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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-13
PanI MORNINGS Memory.

Brentan0's chess Monthly recalls this
instance Of the remarkable memory of
the greatest chess-player the world has
ever known: OF Morphy's gigantic mem
ory l had indubitable proof from my own
observation at the time he was playing
his celebrated match with Lowenthal.
Both opponents had agreed to regard
the games played as their intellectual
private property, not to be published. L
was at the time editing the chess col
umns of the Sunday Times, and anxious
to reproduce them there. In order to
obtain the requisite information, l had
to epply to one of the c0ntesting parties.
I first went TO Morphy, who received me
cordially. and declared his entire will
ingness to dictate for me the last partie,
played the day before. l begged him to
repeat the game on the board, as l would
in this manner be better able to follow
the progress of the contest Morphy con
sented. and at the tenth move of black
nowenthaD I asked him to stop a mo-
ment. since it seemed to me that at this
particular point a better move might
have been made. "Oh, You prob ably
mean the move which you yourself made
in one of your contests with Dufresne p
answered Morphy in his simple, artless
way of speaking. / was startled. The
partie mentioned had been played in
Berlin in 1851, seven years before, and [
had totally forgotten all its details. On
observing this, Morphy called for a sec
ond board, and began, without the least
hesitation, to repeat that game from the
first to the last move without a single
mistake. 1 was speechless from surprise.
Here was a man, whose attention was
constantly distracted by countless de
mands on his memory, and yet he had
perfectly retained for seven years all the
details Of a game insignificant in itself,
and. moreover, printed in a language
entirely unknown to him.
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She Wanted TO Break His Heart, but
lie Didn't DrOn.

His, name was Moses Sparrow. He
was very green. That was the idea that
always came into Miss Pages mind when
she looked at her country Iandlady's son.
Such a rustic youth, with such fair hair,
such big blue eyes, such sloping should
ers, such n lambhke expression And,
being there at the farmhouse, whittier
she had been sent to spend the summer
months, the city belle resolved that she
would try her powers of fascination upon
the boy, who struck her as so good q
subject for Irritation, IN which all the
fun was to be on her side and all the
sentiment on his.
And at it she went, beginning with a
smile, a word, and rejoicing to see the
fish bite so readily. She enjoyed her
self very much until she grew tired Of
it, and then she decided on breaking the
heart she had won and enjoying the
crash. So she. turned him out in the
garden and made him sit beside her on
the bench under the wistarias, and said,
sadly:
"Tm going home next week. [ shall
send you wedding cards when I'm mar
ried. I'm to he married to a rich old
gentleman next winter"
Then she waited to see him drop at
her feet. He only said
Wall, I'm real glad I kinder felt
afraid I'd been goin' too far with You.
I'm a sort of butterfly, fiirtin' from flower
to flower, you know; and I Aev fiirted
with you, l du allow. 1 was afraid
you'd go off in a decline or suthin-you
seemed to set so much on me-if YOU
heerd sudden-like that me and Ann
Maria was keepin' steady company.
But, law, sence you're goln' to be mar
ried, there amt no harm done l' Then
he smiled at Miss Page, and she arose
and sailed away from him with great
dignity. - Ydnkton Leader.
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I" CAVED." !"

