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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
A Romantic Episode.

4 romantic episode IN everyday life
has Just come to light IN Dedham. John
Finn resides th MS wife and q portion
OF his family - a nest cottage, of which
Re is the owner, located on or near the
boundary line Of Dedham and Boston.
Here he had lived for at least twenty
five years. He had three sons, one OF
whom, John, enlisted IN the army, dur
ing the "late unpleasantRess, and was
killed. The other two sons were named
Cornelius and William. Cornelius was
o lad of seventeen years at the outbreak
of the war. He suddenly left town. and
his parents hearing nothing of his where
abouts concluded that he, too, had en-
listed, especially as during the war they
read of one Cornelius Finn, attached TO
a New York regiment, being killed. The
family mourned for him as sincerely as
they did for John.
Recently, William went to Colorado to
settle, hoping to better himself. While
seated IN a room In the Western portion
OF the State, one afternoon, soon after
his arrival there, a minor entered and
announced TO the c;SfSpany present that
Cornelius Finn had Opened a now mine.
William, taken aback somewhat by the
name, said he had had a brother once
NA4oNC AAA4LC Mtio 0DAnt41Uo run. 10
which the minor responded by looking
at the stranger and. declaring that he
resembled Cornelius Finn. the miner.
and might be his brother Subsequently,
the miner met Cornelius and informed
him of his encounter with William.
Cornelius became greatly agitated upon
learning the name of the stranger, and
that he came from Dadham, and i'm
started for the town.
The meeting was decidedly affecting.
Cornelius at once recognized William as
his brother, although William, being
younger, had not so strong a recollec- |
lion of Cornelius Mutual explanations
followed, and Cornelius related his
since leaving home. He had
gone South in 1861 and entered the |
army. At the conclusion OF the war he /
1rifted to Colorado, where he had inter
ested himself in mining and had be- /
come wealthy. Regarding his neglect !
% send letter home, he explained that /
ne had read in the papers of the death 4
Of his parents, and had also the report /
by John Finn, a former ]
of Dedham, whom he had met.
He had abandoned all hope of ever see
ng or hearing from his folks. He at |
'nce took William with him to his min
ng camp and gave him an Important
position. His father has received a
,heck for 81 ,000.-BOstOn Cube.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
How Nutmegs Grow.

Nutmegs grow on little trees which
look like pear trees, and are generally
not over twenty feet high. The flowers
are very 'Inuch like the lily-of-the-valley
They are pale and very fragrant. The
nutmeg is the seed of the fruit, mace is
the thin covering over the seed. The
fruit Is about as large as a peach.
When ripe it breaks open and shows a
little nut inside. The trees grow on the
islands of Asia and tropical America.
They bear fruit for seventy or eighty
years, having ripe fruit upon them all
the seasons. A fine tree in Jamaica has
over 1000 nutmegs ON it every wear.
The Dutch used to have all this nutmeg
trade, as they owned the Banda Islands
and conquered all the other traders and
destroyed the trees. To keep the price
up they once burned three plies of mt
megs, each of which was as bio as a
church. Nature did not sympath;ze
with such meanness. The nutmeos
pigeon, found in all the Indian Islands
did for the world what the Dutch datar,
mined should not be done-carried those
nuts, which are their food, into ali the
surrounding countries, and trees crew
again, and the world had the benefit =
Leslie.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23

Here is a boys composition on fall
This is fall, because it falls on this sea-
son of the year. Leaves fall, too, as
well as thermometers and the price of
straw hats. Old topers, who sign the
pledge IN summer, are liable to fall when
fall alternating opens, for straws. snow
which way the cider goes. Husking
corn is one of the pleasures of fall, hut
pleasure isn't good for. boys, ] don't
think Old men want little fun let
them husk. A husky old man can go
through a good deal OF corn, sometimes.
Digging taters is another of our fall
amusements. The way l like to dig ia
ters is to wait until they are baked
nicely, and then dig them out Of their
skins. Most winter schools open IN the
fall. The best winter school l went to
didn't open until spring, and the first
day it opened the teacher took sick, and
the school house was locked up fer the
season. Once IN a while we have a very
severe fall, but nothing like the fall of
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Summer is misnamed. 1t should be
called pride, for doesn't pride go before
a fall
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23

Fred McCabe, the ventriloquist, was
a great joker. Some years ago he was
on the Mississippi, on board one of the
steamboats,, and making the acquaint-
ance of the engineer, he was allowed
the freedom of the engine-room. He
sat down in a corner, and, drawing his
hat over his eyes, seemed lost IN reverie.
In a few minutes a certain part of the
machinery began to squeak. The en-
gineer oiled 1t and went about his bust
ness. In another few minutes the squeak
ing was again heard, and the engineer
rushed over, oil-ean in hand, to give the
offending spindle another Iubricating.
Again he rushed to his post, and again
the spindle began squeaking louder than
ever. Jupiter, "he yelled, 1.-The darned
things bewitched. " More oil was ad-
ministerial but the engineer began. to
smell rat. Pretty soon the spindle
squeaked again, and slipping up behind
McCabe, the engineer poured half pint
of oil down the joker's back Il guess
that ere spindle won't squeak again. .
And it didn't
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.

