The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-05-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

DR kocn's remedy Is rapidly disap-
pearing from public notice.
RoaE Is said 20 be growing faster
than any other European city.
TIiE tack concerns have combined.
Jbe point Is for the consumer,
In IN proposed TO establish a mail ser.
vice on the street cars In 81 Louis.
A CARGO of over 800 half-bred horses /
has been sent 20 England from the Ar |
iscntine Republic.
STANLEY left New York the other /
day with siio, 600 I'm his pocket, the pro /
ceeds OF his lecture tour.
TALMA0E has shaved of his side
burns He says his face Is fattcr now.
and 10 he don. need them.
Two-cBisr diet kitchen Is 20 te cs-
tablished In New York. Pies and
dougbputs will not be In H.
TWsRE are IN New York between
7o.oV0 and $4,000 Italians, less than one
eighth OF whom are women.
or.the twonty Thousand hills intro
.duccd during the recent session OF con-
gress but 9. is5 became laws
TIM assurance Is sent over from Italy
that Americans can travel anywhere In
Tint country In perfect safety.
TUk gold deposit recently discovered
at birmingham, Ct, turns out 10 have
been simply FOOLS gold, iron pyrites.
Gov. HoGo, OF Texas, named one Of his
daughters lima llogg. Her reproach 10
her father must be you're another"
OK dark nights white light can be-
scen farther than any other color; ON
bright nights red takes tho first place.
TnE fire loss for the first three months
OF this year aggregates SIS, IeJ, o5s, and
for the first two weeks of April %. 435.-
sIA
The southern output of iron hAs Ia.
creased from a little over quarter OF n
million tons in 1850 to over two million
IN 1890.
AFTER recent rain storm at Folsom,
Cal, gold nuggets were picked up In the
streets lucky boy found one that he
sold FOR So
IHrRE is pig AT Junction City, Kan,
which weighs |, 532 pounds IL Is be-
heved TO be the largest hog in the world
ON four feet
A PrrrsBuReH justice has handed
down the important decision that a man
can not kiss his female typewriter with
out her consent
TnE little republic Of Uruguay Is said
60 have more newspapers In proportion
20 the population than any other coun-
try In tho world
A wNLiiNGroN. kan. couple. who
were married In two weeks after they
met. were separated in two weeks after
tbry were married
THE news that the last mail 10 Brazil
weighed nearly four tons furnishes a
measure of our increasing trade rela-
lions with that country.
HEREAFTEH each individual piece of
chinawnre imported into the United
States must DO marked with the name
Of tae country Of origin.
ANDREW CAKNrom was once n mes
.engor boy. IL l. said tina, Mr.. Carne-
gle owns twelve or fifteen weekly pa
pcrs in different parts Of England
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD says the misado
Of Japan Is always obliged 60 walk
alone in public, his arm being consid.
ered too sacred for even the empress 10
take.
Mas. MARY LOWELL OF New York, a
practical electrician. has invented a
continuance by which she is enabled n
light her kitchen fire from her bed.
room
A BILL has been reported Ia the New
York legislature which has for its pur-
pose the annexation to New York OF
all the outlying towns, brooklyn In
cluded.
TnE Galveston News SAYS: After
throwing that last brick at Budiui MIR
Blaine stole OF into the deep, um
bragcCus woods OF Maryland ano
smiled"
LOCOMOTIVE engineers In Panama
earn s1a5 n week IL IL difficult 10 oh
tain them at that salary, for the Pana
ma climate is worse In its effects thar
two collisions.
Tnr cells OF the human lungs are as,
100000 ia number, covering surface
from two and half to three time
greater than the whole body surface
81 ten full-grown men.
LrvIrmNz, n young Omaha lndiaI
attending the Carlisle Indian school
has been examined by the Carlisle
Prcsbytcry as student for the minis
try and passed a creditable examina
ton
NINErY-FTyE per cent Of all the run
made In the world Is the product o
seven dis,illcries In and around Boston
They are all old establishments, som
OF them running back {" inc old col,
NAL days.
HAMMER and needle parties are tn
latest fads In country towns in Indians
Gentlemen are put 10 work sewing q
huttons and the ladies at driving nails
and prizes are given 10 the most SUE
cessful workers.
THOSE Italian newspapers that hav
been barred out Of the mails bccaus
they contain lottery advertisement
tine same as our own journals, have
new ground Of complaint against tn
laws Of this country.
DIR. CHAs +. HrusER. an eccentri
physician Of Baltimore, who died n
Gently made provision in his will for
number Of silver walls which were
be distributed among friends after the
had been filed with ashes from his cr'
mated body.
1T Is estimated that there are full
5000 families who live in shanty boat
along the Ohio river, floating alon
from town 10 town, and feeling as hal
py MS though they owned the earth.
ACCORDING 10 the calculation based G
the dust collected by small quanti'
Of snow in London in one month, II
estimated that one hundred tons OF so'
settle monthly on the 10 square mill
OF the worlds metropolis
BRAZIL seems, for the time, to ha'
disappointed its enemies and settle
down TO a respectable and quiet exis
ence. 1t now has u regular constit
ton and president and Is praisworti
example of good behavior.
Mrs. CATHARIsE SHARP of Philad'
phia, is now In her ii4th year, and h
daughter rs years OF age. The o
lady is in good health, and expects to IL
several years yet. She attributes h
longevity TO the fact that she ''nev
worried about anything
A CERTAIN Harlem merchants late