The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-07-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
LOUISIANA has a mountain Of AL.

In London.
ETERNAL vigilance is tho price Of an
honest census.
TnERe arc six thousand Italians in
New York City.
JAY Could wears no jcwolry except
asmai gold shirt stud.
A MINNEAPOLIS enumorator never
goes 10 ST. Paul any moro.
a MINNESOTA man blew out tho gas IN
an Omaha hotel and is no moro.
THE dark blue straw hat for mon IL
one OF the novelties In head gear.
The Now York Central railroad has
twenty-six female station agents.
SncRrrARy RusK has Just coielratsl
his sixticth birthday anniversary. -
Acc.r, hrsca. ara ~ s.ss.s:s s..ns.
King, receives salary OF $50 600 year.
Tur coumoB rldrr sssh % s<e A .l....
tic States bcconufss trcs In fs.afernin.
NJ. LOUIS claims TO manufacture moro
wagons than any other city In the coun.
Try.
A COUPLE Of drops OF campbor on tho
toothbrush will give the mouth clean,
sweet taste.
81. PAUL and Minneapolis AFRO eharg.
Ing each othor with fraud In the taking
Of the census
FRANCE ~ rewarded with territory
along the Amazon for recognizing tho
brazilian republic
EN0LAND and Gormany and Henry NJ
stanley are happy ovor the new parti.
ton Of East Africa.
A. ;. ALoE, who di9d recently In So
Louis. was with tho FIRST Napoleon whom
he entered Holland
THE Government mailbag repair-shop
at Washington givos employment 10 1856
persons OF both sexcA
THr proposition 10 give Now York
CITY an enormous public bath.houso Is
rapidly taking shape.
Mrs. ALICE Shaw has signed a con-
tract 10 20 10 81 Petersburg and whistle
Tor the Gar and mobiles
srIFF DosoNED, standing collarcd
shirts for women are having a revival %
popularity this summer
A cESsUs onumorator discovered a
family OF ten children In San Francisco
who were all olub-footod.
1nK Wisconsin Supreme Court de-
elaros all the methods Of a Chicago debt
collecting association libolouA
ST LOUIS has one-lcggod burglar
who hops around among the slumberlng
night police As lively as a cricket
HAMILTON GRAY. Of Gray's Hlll. Roano
county, Tenn, has heen postmaster Of
that place continuously over since ls1S
TuE Government history Of tho war
ean not be completed Tor az least ton
years yet !, will cost sig, 600 volume.
AnAN, who claims 10 he tho original
Jack the Ripper, Ia writing threaten
ing letters 20 various people in New
York.
The United States Supreme Court IL
10 be asked 20 decide whether or not the
waters OF Lake Minnstonka are high
saas
THERF arc two hundred and atty
thousand self-supportlng women. oxcin.
slve Of those in domestic service. in Now
York City.
FRANKiIN Pa, has child who sleeps
every other three days Tho case bat-
nes the physicians. The child is in per
foct health.
Mira GROVER CIEVELAND's inherit
anco from tho real estate Of her grand.
father at Omaha Is said 10 be- ono-slx.
teenth Of SsoO.OO0
A SEw electric brake, recently exper-
imented with IN England, stopped car
travelling AZ rate - thirty miles an
hour, in two hundred feet
A REBELLION has broken out Ia North
ern Slam as the result Of oppressive tax
alton by tho King, " DO Is one OF the
wealthiest monsrchs 10 the world
THH summer rush co Europe has ar-
parently reached its height. Steamers
ioft Now York the other daY. Carrying
nearly 5000 arst c1ass passengers.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayrcs says
that revolutionary agitation has started
IN the Entire Rios, a province In tho Ar
gentino Republic. and is increasing.
SENATOR ilFAHsf. who has already
spent sl7o.eoo on his seventy .room house
at Washington, says that forty years
ago he was a farm hand and slept in an
attic.
Two mon az Peculiar. No, ruined the
postmaster's business by selling stamps
~ loss than cost and by collecting tho
peoples mail and putting IL directly on
the trains
TnK now railroad bridge across tho
Hudson will have span OF 2,s50 feet.
with an extreme length, anchoragos in
cluded, OF 6, 800 feet, that OF tho Brook.
Ign bridge being 3, 700 feet
AN ex.mombcr from Iowa took q seat
on tho floor OF the House, the other day
He thought he was going to hit a chair.
but he missed II 10y couple OF inches
and won't all the way down.
THE fat women of Harper. Kas, hold |
n picnic recently In . grove three miles ]
east OF tho city Llght.wolghts were
barred. aud no woman was admitted 1
who didn't weigh 200 pounds
BKN THOMPSON. city marshal OF Aus !
tin, Tex, who was killed In q hand-to-
hand encounter with Kinghshcr In
theater In San Antonio, had the terrible |
record OF having killed thirteen white |
men and over twice that many Mexicans |
and Indians.
Theirs are two hundred and eight |
clubs in the city Of New York, and very |
fow have less than two hundred names |
on their rolls. Some arc purely social, |
while others mix politics or religion
or literature or athletics with socia.
bility.
JOHN II. LESTER, OF the Henry Coun-
~ (Georgis) poor-house, claims to be
lss years of age; also, that he was three
times wounded In the Revolutionary
war and fought under Jackson in 1919.
RBv CHARLES II. SruRoxoN inherited
. large sum Of money little while ago
from an admircr in an English midland
town. but distributed the whole amount
among tho poor relatives OF tho testator
ONE OF the few remaining picturesque
figures of war times is General pleasan.
ton, who can bo seen nearly every day
strolling down Chestnut Streot Phila-
delphia, wearing sombrero hat 10
which he has chung for score OF years
A LETTER, recommending the bearer
rs an honest sober, truthful and indus.
trious young man, was found In the
pocket OF young follow arrested The