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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
HUMORS OF THE DAY.

Yes, I've got horrid cold" said
Mrs. Jenkinson. "I've dosed and dosed
and / don't get one bit better Pom
my word / believe I've taken no less
than thirty nine articles. and begin to
feel like an Episcopalian.
THEY were discussing religious ques-
tions. Said Brown, 81 tell you that if
the other animals do not exist after
death, neither does man. There is no
difference between man and beast" elf
anybody could convince me of that it
would be you, Brown replied Deacon
Jones, demurely.
''SHE's a dear, good girl said st.
Louis young man in reference to a
Chicago fair one CT assure you,
father, she is all soul" "Yes," replied
his stern parent, the old prejuduce
against the Garden City embittering
his words 81 saw her footprints in
the sand by the lakeside. You are right;
she is all sole."
A BIBULoUs parson was introduced to
lady who had been represented to MIN
as quite a talented artist. He greeted
her by saying 81 understand madam,
that you paint ?" She started, blushed
deeply, and, recovering herself after
few seconds, said, with as much acidity
Well, If / do paint, / don't make any
mistake and put it on my nose"
A GOOD old lady, speaking in prayer
meeting and giving expression to the Joy
and confidence she felt, said 81 | feel as
if was ready, this minute, to fall into
the arms of Beelzebub." abraham
You mean Abraham p hastily corrected
brother sitting near. 9 Well, Abra-
| ham, then, WIS the responGes . IT don {
make any difference. They're both good
men,"
mo, MY daughter, " said New Haven
matron, 81 cannot consent to your longer
keeping company with young Jaykins.
He had the insurance to call me dow
sgeress, right to my face, the other
evening" Why, ma, that isn't anything
bad at all" at is lucky for the
young man that it is not. Had
he assumed to insulate me would have
pitched him over the baningsters. "Oh,
dear, ma, / wish you wouldn't mix met
aphors so, and both women rushed for
the dictionary to substantiate their lam
guage.
"TM SHAVING myself most of the
time now" said the young man proudly
as he adjusted his head to the back
of the chair. The barber gazed thought
fully at the cash in the left cheek, noted
the irregular Maltese cross in the chin,
observed the finely executed outline
map of the He'll Gate excavations on
the left side, hovered over the piece of
ear that was held in place with court
plaster, and pityingly scanned the prize
collection of pimples and blotches which
ornamented the neck. ''Yes, 1 notice
you are," he said musingly, as he softly
strapped his razor.
Oh MONDAY of last week Fogg handed
letter to the office boy, telling him to
drop it into the mail. This was early in
the morning. In passing the boys
desk in the afternoon Fogg saw the.
letter. "I say, Johnny" said he, 'any
time this week Will do for that letter, you
know" Next day Fogg saw the letter
still lying on the boys desk. Fierce he
broke forth. He wanted to know what
in the substantive that adjective letter
was doing there. Why in the substan-
tive it hadn't been mailed? 81 didn't
know you was in hurry about it, said
the boy, ''you told me any time this
week would do"
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A Wild Boy in Texas.

Mr.. Ed Good writes that he found q
"wild boy" last week at the Sulphur
Springs, Tex, about fourteen miles
north of Jasper. he describes him as
appearing from his size to be about ten
or twelve years old, hair rather light
color and hanging below his shoulders,
and his body in a perfectly nude state
not a particle of clothing of any kind
about him. he was picking and eating
berries when seen. Mr.. Good approached
within q few rods of him, by moving
stealthily, before the boy perceived him.
The latter fed precipitately. Ed be-
lieves it to be veritable "wild boy"
If that be so he might be captured and
the mystery of his life unraveled.-
Detroit Free Press.
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narices for the Deaf.

