The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-12-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

News
GENERAL RoBERr T.. LEE's birthday,
January 10, Is now legal holiday in
Virginia
TnE census OF Berlin. Just compiled,
shows that the city has population Of
i,s7s, ass.
FEw people are aware that Prof Sum
nor, Of Yale College, is an Episcopal
Clergyman. FM o.
Bipprrorm POOL Me, Is at prcsen, IN
ssded by troop Of snowy owls from the
Arctic wilds
TnE Car OF Russia is rapidly bocom-
Ing one Of the most lavish art collectors
In tho world.
Mns BrLrA LocKwoop has decided
that sho does not want 20 DO q candidate
Tor President
MRs PLuaR tho vito Of Senator
Plumb, Kansas, has boon an Invalid for
several years
FrAxcis II. tho last King Of Naples
whom Uaribaldi ovorthfew. Is living IN
eNilo In Paris.
TnE Gar has issued an odict forbid.
ding the employment OF Austrian work.
men In Russia
A rrCAS-oRowER Of ST. James Parish,
La, sold some choice nuts this season at
si5 por barrel
LrrrLE kerosene lamps, made ~ At in
ordinary silver candlestlekS arc In do,
mand Tor rich mons tables
A NEW brick machine has been in.
vented that will turn out twenty thou.
sand bricks per day o, ten hours.
Dn ENIIE WIN. PresideRt-eloet OF
the s~is. Confederation. ha. .hslee be-
fore held this Office, in 1873. 1850 and
lSsA a
A 400 with eight well-devolopod fee.
two on each leg--was sold The other
day, at Mexico, Nc, Tor pork. nj 9 cents
q pound
MAron FirLrR OF Philadelphia, gives
all the fees ho receives for performing
the marriage ceremony 10 charitable
purposes
An interesting relic preserved al ST
Helena consists OF two silver hairs that
we're once part OF . lock cut from Ma.
poleon's head. e
IL Paris. whom . funeral Is passing,
persons In Wow Of the procession re.
move their hats and remain uneoversd
until II passes h+'
TnfHE are five Tayiors In tho ncKt
llouso-one from Tennessee. ono from
Illinois, and three from Ohio. They arc
all Republicans
TgE fiFs; spr,s orchard along :Ss ss-
per Ohio Is said 70 have been planted on
Beech bottom on West Virginia side
fow miles above Wheeling.
A DENTIST at Eaton, Mo, pulled n
tooth the other day for man ninety
years old. Who had mover before had
pair OF torceps In his mouth.
SAYS the New York Pruss: Tho win
ter hunting season has opened In Rus
sia The Nihilists are doing the hunt.
Ing and The Car Il doing the lodging"
Miss MAUp llowE, a young woman of
Leith, has immortaliEed herself by
swimming $50 yards Ia two minutes aud
forty seconds, thus breaking tho record.
Inv famous pair OF Seal-brown horses
that drew the Presidential coach whom
tho clevolands were In tho White House,
are nov the property OF Doris, the cirrus
man.
iUsrIcE BnBNER OF the United States
Supreme Court wore long beard whom
he ar-t went TO Washington. but now
appears on the bench with a smooth
face.
NIcE PREsiDESr MoRroS IA said 70
consider presiding over tho senate tho
hardest work he ever did in bis life. u
is a task tina, makes him nervous and
umid
Two Iowa Legislators are. named lam
and Mustard, The PHILADELPHIA Press
suggests thoY enter the service oil King
Kalakaua and rlso 20 eminent positions
in tho sandwich islcA
GHSEHAL LEE once refused 5000, 0OC
and royalty 60 write n southern his
tory Of the war. lie. did not think 81
proper 20 write and publish any thing on
Tho subject during his lifetime. =
a oIRr at Norristown, Pa. STACKED
with tho tootbacho. left the thcater,
and going to neighbcring deDfIst had
tho offending moiar oxua1sod. after
which she returned - see Tie rest Of she
play ~
SENATOR SHERMAN Is Ave feet three
inches tall but no weighs only $50
pounds lie loolls no older than no did
fifteen years age and. though nov six
ty-seven, his hair has just begun TO turn
groy.
OSE o. the most prominent OF the
Americans who have taken fortune at
the food In Mexico is James Sullivan,
AD/ old brooklyn boy Ito has made
nearly 5000, 600 in railroad invest
monts.
A cIFIZss Of Chambersharg. Pa. has
retired TO Jail Tor eighty days or one day
cECt; cu default 9: s!sty-=esea cents
apiece for that many profano oaths ho
sworo while In suiphurous mood some
nights ago
WILLIAM X. VANpERBiIr smokes a
special brand OF cigars which he has
imported from Cuba. Each cigar has
golden band around 1t upon which
is-Mr. Yandoyblt's coat-ot-arms. At
Wholesale In Cuba they cost him rs cents
each.
PRoF. RoRERTs-AusTEN, OF tho Brit
lsh mint estimates that the great smoke
cloud that ovorhangs London, is throo
hundred tons in weight and contains a
carbon and carbonic acid gas OF the
yearly vRluo OF AZ, 900, 900,
THE latest pen. picture OF Prof Koch
describes him as small man, not moro
than . feet inches In hoight but
sturdily built His features arc com
monplace, and there is nothing striking
In hts whole general appearance. His
eyes were once his strong feature, hut
constant use Of tho microscope has
dimmed their brightness and weakened
thor power lie is obliged now to wear
triplex glass OF great power
FoUR eclipses-two of tho sun and two
Of tho moon--will take place In 1891.
Seven Is the largest numbor-hvo OF tho
sun and two OF the moCn-which can oc-
cur In any ono year, and two-both Of
tho sun--is tho smallest
THAT tho fools are not oil dead Is
again shown by the case with which two
persuasive rogues managed TO swindle
THO Easton. Pa, folk. They sold q cakc
of soap for dollar, and promised to de-
liver rubber dOor-mat AS premium.