The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

"a very nice imported FAM saws
the Detroit Free Press, ..plenty good
enough for woman whose husband
earns S12 per week, can now be pur-
chased for $500
"A colored woman at AmesvilIe, Va,
the other day piled kindling wood on
the floor, and burned him to death She
escaped.
Don Carlos, the would-be King of
Spain, and his wife have parted. The
cause of the disagreement is not given.
but the neighbors say she used the royal
seeptre TO stir soup with. and set hen
on fourteen duck eggs in his Kingly
crown. Ierds Siftings
Seventy out of every one hundred rail-
road passengers growl about twenty min
utes for dinner because the time is so short.
The other thirty, who have their lunches
in baskets growl because it is too long to
delay. Man is considerate creature
Boston Post
An owl was killed near Yankee Hill.
Butte County, Cal. recently, attached
to one leg of which, with piece of an
nealed wire, was gold dollar of the
coinage or 1856 The bird was an aged
one, apparently, and the coin looked as
if it had been carried for many years.
Near Mount Airy. Ga, is a Swiss
colony of twenty families, each one of
which brought with it from across the
water fund of from &, 900 to 81, 900.
and general prosperity prevails. Sixty
thousand dollars has already been ex-
pended in improvements. = Chicago Her
aid
fs.,., ..f .l,s, ,.l.,.,s,s, e .
walk down town on rainy morning is
the inevitable disposition of your UNI
brella to caress and toy and linger with
the umbrella of the best looking girl You
meet In some respects umbrellas are
almost human in their manifestation of
intelligence.
"A farmer who was blowing in the
Yellowstone valley recently turned up a
nice silk dress pattern. Is there any
thing more needed to induce emigration
of the surplus women westward? We
predict that if the crop of silk dresses
pan out" in the West like this, New
England will be deserted by women in
less than year.-Ae,c Hdren Register
Keeley, of motor fame, has admit
ted in court in Philadelphia that. al
though by reason of the nature and quail
tiles of his mysterious force, he has
thus far failed in his efforts to bring his
inventions and discoveries into any
practical use or to arrive at the utility of
his findings, he believes that he will
ultimately sueceed.-N T. Graphic.
"A peripatetic peanut vender of Pitts
burgh, Pa, Italian of course. accumu-
lated $1,000 by dint of the most rigid
economy and unhealthy frugality and
then permitting two st. Louis sharpers.
also Italians. to Swindle him by repre-
senting that an unknown uncle had died
and left him an enormous fortune. The
guileless vender of the doubIe-iointed,
camel-backed California ground-nuts is
nearly crazy over his loss Chicago
NeleS.
"A curious wind passed over Evans
vile, VT, recently. There was roaring
sound high in the air, while near the sur
face of the earth everything was quiet
At one place. near the river. the eddy
descended, picked some planks off
long bridge, and carried them several
rods away. The next day, near Barton
Mountain, there was a continuous shower
of dry leaves. which fell out of clear
sky from a great height 1t is supposed
that they had been caught up by the
whirlwind
Two years ago Oscar Parker, of
Granville, Vt, while drinking from a
spring after dark. was disagreeably con
scious of having imbibed something a
little livelier than a hemlock twig and
less pugnacious than a beetle-bug. Since
then he has never enjoyed an entirely
peaceful gastronomic conscience. A
short time ago he gave himself into q
physicians charge, and, after enduring
medicinal torture for ten days, presented
Eseulapius with striped snake twenty
inches in lanUfh