IT Is said that goats are not affected
by nicotine. 81
A SOLUTION of chloride of calcium will
not boil under $500.
The Uranium of man is to the Uranium
In woman as 100 to S6.7.
THE temperature of the sun is esti-
mated to be $685. Centigrade.
SAPLINes of the Australian eucalypt
grows, to the height of fifty feet In ten
years.
On STARCH, grape sugar and cane
sugar gastric juice has no perceptible
effect.
ORSrrHoLoGIsTs differ entirely on the
question as to whether parrots require
water.
The eldef Pliny states that the num-
Der of stars visible to the naked eye in
his time was 900.
III Is said that Paterson, n j., silk
weavers have invented a process of
making imitation of sealskin.
OF 1000 ounces of healthy human
blood, ISIS ounces consist of water and
3lS.5 ounces of solid matter.
REsrNoUs trees, like the pine, trans
pire twice as much as other trees, and
when they are exposed to moist air,
absorb more water.
SEEDS of the Victoria Regid had to
be transmitted from America to England
III water, before the first plant was raised
that came to perfection.
PARANFINE dissolved IN naptha is used
to treat silk and other fabrics, and it is
SAID the most delicate hues of
material thus prepared will not be in
Iured by ice cream or any foreign sub
stance.
A BOTANICAL work on the flora Scan
dinavia, Greenland and Iceland, is being
published at the expense of the King of
Denmark. The seventeenth volume, to
be issued in year, will complete the
series.
The amount of heat radiated from the
sun Is so great that if the earth were a
mass Of coal and could be supplied bv
contract to the solar furnace men. the
supply would last them Just thirty-six
hours.
THERE wnssat one time exhibited by
Mr.. Rolt m English merchant, a thread
20, 600 feet long, spun by twenty two
silk spiders in less than two hours, and
which was five times as fine as the
thread of the silk worm.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
Makes His Own Legs.

Did you ever notice man who comes
to Hartwell, Ga, with a one-ox war-on
laden with big yam potatoes and ot5er
things to sell? Did you ever notice his
wooden leg? He plows that OK and
makes a good living on poor land. He
went to the war poor boy and did his
duty faithfully. He was elected Conntv
Treasurer at the last election and ma5s
a good officer He is a quiet. modest
gentleman. This man is called Rouob y
Brown, and from the looks of his leo ba
don't care continental for his rongh
When his leg wears ont he
goes to the wood-pile with his AK md
chops out HarteOeH Sun.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23
A Strange Story.

A very strange discovery of a lost
woman was recently made at the Ian
caster County, (Pa.) Almshouse Hospi-
tai. The woman has been missing for
eighteen years, and was finally found in
generated IN the insane department
She was not insane, but simply slightly
weak-minded. Jane Fay was the daugh-
ter of a wealthy farmer of fulton Comfy.
Ohio. She was wooed by young farmer
named Billings, from Lancaster County.
Pa, who was IN Ohio prospecting.
Against the wishes of her parents the
girl married Billings IN 1856, and settled
In Flatrock, Seneca County. In 1860 the
couple moved to the husbands native
county, Lancaster, Pa, and settled in
Adamstown. sAt times the woman was
weak-minded, and In 1864 she was taken
to the county hospital for the insane.
Her husband wrote to her Ohio friends
about 1t, and they directed him to send
her home at once. Billings says he
never received any word from them. and
concluded that they were satisfied to
have her remain where she was. She
says that she frequently wrote letters to
her parents IN Ohio, but that they were
either not sent or never received. At
length she gave up all hope, and earn
estly prayed for death. She told her
simple story hundreds of times to
strange visitors, but they thought she
was crazy, and paid no attention to it.
Finally new steward took charge of the
place. And Mrs. Billings wrote letter
and asked HIM to mail it for her. He
did so, and the letter found its way to
the woman's friends in Fremont. Ohio.
As speedily as possible her brother.
Joseph A. Fay, and her sister, Mrs.
Deal, went on, went to the ASYLUM and
there saw and recognized their long lost
sister. The meeting was an affecting
one, and all were in tears. Mr.. BiIlinos'
Joy on being assured she was really going
home was unbounded, and she could not
express herself for weeping.
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Sos1E awfully mean sconib,drel in A,

