The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-10
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WHALES are rarely over fifty feet long.
ABOUT four thousand roses are re-
quired to make one pound of ottar Of
roses.
FOURTEEN kinds of dogs can be dis
tinguished In the Greek and Roman
records.
THE pearl fisheries of the PERSIA
Gulf afford support to about 05,OW
families.
FoKTY thousand dollars worth q
chewing gum is gathered annually u
the State of Maine.
THE number of persons killed on rail
ways III England is proRortionaly Twice
as great as in France.
Ir is reported that twenty thousand
people In India, in the year 1880, were
killed by snakes and tigers.
The milk of the elephant contains les'
water and more fatty matter and sugar
than that of any other animal.
The age of an oyster may be reckoneC
by counting the lines in the grove OF the
hinges of the bivalve. These lines lndl
cate the annual layers of the shell
growths.
THE Malays of Singapore used to give
large price for the flesh of tiger, no
because they liked it, but because they
thought person was imbued with the
characteristics of the animal he ate.
ITALIAN bees gather honey from flow
ers which fail to attract black bees, be
cause the former have a longer tongue
yond the reach of the black variety.
BoTH linen and cotton cloths were
wrought by the Egyptians, but, unlike
the modern work, the warp had gener-
ally twice or thrice and not seldom foul
times the number of threads in an inch
that the wool had.
THE leprosy prevalent in the Hawaiian
Islands does not differ from the European
tercourse between the Pacific States
China and the Sandwich Islands make,
vigilance duty in suppressing thc
spread of the disease.
A FRENCH soldier, stationed for som,
years in the Pontine Marshes, has be
come entirely of deep brown color
totally distinct from that shade produced
in natives of Northern Europe by ex
posture to the sun of lower ATTITUDES.
In JAPAN, owing to the gentleness Of
the people, the crow has full liberty tr
go where he likes. AS a CONSEQUENCE
the most densely populated cities swarm
with the noisy fellows, who repay tbe
kindness shown them by acting as scay.
engers.
FORTY years ago only about thirty
auks and forty eggs were recorded as be-
longing to public and private collections
| At one time $50 were paid for two anks
and two eggs; a little later, half thai
sum for one egg and not very lone
since we read that $500 were given foI
one egg.
ONE reason that the ancients were
| lacking in museums was the fact that
| they lacked efficient methods of pre-.
serving the various forms of life. twas
not until the discovery of alcohol and
manufacture of glass bottles that muse.
ums became of Importance.
ST.. THOMAS, of Aquinas, gives the
| most ingenious explanation of any of the
ancients on the subject of earthquakes
He suggests that the commissions NAV
be caused by the struggles of the de
funct disbelievers trying Cby stimuli
taneous stampede, perhaps to ESCAPE
/ from the pit of torment.
WHEN a Kaffir is on a maraudinc ex
| pedition he gives utterance to those erie.
and misses In which cattle drivers indulc,
when they drive a herd before them
thinking III this manner to persuade tn,
gods of the country he is attacking tina
he is bringing cattle to their worship
pers, instead of coming TO take thei
heads from them.