The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-04-22
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.

FORTY cords of oak wood will yield
Just about ten cords of merchantable
/ charcoal.
PRoPoRTIoNs of gunpowler as made
! by the government are seventy-hve parts
nitre, fifteen parts charcoal and ten
parts sulphur.
THOUSANDS have tried It, and will
never use any other, is the significant
announcement of patent medicine.
THE Atlantic Ocean if it were to be
| drained would be a vast plain with a
mountain ridge in the middle. running
parallel with our coast
AN inmate of the Union Home for Old
Ladies in Philadelphia has distinguished
| herself by making a bed-duilt of 55, $50
pieces. Though blind, she threaded
every needle herself The task took
three years, and one hundred spools of
thread.
TIERS is a set of harmless liars fire.
quently to be met with in company. who
deal much in the marvellous Their
usual intention Is to please and enter
tain; but as men are most delighted
with what they conceive to be the truth
these people mistake the means OF pleas
ing, and incur universal blame -H,niC.
THE life of o submarine telegraph ca,
ble is shown by experience TO be from
ten to twelve years. If a cable breaks in
deep water after il is ten years of age, it
cannot he lifted for repairs, as it will
break of its own weight-a fatal diff
Guilty, and for which there seerns to be
no practicable remedy:
THE Chinese are said to believe that
the reason why those who read the Bible
become Christians IS due to the stupefy
ing power OF the ink, which takes away
his reason and leaves him ready to be-
heve false doctrines. Warnings against
the purchase of foreign books are IRE
quent in consequence of this supersti-
tion.
The cigarettes manufactured in VerH
Cruz, Mexico, are all made by women
and children, and they earn only twenty
five cents per day. In the manufacture
of cigars male hands are most generally
employed, and earn about Sl.00 per day.
Wages are paid on the thousand and not
by the day or month, and are conse-
quently variable.
THE largest grain elevator in the
world is at Jersey City. erected by the
Pennsylvania Railway Company. It is
40 feet wide, 200 feet long, and has n
CaHdtilN lDI stOIluB lgDOb.bDD buSiltAS u
grain The building has twenty-fout
sets of elevating apparatus for taking
grain from cars, and four "cOnveyors
run from the building to the wharf for
unloading canal boats and loading ships
. Il many parts of Southern Europe, n
flour is made from chestnuts which is
said not only to be cheaper, but fully
equal to wheat flower In the making of
breads 4 writer from that country
states that in some places wheat -four
and corn meal are entirely superseded
by this product, which is very nourish-
ing, and can be saved two years OF
longer without injury
SIIfusrEssISG Infauts' by sBariz4lSlins5
water upon them was a custom among
savage tribes long before they had any
intercourse with Christians. Mungo
Park describes an African festival held
when the child was about week old, at
which priest took the baby IL his arms
and invoked blessings upon it and upon
its family and friends,
The heroine of a current novel asks:
is il only old women who spread scan
dial, and whisper away characters, and
find means of laying an extra coat Of
black paint on TO the darkest reprta-
tions? think / know certain persons
Of the other sex whose bald heads cover
heads as small and as as active, whose
eyes peer through their spectacles at
quite as many wonderful sights, and
whose tongues wag no less pleasantly
behind their false teeth"