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The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

The end of the day IS the best time
for a sponge bath; a sponge and a coarse
towel have often cmed insomnia where
diacdium failed. a bucketful f teDi1
water viii do for ordinary pz~ Soses /;
daily shower baths in winter-t1me are as
preposterous as hot drinks in the dog
days. Russian baths and ice-water
cures owe their repute to the same pop
ular delusion that ascribes miraculous
virtues to nauseating drugs-the mis-
trust of our natural instincts, culminat-
ing in the idea that all natural things
must be injurious to men, and that the
efficacy of q remedy depends on the de-
gree of its responsiveness. Ninety-nine
boys in a hundred would rather take
the bitterest medicine than n cold bath
in mid-winter. Ii we leave children
and animals to the guidance of their in
stincts they VIII become amphibious IN
the dog-days, and quench their thirst at
the coolest spring without fear of injur
ious consequences but IN winter-tlme
even wild beasts avoid immersion with
an instructive dread. A Canadian bear
will make a wide circuit, or pick his
way over the foes rather than swim
lake In cold weather. Baptist mission
aries do not report many revivals be-
fore June. Warm springs, on the other
hand, attract all the birds and beasts
that stay with us in winter time the
hot spas of Rockport, Ark, are visited
nightly by raccoons and foxes in spite
of all torchlight hunts; and Haxthausen
tells us that in hard winters the therme
of Paetigorsk, in the Eastern Caucasus,
attract deer and wild hogs from the dis
tant Terek valley. I know the claims
of the hydIopathic school, and the argu-
ments pro and con, but tn main points
of the controversy still hinge upon the
issue between natures testimony and
DIR. Pr1essnitz' ST Il. OsaOdId, in
Popular Science Monthly.
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Sahara Not Below Sea Level.

The curious cosmographic error has
has long prevailed that the surface of the
great Desert of Sahara, in Africa. was
depressed below the ocean level Some
have seriously suggested that "a clnal be
cut from the Atlantic or the NIediterran-
can, by which the desert might be filed
with water, a new sea formed. inter
communication facilitated, and com
merce increased with the interior. DIR.
LEM has recently lectured In Paris on
his journey from Morocco to Timbuctoo.
He says the great desert is actually a
plateau about 900 feet above the level
of the ocean, and that nowhere is there
such a depression as formerly imagined
The fossils found are fresh water kinds.
SO that the Sahara Is not the bottom OF n
dried up sea The tilnid who have ap-
pretended that the revolving earth
might he thrown ont of balance by the
placing Of a broad, deep sea on the sur
face of the great desert, may calm their
fears.
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what Becomes OF naan Birds Z

How strange it is that, considering the
millions OF birds born every year, dead
ones are so seldom seen. TO each little
songster IN turn comes the tradegy-
sickness, decay and death-yet, even in
tne me woods, 1t IS rare to find a dead bird.
Who buries them One can find it in
ones heart to believe in the pathetic
robbins of olden story. and turn up the
leaves to see if, perchance. some stray
leather may not betray the hidden
miausoleum- 1t is odious to think that
tney have become the prey of others of
.neir species, or of enemies prowling in
wait Tor their hour of weakness. But
nature manages her affairs so well that
oonotless the obsequies are conducted
WI. VIII oroer and regularity, and if we had
DJ. eyes 70 see them we should find
70 fertilize and enrich the scene of their
brief existence. '0o'-
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whv Uncle PIeasant MarrIed.

Uncle Pleasant Batkins Is 60 and his
wife 70. The other day friend said:
' Uncle Pleasant, why in the mischief
did you marry a woman nearly old
enough to be your mother You see,
boy" he replied, with a sigh, Il was
wurkin' for Long John Freemon, In Han
over, when was Jest Is, and Sarah Ann
Russ, old Mrs. Russ only daughter, was
80 if she wur day. At every quiltin'
she used to chuse me for a partner, and
everybody said it 'peared like she wur
courtin' me. She gimme four pair cot
ton socks and a heap of things but still
/ didn't have no notion of her. Well,
one Christmas eve. went to the old
womaR's and had hardly sat down before
Sarah Ann brought me some sweet-pO
tato pie, which she knowed | was mon
strous fond Of While l was eatin' it |
heard the old woman up stairs account
in silver dollars. Now, thar was no
plaster to the ceilin', and the upstairs
foo had c-acks in it as wide as my fin
ger. So, you see, could her the jingle
of the money jest as we'll as if 1 had
been up thar myself. When she had
counted 906, drawed up to Sary Ann
and popped the question. In course
she said she'd have me, and the next
Thursday we was married. Now. whit
do you think found out the next day a
Why that the old woman didn't have but
80 Mexican dollars, and that she counted
them over and over jest to fool me-
for silver dollars - RieIn101ld ErDress
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HISTORICAL.