"It's caved exclaimed Bill Beaver,
bursting into the cabin where was leis-
urely eating breakfast and reading the
news from last years papers that were
pasted on the wall. 1.-THE ground has
caved it came down mighty sudden !;
and little Jimmy was at the breast.
was further out In the drift. and had the
start of it but it made such a close call
for me that I knew he must o got
ketched.
This technical jargon revealed TO me
the fact that our mine had caved, and
had buried one of our companions, for
Little Jimmy was not an infant, but
n mana miner and friend. He had
been working at the '' breast, or fathr-
est end of the drift, but was now per-
haps sleeping his last sleep In the bot
tom of the mother of Us all.
Three years before we had come to
this creek, we had prospected the "side
gulches" and the bars, and found
"colors " everywhere. Indications ia
vorable, so we " staked a body of
ground along the main creek; built
cabins, organized company, of which
the writer was elected President, and
went to work to open our claim.
Those three years had been years of
toll and privation. We were In the heart
of the Rocky mountains. Our camp was
pitched In a little basin of a valley,
warm and sunshiny, and Just at the en-
trance of a deep and gloomy canon,
which we named The Devils Gate. T"
and through which our sparkling little
stream foamed aud tumbled down to the
l great river, the Missouri. Our ground
] deem and xaF.- TlroTnorra ,-oo
necessary, and we had driven tunnel for
/ this purpose through the earth and
powders that filed the primeval bed of
the creek, until we had attained a hori-
zontal distance of 1000 yards but the
slope of the gulch was so gradual that
we had not reached the bed rock"
where we hoped to find the gold laid in
heaps. "Bed rock, being the objective
point, must be reached so we sank a
shaft at the head of our tunnel and be-
took ourselves to pump.
As 1t was couple of thousand miles
to the nearest foundry, and we could not
I afford to await the completion of the
/ North Pacific railroad, a pump under
the circumstances was a problem so I
will tell you how we got one. We had
blacksmith's and carpenters tools, which
most of us could use there was plenty
of timber growing on the mountains.
and pair of dilapidated freight wagons
supplied our stock of iron. Great slabs
or segments were cut from the fir trees
and hewn and dressed on one side to a
smooth plane. The other side was
rounded to an arc or convex surface. so
that when four such segments were
placed togetherlengthwise, secured with
/ pins at the edges, which were first
squared and then made parallel. thew
formed long, hollow trunk or barrel.
four squares within, but outside cylin-
drical, and tapering slightly from one end
/ to the other
Upon this were driven hoops or bands
Of iron, which forced the joints close
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A Oueer Invention.

A detective machine has been invented
in France, but it is hardly likely to take
the place of the human kind in general
use. It is simply a camera, so arranged
that when suspicious person enters a
bank or other room, clerk touches a
little button. Presently, a concealed
camera is brought into play, the sensi-
tive plate is exposed. and In an instant
the mans photograph is taken. Or,
again, the head of the house leaves his
bT.5iness and confides it to his clerk
Some of the clerks go to sleep, or smoke
cigars, or skylark, or do other things not
exactly in keeping with their calling,
when there comes in a series of plates,
worked by clock-work, and every action
of the clerks during a series of hours is
recorded. There might be even a pleas
ing, though compromising use of this
mechanical camera. With such an in
strument all the handsomest women at
soiree might be photographed without
their knowledge, and galleries of beau
ties be put up at any ones command.
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Comfort from Newspapers.

Many years ago, in one of the severe
winters when there was much hardship
among the poor, city paper suggested
that old newspapers, spread over the
bed would form an excellent substitute
for blankets and coverlets. This brought
upon the journal a great deal of harmless
ridicule from other papers, but 1t brought
comfort to many a poor family. In the
matter of bed-clothing, especially, we
are apt to associate warmth with weight,
and do not consider that there is no
warmth in the coverings themselves, but
that they merely prevent the heat of the
body from passing off. Whatever Is s.
poor conductor of heat will make warm
covering. Paper itself is a poor con-
ductor, but still poorer are the thin lay
ers of air that are confined when two or
three newspapers are laid upon one an
other. A few newspapers laid over the
bed viii keep one much warmer than
some of the heavy, close-woven blankets
We do not propose newspapers as sub
stitute for blankets and comforters, but
it is one of those make-shlfts that 1t ls
well to know. In travelling one may, by
the aid of a few papers, secure COM
Portable rest in thinly-clad bed, and II
we cannot afford to give a destitute fam
lily blanket sor a comforter, we may
show them how to increase the useful
ness of their thin coverings by stitch
ing a few layers of newspapers between
them. 1t may be well to remind those
who grow window-plants that, by re-
moving them away from the window,
and arranging a cover of newspapers
over them, they may be preserved from
harm in severely cold nights. With the
plants, as with ourselves, it Is not so
much that cold comes in as that the heat
goes off, and often a slight protection
will prevent the escape of heat.-Anler-
ica1t AqricllttriSt.
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