In store window IN Broadway, where
a dazzling collection of spectacles, va
riety of ear trumpets and several dozen
opera glasses are displayed, number of
Hordinary-looking canes and common
place-looking umbrella stand IN the cor
ner. A placard affixed to one of the
canes designates it as an acoustic cane.
Another placard on the umbrella conveys
the information that with the assistance
of the acoustic umbrella deaf person
can hear conversation, when the person
speaking Is at a distance. A second IN
spection of the canes, after reading the
placards, discloses the fact that they
consist of bamboo. sticks with vanished
black metal top and very small hori-
zontal piece for handle.
A salesman IN the store exhibited
cane to n Tribune reporter, and, twisting
1T In his hand, disclosed a row of holes
encirciing the bfaclr metal Placing the
small horizontal piece in his ear, in the
easy and natural way that some men put
the handle of cane in the mouth, he
assured the reporter that his voice was
so loud that he could scarcely endure
| it. He then showed a small aperture
| through the horizontal handle. This
connected with an ear-trumpet ingeni-
ously arranged in the top piece of the
cane. The reporter then held the han
die of the cane to his ear. It sounded
as a seashell would. When the salesman
! spoke his voice was increased several
times in volume. The chief value of the
invention lies In the fact that the cane
/ or umbrella may be used without be-
/ traying the fact of the owners deafness.
/ at is wonderful" continued the
clerk, !" how much people dislike to ad-
! NIT that their hearing is defective. They
! come IN and ask to look at ear-trumpets
for friends. We know that they want
them for themselves. People who are
/ hard Of hearing are Just as numerous as
/ persons who are near-sighted. II the
| wish to ignore deafness was not so pro-
nounced, ear-trumpets would be as COM
mon as spectacles.
"We have sold. thousands of thase,
| continued the store keeper, showing
miniature silver ear trumpet, calculated
| to fit inside the ear "They are pop
ular, because they can -be used without
/ exciting remark.
Another miniature ear-trumpet was
shown, made from two metals, the union
of which produced electricity, intended
to have vivifying influence on dead or
dying nerves. These appliances for the
relief of deafness are all costly. The
canes are SO apiece, and the miniature
ear-trumpets IS pair.-N. y. Tribune.
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Nineteen Reason,

A great many people cannot under
stand why the female portion of the
community prefer sober men. The mat
ter is simple enough:
l. Wives like sober husbands because
they can reason with sober man.
2 The sober man is more companiona-
bic.
3. Sober men have pride, and pride is
q woman's main hold.
4. Sobriety means a comfortable
home. s
5. Good clothes for mother and child
rem. 81.
6. Ahouse of your own.
q. Evenings at home instead of in a
bar-room.
g. Better health and the enjoyment of
life.
8. An elevated view of life and sense
of your responsibility.
10. You are a credit to your wife and
children.
II. People who once despised you will
now iJless Won. g4eE.ss - -ea.s
12.sYour word viii be- -gaugedA as you
resist the tempter.
13. Young men will pattern after you.
IA. You will be an ornament TO So
ciety and the whole town in which you
live
Is. The whole community will take
pride in you and wish they had more
| like you.
d6. Your family andfriends will appre-
ciate you.
IT,. Your enemies will admire your
path of sobriety
Is. Scoffers will be disarmed by your
works
19. Your many qualities will grow
with your years
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Only the General Manager.

At aastaflon on one of the railroads
leading put OF Detroit the train had ar
rived AMI departed, the other day, when
the station agent, who had been in the
place anput three weeks, and was looking
for calt every hour to come to Detroit
and take charge of the line, was ap-
preached by quick, well-dressed man,
smoking cigar, who asked:
Keep You pretty busy here %
g Yum, was the jerky reply.
50 Business on the increase %
Yum, again.
Do you run this station ?'' asked the
quiet man, after turn on the platform.
Nobody else runs it 70 growled the
agent. Have you got patent car
couplerY'
"Oh, no
Il >ning to tell you to go to
thun}ef s3.s 1t i you had, Want special
freight rates. suppose %
Z" No, sir.
Z II don't give any passes."
81 don't want any"
waiting for the next train ?"
Not particularly"
Want to charter a car ?"
"No."
The agent left him on the platform.
and entered his Otlce and buSled himself
for half an hour, when the quiet man
looked in on him and asked
Whats the salary of position like
this %
That's my business, was the prompt
reply.
:" What's the income from this sta
tion %
ASK the baggageman.
Your name is -, isn'tit?"
Suppose it is ?"
"Oh, nothing much-only I'm the
General Manager of the line, and I'd
like to exchange cards with you p
Detroit Free Press.
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Etiquette in Writing.

