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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
Concerning the Moon.

Inc moon, says Prof. Proctor, does
not reVolye around the earth, but the
two circle about each other, and the
real center OF the revolution of each is
the sun. III there were a railway suffi-
GENTLY elevated to reach the moon,
which ls23o, SlS miles distant from us,
we should be fifteen months making
the Journey at ordinary railroad speed.
Upon arriving, We should observe sew
eral interesting phenomena. First, it is
n very respectable luminary of diane
ter OF z,uol miles, with a surface of IA, :
600, OOO square miles, volume one
fOrty-nlnth of that of the earth, and a
mass one-eighty-first of it.
Then, the force OF gravity being one
sixth OF the earth, we could be thirty
SIX feet high, and still quite as active as
we are hTe. But our longer bodies would
have longer day in which to disport
themselves, for there is lapse oftwenty-
nine andone-haf of our days between
the luna sunrise and sunset. Our eX-
tremltles however, would certainly suf-
fer attersunset, for the surface of the
moon IS 200 degrees below zero at mid
night, aid the reaction toward noon
would ty even our prolonged proper
tions, foi at noon the surface would be
80 degrees above the bOiling-po We
should e very lonely, probably, fol
/ there IS 10 living creature there now.
Still, Prof. Proctor says that al
! planets pass through five stages, the
| last OF which Is death-a stage which
the mOonhas reached-the apprehensivt
mind naturally inquiries how soon the
earth viii probably reach it. The pro
fessor answers. reassuringly, that th'
earth is now about 500, 900, 600 year,
old, and that it took the moon SO, 600, OO|
70 reach its present state He therefore
concludes that it will take the earth 500,
600, 600 years more to reach the SAM
condition. There is thus no immediate
cause for apprehension.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
"A Judicial View of Turkeys.

In King against Mann, Supreme
Court of the Hawaiian Islands, the de-
PENDANT had been convicted of stealing
turkeys. Two. questions arose whether
the turkeys IN question were =" wild ami
mails, and thus not subject of larceny;
and whether ownership had been
proved. The court said "On the
mountain range of this island, back of
Waialua, called the Waiana Mountains,
are numbers of turkeys. These birds
were brought to this country so long
ago that there Is no remembrance eX-
listing as to the exact time when or by
whom they We're imported. These
birds are now IN wild state, afraid OF
of man, breeding In the unfrequented
parts of the mountain and bush coun-
( try, and have been hunted down and
/ caught by devices, precisely as if they
.we, fey,0 nQtis,,1s--S-If = woll A-l--GNn
/ that the domestic turkey is descended
! from the wild turkey, first found in
/ Amerfca, modified by breeding and the
( cNre of man, and this perhaps accounts
for the tendency to revert TO the wild
state which is so strongly manifest In
them. These turkeys, although wild,
are not properly speaking wild ami
mails. Where the phrase wild animals
Is used the word wild Is used as a gen
eric term to Indicate that they are of a
species not usually dOmesticated, and
does not refer TO their comparative do
cility or familiarity with men. We con-
slider that these turkeys are not properly
speaking animals ferCe nature, though
partaking of their habits. In the alb
sence of proof of ownership of these
turkeys by the prosecuting witness,
aside from the fact that they were
caught on his land, and 1t being proved
that they can not be distinguished from
any other turkey on contiguous lands,
they are not the subjects of larceny.
This is in harmony with State against
Mary Turner, in North Carolina. Mary
was indicted for stealing lone turkey
of the value of five cents" Thus 1t
seems that turkeys are cheap In North
Carolina. The report does not disclose
the date of the Offense, but We infer that
it was shortly before Thanksgiving.
Mary having been convicted, motion,
in arrest of judgment was made upon
the ground that the indictment was
insufficient, for it failed to state that the
turkey stolen was n tame turkey that
the turkey was a native fowl of Amer
lea large numbers are found in every
part of the State, wild and unreclaimed,
and that the indictment should have
negatived the presumption tlt&t the tur
key in question was wild and unre-
Fl. claimed The motion was sustained,
but this was reversed by the Supreme
Court. The court said: " His Honor
was mistaken in this case, in supposing
that our domestic turkey is a creature
fcroe nature We take the case TO he
clear, that where a creature, for the
stealing of which defendent Is indicted,
is Jcrg nature, the Indictment must
further allege that the creature was
dead, tanned, confined, or reclaimed.
But surely this can not be the case when
the defendant is indictedfor stealing one
of our domesticated turkeys. AlbaHy
Lam .In1frnnI
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
The Importance Of a Chaperon.

