The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-09-13
vpwS IND NOTES.

MOST toothbrv arc Aiiaue IN new
England.
existence.
DUFTs and aicides are unknown
among the TurSs
THE first silk gil IN the United States |
was built in 1So.
The fashion Of wearing jewelry is
older than histoiy'
ALIIGAToRs gre used in Florida to
make compost gin
TgIs country supplies nearly all the
world with strest cars.
WATERcREsss can be grown whsr-
ever there is astream.
A NEEDLE viii float if carefully laid
on the surface Of water
Ii is prediced that huckwheat will
probably be scsee this year.
THE wide bds so fashionable, must
have old styledrarl buckles.
A NATIONAL debt of $3.50, 600, 900
throws its shadgE over Spain.
Two hundra thousand well-grown
roses will makesn ounce of oil.
THERE we're Pactically no street cars
outside of Amaica before 1869.
LONDON (Ens) clergymen are trying
to stop Sundayexcursion trains.
A POUND of cehineal contains seventy
thousand insects boiled to death
DURING lastyear the population of
Kansas increase fifteen thousand.
A LITTLE suar added TO any writing
fluid will makgood copying ink.
CHALDEAN boks were made in baked
clay fifteen ceEuries before Christ.
THE phylloy has done 5000, 100000
damages to thegineyards OF + r'Frre~-----
AN exchangesays that Pomaee from
cider mills is excellent foe. for COWS
Copk1g hasS.eofe entirely out of
l---ssfoI1,- vi tn nl9prospect OF a revival.
ENGLAND mas thirty three ironclads
in service, with other ships in reserve.
ONE of the most DARING Turkish Off
GERS during the late war was a woman.
SEALS can be trained to be the same
to fishermen that dogsare to hunters.
FLoTOw's new opera has started all
Paris to whistling q Trio des Cigarette d"
SHOOTING women thirty feet out of a
cannon is one of the amusements in
Paris.
GREAT BRITAIN last year paid to
other countries over Sl6O, 900, 900 for
wheat.
By the recent strike the Lancashire
(Eng.) mill owners saved over =, 900, 900
in wages.
IT takes two hundred thousand bush
els of peanuts a year to supply Phila-
delphn.
THIRE are more periodicals published
in the United States than in any other
country.
Every person should be careful of
exposure to the night air at this season
of the year.
TIE new English war steamer, Iris,
has maximum speed of twenty-One
niles an hour.
The American Tract Society has dis
iributed seventy-four thousand tracts
within a year.
IL New South Wales, last year, four
million sheep were lost from the effects
of dry weather.
TERRE HAUTE Spiritualists claim to
have photographed the materialized
spirit of Christ.
A New YORK thief has been sent to
prison for two years for stealing a purse
containing five cents.
THoUGH IS, SOB Irish emigrated in
1866, the Emerald Isle gained 7,lS6 in
population that year.
Up to within few years, the sever
est penalty to criminal in Holland was
to deprive him of alt.
LAST years revenue of the German
4 o. Coll l. ahr I
600 marks of the etimate.
IT is becoming customary in Western
public schools to use a newspaper instead
of book for reading lessons.
To prevent cinders from a locomotive
hurting the eye, put a tlaXseed in each
corner AND let them dissolve.
A CHTLb recently died in Paris from
eating a few peach kernels, which con
tanned percentage of prussic acid.
THE Southern Pacific Railroad i.
shaded by continuous line of cotton
wood trees planted for telegraph poles
Miss BRADDoN, the English novelist
is portrayed as a big, blOwsy woman
prosaic and commonplace in appearance
THERE will be about half billion
dollars worth of cattle shipped over thu
Union Pacific Road this season to tn,
East
THE town of Somers, Mass, furnishe
sexton, hearse and grave for all its in
habitants at a uniform charge of fou
dollars.
AMERICA has sent over four hundred
missionaries to Turkey, and spent So,
00o, 600 to convert the Turks to Chris
tianity.
ST. PETERSBURG is, with single ex
ception, the unhealthiest city in tn,
world-Madrid, Spain, being the ex
ception.
WEsTMoRELANDi is the smallest count,
in Virginia, but it was the birthplace o
three Observation-Disclosures, Madison
and Monroe.
THE cent has never become acclimatet
in Louis Vile, but leading retail dealer
are following the example of St. Loui
and other cities in helping to intro
duce it.
AT Washington base ball matches
they send mp a balloon with the scor,
painted on it in great black letters
easily read by every one near tn
grounds.