SOME awfully mean scouhdrel in Am
sterdam filed a grocer's whisky barrel
with rain water, and the next Monday
morning the Superintendent of Schools
the president of the temperance ALLIANCE
and two school teachers came round to
the store, denounced the astonisbed
grocer as a swindling thief and. a per
iured william and demanded their dollar
and half back again. -BurIinqto
HQlDkeUe
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Sensible Decision, at the Last Mo-
mpnt

A clergyman, on asking the bride if
she would have this man, was startled at
her reply, No, sir. / was a little late
getting to the church it wasn't my
fault, but he said, Cd d-n you, if
this is the way you begin, you'll find it
TO your cost when you're my wife. .
Under those Circumstances she concluded
she wouldn't be his wife. She repented
in haste. and will marry at leisure.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-23

II YOUR lungs are almost wasted BY con-
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two stamps for DR.. Pierce's large pamphlet
treatise on Consumption and Kindred Affec-
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ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
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DR.. PIERcE:-A neighbor Of ours was suffer
ing with . female Weakness, which the doc
tors told her could not be cured without a
supporter. After considerable persuasion my
wife induced her to try your Favorite Pre-
scription." After using one bottle she threw
away the supporter and did large washing,
which she had not done in two years before.
JAMES MILLER,
1926 Jacob Street. Wheeling W. Va
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SndIr AFFLICTED

"My boy was badly afflicted with
rheumatism, y said Mr. Barton, of the
great stove firm of Redway & Barton,
of this. city, to one. of our reporters.
" We doctored him a great deal, but
c, u 4 find no cure;;@I- had heard so much.
of the efficacy of st. Jacobs Oil that
finally determined to try it. Two
bottles of the Oil fully cured him. =
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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No Grounds for Divorce.

A woman who seemed to be full Of
confidence in her cause halted a pedes-
trian with whom she had slight ac-
quaintance, and asked him if he knew
anything about the law of divorce. and
added that her husband had threatened
to file bill to procure one from her.
Are you mild tempered?" asked the
gentleman.
mild as grass, she replied.
Have you ever dubbed hin-thrown
tea-pots = waved the butcher-knife =
lugged the AK around or made threats Y''
"Never."
Have you cold feet?"
"No."
do you drink or swear?"
Neither one. ="
do you try to make home happy?v
''Do you seek to boss him ?"
"Not at ALL"
care you choice of your company and
81 am"
did you ever maliciously annoy
81 never did"
Did you ever talk against him to the
Never"
:, Well, while I am not lawyer, and,
therefore, not posted, / don't see how
he Is to secure divorce from Won"
that's Just what saw He can't
do lt He may scold and threaten and
tell what he's going to do. but he can't
do nothing I'm glad / met you. for
you've lifted great load off my mind.
and II William comes storning around
again tonight as he did last night. I'n
give HIM another choking If / hadn't
been able to handle him he'd have made
my lie miserable for whole ten years
pastI'
4 YOUNG man IN a tram WINS making
fun of lady's hat to an elderly gentle,
man IN the seat with him. "Yes.p said /
his seat-mate, "thats NV wife. and 1 /
told her if she wore that bonnet that
some fool would make fun of il. The
young man slid out. At the next station
the old man poured out his hot coffee
INTO the saucer to cool. t.I,ook. ma"
sald snlckering girl, Eat that old
way of drinking" yes"
'ald the elderly gentleman, "and it was
Did fashioned manners not To notice it.
The elderly gentleman finished his Jour
ley In peace.
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Too eager: The crescent shape of the
first quarter of the moon hung like an
electric lamp in the Western sky, casting
a subdued, cool light upon the path
they had chosen. They walked with
slow and measured step and said little.
The scene was rapture-inspiring AT
last she, looking NJ. into=his- facewith a
sort of scared to-death-h ke-a- young
fawn look, albert, how many walks
like this we've taken" Eyes, Roslind,
we have taken great many walks like
this nd-and-and-" "Oh, Albert,
now don't" )" Well, won't, seeing it's
you" Another case ofasnapping at the
bait too soon.-Ne,O Hauen Iteqister.
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IT WAS a spring night. The fire ha,a
gone out in the furnace, the thermometer
stood mt 300 above zero and the lovers
were the sole occupants of the parlor.
Presently her mother came to the head
of the stairs and in voice like the
scream of a steam whistle cried !:
'Amandy, come up into the sitting room
immejitly; I'm afraid you'll catch your
death cold down there. But Amandy
answered in soft, lute-like tones: "Don't
make It fool of yourself, ma. Charley's
keeping me as warm as toast.
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ga FELLOW must SOW his wild oats,
you know" exclaimed the old adolescent
John. ''Yes, replied Annie, 'but one
shouldn't begin sowing so soon after
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woman and Her Dss a....