A woman of elegant manners and
charming character, who will submit to
the slavery of being chaperon-for it
is little less--it is hard to find. Yet
every motherless family should try to
find such a person.
In travelling IN Europe an accom-
plished chaperon can do more for young
girls than any amount of fortune. She
has the thing they want that is know
ledge. With her they can go every
where-to picture galleries, to theaters,
to public and private balls, and into
society. if they wish it. 1t is "eti-
quette to have chaperon, and it is the
greatest violation not to have one. II a
woman isprotected by the armor of work,
she can dispense with chaperon. The
young artist goes about her copying I'M
questioned but in society, with its diff
ferent laws, she must be uuder the care
of an older woman than herself A
chaperon is indispensable to an engaged
girl. The mother, or some lady friend,
should always accompany a young
fdRcee on her journeys to the various
places of amusement and TO the water
ing places. Nothing is more vulgar in
the ewes of our modern society than for
an engaged couple to go travelling about
alone with each other, and to the theater
by themselves, as was the primitive Gus
tom. This will, we know, shock many
Americans and be called foolish fol-
lowing of foreign fashions" But it is
true, ard if it were only for the looks
of the thing, it is more decent, more
elegant and more correct for the young
couple to be accompanied by chaperon
until marriage.
Society allows an engaged girl to
drive with her fiancee in an open car
riage, hut it does not approve of his tax
ing her In n close carriage to an even
ing party. -Harper's Basaar.
A CATERER In New York, it is said, is
able to make almost all the dishes of a
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

The average weight of brain in various
races is said to be as follows English
and American, 45.7 ounces French,
A. ounces German, A l ounces Ital-
ian, A ounces ; North American Indian,
Al 4 ounces Hindoo, 42.1 ounces KAT
fir (African), 40 ounces Negro, 40
ounces Bushman, 38 ounces, and Malay
and Oceanic race, 80 to 43.7 ouIS9s
This nice computation may be correct.
but it Is worth while to remember that
the quality of mans brain is as i'm
portant as its quantity. a little farm
well titled, especially if originally fer
tile, may be more productive than a big
plantation naturally sterile and neg
lected.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
The Happy Gnat and the BuIl.

A very OrtHved, conceited little
gnat settled ON the horn of bull, and
sat there for some time. At last, in de-
spair of attracting attention, the insect
remarked that he supposed he had been
a great burden to the bull all this time.
Not In the least, responded the
bull, pleasantly, becoming at last aware
of the existence of the gnat. 81 did
not know you had come, and 1 shall not
miss you when you go away. Shooh,
fly, don't bodder me
"Ah |" exclaimed the gnat, in tri-
umph, 81 have at last compelled you
to recognize me. p"
Moral Some men are of more conse-
quence in their own eyes than In the
eyes of their neighbors. - Galveston
News.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

wife, come here Robert is dying p
The mother came on feet of doves
wings. She raised her son upon her
breast. The little lips Enclosed and
spoke the last forever to this world 4:
L love my papa. Mamma, i only
wanted his pencil, not his money. Dear
God, let papa love me"
And so, among the little drawings he
had been working at every dawn, till
MS pencils were worn to the wood and
he would have borrowed his papa's
noIselessly, whose sharpened pencil was
IN his walstcoat pocket, the little artist
yielded up his broken heart Only the
room resounded with a cbiIdless fathers
cry:
"Oh had 1 my son again, even
though he were thief ~
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
Music Hath Charms. Etc.