FoR several years it has been observed
that the European glaciers are steadily
retreating.
The molecules of hydrogen, at tenn
perature of 60o Fahrenheit, move at the
average of {, 6,225 feet in "a second.
FLAMMARIAN says that the tail of a
comet must sweep through space with
the velocity of 16, 900 leagues per second.
Mr.. STONE, her Majesty's astronomer
at the Cape of Good Hope, has Just COM
pleted his great catalogue of Southern
stars, the result of ten years labor at the
cape.
The alg@ known as protococcacee
have one peculiarity-they do not live
In the water but in other plants, some in
dead, some in dying and others in living
parts
SOM. .peopIa haza .eorne 8 balieve
That salting or smoking VIII XII trfchiRos,
but temperature of 212e Fahrenheit,
or at least 1909 should be reached III
every part of the meat to bring about
this result.
The colors which distinguish our sum-
mer and autumn dora-reds, pinks, blues
and yellows-are caused by the presence
of substances which require a strong
light and high temperature for their
production.
1t WAS at one time supposed that
among twining plants each had its own
direction, some twinihg toward the sun
and others against it; but, though the
theory IS true in the main, there are
found exceptions to the rule.
The amount of nervous action may be
measured by the quantity of blood CON
sumed an its performance. The plethys-
mograph, measuring the volume of an
organ, when the arm is brought in con-
tact with its records the amount of blood
drawn from the body to the brain, and
thus indicates exactly the effort in men
tai action.
EXPERIMENTS have recently been made
to show that the presence of ozone pro-
duces luminosity in phosphorus. In
pure oxygen, at a temperature of.15o c.,
and under atmospheric pressure, phos-
phorous is not luminous in the dark,
and bubble of ozone introduced under
the bell glass produces momentary phos-
phorescence.
THE practical value of the Faure ac-
cumulator for the storing of electricity
is vet to be proved. 1t is said that sew
eral such batteries stationed in a house
and charged with electricity during the
day Will be sufficient to light up the
rooms at night and perform such light I
operations as turning a coffee-mil or
sewing machine.
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Coin and Jewelry in the Mails,

On an average 5000, 600 in gold coin,
bullion or iewelry is sent every day as
third class mail matter through the San
Francisco postoffice. Half of this is
shipped by the Government; there's is
guard or other precaution against rob-
berry, and private shipments are simply
inclosed in ordinary wooden boxes. Be
fore Secretary. Sherman originated the
present system of exchanges through
the postoffice, gold was charged letter
rates, or IS. 60 per 81 600. and its trans
postage and registration amount to only
10 cents, and gold shipments are loss
to the postal department, beside offering
temptations to criminal enterprises.
San Francisco Chronicls.
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Mothers and Manners.

Coming home IL the Fifth-avenue ON
nibus, I met with ~ specimen of mother
aud manners that will amuse you, and
perhaps it viii point moral if it does
not adorn tale.
The stage was full-six on each side.
A woman-observe, 1 do not say lady
entered with two children, a ten-year-
old boy and young girl. As she could
not find seat, gave her mine, and the
two children stood at her knee. Pres
emily two perso14 sit, and the boy sat
down opposite the mother Now two
ladies entered, and the mother Instantly
bent toward and said to her son Keep
your seat LssEia for yoH-
This was a Lesson IN pollteness that
would probably determine the manners
of the boy for life. The mother had
just before accepted my seat, compelling
me, man, twice as old as herself, to
stand up in an omnibus; but the mo-
ment when her little son had an oppor-
tunity to bekind TO ladies, she interposed
and bade him keep his seat.
1t ofiends the vanity of our people
when one saws that this want of good
manners is a national vice, and ! hold
that it is not American. 1t Is Anglo
Saxon as distinct from the Latin races.
That softness, gentleness, ease Of man
ners which pertains to France and Italy
is not in Germany, Britain, or America
The manners of French children are
beautiful. They are SO well taught IN
early childhood, that pOiteness seems
an instinct No one can tell when the
child did not behave properly.
Mr.. Nasbv has written q letter to the
Toledo Blade on this subject, which
seems to have arrested his attention
while travelling IN France. And hls ex-
perience like mine, was IN public con
veyance He writes
Il was IN a compartment (Of rail
carr with a little French boy Of twelve
years, the precise age at which American
children. as a rule, deserve killing for
their rudeness and general disagreeable-
ness. He was dressed faultlessly, but
his clothes were not the chief charm. /
sat between him and the open window,
and he was eating pears. Now, an
American boy of that age would either
have dropped the cores on the floor or
tossed them out Of the window without
regard to ANYBODY But this small gen
tleman every time, with Permit me,
monsieur. said in the most'pleasant way,
rose and came to the window and drop
ped them ont, and then 'Mcrci, mon
sieur' (thank you, sir, as he quietly
took his seat
" It was a delight I am sorry to say
that such small boys do not travel on
American railroads TO any alarming ex-
tent. Would they were more frequent.
And this boy was no exception. He was
not a show boy out posing before the
great American Republic, or such Of 1t
as happened to be in France at that
time: but he was sample, a type Of
the regulation OF n French child.
No Mr. Nasty would never meet with
a boy of that pattern il England or New
England, ia Britain or America. They
are not raised in any Of these kingdoms
or republics The fathers and mothers
We're brought mp as they bring up their
sons and daughters. Children are what
they are taught 10 be. Just as the
twig, etc.-NelO York Observer.
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Charles sumner on vvomcn's Dress.