With regard to writing letters, none
but school girls cross and recross a sheet
of writing paper, two sheets of paper
are invariably used, if one sheet of pa
per will not contain all that is to be
said. If half the second sheet of paper
Is left blank, it is not torn off, whole
sheet being more convenient to hold and
to fold than, is half sheet of paper.
If a few last words are necessary to
complete a letter, they are written on
the face Of the pages. In addressing
envelopes the address should be written
legibly IN the center of he envelope
and not run off into corner, leaving a
third of the envelope blank. Many
people write their initials or name in
full in one corner of the envelope; this
is quite a matter OF inclination. Home
Journal
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Poland Becoming Germanized.

Journals of Prussian Poland lament
the rapidity with which the country is
becoming Germanized. Language, prop
erty and population are all falling into
the control of the dominating Teutons.
The Polish peasantry is immigrating,
large proportion coming to the United
States, and German farmers and handi-
craftsmen are being sent to take their
place. This, together with the fact that
German is the official and judicial Ian
guage, is enough to crowd out the orig
inal vernacular AS to the landed
estates of the old Polish nobility, they
are fast being bought up by German
capitalists. During 1881 nearly seventy
five thousand acres of land were sold by
Polish owners to German purchasers.
In the past four years nearly one hun
dred and thirty thousand acres went in
that way. Polish patriots endeavor IN
vain to stem the tide. The dream of a
restoration of the old nation is fast
fading
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Too Tr0o. Too Troo.

Man that is married to woman is OF
many days and full of trouble. In the
morning he draws his salary, and in the
evening behold it is all gone. It is tale
that is told, it Eanisheth, and no one
knoweth whittier it goeth. he riseth up
clothed in the chilly garments OF the
night and seeketh the somnolent pare
eoric wherewith to heal the colicky
bowels of his offspring. He imitateth
the horse or or, and draweth the chariot
of his posterity. He spendeth his shekels
in the purchase of fine linen and purple,
TO cover the bosom of his family, yet he
himself is seen at the gates of the city
with one suspender. He cometh forth
as a flower, and is cut down. There IS
hope of tree when it is cut down that
the tender roots thereof will sprout again,
but man goeth to his home, and what Is
be then Yea, he is altogether wretched,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Metenric Stones.

The meteorites In the British Museum
are arranged thus /, aerolites, which are
rocky masses composed principally of
s;Iicates with isolated particles of nick
oliferous iron and troilite lnterspersed
o oerosiderites or siderites, masses. of
native iron containing phosphides of
r,ickel and iron, troilite and occasionally
carbon siderolites, which partake of the
character of both aerolites and siderites,
being porous or spongysnasses of nick
eliferous iron with silicates IN the cavl-
ties. OF these three classes the
first is the commonest, the number of
specimens possessed by the museum be-
ns3 211s the largest of which weighs 134
pounds. OF siderites there are ia spec
linens in the collection, the largest
weighing over three anda half tons and
of siderolites there are twelve specimens,
the weight of the largest being nearly
sixteen pounds. In 1864, Paolo Maria
Terzago, an italian physicist, surmised
that aerolites might be of selenic origin.
Olbers, IL 1895, without any knowledge
of this. conjecture. investigated the
amount of the initial tangential force
that would be requisite to bring to the
earth masses projected from the moon.
Laplace, Blot, Brandes and Poisson also
took up the problem. Olbers, Brandes
and Chladni decided against the view of
a selenic origin; but Laplace seems to
have inclined somewhat to that hypoth-
esis. It was then believed that active
volcanoes existed in the moon but that
idea has been abandoned and the lunar
aerolites with it. At the present time a
number of eminent men who have stud
led the subject of meteorites, think that
they must have been elected from volca-
noes ON some celestial body, probably
the earth at a remote period of its phys
ical history, This may be the true the
ory, but facts are wanted to confirm it,
and until those are discovered it is not
safe to pass Judgment. .-TinsLeys.
SLIGHTLY dead: We de undersigned
bein' a coroner's jury to set on de body
of Sambo, now dead and gone afore, hab
been sittin' on de said niger aforesaid,
and find dat de same did on de IA day OF
Jinerwary come to death by fallin' from
de bridge ober de riber and broken his
neck whar we find he was subsequently
drowned and afterwards washed to de
rlber whar we supposed he was froze to
death.
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Glanced 1t.

