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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.


CoAL-sCUTTLEs are now manufactured
of rubber.
AN elephant drinks about forty-five
gallons of water day.
THE people of Ceylon worship the
tooth of an elephant; those Of Malabar
the tooth of n monkey.
1T is calculated that sixty tons of steel
are annually consumed Ia the manufact-
ure OF steel pens.
BEES have very little power of COM
municating with each other. f. Miller
gives curious instances of the inability
OF the bees to invent for themselves a
natural language.
a QUA-STITY of flour was exposed by a
French experimenter to a pressure of
300 tens, reducing it to one-fourth its
orig-nal bulk. A portion of it WAS then
-lllgseed Ia cans and sealed, the same be-
rag done with some impressed flour. a
year afterward the cans were opened.
when the impressed flour was found to
be spoiled, while the pressed was IN ex-
cellent preservation.
\ SPIDERS web affords an excellent
barometer An old sportsman Of Cold
water, Mich, claims that one preserved
IN his house has proved almost iAvaria-
bly, correct. When rain and wind are
expected, the spider shortens the threads
which suspend the web. When reefs
Are let ont, fine weather may be certain,
but II the spider remains inert, RAIN VIII
probably follow within a short time.
TWELVE years after the landing Of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth there was not a
plow in the vicinity of Boston, and tue
farmers broke up the land with hoes or
other hand implements In 1897 there
We're but thirty-seven plows IN the
whole State, and Mt a later period IL WIS
the custom for one owning plow to do
nearly if not all the blowing for n town.
The town oftenp paid a bounty to one who
would buy and keep plow il repair
and do the work In this way
THE swiftest bird, probably, is the
eagle of the sea, or frigate-hird, often
measuring sixteen feet from tip to tip.
1t hOyers Mt an elevation OF 10, 600 feet
when storm sweeps over the ocean II
1t wishes TO travel, says French nat
uralIst, It can almost annihIlate space.
1t can breakfast in Africa and dine in
America. This bird reposcs on its great
motIonless wings, literally " sleeping on
the bosom of the air
THERE are III our land %. .52O. So
u1ticS anu u, Doz, ZSt females. Inc n l.
tives number a., 475, 500, and the foreign
. born, 6,677, 800. There are 43. .4Ol. ST.
white and 6,577,1 15l colored persons.
Beside those on reservations under Gov
ernment care there are 90, 12a Indians
and half-breeds. The myriads of Chi
nese number los, ,463, and there are
1850 other Asiatics. For every 100. .OJl
males there are 96, 519 famales against
! 81, S0l in 1870.
CRoToN Aqueduct, by which New
York city is supplied with water, w a
| the time of its completion, and in fac
| still is, regarded as one of The wonder,
of the world. It's length Is 3Sl miles
and il Is built most OF this distance @
| brick, stone and cement, inclosed ovel
and under, feet 3 inches wide at tn,
| bottom, feet inches at the top, and {
feet 5 inches high. 1t is carried ovel
| Harlem river on a magnificent bri lge
], 400 feet long, and ia feet above high
water mark.
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Cold and Magnetism.

An investigation, conducted in the
physical laboratory of Harvard Uniyers-
ity, has led to the discovery of the re-
markable. fact that intense cold can de-
prive magnetized steel bars of nearly all
parted to them. The intense cold was
produced by solid carbonio acid. This
fact has an important bearing upon OBJ
servations of the magnetic condition of
the earth, taken in high attitudes; for
what appear to be daily and yearly
changes in the earth's magnetism may
be due in large part to conditions OF
temperature, which affect the magnets
used In the observations. 1t also must
be concluded that the molecular condi-
ton of steel is changed by great cold. -
Boston AdUertiser,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08
A Stolen Good Story.

