The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-08-24
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

THE yearly review of trade issued by
the British custom commissioners shows
hat the United States has resumed its
position of being the chief source of the
cotton supply, much to the detriment OF
India, which sent $4,000 cwt. less in
1876 than in 1875.
LOUISIANA sugar lands, according to
the New Orleans Times, are rapidly in
creasing in value, since stable and hon
est State government has been secured.
Plantations that year ago could have
been bought at S15 per acre are now
worth $25, and sugar lands are now
Justly regarded as the safest and most re-
liable investments.
THE governor of Erzeroum states
that the Russians greatly oppress the in
habitants of the districts through which
they pass, and treat women and children
particularly with much cruelty. Hav-
aug learned that the Governor of GAIA
was at Kars they pillaged the houses in
the place, stripped the women and child
gen of their clothing, and drove them
naked into Kars.
The working class of Roumania live
almost entirely on vegetables, and a
peculiar preparation of maize, supple
mented by little cheese, buttermiIk, salt
fish, and salt meat. This dist does not
produce an enduring constitution, and
the population is for the most part an
easy prey to fever, especially in child
hood, inferior corn brandy is the most
ordinary T.rink, and is not wholesome.
President Andrew White, of Cornell
University, now travelling in Europe,
writes home that our geod Americans are
wretchedly mistaken in supposing that
the only or the main progress of the
world, during the last twenty years, has
been made on our side of the Atlantic
he the department of education especially
there is much to learn from England,
Germany, Switzerland, and even Italy
ABOUT six years ago some seeds Of
the Eucalyptus Giobultts were planted in
the island of Jamaica. The trunks of the
trees now measure foot in diameter near
the ground, and reach about sixty feet in
height. They appear to flourish best in
the elevated portions of the island. 1t
has been claimed heretofore that lowland
tricts were best adapted to their
growth, but the claim does not hold in
Jamaica.
THE enormous losses incident on
farmers and gardeners by the attacks of
insects is every year becoming more
serious, not only in this country, but in
Europe. 1t is gratifying to learn that in
England the scientific men, especially
entomologists, are taking steps to obtain
accurate records of the habits and con-
ditions most favorable to the develop
ment and increase of certain well-known
insects that devastate our crops, with
view to their determination.
A GOOD deal of interest has been
awakened in literary circles in England, |
and the United States on the discovery
in Adelaide, South Australia, of long /
lost volume of poems written and pub /
lished about the year 1920 by Charles |
and Mary Lamb. In 1927 Charles Lamb |
himself could not obtain a copy for love |
nor money. The book has been discov-
cred by Hon. w. Sandover, of Adelaide,
and graciously placed at the disposal of
the Gentlemen's Magazine The poems
are eighty-four in number. The vein
which runs throughout them is generally
either humorous or quantity .didactic.
The constructor of refrigerator cars
is attracting considerable attention in
railroad circles. 1t has been found by
experience that chill-rooms fer the pre-
servation of perishable articles have the
standing objection that, at or near the
temperature of freezing, meat and other
like articles may be kept a long time
without going to decay, but when
brought thence into a summer tempera-
ture they go almost Immediately to
destruction. Forty-fve degrees, or there
abouts, with moderate ventilation will,
IL good measure, decrease the objection
to the use of chill-rooms.
JETFS IN ENGL4ND