The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-09-07

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prosecute for forfeiture all importation
~f that character.
IT is proposed to bore tunnel unde
the Mediterranean from near Algebra
inNIpain, to a point between Tangiel
and Ceuta, in Africa, q distance of min
miles. The cost is estimated at 1000
900, and the promoters are said to hav
raised considerable sum
The occupants of six hundred shantie
along the lines of New York railroad
makes living by planting corn and po
tatoes between the rails and the fences
1t is said that {, 1000 acres are cultivated
in this way.
THERE were no lives lost by the fores
fires at Eaton, near Green Bay, Wiscon
sin. The i've missing families hav,
turned up alive, after suffering from lacl
OF food and sleep. One woman saved hel
children by laying them upon the ground
and covering them with earth. Another
family, who had fought ire for fourteen
hours without food or rest, were about to
despair, when a slight shifting of che
Eind' opened r. them a pathway to safety.
ELPCTRICTTY VIII now be dispensed at
the usual rates in China, as there is tele-
graph line six miles long Just completed
IN that country. It has been erected by
Ii Hung Chang, vicerOy of Chill, from
his official residence to the Fretain arse
nal. There is little doubt but that other
lines will follow as the intelligent China
man feels disposed to let this one stand,
although heretofore he has insisted on
pulling down all lines formerly put up.
The peach growers of Delaware have
a new terror which they expect will en-
nance the value of their fruit. They
announce that peach culture is so far a
failure that many farmers will cut down
their trees during the present year. 4
gentleman living near FELTON,, after
plucking this years crop of Hale's early
peaches cut down an orchard of five
huSdred trees. Though freights have
come down to about half what they were
few years ago, yet the price realized
for the fruit have fallen much more in
proportion, and there is no profit in rails
ing fruit to sell at the prices it has real
lied in New York FOR the past few years.
Cutting down all the peach trees will
certainly raise the price of peaches, but
it is difficult to see where the profit of
the operation comes in.
\ PHLowCAsE well saturated with /
water, and having small hole torn in it /
to look through, placed loosely over tie
head, is said to be an admirable i'm
promptu respirator in the densest smoke,
a valuable idea for escaping occupants
from burning buildings. Vice-Admiral
birmingham, when he commanded the
Cambridge training-ship at Plymouth,
made an experiment with this pillow
case respirator. He had twelve pounds
OF loose powder exploded in a confined
part of the ship, which, although screened
of with fearnaught, emitted so dense 2
smoke that those utside had to lie down I
on the deck. A common piilow-case,
with small eye-hole, was placed over
the head of a man, who, with the hose in
his hand, went inside and remained ten
when, to assure MS friends out
side of his safety. he sang a comic song.
The London correspondent oil the New :
York Times writes an interesting para
graph concerning Master Pongo, the go I
rilla, which is now the sensation of the
London aquarium. The correspondent :
says Pongo is az unspeakable gorilla :
He makes his beholders realize what s
narrow escape they have had IF the
first attempt at making man had failed, $
this might have been the 'waster' cast
aside with the second and successful 7
effort" The correspondent goes on to
say of the gorilla: g He does everything il
but talk. 1 gave him a biscuit. He I
tasted it, didn't ike it, and returned it
TO me with the gentle gracefulness of a
Bond street exquisite. His initiative ;
powers are very remarkable. If he can Fl
not talk he will soon write. He takes il
oeSi in his hand, and w3ts the point in L
MS mouth, and scrawls on paper as
as a senator. He eats meats ;
md drinks ale with the relish of an agri- ! !
cultural laborer. He is terribly and a
'wtully like human being, and looking il
nto his big, sad, melancholy eyes, one tt
night think he knew it, and was inwardIy W
his position"
THE permanent exhibition at Ph;ia-
lelphia has had a change of management Z :
The new president, John s. Norton has q
ull power to direct the exhibition 90 he
'leases- The first moe is the opening of u
he gates on Sundcy. The big show will 5
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