The London Telegraph has made a
pretty good Original story of Germany
out of one the late excellent Judge
Hyde, of Sudbury, Vermont, used to tell
to the thousand and one who passed the
summer season at his hostelry In the
valley of Lemon Fair, before he was
elevated to the Bench, and the Tribune
copies it with credit to the Telegraph.
Judge Hyde's fathers geese got drunk
on about a peck of rum cherries that had
been thrown out as too old for further
use. and it was thought they were dead
In fact they were dead drunk, and the
hired help did not know it. So they set
about to save the feathers, taking off
even the down after they had plucked
them clean out of their clothing. AS fast
MS they were picked they were piled up
in the cow-stable, and there left for the
inspection of the older Mr.. Hyde, when
he returned from Ticonderoga, over lake
Chanplain. He did not return that day,
and early the next morning the girls
went ont to milk and found the geese all
mn and dressed. as far as not one feather
to nut ON would permit. They seemed
rather confused about themselves. and
looked upon each other as strangers. As
the miIkmaids put it: ''It looked as
sheepish as a gander party after Fourth
of july dinner, and one or two of them
must have had the headache as they sat
down and tried to fan their ears with
tbair webbed-feet." 1t took all summer
for fine geese to regain their coats. and
tbe Growth of their tail feathers was a
source of continual wagering among the
ouests of the house, some of whom are
now living in this city and Philadelphia,
at the good old age of threescore years
and ten. There is no reason why the
Tondon telegraph and the Tribune
Shouldn't acknowledge the corn" of the
oeese that were temporarily "corned" on
old rum cherries.--Ne1o York CONNER
cidL Advertiser.
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4 Singular Story,

The paragraph going the rounds of the
papers stating that the old pirate who
made Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia
walk the plank has died again, recalls
"a story told some twenty-five years ago
by a venerable gentleman, now deceased,
who passed his youth in Southern Berk-
shire. 1t was to the effect that in one of
the earlier years of the century a fine
looking, middle-aged woman, came to
one Of the towns near Stockbridge and
purchased a small cottage She ap-
peared worn with distress of some kind,
and although seeming to have abundant
means. she neither sought nor accepted
any society, save that of the poor and
unfortunate, with whom she mingled as
a rule, only to relieve their distress.
There was one exception, however, III an
unfortunate woman who had been be-
traved in her youth. This outcast she
took to her home, where she was her
companion and finally her nurse, until
the benefactress died, leaving her poor
friend what remained OF her property.
This woman. in order 10 make good her
formal claim to the gift which was not IN
bequest, stated in confidence to a magls-
trate that the giver was no other than
TheodOsia Burr Allston, and that she had
revealed to her under strict injunction OF
secrecy that her melancholy and singu-
lar seclusion was due to the fact that she
had been compelled to live for two OF
three years with the pirate captain and
that when she was at last released, with
some money in her possession, she was
so overwhelmed with shame that she de-
termined never to let the world IN which
she once moved know of her existence,
but to spend the remainder of her life
in deeds of charity. She had selected
Stockbridge at first as q place of resi-
dence, from a family tradition of its Sc
clusion-her grandfather. Rev. Jonathan
Edwards, having been an early pastor
there-but she found intercourse be
tween that town and New York had be
come altogether too frequent for her
purpose, and she retired to a smaller
town.-Pittsfeld (MdSSachusettS) Sun.
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A Free Country.

