The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-08-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

real estate hrm In Dakota.
TURKISH women eat rose Leaves with
buttor 10 secure plumpness.
SOUTH AMERICA Is getting ahead OF
Europe In war cloud displays.
THE washorwomon OF a Massachu-
sets town are going TO strike.
BIO herd OF camels has been seen on
the plains near Harrisburg, Cal
BoArLoAp OF 400 tons 81 leo has
gono 10 the bottom Of Lake Michigan.
TUE tickets Tor Mr. Stanley's frat
lecture IN Now YorE will cost s. each.
GRrAr swarms Of grasshoppcrs are
playing havoc with the crops In Ccors
gia.
MRs. CLEvELASD's collection Of dia-
monds Is estimated 10 bo worth AZ least
$50, coo
r"H Empres. Engenle Is on tour
through Norway She travels .ss a
FARious American summer hotel.
have added dark rooms for amateur pho.
tographcrs.
pscoNsoLArr Ohio swain set fire. 20
his house because tho girl ho wanted
would not marry him.
joins DILLON tells OF an Irish peasant
who was fined Ave shillings for calling
his donkey "Balfour"
THE cultivation OF tobacco has boon
forbidden In Egypt and the d0ty upon
the imported article raised.
IT Is reported that the scheme 10 coli
onife Swedish immigrants on tho vacant
farms In Vermont has failed
A naTF g. l.fu
which Pos-"~srs the faculty OF writing
logible letters and sentences
nscmNE has boon invented for
drilling square, ohlone or hoNigonal
holes heretofore found impossible
THH Czar Of Russia indulgos his
Tes.s.a! pleasures Ne (. s.ill ecllae-
Tor OF postage stamps and birds eggs
EiEyES thousand aclia-s =as,h o,
revenue stamps have boon stolen from
the revenue oGlco In tho City Of Mexico.
rouNo woman 81 Hutchinson. Kan,
T. learning the work % an undortakcr
with view Of adopting n as n protos.
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II Is said that a bot Of $500. 600 lost hv
tho Marquis Of Hastings Is the heaviest
wager over lost on the result Of a horse. |
race.
Tpr census-takors have learned that |
the population ~ Rhode Island has In. /
creased about 81. Tgt during tho past do. |
cado
r:;=.= are =a-- .h--e fer,.ie DENTIST j
In New York all OF whom are
thoroughly qualified TO practice the pro.
fcssion.
Qrni rrigns occssionAlly in oklaho.
ma. and that sooms 20 b. about all tho
rain thov have had thcre for four
months
TIM newt birthday % Count Won
Moltko will be- kept as national holi.
day in Germany lle was born October
%. $500
SoUrH CAROLINA paper contains an
advertisement for bids from undrrtakors
who will agree 20 conduct funerals rev
crentlv"
TWENTY-FIVE railroads entering Chi.
eago use 100 miles Of track and monop-
oliEo 1000 acres Of ground within the
city limits
GENERAL MAHoVr Is dropping out 81
politics into speculation. He Is invest.
Ing heavily In mining lands In Tazewoll
County, Va
4 CHAutorrr ~ O. clergyman wears
undoubtedly the largest shoes in this
country The size is ~ and each shoe Is
,Oxs inches
wAItA WAtLA. Wash. has three ma.
i've born Cinnamon who will vote NJ tho
Io1t election. Wash Is great state ,
Ior Cinnamon.
URANIUM IL now classcd among the
arc metals; on account Of its electrical
assistance 10 is likely 10 10 used in clcc-
rical insulation
" you wish your silk pocket handler .
hiois 10 remain all the year round az
'ood az new wash Thorn in salt and water
'oforo using Thorn
MISS LAURA EGAN, OF Jersey City.
vas bitten by "thousand.l legged
sorm," and died few days later from ,
he effects OF the bite.
TuE expense OF tho crpisor Philadel- I
his IN tho recent trial ,rip ~as nesrly /,
hrco thousand dollars day. A nAvyis +
n expensive necessity. ,
TIM tolling Of bells az funerals isa e
ellie of the earliest ages, and originated s
n tho Pagan idea that the sound 81 bells
frightened away evil spirits
Mn J. !. CRAvFNs is the wheat king
: California Ills possessions are in 4
'ulare County. and this year he will {
Arrest ~, 900 bushels Of wheat J
A PARROT, owned by Kansas City .
arber. hangs Ia a cage In front OF the C
Establishment and occasionally advises
assers-hy 20 got their hair cut
STATISTICS compiled by tho factory
ispcctor of BADEN show that the rate $
mortality among the children Of ci- e.
ar-makers Is as high as - PER cent u
Colonel CADET WHITAKER has turn. y
4 his opportunities at West Point 10
all advantage, lie Is teaching az a col.
rcd military college az sumter, = c.
LATE crop reports from Europe con- :.
im the previous predictions 81 gen- :,
-Al short wheat crop la England aud
rance and bad potato crop in reland.
A GENTLEMAN who drew out his pipe
" an after-dnnor smoke in the Grand
otel, Paris, was immed iatoly told that IL
10 rules OF the house did not allow @,
pes. n
SENATOR PLUMB OF Kansas sub.
'ribos to 200 newspapers, and Is said 90
'ad them as carefully as he does his
tiers. In this way ho keeps thorough al
posted on tho politics Of his State. fl'
WHILE waiting for the train at Mount fe
retna, Pa, recently President Harri-
m took of his coat and stepped on the
alas. lilo tipped the beam at 1893 -
FUNDS, being the heaviest Inan in the !,
,rty RI
A MASS OF pure, compact rock salt, I'll
I'D 10 contain 90, 900, 900 cons Of tho
neral, is located on an island 1855 feet
gh which rises from sea marsh on n,
10 route from Brashcar 90 New iberia, IN
} the river Techo, in Louisiana. do
A DocTORs club is 10 DC established
Oshkosh, Wis Tlsre will be meet.
gs at stated intervals FOR the discuss
n OF medical questions, and club az
,use will bo built Whoro the members mt
n come together informally and meet bo
oh other socially. po
Ar Atlanta, Ga, man on his wa an
,mo saw dog running toward him sit
rough the darlposs at full speed
lrmising that tho dog was mad, the
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