A Vermont girl corresponded with a
stranger in California, made a marriage
engagement, and went across the con-
tinent to get, as she supposed, young
and wealthy husband. She found, in
stead, gray and ugly crank, whose sole
property was leaky hut in lonely can
yon. His neighbors offered to pay her
fare back home, but she declined it, and
married him.
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ALAS. SO LoNGi


Ali dear one, we were young so long,
1t seen, ,01 Wa vorth YpUd 49, go,
For skicr YYd 4rceS = eIs eycr - rf"s,
And walcfln Singing flow,
In the days we never again shRu know.
Alas SO longl
Ali thdn, was tau spring weather.
Nav; but we were young and together.
Ahi dear one, I've been old so long,
Itsseems that age is leth TO part,
Though da ~ and years have never song,
And oh have they still the art
That Warmed the pulses OF heart 10 hearth
10 Alas. 50 long aeoi
Ali then, il all spring weather?
Nay; but young and together.
Ahi dear one, you've been dead so long
Bow hong until we meet.again,si
Where hours may never lose their song,
Nor flowers forget the rain,
In glad moonlight that never shall wane2
" Alas, so long
sAhl shall il be spring weather.
And ahi shall we be young together
ID. q. Rosseti.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Commercial Agents.

1t is estimated that there are 24O,0V
commercial travellers in the Uniteo
States. Each is supposed to go over nls
route five times year, and to carry gu gui-
ing that time ton of baggage. Ihis
baggage being generally bulky, 1t woulu
require "a, 600 ten-ton cars to transpor1
the trunks and outfits of these mob1lzeo
gentlemen. The commercial traveller Is,
therefore, a factor in the transportatlon
problem as well as the strictly CON-
mercial transactions of the country.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
How Light Affects the Blind.

An interesting account has been lately
furnished by NJ Plateau, the eminent
Belgian physicist (who has been blind
nearly forty years., of the sensations he
experiences in his eyes. He has no
sense of objective light even when turn
ing his eyes to the sun. But his visual
field is always divided into spaces, some
of which are pretty bright and others
somber or nearly dark, and which merge
into each other. Their general tint al
ternates, IN time, between gray and red
dish. The relative arrangement of those
different spaces is always the same, but
the intensity of their tints varies. The
central space seems now rather bright,
now very dark; above and below, and on
the left to the limits of the field, there is
sometimes brightness, sometimes dark
dess, but on the right there is generally
a vertical band, nearly black, and beyond
this space which Is nearly always
bright and reddish. These appearances
follow all the movements of the eyes,
which probably do not participate in
the same way In the tints, but M. Pla-
teau can not distinguish what belongs
to one from what belongs to the other.
No connection of general tint with the
work of digestion Is observed. The
author states that he became blind from
looking fixedly at the sun for some time,
with view TO observing his after SEN
sations. It was not till about fourteen
years after this that Inflammation of the
choroid set in, destroying vision but
during the interval, he often saw colored
and persistent halos, round flames, ETC.,
and he advises those who have such
vision to consult an experienced oculist.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23

OID lady (apropos of wiry and ancient
leg OF mutton -" Dye mean to say that
this Is lamb % Butcher" Certainly,
Mum = Maybe it was once you and
] was lambs about the same time. -
London Judy.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
The Oriental Jews.

