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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12
Sporting in Turkish Asia.

a party of English gentlemen crossed
the Sea of Marmora and landed about
forty miles from this city to hunt for
game. They became separated in the
course of the hunt, and one of the party,
Commander Selby, of the English Navy,
was accosted by a shepherd The Eng
hshman did not know Turkish, and
thought that the shepherd wanted to beg
some powder. So he remarked that he
had no powder, and opened his cartridge
box II show that his ammunition was all
in that form. But the shepherd had
asked that no guns be fired near the
sheep, and understood the exhibition of
cartridges to be equivalent to n threat of
violence. So he struck the Englishman
over the head with his stick, and strug-
gle ensued. Commander Grenville, also
of the English Navy, then came up and
more shepherds appeared The result
was that Commander Selby, his skull
broken 10y terrible blow from an AK,
and Commander Granville, after three
guns had been broken over his head,
were bound and carried off to be exc
cuted by the shepherds. The English
Consul General at this city, Mr.. Wrench,
then appeared, and knowing Turkish,
interposed in time to save the lives of
the officers. The whole party then re-
turned to the city, where Commander
Selby lies in n most critical condition.
The affair was the miserable result of a
misunderstanding It shows the folly of
any attempt to travel in the country dis
tricts without knowledge of the Ian
guage, for it illustrates the ferocious
passions aroused in the country people
when they fancy themselves aggrieved
Letter from C0TlStd9ltinODke.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LAKE Superior, at its surface. is 600
feet above the Atlantic, and at its bottom
573 feet.
IT is estimated that over 1000 per
sons are employed in the laundries of
New York.
NEXT to rice, Indian corn is used
by larger number of people than any
other grain.
OLD sails are made into the paper used
for bank notes, end old ropes reappear
as brown paper.
Two thousand human beings and over
oO, OOO head of cattle are annually killed
by snake bites in India.
The variations in the rainfall of India
involves the food supply, and is a ques-
ton OF famine or plenty.
CHINESE dentists attribute toothache
to the gnawing of worms, and profess to
extract the same from decayed teeth.
CYCLONES usually occur toward the
end OF spring and in the fall-the periods
OF change of direction in the monsoons.
IN 1878 over 400, 900 eggs of California
salmon were shipped to New Zealand,
where they arrived In excellent condi-
ton.
THE experiments in cotton raising in
Kansas have been very successful. One
planter shipped 100 bales of excellent
quality.
FLORIDA lizards are said to possess,
in a remarkable degree, the power of
changing their color at viii, the process
occupying about Quarter of a minute
A RED passion flower, secreting honey
in the glands of its young leaves, was
found guarded by a species of ant, which
eoRsur9ed the honey and drove away all
other insects.
lNRussIA the sunfower has practical
if not an esthetical, value. 1t is cult
waited for the oil it yields. The oil is USED
in cooking, as well as III lamps, and fol
making soap and paint.
The paper makers of England impor
annually eighteen or twenty tons of rags
Some English ones require no bleach
ing at all, while those of Italy bea
away the palm for dirt.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12
Forestry in France.

One sixth of France, including Corsi-
ca, is under wood, but notwithstanding
this an immense amount of timber Is
annually imported into the country from
the United States and the North of Eu-
rope. In 1920 the Nancy School of
Forestry was instituted, and a new code
of laws was adopted IN 1927. The fact
has of late years been recognized that
the floods which have proved so terribly
destructive in France have been largely
due to the absence of trees on mountain
sides. A forest acts both mechanically
and hydrographically in the former
case by preventing any large body of
water from collecting, and as a sort of
permanent foodgate in the latter by
the trees themselves absorbing vast
deal of moisture. - etO York Sun.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

