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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Two small hogs, maturing early,
are more profitable than one large one.
| The best butter from grass is fur
/ Their improved by feeding the cows q
| little corn meal.
The gooseberry is easily raised. pro-
vided cool, moist and rich soil in a
sheltered position be giyen.-N T. Her
Startling as the statement may
seem, the destruction of crops by nox-
| ions insects in the United States has
reached the enormous sum of 800. 000,-
900 in year. Denuer Tribune.
"A favorite cup pudding is made of
! six eggs, beaten very light, seven table,
spoonfuls of flour and one pint of sweet
milk. Stir these altogether briskly and
bake in cups. N. 7. Post.
Three Cotswold ewes belonging to
lam. Byars, living on the Dutch Ridge
| Pike, gave birth to ten lambs. Two of
them gave birth to three each and one
to four. Who can beat this in the sheep
husinessP-A augusta (Ky.) Bulletin.
Careful experiments by Professor
Mcbride. ofthe University of Tennessee,
/ show during the two years they have been
4 conducted that a seeding of one and
/ three-auarter bushels of wheat to the
1 acre produces the heaviest yield. This
f IS affirmed by those who thave expert
/ mented for such purpose in other SEC
/ tons.
One way to beautify a baby carriage
I and TO make the young occupant appear
to advantage is to make pillow-case for
/ his pillaAy of blue silesia; to this may be
fastened on the upper side a soft cover of
darned net, with an edge of torchon.
Fasten this to the silesia with small bows
of narrow blue ribbon. Make each bow
unlike the others This can be placed
i on the pillow When the baby is to be
i taken out in his best-at other times a
! plain white pillow-case edged with Ham
burg or torchon is good enough for the
best of babies. Detroit Post
Oatmeal porridge is excellent if
made in this way: Soak two cups of
oatmeal ali night in water; in the morn
( ing strain it, and let it boil briskly for
half an hour: then add about two. cups
of milk, and salt TO Your taste; let this
boil up once or twice ;'sweeten or not as
/ the patient may prefer. This can be
aSsimilated by a veryweak stomach, and
is not only refreshing but nourishing.
When straiuing the oatmeal before cook
/ ing. rub it in the sieve with spoon, so
that all the soft part will be sayed.-N
/ \. Post.
Picked Peppers: Select large green
peppers-those known as sweet are best
cut a small slit in the side and very
carefully take out the seeds with a spoon
handle. Soak in brine for week,
/ changing the water every other day.
I Chop fine, onions, red cabbage, cucum-
/ bers, green tomatoes; add grated horse
/ radish, whole grapes, little cucumbers-
mustard seed, celery seed; mix together
and salt Before filling, sprinkle the
inside of each pepper with a mixture of
/ ground cinnamon, cloves and allspice;
+ then stuff, sew up the slit and cover with
cold vinegar. Cover tightly and set
/ aside. Excellent. Our Continent.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
The Cattle Plague in pennsy Iyania.