FUMIGATIoN with birthstone IS OF NO
man origin.
THE Gauls loved to decorate tnelr nei'
NETS, swords and buckles with coIai'
A CROWN of red-hot iron was an an
cient punishment for rebels and regi'
cides.
AT PoMPEn, combs have been 1ounI
exactly like the modern hne 'oo'l
kind.
THE Saxon groat-great coin Vase was Sc
called because 1t was the largest LnSii
coin then known.
THE elephant was put upon the CONS
of Caesar because that animal was calieo
C6zar IN Mauritauria
THE first establishment for the manu-
facture of straw bonnets was started ID
Somers, Conn, in 1880.
The most common measure OF capacity
among the Romans was the Amphorai
nearly nine English gallons.
THE coffin of Lambert the celebrated
''great man, " was four feet and han
wide and two feet and halt deep.
The first town on the Aroostook,
Maine, was Maysonville, settled III 1oZC
by few men from New Brunswick
BY THE Saxon laws twelve years OF age
was fixed as the earliest possible devei.
opment of the legal Understanding.
THE original use to which Boston
Common was put was for a pasture fol
cattle and parade ground 1t was called
Gentry Field.
The Greek word for horseshoe hrst
occurs in the ninth century Horses
were then only shod in time of frost OF
for especial occasions.
HUrs, instead of tents. we're used by
the ancient English soldiers, as the
/ modes of warfare consisted chiefly IN
sieges and standing camps.
CoArs of arms and heraldry were in
troduced into England IN 100. The
arms of England and France were first
quartered by Edward Ill IN 1858.
In ELIzABErI's time repeater -
watches were so rare that some rustics
took one that they heard for the devil.
and threw it out of the window with the
tongs
THE first silver money coined in Rome
was A. L. c. 4S4. The mint was In the
temple of Juno Moneta, which circum-
stance occasioned the origin of our word
money.
A CIRCULATING library in the Middle
Ages may seem surprising. In 1872 a
law was framed in Paris compelling all
public booksellers to keep books to lend
out on hire.
BUHL work, the process Of nlaying 10y
use of the saw, derives its name from a
French workman, Boule, who invented
and carried it on during the reign OF
| Louis XIV.
AUGUSTUS used a memorandum book,
in which he made notes of what
he wished to say, but he punished, as q
spy, one Pinarius, for taking notes at
+ public ovations.
UNDER the early laws of the Athenians
/ false witness was to be thrown head
long from the capitol Treading down
/ another's cornfield at night was punish
( able by death.
THE term Quaker was first applied t.
/ the sect in derisOn. When George Fox,
/ the founder, was brought before the
magistrate he told him TO quake before
1 the word of the Lord.
/ BoNrBARDs were large ale barrels, and
the vessels used TO carry beer To soldiers
on duty, from whence came lombard
man, for one who carried about prCyi.
sions, corrupted by the sailors into bum
! boat.
/ DURING a storm in Vermont, in 1870,
/ the lightning struck horse in pasture.
burning off his hair, or pulling 1t out.
1 cutting a hole two inches long in his
head and throwing off his shoes. The
/ horse recovered
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

Then the summer mornings We're full
of singing birds, always waiting outside
our windows to help us begin the day
with happiness. Then flowers were born
as if to accompany the birds In their be-
nevolent mission. Then all our dreams
were pleasant imaginings, Arabian
Nights Entertainments. frolic visions of
untroubled Joy. Then June was the
longest and loveliest month In the cal
endar. Then we were never depressed
by bad weather. Then headache had
no Judgement nearer than our neighbor's
brain. Then personal rheumatism is
unknown to us. Then insomnia had
not been invented, and we were not
obliged to draw upon the apothecary for
vials of sleep. Then we could walk
twenty miles a day without fatigue.
Then all was gold that glstened. Then
iOe a0ere yosta9.-Janaes Z. Fields, in
Hdrder's MAGAZINE.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21
Educated for Servants.