Before the Crimean War the Jews were
afraid to venture into Syria, and suffered
from great disadvantages under Moslem
rule; but since British protection has
been extended to them, they have begun
to increase so rapidly as TO threaten In
time to become masters of Palestine.
They have almost closed the gates of
Jerusalem to the native peasantry by
establishing outposts on the main roads,
where they buy at enormous discount
the produce of the country, which they
retail to the citizens at profit of a 100
per cent. They have instituted a mon
setary currency o. sizssfH V5flsfy q ~
of dirty fragments of paper, with He
brew inscriptions, promising to pay the
sums of from one to four pennies IN
Turkish coin. These diminitive bank
notes they have forced the peasantry to
accept, and they Will rarely redeem them
except at discount. The Oriental Jew
is not a lovable character 70 those who
know the refinement and education
which exists among European Jews, or
who have been acquainted with the true
Jewish aristocracy which is to be found
among the old families of Spain and Mo
rocco, it is hard to believe that the Ash
kenazin can be the same race with the
Sephardin. The distinction of charac.
ter is broad as that of physical appear.
auce and costume. The tall, black,
bearded Spanish Jew, with his aquiline
features, his large brown eyes, his flow.
ing robes, and the black turban which
Hakem imposed on the race nine centu-
ries ago, is the very opposite of the
dwarfish Pharisee from Poland or Ger
many, with his greasy love-locks," his
dirty garbadine, white stockings, and
furry cap-his face wizened and greedy,
his gait cringing and subservient, his
religious ideas confined to the senseless
repetitions of Talmudic ordinances, and
his soul filed only with the desire of
money. Those who know the Ashkena-
Yin best, have but one opinion of their
ignorance, fanaticism, selfshness and
immortality; and the tales which circu-
late among men quite free from any anti.
Jewish prejudice, concerning the filth
ness of the domestic habit of the Oriental
Jew, will not bear repetition or even
allusion. 1t is with such specimens OF
the ancient people that the four holy
cities of Palestine are becoming rapidly
filled, while the richer and nobler Jews
of Western Europe appear to take, as
yet, little interest in the home of their
forefathers. s.-BiackaOOOd's Magazine.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-29
Gathering Pineannles,

The average life of the scarlet pine
is three years; that of the sugar-loaf is
about five. The average weight of the
fruit in the Bahamas is from three to
three and-a.half pounds, Afeld isgcn-
orally gone over three times during tho
season, aflording three grades of fruit,
called first, second and third cuttings.
The scarlet variety ripens a month or
two earlier than the sugar-loaf. Owing
to the sharp serrated leaves of the plant
the gathering of the fruit is tedious
and difficult matter the men, women
and children engaged in the work being
obliged to wear heavy canvas leggngS
aud gloves with gauntlets 20 protect
themselves against the sharp spines of
the plant.
The pineapple plants furnish but one
regular crop during the year. although
the local markets are seldom without a
few pineapples on sale. About the mid
die Of April the first cuttings are made
of the scarlet pines, and the lasts made
about the LIST Of July The sugar loaf
pine is at maturity during July and Au-
gust. The shipping season is one Of
signal activity in the colony, for when
the fruit is ready for the knife II must
be cut and hurried with all speed TO
market or il will be lost
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-29
The Dry Goods Clerk.

The dry goods clerk is young man
who is paid $3.50 a week to stand be-
hind counter and sell dry goods. If
he can conceal his real feelings, and be
polite TO old ladies who ask for samples
of seventeen different pieces of calico,
his employers sometimes increase his
weekly pay 10 Slj. Five dollars goes
for board, the other ten he invests in
clothes, hair oil, and the hire Of buggy
on Sunday, He wears his hair pasted
down on his forehead in a half circle,
and is the proprietor Of sweet smile,
which spreads all across his coun,enance
and diffuses itself over the whole estab-
hshment when the up-townyoung ladies
call 10 get ribbon matched. He as
sures these young ladies that it Is mo
trouble 10 show goods" he is respect
fully deferential to matrons with mar
riagesble daughters; is charmingIv ia
miliar with country customers, and DIG
niiied and noncommittal with male pur-
chasers who forget whether 1t was four
yards of blue insertion or quart Of
foulard nainsook double-width striped
hose that they were told TO get.
The dry goods clerk wears a seal ring
and gorgeous expanse of shirt cuff.
When a customer has got all he has or
dered, the clerk says, Anything else?n
and then, in a very afiiuentvoce, shouts
Cash" When he returns the custom.
er's change he again says Anything
else''- Why he says it we cannot un-
derstand, as no one has ever known the
query to cause a customer to purchase
even an additional shirt button.
After the store is closed in the even
ing, the dry goods clerk refreshcs him
self by rolling up the pieces of goods
that, in the course of business, he has
opened during the day, and in discuss
ing the financial and social standing and
the imperfections of character of the old
ladies who have an Unsuitable craving
for samples but who never buy any
thing.
The dry goods clerk lives in a board
ing house, in an Sxl0 room that has a
small window opening on the back yard,
through which the dying echoes of the
smell of cooked Goldfish balls may be
distinctly heard as they gently hoatfrom
the kitchen on the evening breeze. His
ambition in life is TO marry some girl
whose father will set him up in business,
or to be drummer