The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-27
HUM0Rs OF THE DAY.

A COUNTER attractions pretty girl
clerk.
ALWAYS ready to take hand in con-
versation-deaf and dumb people.
"THERE is no rest for the wigged" is
what bald-headed man said when he
chased his false hair up the street III a
gale.
You can always tell the fastidious man
by his sending twenty-seven cuffs and
collars to the laundry, accompanied by a
single shirt Yon.3ers Gazette.
1.-THE truth always pays in the end"
is an old saying. and that is the reason
probably why there is so little of it told
at the beginning of any business trans
coscp.
her lover. ,Dsc.5r1lsS-S +l.1, -asisasssa8Ssss
sonnet, he made her name rhyme with
'.sardine."
WE'LL" said cowboy, as he looked
at Sookey, when she had come through
a weedv stubble-field. "Well, old gal,
you amt got wings, exactly, but you are
q buried of passage, all the same. "
POVERTY is the mother of rest. An
editor is proverty. Therefore an editor
is the mother of rest, but he never gets
very well acquainted with his offspring
on this terrestrial sphere.
TIE gentleman who caught severe
cold from pressing his lips to a maiden's
snowy brow, recovered quite rapidly
while basking in the sunny smiles of an
other fair damsel-ZOledO american.
JOIN had pop Of thunder-tone,
He lent young Billy Smith il,
The pop went or but not alone,
Smiths finger went of with IL.
A New YORK lady who was travelling
/ l,ul har rr0fH rR-Qt tah 70
play with, and the baby gulped 1t down
and cried for more What they can't
/ swallow in that State must be over foot
T Ill width. Detroit Free Press.
/ YoUSG man, look not upon the church
sociable oyster stew when 1t Is red
/ with pepper because at the last it sting
/ eth like an adder and biteth hole III
/ your pocket-book to a considerable
amount. - Uiuiamspon Breakfast
/ Td6ic.
SAID the sailor TO his sweetheart: 81
know that ladies care little about nauti-
cal matters, but if you had your choice
Of a ship, what kind of a one would You
prefer? She cast down her eyes,
.. 5lushcd and whispered: "A little
smack
The latest marvel of science Is instan-
taneous photography. BY the aid Of this
/ process II is possible to obtain picture
# yourself and girl in the act of being
/ thrown over "A stone wall by a runaway
horse This picture can be placed on
lie IN utlepiece in maroon velvet
raplc as a warning to young men TO
never let 60 the reins with both hands
Nc,c H4rca Register.
SHE wanted to test his affection, so,
licking up the revolver and putting her
We to the niuzzle. she said, innocently,
wonder # it loaded" "Oh, don't"
le ex.l,imed, with manifest agitation.
IA satisfied her that he loved her and
he asked, indifferently =" Why not 2"
Becau e, he answered, I've got
ouse rent to pay next month and
uucryI would embarrass me. '-ByOOkly1l
,Hgic.
NEw boarder at the Occidental gazed
It his plate, the other morning, and then
aid =" Is there "A reliable physician
topping in this house ?" Yes, sir"
,aid the water. Good surgeons, too,
h?' Believe so, sir. "Then just see
f he /, in his room before / start in on
his breakfast l had brother choked
20 death on a steak like that once, aud
N bound to take all the necessary pre-
I CAUTIONS SIN Francisco Post.