Norwegian girls make excellent ser
wants. In their own country they are
thoroughly trained at schools specially
instituted for the purpose, and they only
receive a diploma or authority to work
when they have completed their course.
Many of them come to this country, and
certainly those in search of competent
servants-and who is not would dowell
to consider the expediency of inquiring
about them. Scotch servants, too, have
such n good name in England that many
people send to Glasgow for them and en-
gage them without even seeing them.
There is a good deal of similarity in the
characters of the two nations, both are
thrifty. industrious, and generally relig-
ious, in addition to which they are ex-
tremely cleanly in their habits. .-Ne,0
York Malt.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

When you wish to know what the
weather is to be, go out and select the
smallest cloud you see. Keep your eye
upon it, and if it decreases and disap-
pears it shows a state of the air which
is sure to be followed by fine weather /;
but if it increases in size, take your
great coat with vou if you are going
from home, for falling weather is not far
of. The reason is this: When. the air
Is becoming charged with electricity you
viii see every cloud attracting all lesser
ones toward it, until it gathers into
a shower; and, ON the contrary, when
the fluid is passing off, or difusing it
self, then large cloud viii be seen
breaking into pieces and dissolving.
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a wise Deacon.

deacon Wilder, 1 want you to tell me how
Won kept Yourself and family well the past sea-
son. when all the rest of us have been sick so
much. and have had the doctors visiting us so
often"
" Bro. Taylor, the answer Is very easy. /
used Hop Bitters in time, kept my family well
and saved the doctor bills. Three dollars worth
of it kept us well and able to work all the time.
IN warrant it has cost you and the neighbors
one to two hundred dollars piece to keep sick
the same time
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21
.nnn,t Knou Hn1r rherr varue.,

"They cured me of Ague, Biliousness and
Kidney Complaint as recommended. l had
half bottle left, which used for my two little
girls who the doctors and neighbors said could
not be cured. 1 would have lost both of them
one night if had not given them Hop Bitters.
They did them much good / continued their
use until they were cured. That is why l say
you do not know half the value of Hop Bitters,
and do not recommend them high enough. -
B., Rochester n. Y. See other column-Anae,-
icdr Rural HoTaA
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

and decorations. The saloon proper is
frescocd and gilded in Eastlake style, and
the hooringis covered with Turkish carpet
The furniture in raw silk and walnut, OF
the Queen Anne pattern, like that of the.
dining-hall, and rich curtains of damaslS
complete the impression ofa veritable float
ing palace. The four state-rooms, contain
ing two berths each, are also carpeted with
Brussels and handsomely furnished. The
boat belongs to and was built under the
directions of Messrs A. Vogeler & Co,
Baltimore, Nd, for their own exclusive use
upon the Ohio, Mississippi and other West
ern rivers, and is run by a picked crew of
officers and men in their employ. The
object of this little steamer is to carry
neither freight nor passengers She was
built for the firm above named, TO be used
exclusively by them for distributing their
printed matter in the river towns for ST.
JACOBS OIL, the Great German Remedy
for rheumatism and other painful ailments
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

YOUNG Housekeeper-'' 1.-THE oysters You
sent yesterday, Mr. Mollusk, were
dreadful p Fishmonger-''How did ye
cook 'em, mum?" Young Housekeeper-
"They were not cooked at all, sir; we
served them raw Fismonger pity
ingly)-'Lor bless you, mum, them
warn't eating oysters; they war cooking
oysters l''-B0ston Commercial BtlIte-
lin
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

FoR dyspepsia, Indigestion, depression OF
spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as a preventive against fever and
ague and other intermittent fevers the FERRo
PHosPHoRATED ELIXIR OF CAIIsAYA BARK, made
by Caswell, Hazard 4 Co., New York, and sold
by all druggists, is the best tonic and for pa
tients recovering from fever or other sickness
it has no equal.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

WHES others are suffering, drop a word Of
kindness and sympathy. If they are suffering
from Cold, give them DR.. Bulls Cough Syr-
up few doses OF this valuable remedy viii
afford instant relief, and a twenty-five cent bot
tie will cure the worst Cough.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

IF 4 bar of steel be carefully balanced
ON a point and then magnetized by rub
bing with magnet, OF any other means,
it will no longer remain III equilibro but
VIII form an angle TO the horizon.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

