The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-05-17
Miscellaneous.
Holland has 10000 wind.miIls.

Holland has 10000 wind-mills.
Desdwood is 1923 feet above the sea
Austin, the capital of Texas, has l3s
lswyers.
Church tithing in Mormondom
amounts to $500 600 annually.
The latest official census gives Italy a
population of % sol ,154 souls.g
India rubber tires for wheels are be
coming quite common in England.
The Texas wool>clip this season is es-
timated at three million pounds.
Jacksonville, Fla, has a population Of
1900.
There were packed 632, 900 hogs in
Cincinnati during the season ending
March l.
At the English whipping-post the
convicts writhe and twist at first, and
then howl continuously, making a very
pleasant entertainment.
A sunshade composed entirely of
pansies with solid gold handle, is a
novelty exhibited in New York jewelers.
window
A tax on profane language would raise
more revenue than the MofFett drink
register, and the more man was taxed
the more he would swear.
Col. Forney says that there are over
thousand millions of dollars held in the
private banks of England, drawing not
more than one per cent. interest, held
simply for safety.
Washington has the only college for
deaf mutes IN the world There are at
present forty-six students in this institu-
ton. Thirteen different states have
representatives, the western predomin-
auing.
Charles Reade declares that everybody
should be ambidextrous But what is
most needed in this country is the ability
to rob bank with one hand and pack
your trunk for Europe st the same time
with the other.
The Mexicans dc their courting in
public. You see couples walking about
the crowded plaza with their arms about
each others necks.
1t is said that the losses Of sheep were
De=4ast winter, in California, and
that many wool-growers are becoming
disgusted with the business.
North Carolina still includes burglary
among the capital offenses, and young
man of Newbern county has just been
sentenced to be hung for the crime.
Some signs of taverns in London are
curious, viz: Goat and Compasses,"
'' salmon and Compasses, " Anchor and
Bodices," Bull and Mouth" Green
Nan and Still" Pig and Whistle"
Who'd Thought 1t ?" "The Splendid
Shilling" etc.
Young Henry Leobald, of Brooklyn,
committed suicide because it seemed TO
him as though he was "step child
among men," and because" in society
experienced men are worsted."
New York, which includes Brooklyn,
proposes to have law making black
mailing punishable offense. The World
says there are 1000 cases year of black
mailing in New York city.
The penalty for theft in Japan is grad
uated according to the amount stolen
inverting the rule common in England
and America. No punishment is in
Hicted if the thief is able and willing TO
pay for the property stolen, or if his
friends will do it for him.
The Red Communists of New York
had mock celebration of the fast of
Good Friday, at Bleecker street restau-
rant, in which the coarsest ribaldry and
bIasphemy was INDUCED. One of the
toasts by Megy was Annihilation of
the priests and all other rascals, and the
obstruction of the church"
A brutal mother threw her five-year-
old boy from a bridge into the rIver st
Milwaukee the other day, and leaned on