One of the great manufacturing inter
ests of Boston, is the Emerson Piano
Company, whose pianos are used with
high appreciation and satisfaction
throughout the world In a recent con-
versation with Mr.. Jos. Gramer, one of
the proprietors, that gentleman re-
marked 1 have used that splendid
remedy, ST. Jacobs Oil, in my family,
and found it to be so very beneficial that
1 viii never be without it. 1t has cured
me of a severe case of rheumatism, after
other remedies had failed.-,St. Louis
Western Waterman.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
Bayard on the Natural Affections.

Senator Bayard said pretty thing
and a true one at an orphan asylum IN
Baltimore, the other day: THE best
part of mans life is in the world of his
natural affections, and that realm has
laws of its own that neither know nor
heed King, Kaiser nor President, nor
Reichstags nor Congresses, and are deaf
even to the voices of shouting popular
majorities, but heed and obey rather the
gentle voice of woman and the cry of
HELPLESS and feeble childhood.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
4 SWindIer Fooled.

Upon one of the trains en- route from
the Pacific coast, a sharp undertook to
sell diamond ring TO an old miner who
had made his pile and was returning
home. The miner looked at the ring
and said to the seller: They've got com
mon stone up in the diggings where I've
been that1I cut that diamond all to
piecesr' eff you'll find a piece of stone
that will cut that diamond I'll give it to
You, replied the peddler. ''All right,
said the miner, iii l can't cut that 'dia-
mond' with Il stone I'll buy it OF you
TheIeupoh the miner took the ring in
his hand and pulled from his vest pocket
a small piece of brown-lookjng stone,
similar to a bit of dark freestone, except
the grain was very fine, and with this he
proceeded coolly to cut and scratch the
diamond" with several ugly-looking
gashes. a group of passengers that
had gatherell-akaazz11l
amazed, but while they smIIecT me poo
der with his diamond" withdrew dis
comfted. THAT little piece of brown
stone, " explained the miner, sis piece
OF corundrum that got in the Rocky
mountains, and it's the best diamond
tester in the world. 1t won't scar a
genuine diamond, but it viii everlasting
" cut up pieces OF glass or quartz.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

BY EVA A. H. BARNES.

The day was one Of those sweet rare Gays
That only come with June, ,
When hearts breathe forth instructive praise
And pulses are in tune
And Ger the hill and DER the lea
NY own true lover came 70 me
That day.
know that skies we're never so blue,
Or flowers ere naf so sweet,
And ne'er a road so smoothly white
Did lie meath trees that bend 10 greer,
AS where we met, my lover and l,
Met once In spite Of our destiry
That day.
Twas but glimpse of the =" might have BEEN
A clasp of hands DER years,
brief forgetting OF worldly din,
precedent OF tears;
And life with its ceaseless ebb and flow
Closed Ger two lives, their veal and woe,
That day.
Yet twill stand forth on memory's green,
Marked with a snow-white stone
Twill come to meet in the land unseen,
When each shall claim his own,
And we can wait, my love and l,
Holding in trust from memory
That day.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

MARY c. is a very popular little
girl, and is invited to all of the chill
dren's birthday parties, where she never
foreets 10 wish, Many happy returns
of the day." Recently she overheard
her father telling her mother that Mrs.
j.. the mother of seven children, had
Just had birthday party, the said
party" being nine pounds, very live
weight Mary at once asked her hor
rifed mamma: Shall trot over and
wish her many happy returns of the
day 2"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

When board of eminent physicians IA
chemists announced the discovery that by coil
blning some well-known valuable remedies. til
most wonderful medicine was produced which
would cure such wide range of diseases tina,
most all other remedies could be dispenset
with, many were sceptical but proof of III
merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt
and to-day the discoveries of that great medi,
cine, Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by
all as benefaetors.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

William J. Coughlin, Of Somerville Mass says; 'Tn
the fall Of 1870 taken with beedngs Of the lungs
followed by a severe cough. lost my appetite and
flesh, and was confined TO my bed. In Is77 I adj
mitted to the hospital. The doctors said had in
my lung big half a dollar. At time a report
went around that dead. gave up hope, but a
LuSGs. got bottle, when, to my surprise, 7 CON-
menced to feel better and to-day feel better than for
three years past write this hoping every afflicted
with diseased lungs will take DR.. WILLIAM HALLs BAL
SAN and BE- convinced that CONSUMPTION CURED
I positively say has done good than all IN
other medicines have taken since sickness
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostratlOn
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENslIANs PEPToNIzED BEEF ToSIC. the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-Inak-
ing, force-generating and DEMONSTRATING prop
critics; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions
whether the resElt of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration, overwork, or acute disease, particularly
If resulting from pulmonary complaints, Cas-
we'll Hazard Co., proprietors, New York.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
Peace to His Ashes.