An ex-consul of Great Britain, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, related that Mr.. Chas.
Townsend, Sedalia, Mo-, was cured of
rheumatism of the worst kind by st.
Jacobs il.-Iadianapoits (I1ad.) Sen
f5Y1oT
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

WE 10 not often speak Of any proprietory
medicine, hut from what we have read and
heard of Aliens Lung Balsam, we shall take the
liberty Of saying to those who are troubled with
cold, cough, or any throat or lung affection,
thet from the testimony afforded, we have such
confidence IN this article, that were we afflicted
In that way, woud make a trial of its vir-
tues. Beware of the fatal consequences of
neglecting this timely warning. Ncw before it
is too late, use Aliens Lung Balsam, which Will
cure the disease. Every druggist in the land
iis
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

CoD-IIvER oil is obtained by exposing
the fish livers to the heat of the sun till
putrefaction takes place. The oil col
iected is then drawn off and the livers
hoiled for more oil
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

THE Ottawa Kan. ) Republican thus
quotes: Mr. Harvey B. f. Keller, re-
corder of deeds, says: 1 have long
been convinced of the merits of ST Ja-
cobs Oil, and use it in my family for
rheumatism successfully
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

A LITTLE glycerine added to gum
or blue is great Improvement Ias
it prevents either becoming brittle 1t
also prevents gummed labels from5Av
ing tendency to curl up when b shg
written on. 1He
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

THE true epic OF our times is moi
{" arms and the man but tools and
the man." an infinitely wider kind o.
epic
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

Ix YOUTH we feel richer for every new
illusion IN maturer years for every one
We lose
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

Bor1s. pimples. and all blood diseases are
cured by - Dr. Lindsey's Blood Searcher'
SID llv nll druggists. Never fails.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

II YOU are "spring poor and all worn out,
you must take Kidney-Wort. 1t is what you
need
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

MEN of great genius and large heart
SOW the seeds of new degree Of pro-
gress In the world, but they bear fruit
only after many years.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21
Labor Remuneration in Switzerland.

When the condition of the wage-earn-
ing classes in Switzerland and Sweden Is
carefully considered, the wonder is not
that emigration is constantly and largely
increasing, but that still more of the
Swedes and Swiss do not shake the dust
of the Old World from their feet The
latest and most trustworthy statistics of
labor in Switzerland show that the range
of wages is $50 year for gardeners, $50
to $50 for adult male farm laborers, and
S14 TO so for adult females, with lodg-
ing and board for all for young men on
farms $40, with clothes added to board
and lodging. Men in the trades work
eleven hours a day, and are paid as fol-
lows:
Carpenters. .....................6 81 to 76 cents
Fresco painters rs........--...--.-,.. Sc cents
Dyers- .-..-..... .-... .-.--..-...-fo 10 20 cents
Potters twelve hours) )..,.............6 81 cents
House painters. -......-....-........ So cents
Engineers Observation-Disclosures. 10 cents
Masons Observation-Disclosures. 81 cents
Yarnishers Observation-Disclosures. Sc cents
Machinists, saddlers, upholsterers and
compositors ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SO cents
COopers with board) ............2 .25 to % cents
Locomotive engineers, at thirteen to
sixteen hours a day, get $50. so per
month. Coffee and bread at morning and
night, and meat and vegetables at noon,
constitute the food of a majority of
these people What some of the trades
classes in Sweden earn appears from the
.able below:
Blacksmiths ...... "a O5 per week
Carpenters ............ 81 per week
Cabinet makers. ...-.... "a Sc to 6 75 per week
Upholsterers. ......-.... 3 p 10 40 per week
Hatters aud Tailors ..... 4 05 to sc per week
Bricklayers aud Plasterers
(seven months). ... ( 45 per week
Brcklayers and Plasterers
(inwinter) ........... 2 so per week
Natchmakers .......... 8 10 per week
Foromen in cotton mills 81 to 05 per week
/ Laborers in cotton mills 2 so per week
/ They must pay for wheat flour So 81
per 100 pounds rye, 81. 2S bacon, lard,
( butter and cheese, 10, II, % and "A
/ cents per pound beef and mutton, 10
and cents granulated sugar, green
/ coffee and tea, IL ard % cents and 81 ::
/ potatoes, 81. 40 per barrel of 81 bushels
/ Agricultural laborers in Southern Swe-
/ den receive from % to % cents day in
/ summer. and Is to 26 cents in winter
] Such Is life in n crowded continent
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21
ueatuer UtSu,J,rt.

