The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-05-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

nifty years old.
BurrALo BuL now owns King Bomba's
house In Naples
TnRrE wife murderers will be HANGED
IN Memphis June ~
DUmNG the past year 2o3 persons wors
killed by wolves In Russia.
TIM largest cabbage over grown In
Florida weighed sa1. pounds.
V. q. y. stands for genuine original
package" In Kansas and Iowa
hN-PRrsIpESr HAYES is to erect a
handsome monument .oyer his wife's
grave.
GENERAL Jos. H. JouNsroN Is eighty.
four. but as buoyant and active as man
Of nifty.
NArEIS rings are absolcte. because
you are not supposed to uSe napkins a
second tinre.
Tns innew % immigrants az New
$500 York shows q steady Increase as the sea-
scn - ssseSs. -.
"a "a k1s~ks can e~ys ~ aelexsra<s<s
last year on patch OF walnut trees Of
his own planting
-. JosKrH Mo woman was fined
In the police court the other day for
swearing at her pastor.
JAPAN has celebrated the asssth ami.
'orsary Of the coronation OF the firs,
emperor 81 the country.
A FUtt-nLooprp Sioux maiden, 10.
sephino Crowfcather. has Just taken
VOWS as Benedictine nun.
a LoNDoS grave digger died so sud.
aonly that he fell into a grave that he
vas "Seavatiag Tor aneiher nerscn.
u - expected that the bronze statue
OF eN President Woolsey. 10 be- erected
on the Yale campus, viii cost $4,000.
lNnlA Ink II made from burnt camphor
and gum. Tho Chinese and japanese
are tho only manufacturers Of this ink.
~ Incorporation has been formed In
chicago 10 promote the erection OF a
statue 10 the memory Of General Sheri.
dan
~ the Da,uru-rh- Biaiuu wedding In
Washington. a few days ago. there were
NO bridesmaids, nor was there best
rsn
American physicians are forming par
iics 20 attond tho Tenth international
Congress Of Physicians at Bertha next
August
JrLN lioNom GWANr. tho dxteon.
ycar-old daughter Of Minister Fred
Grant can speak spanish. German and /
French.
ALAN AHrHuiL son Of tho late Prcsi. .
dent Arthur, has no taste in the direc. I
ton Of politics All his predictions /
arc social
THrE are ninety more firms carrying I
on business in the food swept district OF /
Johnstown than there were before tho
food came.
Ky an overwhelming majority the
school children OF Nov York City have
voted in favor Of Tho golden rod as a
State flower
A INV days ago Hon. Chaunccy "
Dopcw MAS summoned 10 appear In court
Tor tho first timo In his llfo. aud he H.
nfty-soycn years old.
TuF use of electricity as motive
power for street cars viii be- an import
ant section 81 the census Investigation
OF the electrical industry.
WALT WmrNAN has chosen his burial
place II Is in Harleigh Cemetery, near
tho little New Jersey town OF Camden,
where he has lived 20 long.
THr quantity Of Arctic icobcrgs mot
with by ocean steamers this spring has
been enormous, and 10 is pretty safo
indication ~ cool summer
THE now German Chancellor Is dc.
scendani II one OF the oldest Italian
families, Capriyi, branch Of tho houses
Of Caprara and Montocuculi
Du G. T. BLWEN has discovered a
prototype Of Volapuk In the Chinook
jargon which Is used by tho Indians In
tho northwestern portions Of this cont.
ncnL
NOTWITHSTANDING tho constant heavy
emigration. the population OF Great Bri.
tain has increased more than 1000 900
since 1856, The total population is abou:
-. 600 900.
BAnNuA having declined 10 give the
brooklyn aldermen free passes TO his
show, those statesmen increased the II.
ccnsc fee for circusos from $3.50 year 20
$500 dav.
Largo numbers OF applications for
pensions are daily received In Washing.
ton from the southern States from sol.
diers who served in tho Mexican and
Creek Indian wara
TnE charrcd stump OF "old Scquoia,"
the giant Of Californian forests. Is forty.
one feet in diameter. ID has been cal. !
culated that the tree msst onea have
bccn nearly 500 feet in height
JAMES SEwALI, i0i, and Mrs Amy
Torrance ~, were married recently
at Laurel Forks, w. Va. Tho children
OF the groom did not object as the old
gentleman had outliyed them all
TEN thousand dollars Is now the high
est recorded price for a violin The
Alard Stradiyarius has passed from
France 20 England FOR tsa: Sun, % &c
into tho collection Of . Scotchman. IL I
L. dated I9l6.
TnERE is plan afoot in New York 70
establish flower market in Union
Square that shall rival the famous mar
kets OF Paris and London. Five hun
dred men 60 to New York every day
with flowers 10 soil.
TnE lady whom Mr. w. O'Brien, the
Irish leader, is about to marry is by race
aud religion n Jewess. She will, before
her marriage, be received into tho =,
Roman Catholic Church. She has an in
come Of $4,000 year
A CoLoRED dentist In Macon uses nc
instruments except his iingers In Elk.
tracing teeth. by means OF long prac-
tice his fingers have become as strongas 1
forccps, and he claims that he can pull
teeth faster and with less pain than any
dentist with Instruments
TnE Queen Dowager Of Portugal on
one occasion brought homo from Paris ,
1000 pair OF shoes. subsequently she
ordered no less than seventy dresses !.
from Worth, TO be delivered together,
which ON their way home were lost at
sea. Her Majesty, no way Disconnected,
sont word to Worth to supply seventy a
duplicates, and these reached Lisbon =
safely. d
THERE has been discovered in convent
at Rasenna, Itaiy, painting by Giotto
containing portrait OF Dante, the only
really authentic portrait OF him known.
1t is decidedly different from tho &C.
cepted idea of the poets locks.
The Cinnamon of Astoria, Ore, are :
auusinU thonselyes with "A huQe ton | =