A new and mysterious disease has
broken out among the cattiein some sec
tons of Pennsylvania. They have been
known TO drop dead fifteen minutes after
they were first attacked. Two COWS
were driven in the pasture early in the
morning. They were apparently well.
but in twenty minutes they dropped
dead. The rest OF the herd commenced
believing and paving the earth. and
pranced around tn. deal carcasses that
were rapidly swelling. In a short time
six more of the same drove were dead.
The owner had their swollen bodies lined
and buried in the woods. In this same
way thirty-ive head of cattle persisted
on different adjoining farms Some died
in the stable. One farmer found two
cows dead in the barnyard. When the
cattle are first attacked they refuse to
eat or drink. They seem to be seized
with a chill, and breathing becomes diff
cult. Some moan and appear to be IN
great pain. In short time they lie
down and die in great agony. Their
bodies swell out of proportion, and a
very foul odor is emitted. A hasty ex-
animation of one of the bodies shows
that the blood of the dead animals turns
completely black. \ veterinary surgeon
ndS DtcH hcpl Vel Jus IVA Stl' pe'St ~"
days and at present is working day and
night. He says the disease starts in the
head, and he has become deathly sick
while boring the horns of sick cattle. He
saysthat the COWS are dying, from apo.
plexy of the spleen, and his opinion is
coneurred in by others, who are also
busily engaged in the work OF attending
to various herds now in quarantine.
The spleen of some of the dead car
cases is found to be quite putrid. The
bodies of the dead animals are very pols-
onous and one man has already died
from lock-iaw and blood-poisoning lie
undertook to skin a carcass Tor its hide
and also to perform a post moriem.
Some of the poison of the animal got
into his system through a wound on his
hand, and in few hours his entire sys-
tenn was poisoned. His body, arms and
limbs became fearfully swollen and COW
cred with black blotches. He was then
attacked with lock-jaw, and died in ter
rible agony. Two others who assisted
him narrowly escaped death. Their
blotches were burned with caustic.
Since then no attempts have been made
TO skin animals or examine them. They
are buried in hurry and the rest of the
herd quarantined. All barnyards and
stables are being thoroughly cleansed,
and farmers are quickly quarantining
all their cattle. The disease is contagi-
Gus and said TO be worse than the rinder-
pest or pleuro-pnemonia.- Philadelphia
Press
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A Doleful Picture.

An English journal tells it that " the
record of casualties in the conveyance
of live stock by sea, taken from the re-
turns furnished to the Privy Council by
Inspectors at the ports where American
and Canadian cattle are landed, presents
a doleful picture of the sufferin9s Of
these unfortunate dumb passengers II
appears that IN the last year alone s, 721
animals were thrown overheard and 49e
were landed dead, while 472 arrived SO
much injured and exhausted that they
were killed at the place of landing.
This makes total of 1921 animals
which in the space of twelve months,
wore either lost or seriously injured in
tie passage across the Atlantic.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
Light and Near.Slghtedness.

Professor Pickering, of Harvard Oh.
servatory, points out in Nature that the
color of gas-Gght has nothing to do with
its painful effect upon the eyes of stu
Gents and others. To test this question
he had a tin lamp shade constructed.
consisting of a tube six inches in diam
eter by eight in length. One end was
closed by reflector, and the other by q
piece of very light blue glass. Two
holes We're made In the sides through
which passed the glass chimney of an
argand gas burner BY experimenting
with shadow photometer, a position
was found where the light received on a
book was of the same intensity and very
similar color to that from window in
the day time at a distance of about six
feet. A few minutes reading, however,
was sufficient to convince him that the
new light was far more trying TO the eyes
than an ordinary gas flame would be, the
i'll effect being due to the intense heat
thrown down by the reflector And this
he thinks is the source of the whole
trouble in the ordinary gas burner. The
heat radiated by the flame, the heated
chimney and shade, and reflected from
the printed page and all other white
paper lying on the. table, dries the eyes,
the lids, the forehead, and temples
Temporary relief may be found by bath
ing the face and eyes IN water, but it Is
only temporary. The hot, dry air from
the lamp is also harmful, and no doubt
contributes its share of injury to the
vision. These evils may both in part be
remedied by placing a pane of glass SO
as to intercept the rays about the lamp
before they strike on the book or the
face. But it must be placed at such a
distance from the lamp as not itself to
become heated
The hotter the flame the winter 1t is
and the more light is thrown off IN pro-
portion to the heat. Hence, oculists are
recommending such lights as the stu
dents and Moderator lamps, which burn
with small, hot, AID very brilliant
flame, as compared with that furnished
by the argand and ish-tail burners.
Statistics. said Professor Pickering, show
how alarmingly prevalent near-sighte6l-
ness has become of late among students.
Hence anything which will tend in the
future To prevent this widespread defect
will be a boon to mankind. He had
great hopes OF the electric light in this
respect. In it there was the maximum
of light with minimum OF heat. The
ever-yarying intensity was an objection,
but he thought we might look forward to
the success of the light from the mean
descent carbon strip. IN the earfuture, rs
remedy for ''the most widespread evil
that affiicts the human vision. "-PhilG-
deIpltia Record
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
Cherhourg Fortifications.