1t has always been thought, by read
ers of the daily papers, that New York
had fair share of crime; but 1t appears
that the place has never been permitted
to show It's real criminal strength, on
account Of a law which makes 1t a crime
to be a witness. 1t appears that when a
witness, or a probable witness, Is dis
covered, who has any knowledge OF
criminal transaction, he is at once ar
rested and placed in the ''house of de
tention, which Is nothing less than
prison and from which he can only be
released upon bail. In this place wit
nesses are sometimes kept for months,
and even years, while the criminal him
self is out on BALL 1t will be seen, there
fore, that the penalty against any one
for making complaint, or giving IN
formation that crime has been COM
mitted, Is very severe, and by this means
much of the crime committed In New
York is kept out of the courts and not
made a burden of expense upon the peo-
pie. Strangers in New York, who have
had their pockets picked or been robbed,
can secure justice only by going to
prison themselves for a few months,
while their assailaut is out on bail,
busily and industriously engaged inplck-
ing pockets enough to fee a lawyer to
clear him; and to such complexion
does it come at last that the poor victim
is ready to fall on his knees before the
man who has robbed him, and implore
him to be merciful and release him from
prison. But pick-pockets, as class, are
a hard-hearted lot, and usually spurn the
supplicant unless his offer is accompanied
by a tender of money Our Western
people. when in New York on business
or pleasure, should take care not to place
themselves in the power of these merci-
less wretches by being robbed by them.
In case, however, such a misfortune
cannot be prevented, and person finds
his pocket-book stolen, he should make
a break to get out of the city, and die
rather than be taken.
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When Washington Laughed.

This story, duly authenticated, is told
of Washington by the descendants of
Mr. Austin, who was an officer in the
revolutionary army Washington always
had the officers dine with him on Satur-
days at his headquarters in the house
now owned and occupied by Prof. III. w.
Longfellow. Once, after dinner, they
came to be weighed. Washington
weighed exactly 200 pounds. Putnam
weighed two pounds more. At that time,
and till comparatively recently, it was
always customary to have salt fish on
Saturdays. Some bantering passed
among the officers respecting their
weights, and they told Putnam that he
weighed more than Washington because
he had eaten two pounds more of fish
for dinner This drew q smile on Wash
ington's face, and laugh or smile by
him, Mr.. Austin says, he had never seen
till that time.
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I want these wise little folks TO recall
the kings of France. Foremost comes
King Louis XIV, the Grand Mon
arch" We think at the mention of his
name, of fine ladies, brave warriors, rich
dresses, and elegant manners. The out
side was always gorgeous at this court,
and the silks, velvets, and laces of the
the crowds who surrounded Louis XIV.
were worn in marble halls. Sometimes
the court lived at ST. German, some
times at Fontainebleau. but more often
in that enormous building called the
palace of Versailles. Now, you know,
young folks, palace can not reach to
the skies; so the architect relies for its
grandeur on its great length. The pal
ace of which speak is a long, narrow
building, only three stories high. 1t
would take In our country several blocks
of houses to cover so much ground. But
King Louis liked everything big. He
thought himself the greatest king who
ever held a scepter, and wished to live
in the most elegant mansion that man
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08
A NeM Fashion of SIeening.

The Chicago Tribune lately contained
a lengthy article on the new fashion
which is rapidly coming into vogue, OF
husbands and wives occupying separate
beds. The practice is said to be an
European one, and is being received In
New York with great favor. 1t has long
been held by physicians that the habit of
two persons occupying the same sleeping
couch was a vicious one, rs the superior
magnetism of one would draw the vitality
out of the other; and while one would
awake In the morning refreshed with
1ew energy, the other would be en-
avated and listless and hardly able to
dag the body around during the day.
Acting upon this European theory, 1t
is supposed that the dealers in beds and
bedding have secretly organized a boom
in their business, and knowing how a
fashion will be followed by people, they
are preparing for a reason of prosperity.
But, be this as it may, there is little
doubt that the fashion of sleeping singly
has its good as well as bad points, and 1t
will be hailed with delight by those hus-
bands whose wives are troubled with
charity feet. 1t will also come as a
sweet boon to the tired wife whose hus-
band is a beautiful dreamer and habitu-
ally kicks her out of bed as he yells,
ON sell two thousand March at six seven
jeohths." But on the rich old husband,
whose young wife is kept awake by his
asthma. and who will avail himself of the
new fashion for night of undisturbed
repose. it viii fall with a leaden hand,
and his supply of magnetism being cut
off he will droop and die and leave his
cash so much the sooner. There are, as
we said. many good features which will
recommend themselves to different peo-
ple upon reflection. Acting upon the
new fashion, it is said that landlords are
already providing the bridal chambers IN
their hotels with two beds, thus aiming
10 leave nothing undone that will be con-
ducive to the comfort of guests. Upon
the whole the new fashion is one pos
sessed of great merit. t.-Peek's Sun.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08

