly old ldels:
I'm sure shall never forget. --
She's the loveliest grandma, my precious;
But some things are not to be borne;
I'm sure that my heart would be broken
III she should treat you wiz scorn.
III put on your very best bonnet,
Your pretty pink shoes on your teet;
And you shall SIT up by the window,
And look at the folks in the street.
OBJ, dearl but l never can leave you
y "A whole summer long on the shelf;
II yo.t isre :. irasze.t nay hahy.
I'll Just be heathen myself
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
Judging from Appearances.

"Mother, 1 shouldn't be surprised if
our Susan gets choked some day"
"Why, my son %
because. young Smith twisted his
arms around her neck the other night,
and if she had not kissed him to let her
90. he would have strangled her"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17

wasn't it rough on Ella, just as she
was telling Frederick, at lunch, how
ethereal her appetite was. to have the
cook bawl out, Say, will We have yer
ler's gone %,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17

A CHICAGO editor got hold of map.
and presently exclaimed: "By tunket,
fine Mississippi river runs by st. Louis.
doesn't it r And then he wrote para
graph referring to the Mississippi as a
miserable brook. Globe.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17

{" squire, I have been grossly de-
ceived. You see IN me the victim of
base Misrepresentation. In Chicago
this season Of the year is extremely un-
healthy The intense hot weather car
rie1 away the innocent and the good,
and I feared my turn would come soon.
| heard of the salubrious cline of your
mountain city, where the days are filled
with gladness and the burning heat of
the mighty city by the inland sea never
comes l came here two brief DAYS ago,
and YOU can see with the naked eve
what the result has been. 1t is not
gratifying. The climate may in the alb
stract be all right, hut there are certain
sudden and wonderful atmospheric
changes that l cannot account for, and
they are very disastrous.
81 was sitting in a Second-street
saloon to-day, talking about matters and
things, when the conversation turned
upon physical strength. One thing led
to another, aud finally | made little
humorous remark to a young man there,
which remark l have made in Chicago
many times without disastrous results,
but the air clouded up all of a sudden,
and in the darkness could see Roman
candles going off, and pin-wheels, and
high-priced rockets, and blue lights, etc.
q Shortly after that l gathered up
what fragments of my face | could find,
and went down to the doctors Office He
held an inquest on my nose, and / paid
him for it. / shall go back to Chicago
tomorrow. l shall not be as handsome
as [ was, but 1 have gained good deal
of information about the broad and beau
tiful West which is priceless in value tome.
"sAll / wished to say was this: If
You see fit to mention this matter TO the
public, tone it down as much as posi-
Bile, and say that, for bilious nervous
emperament perhaps the air here is too
bracing.'
"I have considered his sensitive feel
mgs, and have tried to give the above
account in fair and impartial terms.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17

The Peruvian bark is not any worse
than its bite.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17

A HEALTHY city must nave perfect
sewage system.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-17
A Youth from Chicarn

ernaps, says Bill Nye, mo surging
sehrmenls OF pity have stirred my very
soul durlng my official career like those
that throbbed wildly athwart my system
a lev days ago. 1t was a case of the
Ilost pltter disappointment of a young
lie. a youth from Chicago came to me
near the close of the day. was Just
ueout 70 lock up the judicial scales for
me evening and secure the doors of the
arehlyes preparatory to going out and
sinking the Mayor for the lemonade,
alter winch l intended to breathe in a
little Tesh atmosphere and go home for
dinner
u had been hard day in the tenn
pie OF Justice that day, and the court
was nealy 1t had dealt out even
hitaded fsfstiee at regular rates since
e'afl v .fnlass at so much per deal, fItl
fatigQs was heginning to chow itself IN
the lines upon that broad white brow.
Therefore, when a halting step was
heard on the stair, there was low muir
mur on the part of the court, and half
surprised moan that sounded like the
tail end of an affidavit.
"The young man who entered the
hallowed presence Of eternal justice and
the alI-pervadmg and dazzling beauty
OF the court in Its shirt-sleeves, was Of
about medium stature, with shoes cut
decolette, and Roman striped socks
clocked with brocaded straw-colored
silk.
"He wore an ecru-colored straw hat,
with navy-blue brocaded band and neck
tie of old gold, with polka dots of hum
berta and cardinal, interspersed with
embroidered horseshoe and stirrup in
coucherde soleil and ultramarine. His
hair was dark and oleaginous, and his
shirt was cream-colored ground, with
narrow baby-blue stripes, cut-away col
lar and cuffs that extended out into
space.
'He also had some other clothes on.
"But all over, and pervading the en-
tire man, was the look of hopelessness
and corroding grief. With all his good
clothes on, he was a hollow mockery,
for the eyes were heavy with woe.
"The nose also was heavy with woe.
"This feature, In fact, was more ap-
propriately drapcd in token Of its sad
ness than any Of the rest. Few noses
are so expressive Of a general and incur
able gloom as this one was. 1t had evi-
dently at one time been a glad, joyous
and buOyant nose, but now 1t was de
spondent and low spirited.
"There was look of goneness and
utter desolation about it that would
STIR the better impulses of the most
heartless.
"The feature had evidently tried to
eentraize itself, but had failed. Here
and there narrow strips OF court plaster
had gone ont after it and tried to win it
back, but they had not succeeded.
Il said, Mister, there seems to be a
panic among the component parts OF
your nose. It's none of my business, of
course, but couldn't you get a brass
band and call 1t together? Then You
could hold a meeting and decide whether
1t had better resume or not.
1.-The gentleman from Chicago went
TIM 'gh the motions of wiping the wide
Aad bowling desolation where his
nose had been, and then,
LIEF with the orange border, he
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-06-03

Why is q Joke that is acidul5us rot
good? Because the cream of joke
never should be s0ur.
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WluLcsnenn.
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~ UT WIU WIStIy I3fONldC-
E"lTt tht contingency of Illness 10y taking with
nm Hostcttcrs stomach BittcrS has occasion tn
HIaig himself ON Lis foresight when no sees
"tu'iS VINO have neglected to do so suffering from
some one oi the ualadics tor which il is "a remedy
3Hu preventive. Among Tia are fever and agle
!ill9H,Ss' constipation aud rheumatism. diseases
WOuted diet i''i'''' VI "h-
Ton 7tir 10y ali Druggists and Dealer.
generally.
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4 railroad will be built to the coal
mines near Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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tcontd never nave D,nr

could never Have DOnr
mr house bold duties had ] not been strength
cuaI aud sustained by Warmers Safe Kidney
ami Liver Cure. Mrs. e. V. CtLHotN. y. York
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Those vhocomplain the mos. aremost
~ he complained Of Heug.
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Tuscaloosa, Ala, is TO have a street
railway.
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"Nlarie whats that strange noise at
the gateY Cats, SIR "Jutsl Well,
when | was young cats didn't wear stove
pipe hats and smoke cigars" "Times
arn rhnnnnI air y