The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-09-13
NE MS AND NOTES.

England.
WOODEN steamships are going out o
existence.
DUELs and suicides are unknown
among the Turks
The first silk mill in the United States
was built in 1870
THE fashion Of wearing jewelry is
older than history
ALLIGAToRs are used in Florida to
make compost with.
THIS country supplies nearly all the
world with street cars.
WATERcREssEs can be grown wher-
ever there is stream.
A NEEDLE will float if carefully laid
on the surface of water.
1T Is predicted that buckwheat will
probably be scarce this year.
THE wide belts so fashionable, must
have old styled pearl buckles.
A NATIONAL debt of $3.50, O0O,O 900
throws its shadow over Spain.
Two hundred thousand well-grown
roses Will make an ounce OF OIL.
THERE were practically no street cars
outside OF America before 1869.
LONDON (Eng.) clergymen are trying
to stop Sunday excursion trains.
A POUND of cochineal contains seventy
thousand insects, boiled to death.
DURING last year the population of
Kansas increased fifteen thousand.
A LITTLE sugar added TO any writing
fluid will make good copying ink.
CHALDEAN books we're made in baked
clay fifteen centp.-ies before Christ.
THE phylloxL hS done 5000, 5000
damages to The - rds of France.
ANfexto 7us pQmace from
cider nj i t6r cows.
CoRALs entirely out of
iashlOn, WIZ. 0sp'ct o. a revival.
ENGLAND sNthiry three ironclads
in service, with other ships il reserve.
ONE of the most daring Turkish Off
GERS during theatewar was woman.
SEALS can be trained to be the same
to fishermen that dogs are to hunters.
FLoTOw's nav opera has started all
Paris to whistlng "Trio DIES Cigarette
SHOOTING women thirty feet out of
cannon is one of the amusements in
Paris.
GREAT BRTAIN last year paid to
other countris over $3.50, 100000 for
wheat.
By the recent strike the Lancashire
eng. mill owners saved over s., 600, 900
in wages.
II takes two hundred thousand bush
els of peanutsa year to supply Phila-
delphia.
THERE are more periodicals published
in the UnitedStates than in any other
country.
EVERY peron should be careful of
exposure to tiB night air at this season
of the year.
THE new Eglish war steamer, Iris
has maximun speed of twenty-one
miles an hour.
THE America Tract Society has dis
tributed seventfour thousand tracts
within year.
IN New SoutI Wales, last year, four
million sheep wee lost from the effects
of dry weather.
TERRE HAUTES Piritualists claim TO
have photographed the materialized
spirit of Christ.
a New YORKthief has been sent to
prison for two yars for stealing a purse
containing five cnts.
THoUGH 38,5G Irish emigrated in
1866, the Emersd Isle gained 7.lS6 in
population that ear.
Up to within few years, the sever
est penalty to a riminal in Holland was
to deprive him osalt
LAST years rgenue of the German
Central Exchequr falls short by -, 000,-
600 marks of thestimate.
IT is becOmingcustomary in Western
public schools to Sc a newspaper instead
of book for readng lessons.
To prevent cipers from a locomotive
hurting the eye, fut q haxseed in each
corner and let thskdissoive.
A CHILD recently died in Paris from
eating q few peach kernels, which con
tanned percentage of prussic acid.
THE Southern Pacific Railroad Is
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 viii be about half a billion
dollars worth of cattle shipped over the
Union Pacific Road this season to the
East
THE town of Somers, Mass, furnishes
sexton, hearse and grave for all its in
habitants at a uniform charge of four
dollars.
AMERICA has sent over four hundred
missionaries to Turkey, and spent So
O00, 900 to convert the Turks to Chris
tianitv.
ST. PETERSBURG is, with a single ex-
ception, the unhealthiest city in the
world-Madrid, Spain, being the ex-
ception.
WEsTMoRELAND is the smallest county
in Virginia, but it was the birthplace OF
three Observation-Disclosures, Madison
and Monroe.
The cent has never become acclimated
in Louis vile, but leading retail dealers
are following the example of St. Louis
and other cities in helping to intro
duce it.
AT Washington base ball matches,
they send up balloon with the score
painted on it in great black letters,
easily read by every one near the
grounds.