An italian writer says that our modern
millionaires are nowhere in comparison
with some of his countrymen, as follows:
Mark Antony spent 81, 900, 5000, 600 in
merely sowing his wild oats; Nero gave
500, 900, 900 in presents to his friends;
Heliogabalus gave a dinner that cost
800, 900; the toilet of Agrippina on a
special occasion footed up to 81 SOC, 900.
and her box of jewels at home was worth
co00 O0O O00
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08

THE Cleveland Leader sums up the
savings of ex-President Hayes as follows:
The aggregate salary for the four years
was 5000, 600. The expenses of the po-
sition during that time were S134, 600.
Had Congress refunded the $1,000 he
paid for the expenses of the visiting
statesmen to Louisiana his savings
would have been about SO, 900. As it
is, he went out of the office with $4,000
to be carried from his account as Presi-
dent to the benefit of his account as
private citizen. When he became Presi-
dent he was burdened with debts to the
amount of 800, 900, mostly on account OF
bequests charged upon the Birehard es-
tate. OF this amount he has paid $780,
600 ont of his savings from the Presi-
Dental salary, so that the net available
result in cash of his Presidential term Is
St, 900.
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'"rHNK it was Jack; but the fact is 1
am now too miserably poor to have aname.
But, sir" and there was q look of
earnestness in the mans eyes, 81 wish
you would please inquire among those
who know me, and if you can find out
what my name is tell me. It's frightful
to be without a name. -PhiladeLphia
Press
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Good For the Kids.

Doctors now recommend the introduc-
ton of kid or goat into the nursery as
a healthful companion for the children.
The doctors evidently know their little
biz.-Syracase Herald.
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DARIUS, during his reign, had an in
come of S14, 100000 year, and when
eggs went up to forty-eight cents dozen
he crowled as much as the modern
newspaper paragrapher whose income
isn't half as large.
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x. ARRIVING from Naples, is ques-
toned by a friend Had you no adven-
tures in Italy?" s'No." ''No brigands?"
81 turned them all to fight. How
sop "why, if 1 saw an ill-looking in
diyidual 1 went and begged charity of
him
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08

WHEN you have convinced a woman
that lounge worth about 81 has Just
been marked down from SIC to SO. you
have Sc cured customer. Detroit Free
Press,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08

LIBRARIES are the shrines where all
the relics of the saints, fullof true virtue,
and without delusion and imposture, are
preserved and reposed.
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LIMERIcK-No; an editor doesn't know
everything; Editors only claim to aver
age about three times as much knowledge
as the ordinary run of men. But perhaps
this Is low estimate Editors are nat
uraIly modest.-Bostoll Post.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08

Ir there is anything better than to be
loved, it is loving.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-08

The blue pencil fiend travels with an
opera troupe.-M O. PicGyuSae
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
POPPING CORN.

10 the chimney-corner
Goldie, May and Tod
Sha ke and shake the pepper
over embeTs red;
Laugh 10 see the yellow corn
Flouuce and bounce about,
TIN with a hop, and puiE and pop
one has bl0ssomed out
=" see, there is pris' ner
Broken ont of jail ,''
Saws wise little Teddy,
q" pose that he gave bail %
g. No. it Is rosebud,
Blown into a rose -
Mamie cries With laughing eyes;
There another goes ~
Up speaks little Goldie,
Youngest Of the three,
Clasps hgr W. e hands sOftly,
Laughs aloud in gloe,
Shake her Yeilsw irrsses,
Throws a rog,iish glance,
" p.sy're changini al dcre d'esscs,
Dom 10 ( dance %
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IN. - hinnltv hnn