Cherbourg is a city of 10000 inhabit-
ants, situated on the northern extremity.
of the peninsula of the Cotentin. 1t is
the principal naval port and dockyard of
France. The docks have been excavated
in the rock France has left nothing
undone to secure at this point. project
ING into the channel. a naval arsenal
and port. The Notifications are on a
stupendous scale. Twenty-four forts
and redoubts surround the town, in adj
dition to six batteries on the mole. The
backward was designed by Vauban. and
Il was commenced by Louis XVI Ma
noleon /. contributed something toward
It's completion. Louis Philippe did
more. and Napoleon Ill. nearly COM
nleted the work France has been COM
nelled. at prodigious expense, to exca-
yate out of the rocks, docks and tidal
basms These comprise an area Of forty
eight acres of deep water, accessible by
the largest war vessels at all times of the
tide. The roads of Cherbourg are pro-
tected on three sides by land. but are
exposed to the north. 1t has been a
favorite project of every French Govern
rnent since that of Louis XVI to remedy
this by throwing breakwater across the
month of the bay. The Bourbons. the
Republic, the Empire and the others
snccessively aimed at scheme which
would secure to France strong harbor
on this part of her coast. Now the
breakwater, la Digue,'' is finished.
n extends over two miles across the bay.
leaving an opening at each end of about
one mile for the entrance and exit for
vessels. The base of the Digue is $40
feet ia width. At either end is light
house az well as forts, which command
the entrances; in the middle is the fort
central. Guns may be mounted ali along
the Digue The aggregate expense OF
the works at Cherbourg IS more than
$50. 0O0. O00.-Cor. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
Australian Bush Tracking.

An extraordinary instance of the pow
ers of Australian bushmen in cracking
is reported from Carcoar. On Monday
morning, January 80, Mrs. Green,
living at Mile-post Creek, in the Carcoar
district, had occasion TO go away to her
neighbours, leaving her child, aged two
years and six months, in bed, believing
it would not attempt to get up during
her absence. In this Mrs Green was
mistaken, for on her return the child
could not be found and the fact of its
only being clothed in little night-gown
caused the parents more anxiety, es-
pecially as it was fiercely hot day. ?
search was made by the neighbors,
assisted by man named Judd, noted
as a clever tracker. who followed slowly
on the infants tracks (Which were at
times lost in the scrubl for about thirty
hours, when the little thing was found,
safely quartered in a hollow log twelve
miles from its home The child was
somewhat sunburnt. but otherwise quite
we'll brisbane Courier.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

THE MAJOR.
KENTUCKY.


Therc he Is. under the naples shade,
daisy droops from the sun-browned hand
That should whrl In the air the flashing blade
In time with the cheers of his charging band
Jauntily over the soldiers brow
The straw hat tits, with careless grace.
Wait jrlst \ moment. he's turning now
want TO see the Majors face
Scanned. Won wonder. with saber slash?
Scnrsed where the hattie Iiehtnnys broker
Trimmed with grizzled, fierce mustaches
Eyes As keen as the saoer strokes
Ha. ha, Now look ut the oval face,
Ripping with laughter from brew TO chin;
Touched with the sweetest, faireSt grace
Only tsicangeis could blend IT IN
Purity lightens the thoughtful cy,ss,
Blue az the fAfhonliess skies absive:
And the rosebud mouth in its dimpes lies,
RuCldyfripc win its sweets of love
In love with the Masrs ESeryonel 8 ~
Loving troopers OF his we be;
Dearcr than all else under the sun
lie is loved ny his grown-up troop Of three.
All day he marches us: for his sake
We tight the legiOns or sin and cares
a fortress strong of our hearts we make.
And hide him away from his enemies there.
We Join our shields DER the Majors head,
When the charging column comes sweeping
And We post our pickets about the bed.
TO guard his sleep when the day is gone.
With prayers and love we hedge him in,
Our daring soldier, so young ami bold.
To keep him safe from the darts OF sin
Till his fve sweet years be five times told
But the battle will come. some future day,
When thy will fall on other fields.
{ wifi Wrought home ON theirdinted shields.
But he'll lovingly think when alone he stands,
When the battle Is hard and help Is slow,
And the good sword turns in his weary hands.
OF the soldiers who fought for him long ago.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
There have been innumerable il