Not long since Gus De Smith To-
stroll through the Austin gravev,
When he came out of the graveyard %'
looked very serious.
Gilhooly meeting him asked him w
was the matter Y
Nothing, only / was thinking t6
the Austin husband must light all a
fires in the mornings. (" -eS
What makes you think sop
Well. l see no many of them are
burned to death. / noticed on three ~
four tombstones Peace to his ashes -
-Ieras Sitting. 4
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
A Strong Cnunuernr-

According to an Illinois exchange, our
days of Rheumatism are well nigh num-
bered. St Jacobs Oil enters a rheu-
matte territory, and conquers every sub
iect That's right We believe in it
Milwaukee, E'ueninq Wisconsin,.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
$500 Reward.

They cure all diseases of the stomach, Bow
els. Blood, Liver, Nerves, Kidneys and Urinary
Organs, and $500 will be paid for case they
viii not cure help, or for anything impure
or injurious found IN them - Hop Bitters.
Test it. See Truths or '' Proverbs III
another column.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
Travelling Men

find it hard to keep in good health, owing to the
constant change of water, diet and the Earring
of the cars. All these things injure the kid
news. while Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure is certain to counteract them.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

Mr. VANDERBILT's income is marvellous so is
Amberg's Letter File. Try it. Cameron, AM
berg & Co.. Chicago.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

ONLY the genuine axle grease has the name
of Frazer on every package. and wears longer
than any other.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

THE man who eats oleomargarine gets
fat. There is no doubt about the fat
part.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
RESCTEDFROVT DEITu

WHEN YOU go to bed take a dose Of Kidney
Wort 1t keeps the bowels in order
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
'L1SDsEY's Blood searcher the great
blood poison. Don't fail to use it.

for fever and ague. malaria, and all
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

Ask Druggists Tor It. It clears out rats. mice,
reaches, bed-bugs flies, vermin, insects. 15c.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19
Is a Positive Cure


for all those Painful CompIaints and Wesknesses
socOmmOn to our best female population
It viii entirely the worst form % Female Com
plants all ovarian troubles Inflammation and Ulcera
ton, Falling and Dsplaccments, and the consequent
Spinal Weakness, and is particularly adapted to the
Change Of Life.
It viii dissolve and expel tumors from the uterus IN
an carly stage development. The tendency TO can
cerous humors there checked very speedily by its use
It removes faintness atulency destroys all craving
for stiuants and relieves weakness OF the stomach
Il cures Floating, Headaches Nervous Prostration,
General Debility sleeplessness, Depression and Indi-
gestion.
That feeling OF bearing down, causing pain, weight
and bsckache IS always permanently cured by rs use
It VIII all times and under oil circumstances act in
harmony with that govern the female system
For the Kidney Complaints OF either sex this
Compound is unsurpassed.
LYDIA Z. PINKHAA'S VEGETABLE COM
POUNDS prepared at 2Ss and 295 Western Avenue.
Lynn, Mass. Price 81 Six botesfor e. Sent by mail
form Of pills, also in the form OF iozenges on
receipt OF price 81 per box for either Mrs Pinkham
freely answers letters Of inquiry Send for pamph-
let Address as above. Mention This Paper
TO family should be without LYDIA Z. PINRHAMs
LIVER PILLS. They constipation, biliousnesr
and torpidity OF the liver. % cents per box
re- Sold by all Druggists. -da
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-08-19

A CATERER in New York, it is said, is
able to make almost all the dishes of a
complete bill of fare from fresh-killed
hog.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-22
The Presidential Cold Air Machine.