Pop, pop. hippity hop
Fitccy-w rs woOl;
Hin, hop, pipigy poi!
Now the popper's fan.
" hen The dance i over
For tre merry crew,
Three wee Eatt d rose an Z pelrl
Ope and take them through.
New-York tribune., 1881-03-23
CALENDARS THIS DAY.

s,ryzy,,x lMBKEs-Lawrence JcoIrt no51s At
S Isl % So5 5o M i5 Sl sls go 22i $50 $50 2 2tl
II seai opens at 1880 mNOs 49, 81 45O 4GT
5i1 s8i 46s SIS $40. 6Sl. 447. 4l92 4512 4j3 4'62
asa. 500. 52s 4sl 5SJ 46I 464 6S4. $50 ,o.eo -
Law and FactNos i0I5. 93l. l024 l027 1949 9ls 9O9
74d ss s5s s sS2 S97 $50. $40 s72 1896 747 200
ponohSe Loo S opens 71 At l9soa @ AMI
4SS SS $ss $Yss sSs sS5 ss $isS sSSS s7S sS s6
29lo 2l29 29s l02o zs9a Svs SozS n4 S S95S S Z9 g
css ovens al 2. 1o$q 9o sgz %-No, So
1856 Ssss 24sS; saSS silS 4JS6 1904 Ss2 Sl4l SoS7
Nes ald1 4osS ssse 2790' g7Ss sSG7 $685. 2s2S 2s4
2sl2 2s01 25s J. 26ss 24s5 ZOOS 25II o7s 276l' 2G5S
SpEfIaI TgRM--Spcir JC0uft &C 10 IN calendar
called at IL a m.--No. day calendar
PARre T. III and lIi.--Adi0urnod TOR toe term =
SPECIAL IRRn-BeAch J.-court opens az IL a m-Nos 2
and g. - n c,., oon. q, =, .
mNos ifso. al 7s4 7i1 SO io54 rs sl9 e4l ll2l
9S9 iO89 675 S93 1908, $50, 1884, 1885, lo6o IOf f o0
fss, TEempAars H. and Adjourned for ihe terra.
MARINE CoURT-TgIAL TERM-PARf l-ShsTllah J-lcltg
opens at 70 mHela ~ s sosm en-, ~ s6 SH 4 ais 4
III. AGO 2340L. 447l, 6242
PART Ii-Adoarncd for the term :, - nal, tn
Common Pleas PaPt iNos 4f6l. 1886. 4ss5 2598 1850
sSo SSos 4sSG Ss4b 5ssSl 40Os iJl 4e7s, SsS' 0SOS
S2ssRsH sfssiossPaEr I-R B. cow1pg 1.-The People
Michae Cogn0rs John Leonard James AcDonaa ines
ter Michael Conner assault ana battery LANES
Mclaughlin, James Mcdonnell. William Purcell ToDVedy
rom person; Hugh Mcdonald Patrick oR0urke burg
iary: Wilam shaw, petit larceny -, ,.or ,o,,,c,da
Ssmes Morris Patrick Doyle Winam Moore John Austin
Ssrnsrd Hogan. robbery Nicho as Reagan Patrick eSn
henry Makein, Mary Mnrvhy, iron the person.
New-York tribune., 1881-03-23
THE CLAIMS OF BOTH. DIsALLowED.

A suit in the Supreme Court was begun
mort time ago by Robert E. Dunhnm against MS mother
,,o naraismes TO recover about S22 000 the value
!, sertain bonds which he claimed she had Withheld
trom him. The complaint set UP that Mr. Dunham had
danasted bonds OF the Jar vane Of $4,000 with ms
mother for safe keeping. that only $4,000 ~ Donds u
nsn renr,sd 20 him. and that she had collected inter
est on the bonds number Of years, about halI o
Wbjch had not been paid over. MIS-. DeTasmes denlen
~ ,'er answer that the bonds mentioned in the COM
nisint belonged her son. and demanded 1udgmeht
ihnr the $4,000 in bonds, which her son acntleu be
Ma from her be returned together WITH inter
eat The case came for trial yesterday before JuSes
Van Worst and the jury bro1sht ~ Ver61cs III "n'N
New-York tribune., 1881-03-23
ar,a.r,Nn rae yALnE or HIs COFFEE.