There have been Innumerable I'M
provements in steam railroading; but
an experienced engineer, who says that
men of his class have not been relieved
of any of the load upon them, tells a
New York reporter that 'the time Is
not far off when every locomotive drawing
a passenger train on every busy railroad
will have a pilot. This pilot viii have
10 more to do with the engine itself than
the pilot of a ferry boat. His duty viii
be simply to look ahead and commune
cate with the engineer il the eab.-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

SAYS the Brooklyn Eagle: Mr.. r. c.
Moore, of Messrs. Vernam & Co., 81
New street, New York, was almost in
stantly relieved by st. Jacobs Oil of
severe pain following an attack Of
pleurisy. The remedy acted ike magic.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

is one who does mis- work quickly and well.
This is what DIR. R. V. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery" does as a blood-purifier
and strengthener. 1t arouses the torpid
.ver, purifies the blood and is the best
remedy for consumption, which is sclofu-
lous disease of the luags.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

The VoIIAc BELT Co., Marshall, Mich, will
send DR., Dyes Celebrated Electro Voltaic
Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for
thirty days to men young or old who are af-
hlcted NUMEROUS debility, lost vitality and
kindred troubles guaranteeing speedy and
completed Restoration ofhealth and manly yigor
Address asabove. \. B.-No risk is incurred
as thirty days tria, is allowed.
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Reiurennted.

~ PERU STREET, !
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plaint. / tried various remedies, but re-
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use of your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure,
which gave me permanent relief.
EDWIN A. CASTOR.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

WRITER in the London Spectator says that
cit is next 10 impossible to distinguish an
English gentleman from an American gentle
man." But we can distinguish them, you
know; yaas, indeed we can, my deah fellah--
NJ y IraEhic
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08
AN itinerant accordion

a locomotive the other day. 1t is not always
that the locomotive is so justly discriminatr
ing, and the Coroner's verdict should have
acquitted the iron-horse on the ground OF
self-defense. -A0rristocIt Herald.
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= onas; and ladies can not afford to do
w. o,"9 ), N. Pierce's " Favorite Prescrip-
: sio, mich by preserving and restoring
Preserves and restores that beauty
VINE - ospends on health.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

An Iowa woman named her baby after
Queen Victoria, and the Queen never even
thanked her for the honor conferred, or asked
if the child had red hair.-DStroit Free Press
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

ARCHBISHOP WHATELY was one day asked
IL he rose early He replied that once he did,
sleepy all the afternoon, that he determined
never to do it again. Chicago Tribune
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

NEVER go under a tree during thunder
storm. 1t isn't fair to the lightning, which
has often to spoil a very good tree to get at
Q poor sort of man.-F'dH RiUer AdUdgce
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

Pain, Irritation, Retention, Incontinence,
Deposits. Gravel, etc. cured by "Buchu-
pafba" 81. Send for pamphlet to i. s.
WELLS, Jersey City, n. j. So Il
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

TIE Cape Ann Advertiser tells how to color
old gold with horse-radish leaves. What we
want to know is how to get any old gold to
color.-LOaceH Courier.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

A LOUISVILLE man has succeeded in cook
ing meal by electricity Pretty soon no
man who hasn't alightning rod in his stomach
will be safe Courier Joura1L
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are s:t. lia9s pallid and unattractive by func-
sl1iia1 aarsgularities, which DR.. Pierce's
~, . oass Prescrip viii infallibly cure
~ 'saslos of testimonials. BY druggists.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

.h9EEipplAqs Russia Salve is uncqualed for
appedhands, frost bites, etc Try it.
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THERE is a young lady at Saratoga who is
so modest that she always retires to her own
room to change her mind.-N. Y Commercial
Ads,eyflSer
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THE hotel thief is not spiritual medium,
but he can trance some. a chrome given for
tue first correct solution.-.Bttrltygt0g Hdlck-
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

ONE pairof boots or shoes saved every year by
using Lyops Patent Metallic Heel Stiheners.
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sp,art MAN