DURING an address by Prof w. E.
Ayrton on the "storage of power" the
lecture theater was lighted, a circular
saw driven and an elevator operated by
means of electric energy which had been
stored the previous day in Faure accu-
mulating batteries. The total quantity
of energy was $4,000, 600 foot-pounds-
power exerted for one hour. A single
cell, containing 81 pounds of lead and
red-lead, is found to store LAO, 900
foot-pounds of energy.
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Miss Francis POWER COBB, who is
opposed to yivisection, called on Lon
don doctor to endeavor to persuade him
to quit the business. He looked her
over a moment and said: Madam,
charity begins at home; when you have
given up wearing ostrich feathers. which
are plucked from the living bird. causing
the most exquisite pain, and birds of
paradise, which, In order to enchance
their beauty and lustre, are skinned
aIve-when you have abjured the use OF
ivory, because you know that the tusks
are cut out of the dying elephants jaw
then, and then only, come and upbraid
me with the cruelty of my operations
The difference between us is, madam,
that 1 infict pain in the pursuit OF
knowledge and for the ultimate benefit
of my fellow-creatures you cause cruelty
to be inflicted merely for your personal
adornment.
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A SYRACUSE Justice of the Peace post
poned trial on account of the death OF
the prisoners mother, the prisoner ask
ing the favor in piteous and fearful tones.
When the trial was resumed two days
after it was found that the prisoner had
gone to Canada, and that his mother had
been dead nine years. The justice says
the next man that tries to play corpse
on him has got to produce the body or a
certificate from the doctor who attended
the deceased. That would seem to be
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12
HARVEST.

Sweet, sweet, sweet
IL the winds song,
Astir in the rippled wheat
AL day long,
II hath the brooks wild gayety,
The rorrowftil cry of the sea-
oh, hush and hear
Sweet. sweet and clear,
Above the locustis whirr
And hum of bee
Rises that soft, pathetic harmony.
In the meadow-grass
The innocent white daisies blow,
The dandelion plume doth pass
Vaguely to and fro
The unduiet spirit of flower,
That hath too brief an hour.
Now doth n little cloud all white,
Or golden bright,
Drift down the warm blue sky;
And now on the horizon line
Where duEky woodlands lie,
sunny mist doth shine,
Like to a veil before holy shrine,
Concealing, half revealing, things Divine
Sweet. sweet, sweet
Is the winds song,
Ast8r in the rippled wheat
All day long
That exquisite music cal
The reaper everywhere
Life and death must share.
The golden harvest falls
So doth all end
Honored philosophy,
Science and art,
The bloom Of the heart;
Master, Consider, Friend,
Make Thou the harvest Of our days
To fall within Thy ways
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

EASE is the last thing in the world for
a Christian to long for. But it is quite
right for him to wish and pray that he
may be easy in his sphere and do its du-
ties easily. Not rest from toll, but peace
in toll, should be our craving; not less
work to do, but more strength for its
doing. Ease is the paradise of a shirk,
not soldier, in the Christian warfare.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

THE largest trees known are probably
eucalyptus 0a1ggddLirao, or pepper
mint tree" growing in Dandenong dis
trict of Victoria, Australia, which is
said to measure $40 feet to the starting
point of the crown, and AT feet to the
top, and another specimen of the same
species, mentioned by Baron Ferdinand
Won Mueller as having attained the hight
of 4S0 feet
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Thirty nn,., Trial.

The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, win
send their Electro-Yotaic Belts and other
Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to
any person afflicted with Nervous Debility,
Lost Vitality, and kindred troubles, guarantee
ing complete restoration of vigor and manhood.
Address as above without delay.
P. S.-No risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial ia allowed.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

THE German Government can now
call 1000, 900 soldiers into the field at a
days notice, while over here it takes
the best part of three days to hunt up
the man who borrowed your half-dollar.
SAYS the Philadelphia Chronicle !,
Michigan produces more salt than any
salt that put the inhabitants in the great
est pickle"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

PREVIOUS to 1772 a person accused of
crime in England who refused to plead,
was remanded to low, dark room,
and laid on his back, and heavy weights
placed upon his breast, with no other
sustenance than bread and water; and
he was not allowed to eat the day he
drank, or drink the day he ate, and he
so remained until he died.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

DR. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. Y: Dear Sir
For many months l great sufferer. Ply
sycians could afford me no relief. In my despair
/ commenced the use of your "Favorite Pre-
scription." 1t speedily effected my entire and
permanent cure. Yours thankfully,
MRS Paul, Il. BAXTER, Iowa City, Ia.
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Terrible suHerIngs.