George w. Flanders Deean EeeehViJ an aoUV"
- court of Common Pleas against Morgan j. oBrien
= Of Risey Co.. coffee merchants, to recover
s Of coffee or their value. Il was alleged IL the
that the coffee was sold to Risley y Co. on
49, da,s, credit on their representation that they
Disy y,,orf6 sl7 900 and above all Liabilities MS
sy Co failed about two months after tns patGhSS
tne e.S eo 70 5000 600 Mr.. Flanders claimed that nc
am untitled TO return of the gocd on the ground Ihas
49, had bren obtained by fraud The case Was .Icu
tney Ssy hefora Judge Van Bruut. and resulted IN
yest tyr MI Flandcrs for 800 the value OF the
aas and S3 600 az damages FOR its dctenon: Lne
not f0 be understood casting BY ts YER
@ sy sny reflections on the good faith OF kisey q 20 III
New-York tribune., 1881-03-23
THE COURTS.
.,,rr,rn urs RIGHTS no PATENTS.

,sss aroument on motion for conenn-
.,.a ,em,orary injunction granted In the suit
spos ,S, - by Simon j. N. Baer against the american
,earsph Company aud others to restrain tnem
o, certain patents. was begun yesterday
sro Yns,,cs Lawrence the Supreme Court chain
Il alleged in the complaint that MI Ssef +,
eefter Vine tbey contributed payment Tor SZoOpu ~
Hnien neS TO be issued them when III snOuu
sfock OF sa JJpon the organization oil the company
Be for 100000 Of stock were sent 70 s%p 9nr ."
who for reason returned them 70
Beers Mr Baer now claims that the certlhcates
ns Uanawuy snrrendere aud 20 protect S DIS ln
ess 10 taa tne opd an accounting had. The argumea
ps ps,, X continucd to-day.
New-York tribune., 1881-03-23

someen Ike Titon-yaa-s, tlst's It, Sammy Tilton-I
believe they chll him. He's eller whose wife, you
know some years back wac mixed up into scandal
with an old Methodist preacher named Beeeher"
:" Why ya-a-s. jus SO, reconember now all bout
him since you mention H."
1ne conversation continued, but glib teamstera.
with their noisy wagons passing at the tme prevented
me from catching more, though am inclined 10 think
that it ended with exchange OF opinion as TO the
effect Warled's" Administration VIII have on tho
price Of whiskey. N. j. N.
StQfOrd Dek March 8, 1881.
New-York tribune., 1881-03-23
poLig1csIN TIE R0oRI DEEsrRIoKsn
70 The Edftor OF rae tribune.
cnu. o.. ahn EAh s..nl...A a. a.

q,
SIR: On the 9th instant, the day after the
Inauguration Of PfesidAnt Garaeld ebaneed to hear
the following exquisite bit Of dialogue between two un-
sophisticated American freenen hating from rural
uftrict not hundred miles away from this town. II
foa are Offering jackknife TO the most iunoeeptly
fresh OF fhe Genus homo Kindly forward 10 TO me.
aad II yoa send only win that the competitors
draw srsws aeteroine which Of them shall take tue
knffe. Tie conversation ran as follows:
they say they Putt ~ moo President Yesterday r.
Why, ya-a- :, I've heerd 80; watts hs name ~
Why did hear, onf most forgot; scme sost of
x'sidi seems 70 me--warEsld. yaas. wMhsld. tlaps
Warfeld, Pli try aud reeomember that aDd Tell the
Old omar W@ts the pate 81 TIE Teller that's Jest ggne
eQt q 3he place thty eati the Wige Ouse ~ 1ii
WI, ls'nle ~. pfsht 20 knoN. Pears 20 me Its