WATERMELON seeds are now utilized for a
so lp called PURGE of melon. No one has as
vet gone crazy over it.-N Y Hail.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

THE rich young lady who recently married
a horse-car driver had taken to heart Sir Jo-
seph Porter's pronunciamento that 'loye is a
front platform on which all ranks meet
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

WHEN aman's feelings are so great that he
cannot expess them, had he not better send
hem " ifaght i-DtrYg Netcs.
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FAT Boy: No, you cannot raise chickens
from egg plants You might as well try TO
raise calves from cow-catcher. n-Bersoick
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

THE American Tonic Sofia association
met at Springfield recently. La, mil-LoloeA
-onyier.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

THEY make banana ice-cream now. And
it's so slippery that man has to lie down on
the floor and hold on with both hands 10 swal-
low any of it.
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Kidney Di.eas.

SOMEBODY has written history of pies,
but it is not pious work.-Hotet 1udii.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-08

THE kidneys are nature sluice-ways, Kid
ney-Wort keeps them healthy and active
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PERSONAL

WHEN thsfunds are unsteady-When mon
ey is tight-Ths Judge
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Beautiful women

II =, ~ opposed that furniture dealer is a
foiJ aa1-table person.
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MENsMlss peptonized beef tonic, the

MENsMixs peptonized beef tonic, the
only preparation Of beef containing Us
entire n,ttritios J,roTe-ties. 1t contains blood
making, force-generating and life-sustain-
ing properties; invaluable for indigestion,
dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all
forms of general debility; also, in all en-
feebled c9nditions, whether the result OF
exhaustion. nervous prostratiop, overWork
or acute dfssaae. Particularly If resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell,
Hazard & Co.. proprietofs. New York. Sold
by Druggists.
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COD cocoanut is meaty, but falling
atar IL meteor LolceU Courier
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They are afraid of q water famine IN Alex
andria. Come 10 Iowa; you can't get anything
else.-Burlinaton Hdckeye.
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The art connoisseur and exhibitor,
Prof Cromwell, was cured of rheumatism
by st. Jacobs Oil.-Norfolk Virginian.
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,.zssu.wz.rzzzzz1zszzzz who4re dekrous OF receiy-
----ru17x1 n ing a careful revised Price
IIlthfHiI,ititi LIST ever y month Of all
uOIMf'H kinds Of Paper stock and
EnaW III Printing Maieriais should
IIHI LII ~ adfress ?. o. Box 339 Chi
= : = rz.E1szzzEzzsEl eazo. III III N
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three sizes for
As these cuts
cessfully for all
and animal flesh.
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MECHANICS
eARGa.HG Oil.
E ~ 4 M n =

clcs for our~liniment. but We
do claim il is without an equal
1t is put up in bottles of three
sizes, and all we ask Is that
you give ita fair trial. remem-
bering that the Oil put up with
white wrapper ssmall Is for
human and fowl flesh, and
that with yellow wrapper
animal flesh. Try a bottle.
ind cate, the Oil is used sue
diseases of fIie human, J0tUG
Shake well before using.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-26
FROM BAD TO WORSE.

The Russian Government is behaving
very badly about the Jewish persecution.
Its brutal apathy is encouraging the
populace to greater extremes, and the
latest intelligence is to the effect that a
mob has burned Jewish village, and
amused itself by roasting the Jewish babies
alive Meanwhile the Cars Council goes
on discussing provisions which shall make
the residence of the Jews in Russia in.
tolerable, and the Russian press is forbid
den to publish any more accounts of the
outrages. The Gar shows phenomenal
folly in this, to say nothing of his inhu.
manity. The education in cruelty and
bloodthirstiness which he is giving his bar.
barous subjects may at no distant period
lead them to demand other and greater
victims than the poor Jews, and then,
when his own palaces and those of his
mobiles are burning, and the same brutal
hands which now toss Jewish babies int o
the fire, are doing the same to Russian
children, the world will perhaps look on,
shrug its shoulders, and remark that the
Gear showed his people the way or they
would never have found it.