The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-19
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THE man who draws at this season
He at the soda fountain.
SIR garrett WoLsELEY rode $40 smiles
In three days in South Africa
- The most miserable slave on this dirty
planet Is the slave of habit.
OBIIeE people to pay rs they go, and
the majority of them would go slow.
ENGLAND has nearly 10000 gypsies.
SOS and most of them cannot read or write,
., PuG-NosEs and freclkles are the two
great drawbacks to woman's happiness
rfa- on earth.
rf ASPARAGUS has been a common and
fnvorite vegetable for more than two
thousand years.
as Ar public dinners attended by the
royal Prince of England the guests arc
permitted to smoke.
THE poet who speaks Of ga solemn
hush" should know that every hush Is
more less solemn.
THE sherry-cobblor drinker is drown
ing man, if one may judge by the way
ra he catches at straws
SOME writer speaks of poetry us the art
Of substantinting shadows and OF lend
ing existence to nothing.
-a,a Or the one hundred and sixty-four
members of the Harvard graduating class
seventy are going to study law.
- doesn't know how TO hold it; and tins Is
rs true of a tongue as of baby.
Mrs. CHRIsrIAScY, it is said, will soon
marry Southerner who in love with
-a her before she married the Senator.
THERE is nothing" says Carlyle,
"that so lifts man out of himself as
admiration for what Is truly admirable. I"
YOUNG man who had recently taken
wife, says he didn't find 1t half so hard
70 get married he did TO get furniture.
STYLE Is only the frame TO hold our
thoughts. 1t Is ike the sash of IA win
dow-a heavy sash viii obscure the
light
In some respects the gentler sex far
surpass rs. No man. for instance, can
deliver lecture with dozen pins IN his
mouth.
AND now the curious want 10 know
why il is that people boot dog, shoe 3
hen and slipper round the corner when
they see their creditor.
OSB of the saddest and most vexatious
trials that comes to a girl when she mar
ries, is that she has 10 discharge her
mother and depend on q servant girl
MONSTER locomotive, just out of the
Altoona shops, weighs 20, go pounds,
and being intended for fast trains, is ex-
pected to make ninety six mules In ninety
minutes.
CANHrSe shrimp and preserving fresh
figs for the general market Is q success
full industry In New Orleans rivaling the
famous canning establishments In Balti-
more.
GIVE this country certain cure for
corils, freckles aud warts, and Presiden-
tial Conventions and elections would not
create ripple of excitement Detroit
nr Free Press.
a MEDICAL writer asks, g. Does position
affect sleep?" 1t does, particularly if the
man Is holding the position of night
watchman- He is liable to be disturbed
by the police.
MOTHER SHRTos's famous prophecy
says that the end of the world VIII take
place in 1881. This can not but prove a
comforting thought to people who have
mortgages to lift in 1882.
THE Queen of England is be6omiug
more and more subject to fatigue at re-
captions. She is also getting to be I'M
usually whimsical, SO that great trouble
Is given to the court officials.
PRIScE BISMARCK is supposed to be on
good terms with only three sovereign
Princes In the German Empire, VIZ
the King of Saxony, the King of Bavaria,
and the Grand Duke of Baden
Ii Is not whitewash on the fence that
81 keeps 1t together, but the rough posts
which no one sees. 1t is not The man
Pretence that gives him his value, but
the motives which are hidden from view
The teaching Of the Indians at Hump
ton, Va, during the past year, has beer
very successful They are eager to learn
and are interesting pupils. In work they
are slow, but, as rule willing.
THERE ere mean men in this world
md III that class may be reckoned tn,
resident Of country town, who hearin,
that two OF his friends had gone fishing
hies himself to the market and buys ever,
trout to be had.