To AILAY all troubles incident to change of
life, Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
has no equal.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21
AROMATIC MILK

LEARNING maketh young men TEMPER
ate, Is the comfort of old age. standing
Tor wealth with poverty and serving as
an ornament to riches. A'
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

IT MATTERS not the age of sufferers from
colds, coughs, or Group, DR.; Sellers Oough
SvrnD - Is good for all. Price % cents.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

ORAroRs are most vehement when
they have the weakest cause, as men get
on horseback when they cannot walk.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

Isthe BEST sALvE for Cuts, Bruises Sores, Ulcers,
Salt Rheum, letter Chapped Hands, Chilblains Corns,
and all kinds Of Skin rup ptons, Freekles and Pimpes
Ges HENRY's cARBoLIC sALvE, as all others are
-ounterfeits. Prce - cents.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21
rrNRy,S CARROLTC SALyE

Red-Bugs- Reaches.
rats cats mice, ants. flies, insects, cleared out
by Rough on Rats" 15c., druggists
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

DIR. MOTIFS LIVER PILLS are the best cathartie
Regulators.
The Hickman courier., 1881-10-21

DTRNO's CATARRH SNUFF cures all affections Of the
mucuous membrane Of the head and throat.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-12-24
Fourteenth Day.
SENATE.

The Senate was called to order b,
President Robertson Mt II o'clock. TWEEN
ty-hye Senators, md o quorum present
Mr.. Newton offered % concurrent rec
olntlon, which was adopted, requesting
our Representatives III Congressto ure,
To" passage Of n national law nppropri
ating thu snm ofSlO0,0oO for the renai,
ana keeping in order the Postum Fork
beNoe, 70 Arkansas county, Ark. This
work Is Of great Importance, as ii pro
tee's thousands Of acres Of the bsst
lands in Northern Louisiana and sonth.
ern Arkansas.
Mr.. Fonienot in the chair.
Senate bill No. 6, entitled can act to
certain unappropriated balan-
'eF now III the hands Of the State Treas.
areT and TO accrue" came up on it's sec.
md reading.
Sections and 2, the former. that
'l4f1 now in the hands of the State
Treasurer belonging 10 the militia fund.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-12-24
mend by striking out the words - Dor

"t0o0Wyy W uO 1uOVetl tIH 6I0Uv1O0.
The point WIN made that the resoiuti
4 being q concurrent one, was in its d
ttre MI enactment Of law and Il won
bnye 10 tnks the ravnlar conr..
The point was sustained bv thu a,,a.
Or.
On motion Of Mr.. Kayanauuh of 8
Landry. the resolution WINS refcrred
= tbs committee an wuvs and ,n...a
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After some d;..,..,o, ., uo,,..
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The Senate an,eudmenta we're thu,
coucurred in by vote Of GO years 4,
nays.
Mr. Stringtelow. Of Red River aab.
m,tted the following communication,
Nuw outnAss December H. 1881
To tho Chairman Of tho COMMITTEES on Ways and
"'e'A'' t'eass "t Representatives, Louisiana:
:, 90 "''o''"s j's' n''a ~ t"e
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MI Str'ngfcilow asked that The Honse |
'"''f"c' 'ne communities.
"f' osoeo' OF Booster, said that, as n
hember OF the committee Oh ways and
means, he did not wish to be placed IN
'eiahit ii the committee spoken Of in
NO oo"'m"hicauoE e0ad throw any
'sh'"poh eae ''ceass matter, no thought
oat he should oe heard.
n motion TO instruct the COMMITTEES
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Nv "n''n'''"'n' Was adopted' ~
"a amendment authorizing II summa-
seizure aud snio of any property "'
nd 70 enforce the collection Of licen- 49,
On travelling agents, was adopted. ="
u amshamena, W hf Heldebhaiu, Ia
'r'eans, requiring that iicenscs to
'efng agents should state the housc -,
oufes represented, was adopted. A..
10 Dill WINS 'htn considered engross. 49,.
Nv P'"'''' W ~" 'h'ra reading .al
10 eonta't'ee Oh eitfOilmeitt, through
Hai'hah' Mr. MCCAIN, OF Grant, re- r.
"a '1ouse OIL NO. "a, al uct max o,,.
va appropriation 'or tne e'a'e House rr,
'a'"h hoEoe'