The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-01-13
PITn AND POINT.
.ou can tell dog-wood br its bark.

ASC So1 tCAA ttOe5- WIN bJ 4tS OdAA-
POSSESSES great healing power-the
cobbler.
THE. latest defnition: A naturalist
one who catches gnats.
TIE mean temperature is what dis
gusts man with every climate.
SHIP Captains ought to be.good dane
ers, because they are good shippers.
WHEN a tenant wishes to hold his
dwelling for another year he releases it.
TIE phrenologist is man who can
npt do his work well unless he feels
right.
MURDER on the high G is common
occurrence among a certain class of So
prano singers.
The Empress of Austria wears train
thirty feet long. There are probably
no train-robbers in Austria.
A FASHIONABLE young lady, like an
inexperienced printer, makes a great
hustle in correcting her form.
WEBSTER was an esthetic, because he
enthusiastically says in his dictionary
that the verb ''speak" is too utter.
A MAN can get into good society in
LeadviIle if he hasn't had the jim-iams,
but he'll have to stand being regarded
as rather fresh.
CAssAGNAc, the French editor, has
fought 10 duels. He has therefore run
as much risk as a man who has played
three gannes Of baseball.
- Dsasfsz .rfe q pEiil lospeE, 1saitl the
I old lady. A ready-made family Is like
a plate of cold potatoes" "Oh, III
soon warm them over, replied the dam
sci and she did.
Mss SwIssHELM says elf men wore
boots ut all the boots should reach tc
tine waist and be fastened to a belt.
Think of a man with such boots having
the lim-jams. Great snakes
"No," SAID Mrs. Goodington, casting
her eyes over specs 10 the silhouette OF
her lumented Daniel. 81 can't say as
like TO see man too stout, but just
little inclined to petulancy, you know,
Is garb that was guiltless Of oolors
She stood, with dun, llstiess air
A creature II dumps and Of dolors,
But most uudenlaby fair;
The folds OF Ler garments fen round her,
Revealing the curve OF each limb;
Weli-proportioned and graceful found her
Although quite alarmingy thin.
Ella Wheeer.
"MRs. JONES has sent to borrow my
bonnet, and 1 don't want TO loan it to
her. What message shall 1 return?"
said a lady to her husband. The reply
was clear and prompt "Tell her she
has your good viii, but cannot have
your fixtures.
" TN not very proud Of yOnr progress
IN school" remarked a New Haven
mother to her son, who was struggling
along IN grade five. There's Charley
Smart IS way ahead of you, and he isn't
as old" l know it. Teacher said he'd
learned all there was to learn in my
hot loft xtifB ont
to learn.
IL primary school, not very long
ago. the teacher undertook to convey to
her pupils an idea Of the use of the hy-
phen. She wrote on the blackboard
+" Bird's-nest,' and, pointing to the hy-
phen, asked the school What is that
Tor ?" After a short pause, young son
of the Emerald Isle piped out " Plaze,
na'am, for the bird TO roOsht on.
A GENTLEMAN called to consult ply
sician with regard to a rheumatism
which caused him much pain. The
doctor Immediately sat down and wrote
him a prescription. AS the patient was
going away the doctor called him back.
:" BY the way, sir, should my prescrip-
ton happen to afford you any relief,
please let me know, as 1 am myself suf-
fering from a similar affection.
TIE humorist of the Hda0k-E.ye, Bob
Burdette, feeling IN a penitential mood.
stands up III meeting and accuses HIM
self as follows:
I accuse myself of various and numer-
Gus faults.
/ accuse myself of love of ease.
I accuse myself of a hatred for work.
I confess that have a good voice for
sleep.
L accuse myself of throwing a quart
of ink and box OF pens into the Sus-
quehanna river.
L accuse myself of wishing those were
all the pens and that was all the ink in
the world
I accuse myself of spending all my
postage stamps for cigars.
I accuse myself of wanting to be cash
Ter of a Newark national bank for about
fifteen minutes.
That is the kind of a duck I am,
ghostly Ha'ok-Eye, but I promise to do
better.
l promise myself that every day.
L make more promises in half an hour
than 1 can keep in ten years.
1 can't imagine where all my promises
60. l can't keep them, but 1 am posi-
tive nobody else takes them.
A stranger may sometimes, but he
never does 1t again.
So no more at present