DIR. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. VI have a
friend who suffered terribly. 1 purchased a
bottle of your ''Favorite Prescription" and,
a result of its use she is perfectly well.
J. BAILEY Burdett, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce's I" Golden Medical Discovery and
pheasant Purgative Pellets purify the blood
and cure constipation.
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nI..nnn,n1eh EntIrcIr.

Mr.. w. +. Hetherington, editor of the
Sentinel, informed one of our represen-
tatives that he tried St Jacobs OIL for
rheumatism, and found it all that could
be asked. The remedy caused the pain
to entirely disappear. -EniPoriG (Kd1l.)
Ne7ys
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al have found ST. Jacobs OIL to be a
most excellent remedy for rheumatic
pains, says Mr. F. Latham, 5 Harrison
street, Providence. Il. L--BOstOIl Herdld.
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DURING the troubles of the fifteenth
century the rack was introduced into the
Tower of London, and occasionally
used under the plea OF political neces
gity
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

MATTER of choice whether to suffer, I'M
interruptedly with a cough or to invest 20 cents
for Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup and cure it.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

1912 DODGE ST., OMAHA, NEB., May "a, 1881.
II. II. WARNER d Co.: Sirs-I had suffered
10 years from a combination of liver and kidney
trouble until cured by your Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure. o. B. ROGERS.
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If YOU are bilious, take DIR. Pierce's "Pleas-
ant Purgative Pellets" the original Little
Liver Pills" or all druggists.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-12

KIpSEY-WoRr has cured kidney complaints
of thirty years standing. Try it.
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MESsMAN's peptonized beef tonic, the only
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result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly If resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard
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Try the new brand Spring Tobacco.
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That Husband OF Mine

That Uusbnnd OF Mine
Is three times the man he was before he began
using Wells Health Remover. 81 Druggists
Send for pamphlet to E. S. WELLS, Jersey City,
Nj.
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What has she told you, Frank? l
must see her." he said, imperatively.
But Frank barred the door with one
arm as he held Faulkner off.
Coward-villainl Would you per-
secute woman?" he cried, with theat-
rical air.
My dear fellow, you have known me
tolerably intimately for the last two
years-have you ever proved me to be
otherwise than rather conslderate OF the
weaker sex ?'
Acting-mere acting Moderated
Frank, who was little carried away by
the responsible position IN which
Madame Rose had placed him.
" Do you know who the lady Is that
is In that room ?" asked Faulkner, with
quiet dignity.
She Is Madame Rose.
My dear Frank, you are lending
yourself, unwittingly, L believe, to a
great deception. Come away from the
door and let me speak to her. Since
you have elected yourself her champion
you shall stand by if you like and hear
what | have to say.
There was something so very quiet
and subdued in Faulkner's manner that
1t could not fail to carry with it a strong
appearance of truth, added to which,
Frank Horton was his friend-had been
his friend for the last two years, and
had during that period believed him to
be an honorable and benevolent man.
He dropped his arm from the door,
put laid it on Faulkners shoulder as
ne looked him straight IN the eyes.
How long since you have taken to
temperance drinks % he asked.
Faulkner shook him off as he would
have done Troublesome fly; he was by
Tar the stronger man of the two.
Ny dear Frank, this is not the mo-
ment for foolish questions. must speak
to that woman now, or the opportunity
may never recur. Let me through the
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17
New York Sun.1
The Temperance Boom.