The apparatus which proved most
satisfactory in cooling the chamber of
the wounded President was furnished by
a Mr.. Jennings, OF Baltimore. It was
devised for use in new process of re-
fining lard. According to the inventors
description, the apparatus consists of q
cast iron chamber, about ten feet long
and three wide and three high, filed
with vertical iron frames covered with
cotton terry or Turkish toweling. These
screens are placed half an inch apart,
and represent some three thousand feet
of cooling surface Immediately over
these vertical screens is placed coil OF
inch iron pipe, the lower side of which
Is filled with fine perforations. Into
galvanized iron tank, holding 100 gal
Ions of water, is put finely granulated or
shaved ice (and salt when low tempera-
ture is required.) This water is sprayed
upon the sheets in the lower tank con-
stantly. In each end of the iron cham
ber are openings thirteen inches square.
To the outer end of this chamber is
pipe connecting with an outdoor air
conductor. To the opposite end is con-
nected similar pipe leading into an
ice chamber at its top, and from the bot
tom of the same a pipe leads to a small
exhaust fan, and from the fan the now
cold and dry air is forced direct into the
Presidents room through flue some
twenty feet in length, Air at SO degrees
temperature to day is supplied at the
rate of %, 900 cubic feet per hour at the
register in the Presidents room at 54
degrees, and with the windows and doors
open the temperature at the Presidents
bed twenty-five feet away is maintained
steadily at rs degrees day and night.
When the cold air machine was intro
duced it was intended to keep the win
dows and doors closed, and under these
conditions the machine would create and
maintain temperature of 60 degrees in
the hottest weather without using the
auxiliary ice-air chamber now used.
which was the suggestion of Professor
Newcomb and Major Powell, to meet the
requirements of cooling the room with
the doors and windows open. The clos
ing of them gave the room AN air of
gloom.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-22
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How @ Fog Whistle Works.

The fog whistle, heard for ten miles,
consists of two distinct whistles, operated
by two engiHes in building separate from
the lighthouse. Fifty pounds of steam is
the force carried while at work. Every
blast lowers the mark four pounds. SHAY
lngs ana kindling wood are laid already to
start up steam when a fog comes on, and
the engineer can heat up for steam in
thirtv-tive minutes. The whistle gives a
blast of eight seconds duration every min
ute-a doleful sound, out invaluable to
steamers and passing sailing vessels. We
could hear it the other night booming dis
mally through fog five miles off. Tie
captain starts it when the fog is such that
he can't see Goose Island, one mile diftant.
The whistle Is produced by wheel with
cam affixed; the wheel, a solid piece Of
work, regulated by governor, revolves
once minute; the cam fixed at one point
on its periphery, opens point which lets
off steam in the prolonged booming wall
we had heard. To supply water for steam
a big tank, under the same roof and sup
piled by the rain from it, is kept pretty
full. Forty feet long by eighteen wide
and SIX deep, it is not likely to run dry in
any fog; bat carbOlic engine and pump
at the well will supply water in case of
emergency.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-22
BY THE BANKS OF THE MOHAWK.

o dark rolling river. so rapid and free,
You bring back the brightness Of boyhood 10 me,
When Gayly wandered, along your wild shore,
With one loved fondly, who loves me no more.
BY the banks OF the Mohawk
The cataracts roar,
Where we wandered in childhood
Along the wild shore,
The song-blrds have vanished; the summer Is DER;
The roses have faded that bloomed by her door;
The elms and the naples stand leaness and drear
The snownaGes are falling; the Winter is here.
BY the banks OF the Mohawk
The cataract's roar,
Where we wandered in childhood
Along the Wild shore.
The hopes of her girlhood have fown far away;
Her bright auburn tresees are faded and gray;
Her beauty has vanished; her features, once Ialr
Are saddened by sorrow and furrowed BY care.
BY the banks OF the Mohawk
The cataraCtS roar,
Where we wandered In childhood
Along the wild shore.
our childhood is gone; We are drifting to-day,
Like leaves on the river, forever away,
We are leaving the years; We are nearing the shore
Where storms never beat and no cataracts roar.
By the banks OF the Mohawk
The waters may roar
Forever and ever
Along the wild shore!