The Hickman courier., 1877-12-07
All Sorts.


A Massachusetts, woman has boarded
500 silver half-dimes.
Forty-eight vessels took to Europe last
week 97S,064 bushels of wheat.
Cincinnati has femlae wosd-s2wyer
who earns her $50 every day
\ Philadelphia girl has ope eye that
II light blue and one that is deep black.
Pennsylvania has the largest number
OF Sunday y-schools among tie states
1860.
There are over eight hundrsd Chinese
laundries in New York city, giving en-
ployment to about 1000 persons.
The highest railroad bridge in the
United States is on the Cincinnati south
ern line, across the Kentucky river.
The Chinese wear two watches, as the
EDglish did in the days of Burke and
sheridan Chinese watches show 24
hours on the dial.
An old woman who peddled newspa-
peIs at Fulton Ferry, In New York city,
for thirty years, died the other day, leav-
ing an estate of $4,000.
There are nearly 5000 telephones in
Nsw York city alone, and yet the little
instruments has only been before the
public for about four months.
Coculus indicus, virulent poison, is
largely imported into this country, yet it
is not known to be used in any manu-
lacture except that of lager beer.
The st. Louis Journal of Agriculture
says Farms can be bought in any
county in the United States to-day, for
less than the Improvements cost"
at
hundred and ninety convicts in the
Rhode Island state prison, being the larg-
est number in the history Of the insti-
tuition.
Oyster-sbells are literally used on the
roads in the vicinity of Providence, r.
L., where they make very fine roads,
especially in the sandy districts. About
5000 bushels mile are needed to make
good dressing. The cost is only one or
two cents bushel.
The New York Commercial says the
reports of the outbreak of leprosy in the
Chinese quarter of that city is officially
cortraidcted by the board of health. 1t
Is believed the report was started by the
strikiDg cigar makers TO prevent China
men being sent from San Francisco.
A poor, betrayed, distracted girl al
davenport, on Saturday, waded into the
river, sat down, bent forward, and delib.
erately hid her face under the water until
sense was gone, AMI death came soon
after. post mortem examination re-
veaied the secret that had driven the
poor girl to death.-.S. Paul Pioneer.
1t is computed that the grain used for
liquors IN year in the United States
reaches 70,600,000 bushels, which would
make l,050, 900, 900 four-pound leaves OF
bread. Great Britain uses S0,OOQ 600
bushels of grain yearly for the same pur-
pose, and annually imports food to the
value of nearly $500, 900, 900.
Prepared pickles, when they present a
brlght-green appearance, owe that color
TO the use of acetate OF copper, or YER
digris, deadly poison. The chemist
Mitchell says that jar of imported
pickles often contai verdigris enough
to Kill one if it could be ali taken into
the system at once.
Capt. Pratt, with a force of Indians.
has been searching the Seminole mounds
near st. Augustine. and procured about
two bushels of skulls and bones, together
with some ten stone hatchets, sharpened
and shaped one flint arrow head, and a
varied selection of pieces of pottery, some
quite unique, were dug up.
1t is not generally known this there is
an extensive salt lake on the TOP of the
Tehachepi mountain in California. about
ak miles southwest of the point where
the southern Pacific railroad crosses the
mountains. The lake is somewhat diff
cult of access, but salt is gathered from
the bottom OF the lake, where it lies in
iayers from one TO ak inches thick. and
shipped 10 San Francisco,