The liquor trade seems to have good
reason for alarm at the total absti-
nence wave which is sweeping the
West. In Kansas the prohibitory law
has driven the traffic out Of sight and
made it so dangerous that only reck-
less men will engage in it. In Iowa
the recently adopted constitutional
amendment has been declared valid
by the courts, and the next Legisla-
ture will be compelled to enact a
statute to wholly prevent the manu-
facture and sale Of spirituous bevera-
ges. In Indiana prohibitory act has
passed one branch Of the Legislature
and will unquestionably become a law.
Connecticnt has new law requiring
the names Of five taxpayers on every
petition for license, and, as.no name
can appear on two petitions, this
greatly restricts the number Of bar
rooms. The noted pond law OF Ohio
has been declared unconstitutional,
but new legislation against rum is be-
ing arranged for next winter. Mechi-
gan has imposed an immense license
tax, intended to close the small sa-
looms. Antitreating laws in Nebraska
and Wisconsin having been nullitied
by court decisions the enemies OF al
cohol are getting ready for something
more stringent. The question OF
prohibition will be an important one
in the fall elections. Of North Caro-
lima, Illinois, and probably several
other States. Even in Kentucky, a
great producer Of wisky, formidable
agitation is in progress.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17
LITERARY NOTES.

LTTELL's LIVING AGE. The numbers of The Liu-
sag Age for July Goth and August 5th contain: New
ton and Darwin, by r. A. Proctor; Esthetc Poetry,
Dante Gabriel Rosetti; The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar,
and Contemporary Life and Thought in France, Con-
temporary; The Lights of Maga ;and Autobographies
In the Time of the Commonwealth-Lucy Hutchinson
Alice Thornton Blackwood; Some Thoughts on
Browning; and Personal "reminiscences of Garibaldi,
Macmillan; Indian Smells and Sounds, Temple Bar
The Irish "Brogue' in Fiction; Protest, Month
Humors of Irish District Waiting; and Snake Anec-
dotes, Chambers journal; with instalments of Rob
tn," "The Marquis Jeanne Hyacinth de st. Palaye,'
The Ladies Lindores.' and "Goneril,' and selec-
tions of poetry.
s For ffty-two numbers of sfxty-four large pages
each Cor more than $500 pages year, the subscrip
ton price (s) is low while for s0.5O the publishers
offer to send any one of the American monthles OF
weeklies with The Living Age for year, both post
paid. Litten & Co., Boston, are the publishers.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17
rScientific American.1
Alcohol from AcOrnS.

IT is said that alcohol equal to that
made from grain can be produced
from acorns. The acorns are freed
from the shell and ground finely; then
they are mashed with malt, and allow
ed to ferment. Acorns contain about
90 per cent Of starch, and eighteen
per cent Of gluten. They would be
valuable article for human food if
it were not for the tannic acid (about
3 per cent? which they contain.
Vast quantities which go to waste every
year, where hogs are not fed in the
woods, might be gathered by boys,
and converted into alcohol for use in
the arts, thus freeing an equivalent
amount Of grain for use as food. Or
some young student Of practial chem
istry might make good thing for
himself and for the world by devising
an economical process Of separating
the starch, gluten, and tannic acid,
the last for technical uses and the
others for food.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17
A TEXAN stepped into Philadel

A TEXAN stepped into a Philadel-
phia tonsorial saloon to have his hail
cut. The officiating artist having en-
veloped his victims neck in towels
and compressed him securely in the
chair, opened the conversation by say
ing: "You are little nervous, sir, ]
perceive. Allow me to say that our
Capillary Elixer' not only covers bald
heads with a luxurious growth of hair
but calms the mind and restores the
whole nervous system to healthy
equilibrium. What do you do for
nervousness in Texas?" The repre-
sentative Of the Lone Star State look
ed up serenely and answered: <ssWe
usually go out and kill a barber"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

A CHICAGO newspaper reporter,
who was walking along the road in
the neighborhood Of Concord, N. H.,
over which Jumbo had just passed,
observed the footprints Of the huge
animal in the mud, and taking out
his notebook, entered the following
memorandum Of a society item for
the journal with which he was con-
nected: "It is understood that Miss
B. Of St.Louis, who eloped fortnight
ago, is making a pedestrian tour Of
New Hampshire.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17
Sheriff g Sale of Real Estate.