is the title Of large illustrated treatise. bv
DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N Y, sent 10 any
address for three stamps. 1t teaches successful
elf-treatment.
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THE local editor of the Springfield,
Mass Republican, Mr.. J. I'll. Mabbitt,
says 1--WE have used st. Jacobs Oh,
in our family for rheumatism, and found
it to be a first-class thing. - Boston
TIer0IH
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Personal


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USE Kidney-Wort and rejoice in health. One
package makes six quarts of medicine.
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..I sAY. NANNY! didn't Won tell

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The trouble heretofore
has been to get as a tonic a
medicine that was not COM
posedmostly of cheap whis-
key doctored with nause-
Gus, disagreeable, and in
compatible drugs.
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ST SAY, mammyl didn't You tell Peleg
dat he mustn't go in bavin p 70,
right ded, chilel has ye been dis beying
my 'structions, Peleg p "No, nanny,
/ HASN'T 1 clare to goodness hasn't
been in bavin. Yo' see I put on Uncle
Josh's britches by mistake der smornin',
an dere we're such a heap of looseness
to 'em that when / un'ertook to jump
ober de brook dey dropped off an 1
hather gum arter 'em. oh, no, hasn't
been bavin, mammyp Sentinel.
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Tonics

AT this season of the year
when the greatest and most
rapid changes are going on
in the physical condition of
our body, it is absolutely
necessary to take. a reliable
strengthening tonic.
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nc MAN welI re Jo,fnl.

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= Buchupaiba.'

TnY the new brand spring Tobacoo.l
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-10
Proverbs.

Taw not enforced, and truth without
vitality are both demorallzing 10 'ne
community. :,
When people boast oftheir honor and
veracity it is we'll to keep an eye upon
them.
Good things speak for themselves;
bad things require much eulogizing'
Do good deeds and forget them; you
will find them all recorded, and bear
ing interest to your credit, when you
have left all earthly possessions behind.
When people fatter you, you may be
pretty sure that they wish to make use
of YOU for their own interests.
A fiatterer strives to weaken your
strength and strengthen your weakness.
Knaves fiatter fools, but fools fatter
themselves.
To boast of your morality Isl good
way to make people suspect you have
but little of it.
To boast ofyour strength is to expose
your weakness. -,
The best way of reforming the world
is for each one to reform him or herself.
Ten times one is ten, and ten righteous
men might save the country.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-10
The Natural Bridge in Virginia.

Edward A. Pollard gives, in high
ways and By-ways of American Travel"
published by J. B. Lippincot " Co., the
following interesting description OF this
great natural curiosity.
There was time when the Natural
Bridge was esteemed among the great
est wonders of this continent. OF late
wears it has languished in obscurity
and neglect, visited only by stray
travellers from Virginia Springs, or by
frugal picnic parties from the near
town of Licking on and the neighbor'
hood. The neglect of this sublime
spectacle, once SO attractive to the null
titude of sight-seers, is difficult to be
explained when we consider the easy
access to it.
The common route is by. way of
Lynchburg, thence thirty eight miles
on the James River and Kanahwa Canal.
The Canal divides Immediately at the
foot of the Blue Ridge, one section ex-
tending up the North River to the
town of Lexington, and the other pur-
suing the banks of the James to Blu
chanan, short Of which you can stop at
the mouth of Cedar Greek within two
miles of the Natural Bridge. From a
few miles above Lynchburg the route
by canal is adorned with mountain
scenery of the richest and most varied
description, and the traveller passes
slowly going scarcely more than three
miles an hour, through an almost con-
tincu gallery of pictures. The writer
on this trip had the advantage of a
moonlight night and of the company of
some musical ladies. As the boat
moves slowly and so easily that unless
for passing objects Won can imagine you
are at rest, yOu see a horizon broken
and pierced with mountain spurs, at
one tine uuder the shadow Of great
cliffs, again passing along silver-clad
willows, where the James flows placidly
through meadows with the trophy Of
shivered moon beams on Its bosom; in
the distance mountains With tEinkliDg