With all Mr.. Summers profound
studies he was as good an authority on
all matters relating to a womans toilet
as Worth himself. l recall the approval
which he expressed of Michelet's theory
that q woman should not yield to the
dictates of fashion to the extent Of
making violent changes IN her dress or
the arrangement of her hair bat a GER
tam uniformity, with minor variations,
that just suggested a costume, so that
people would say, "That looks like
her, was more effective and attractive
than those sudden changes which almost
destroyed a woman's identity and dimiu-
ished the power of association. Mr..
Sumner thought that nothing promoted
a woman's youthfulness of appearance
so much as, after suitable study on the
subject, adheriug 10 one style of arrang-
ing the hair. d" Imagine. ' said he, d" a
Greek goddess changing the arrange
ment of her hair every few months
-ADia HotcarI, ia Providence Press
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Girls slang.

Does the "sweet girl graduate like
the looks Of her portrait rs 1t Is drawn
in this sketch by one who evidently
knows that It Is accurately given? He
says the schoolgirls failing is slang !;
that she never uses it in her fathers
hearing, but If he were in ear-shOt of a
group occasionally he would hear some
thing like this
''Meet me on the ave- this aft and we
VIII go to the mat"
g No, not this aft on the ave. "
We'll, good-aft'."
q had perfect mag time, and don't
YOU forget il. " Don't give me away.
Kate " Well, I should softly exclaim. %
q should blush to mmmur." "I
should remark. u should mutter. "
50 / should smile"
q" Are you going to the musicale?"
80 You Just bet l am"
81 told the guv' I wanted new
dress.
Did he tumble to the racket -
''Did he trail ?" "Did he catch on ? -
He forked over, girls, aud it's my
treat"
These phrases are from the sweet girl
graduates who stand up in the month of
roses and read charming essays on "The
Real and the Ideal, " Life as 1t Should
Be. Reforms" and other practical
subjects, and who turn from admiring
teachers, to whom they have been listen.
ing with mock-serious eyes, to say in a
low aside:
=" He's giving us taffy, girls" and
who christen everything tnat does not
please them as " snide. Piffs5,tr0h
Gazette.
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\ CONSERVATIVE ~pinstcr.

The old maid Of the period Is uSually
a rich old maid, and her virtues are Of
the conservative order.
Such a lady was addressed by a
widower with seven children, who de-
sired to marry her
Sir, she said, "a would not live IN
the house with seven children of my
own, much less any body else's." The
widower said
"You astonish me. d" And after lit
tie while" What am I to do with my
seven children ?"
Offer them 10 some girl in her teens
who doesn't know any better, and the
widOwer said he believed he would
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A YOUNG member of the bar thought

A YOUNG member of the bar thought
he would adopt a motto for himself, and,
after much reflection, wrote In large let
ters, and posted up against the wall, the
following, " Su'tDa Cuigue," which may
be translated. g Let every one have his
own. A country client, coming IN, ex-
pressed himself much gratifed with the
maxim, but added, " You don't spell it
right. " Indeed Then how ought it
TO be spelt? 7" The visitor replied, 'Sue
'em quick.
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BRowN was abusing Smith violently
on the sidewalk one night. Jones, who
heard it from an upper window, yelled
10 Smith, '' Knock him down - The
next day Jones and Smith met. ''Why
dldnt you knock that man DOWN." asked
Jones. 81 hollered to you to do it. -
les, said Smith, "and 1 would have
holered the same thing if l had been
up there
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
loves sleep:


Wen cover Love with roses,
And sweet sleep he shall take
None but a fool supposes
Love always keeps awake.
I've known loves without number
True loves were they. and tried;
And, just for want OF slumber,
They pined away and died
Our love was bright and cheerful
A little while agone;
Now he Is pale and fearful,
And YES, I've seen hiln-yawn-
SO tired is he Of kisses
That he can only weep:
The one dear thing he misses
And lumea for now is sleep.
We could not Jet him leave rs
one time. he was 50 dear,
But now II would not grieve rs
II he slept half year.
For he has had his season,
Like tts-. lily aud ttla rose. =
And il hut stands e reason
That he should want repose.
We priced the smiling Cupid
" no made our days so bright;
But he has grown so stupid
We gladly say goodnight.
And If he wakeus tender
Aud fond, and fair az when
He h'lcd our lives with splendor,
Wen take him back again.
And should he never wakeu,
As that perchance may be.
We VIII not weep tor-akeu.
But sing, Love, tra-la-ieeH'
Eta Wheeler.
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WHAT is that which has three feet but
no legs, is all body but no limbs, has no
toes on the feet, no head, moves a great
deal but never uses its feet for that pur-
pose, has one foot at each end and one
in the center of the body; never walks
out. but goes with one foot where the
head might be, dragging the other foot
behind -? Auswer-A yardshck.
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Mr.. MARRowFAT had been complain
ing of nervousness, and declared that
of late he felt so bad that any eK-
element was distressing TO him. One
day he asked the family physician what
he should take for it. Is it noise that
chiefly troubles you?" II think it is, :"
said Mr.. Mar4Swfat. every well, then, ;"
resumed the astute and sympathizing
Gaien, "put spoonful of paregoric in
your wlfe's coffee every morning at
breakfast. "
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The Qualities That Compel Adnila-
ton.

EAOns
In all civilized countries. woman is
entitled to advantages which are accord
ed to RO other class. She can comfort
ably sit while men stand she Is cordial
ly invited everywhere and in public
vehicles and private dOorways man
stands ready to step aside for her ac-
commOdation. This treatment of the
female sex is based upon a deep-seated
and chivalrous sentiment which Is be-
coming more and more pronounced as
we advance into civilization. If a
woman Is beautiful the favors multiply.
If she be handsome she IS well cared
for. If she is the possessor of a clear
complexion, bright eyes, pearly teeth,
q handsome hand, luxuriant hair, or any
of these attributes, the average man IS
prompted to make her comfortable. He
Will pick up her handkerchief, open the
door for her entrance or exit, carry her
parcels and hand up her fare. She is a
picture upon which he likes to gaze, and
which affects him as pleasantly as a
beautiful landscape In an art gallery.
Favors are bestowed spontaneously upon
her on the supposition that man is the
stronger and ought to care for her. If
he finds her masculine in ideas, inde-
pendent In notions and selfish in thought,
the treatment charges. If she is
handsome having these defects, the
change is not so quick, but its coming
is only matter of time. Any young
lady who thinks that because she Is
pretty she viii always be courteOusly
waited on and be treated with marked
Difference has the wrong idea of the
question, and Is building air castles on
a basis of sand. If we carefully read
what has been said of woman we will
see that she has been spoken of in two
different ways One writer is the author
of the disrespectful proverb, " There
were only two good women. One IS
dead and the other was never found.
The Chinese say that woman's tongue Is
her sword and she never lets 1t rust,
DIR. Payson wrote, ga welded man Is
like a bird with a broken wing. He
may futter but he cannot fly" Among
the Amazonians candidates for nuptial
honors had then hands tied in paper
bag filled with fire ants. If they sur
vived the painful ordeal they were con-
sidered fitted for the trial of matrimony.
All through the different ages women
have been spoken of, not only slightly,
but with the utmost bitterness. On the
other hand she has been praised in the
most eulogistic terms. One writer pro-
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SOME parasitic plants, like the COM
mon dodder, begin life in the earth, but
afterwards attach themselves to plants.
Others, like the mistletoe, are never
found except in parasitic state.
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"WHY don't you have some stlle
about you ?" said the man who had
looked along mile of barbed fence for
an entrance,