The State of Ohio, Jackson County, ss.
Court of Common Pleas.
William Vaughn VS.. Alexander F. McCarley
On Order of sale.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance
of an order of sale issued from the Court OF
Common Pleas within and for the County OF
jackson and State Of Ohio, in certain cause
wherein William Vaughn is plaintiff and Alex
ander f. McCarley is defendant, and to me di-
rected Sheriff of Jackson County, / will offer
for sale, at the door of the Court House In
Jackson, in said County, on
Saturday, Augatst 10Th, 1882,
at one o'clock P: M, the following described
real estate, situated in the County of Jackson
and State of Ohio, to-wit:
Being parts of Out Lots No. (37) Thirty seven
and Forty-two (42), in the south half of said
town of Jackson, in said county: Beginning at
thence running east along and on the north
boundary line of said Out Lots Nos. 81 and 42,
seven (7) chains and 85-I00 chains; thence rum
ming south and 43-100 chains; thence running
west eight (S) chains to the west boundary line
of said Lot Number 81; thence north along and
on the west boundary line of said Lot No. 81
and s0-lOO chains to the place of beginning,
stone coal underlying the above described
premises, with the right to mine and remove
the same.
Appraised at S., 1888 90
Terms of sale, cash ON day of sale.
To be sold as the property of Alexander
F. McCarIey, to satisfy judgment IN favor OF
Given under my hand this 18th day OF July,
1882. W. B. CHERINGTON,
Sheriff Jackson County, Ohio.
John L. Jones, Atty for Pi'T. july2O-5w
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

A beautiful girl looked out of her
window one day, and saw her rude
brother out on the sidewalk, walking
about on his. hands with his feet
dangling up in the air. "Tom," she
said, reprovingly, don't Tom; |
wouldn't do that, Tom; indeed |
wouldn't" "Wouldn't?" replied the
rude boy, looking up and speaking
with marked and malicious emphasis,
"W ouldn't? By sock, you couldn't!'
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

REV. T. L. HUGHES, of Pomeroy,
formerly pastor Of the Eckmansville
congregation, this county, has become
deaf, ito such an extent as to almost
unfit him for his werk. He is now in
New York city undergoing a course
of treatment. His many friends here
will be panied to hear Of his misfor-
tune.-West Union Era.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

IT is heart-rending to make such
corrections, but it is very necessary
sometimes. In speaking Of the
president of our local bank, last week"
says country journal, for He ske-
daddled' please read His schedule
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

The prize-in-every-packag tea
stores are at present the subject of a
general crusade. When man buys
fifty-cent package Of tea, expecting
to get five-dollar prize, and takes it
to the wife Of his bosom, and opens it
and finds therein a pewter spoon, he
feels yearning to go out under the
the silent stars, by the back fence,
and kick himself.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

"PooR man." exclaimed the physi-
clan, as he approached the patients bed,
"he seems to be suffering from neu-
ralgia." You're mistaken" said the
sick man. ''Her name isn't neuralgy,
it's Sophia, and we've only been mar
ried six months"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

IT is little singular, although no
less true, that one small but we'll con-
structed fly will do more towards
breaking up a mans afternoon nap
than the out door racket of a full
Grassland, no matter who the leader
-
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

REMEMBER now," said an Indiana
bride at the altar, I'VE have beensep-
arated and remarked four times, and
about once more will convince me
that we can never live happily togeth-
err
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A Delicious AppetiZer.

That ensures digestion and enjoyment
Of food; tonic that brings strength
to the weak and rest to the nervous; a
harmless diarrhea cure that don't con-
stipate-just what every family needs
|-Parker's Ginger Tonic.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

BECAUSE man gets green on the
knees of his white camp-meeting pants
it does not follow that he is more
prayerful than his blue jeans brother,
whose piety makes less show.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

No MATTER how good -natured aman
may be, he will invariably get mad
when he discovers that there is no
towel in the room, and is compelled to
dry his face on the bed quilt.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

''MoNEY is great lever in the
affairs of men," said lecturer on f.
nance. Eyes, exclaimed an auditor,
it's so great a leaver that some Of us
can never keep it."
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-08-17

A BOLT of lightning struck tree in
front Of a Chicago alderman's house,
and in his fright the alderman re-
marked: s'Hold on! I'll restore the
money!