The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-23
LOCAL NEWS.

The waiter girl knew thing For two
about table etiquette. so she shifted
scornfully rs she said "Its not our
custom TO serve a knife with pie. " "NoY"
remarked the patron I'm surprise, then
bring me an axe"
The West Tennessee Sunday School
Convention will assemble nc Dyersburg,
Tenn, April 18th, and gives promise of
being very excellent meeting. The
Dyersburg Baptists are especially anx-
ious 90 have full attendance, and
they VIII entertain all who go.
"A wall past the parti -colored piano.
rama exhibited by the shoD windows
will reveal the fact that the "styles"
this year are very varied, and very
handsome. And when arrayed in all
their magnificence womankind will
look like perfect birds OF paradise
Scene. Street Corner Man with bad
squint bumps M against man who is
going the other way.
The Bumber-Can't YOU look where
You are goings
The Bumpcd-Why the deuce can't
you 20 where you are lookingY
An Oklahoma girl who advertised
for husband got him. The total ex-
pensc for the advertisement and we'd
ding outfit amounted 10 Sli, aud within
a year her husband died. leaving life
insurance OF 5000. And still some
people clam IL does not pay 70 adyer-
tise.
Particularly pretty are the new
spring hats. They are f3arfully and
wonderfully made, light as a feather. as
gay as some Flowers, chiffon, ribbon
lace aud leaves, all put together with
the magic fingers of French millinery
beautiful 90 behold and bewitchingly
becoming 20. the pretty young faces
they will surmount.
A Missouri paper tells of a school
house jahitor who, worried because he
was asked to find 40 many lost articles
resigned his job because one morning he
found written plainly on the blackboard
the following request. Find the com.
mon multiple" and the next day Find
the greatest common divisor' Both
them darned things are now lost he
said and IN get blamed for swiping EN-
50 I'll quit
Some few years ago a general move.
nicnt was !nauguratcd against the habit
of wearing high hats In the theatre
One or two States passed laws forbid.
ding the wearing Of high hats IN places
of public amusement. But public Opin
ION has accomplished what all the leg
islaiion could not effect. and IL il rar,
exception 10 the rule 20 see woman
wearing hat that Ohatructs the view
even IN the theatres ~ the very small
49,. lanns.- The change has taken place
| within the past i've years. The nuisanc,
had become intolerable and public opin
/ ion forced a remedy.
Some two or three years ago a report
went the rounds Of the papers Of IN,
State that the old time bluebirde had
lci; Kentucky for good, that none Of
them had been seen for a long while
and that IL was supposed that they had
been driven out 10y the English sparrow
/ How much there was in this report may
perhaps, never be known, but IL IL re
ported from different portions of the
State that the bluehirds have returned
in great numbers this spring, and are
making the fields merry with their old
time tunes. The robins have also come
in great numbers, and their happy notes
from wood and dale sound "a II winter
was over and springtime was near al
hand.
The river editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal says that efforts. which
promise 20 be successful, are being made
by the merchants, manufacturers and
business men generally, including steam.
boat owners and boatmen generally, here
and elsewhere, 10 induce Congress 10 i'm
prove low water navigation on the Ohio
and Mississippi nyers 10y means OF NOV.
able jetties. This IL matter Of vital
importance 20 the people living along the
banks Of the Ohio river. The bottom OF
the river from Louisville 10 Cairo IL fiat
and soft shifting sand, and the bars and
shoal places which develop during low
water seasons can be quickly removed
and remedied at trifing cost by the
use Of these jetties, and all the yeaI
round navigation may be enjoyed.