The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-12-18
Published Every FrIdayby
GEORGE WARREN
Hickman. Kentucky.
or,ce-Jackson Stree, neg, door 70 ov Han
GEORGE WARREN, edltor.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

ILLINOIS now pays q bounty OF two
cents apiece for sparrows' heads
A BRANCH OF the dead-letter office ID
10 b established In San Francisco
The Chinese government Il whipping
her rebels. and killing them as she does
It.
THE only speaker of the house who
ever became president was James X.
Polk.
THK famous Winchester elm, IN Dos.
Ton, recently cut down, was standing
full grown In 1890.
QUEEN VIcromAs granddaughter,
outnumber her msjestys grandsons by
almost three 10 one
Coon SriSo with Roman candles Ia
sncwly invented sport in the mount
aims of Pennsylvania.
THx undergraduates OF Cambridge,
Eng. have taken TO drinking tea after
dsaner instead OF wine.
- WE LscrcN was che sixteenth earl
70 ithis year. Scotland lost two.
freis.d four and England ten.
The Chinese language Ia said 20 be
the test adapted 10 telephone CONVEX.
bs t'NotH' ~ ~ biNbVNN
Tns price Of platinum has advanced
fully 100 per cent, owing to its In.
creased use for electrical purposes
In In said that the new lord mayor
OF London has laid down six hundred
dozen OF wine In the mansion house eel.
lars
A Preach officer In BuIs.on has in.
HentaI n htnR.sn.ta.a al n.
ter the PAGES and ground covered by .
horse.
THE population Of the Cherokee ma
Ton, which has Just sold 0, 900. 900 acres
of land to the government Ia about
80. 600
Az electric pillow has been invented
In Minnesota Horses are dispensed
with and the power supplied by a stor-
age battery.
KEsNEsuSK. Me, claims the young
est grandfather In the state In the per.
son of David Parent who 10 only thir.
ty-s'S years old.
Gov. MERRIAM, OF Minnesota, has
succeeded In rcfunding the debt OF the
state at 81 per cent, saving SIT. 900 .
year In the interest charged
CHICAGO has frontage Of twenty
two miles on Lake Michigan. and .
nsvigahle frontage on the Chicago river
of about twenty-threc miles
TIM Cincinnati Southern has lot q
contract for r. 900 tons OF T5-pound steel
rails 10 be laid on the fourth division.
from oakdale 20 Chattanooga
JKssir BENTON FRTnoNr IL reported
~ being engaged on an important piece
of literary work, which has engrossed
her attention for the last six months
Hon. JAS Il BAKER, of lizard. lately
introduced In the Arkansas legislature
y bill declaring women from filing
/. Positions OF trust and responsibility.
ACCORDING 10 recent statistics there
rc a. 800. 900 women In Germany who
n arm their own living, a greater mum Der
than Ia to he found in any other nation
THE new speaker Of the national
house OF representatives, was born In
Sheffield, Eng ON the 10Th OF January,
Iess, and ia, therefore, nearly ~ years
old.
The New Orleans Picayune reports
that the cotton crop this year has bcen
have reached the port than at the cor
responding date OF 1890.
AT the grand receptions OF President
Csrno, In Paris the president does not
shake hands with the guests. but bows
20 them In a solemn way as their names
are announced "a they pass by.
Rio DE JASERo Il said TO have the
6nest harbor In the world. The en-
trance TO II il lined by strong fortifca'
tionA and vessels can anchor imme-
diatsly at the quays Of the city.
FLORENCE, the actor was near-sightod
and could never recognize any OF his
friends in the seats Of thca,er from
his place ON the stage. lie thought he
could play better for that reason
SENATOR PRocroR, late of the war
department. has long worn full beard.
except that he shaved his upper lip
He In now growing q mustachc. and II
10 said to change his appearance greatly
fIvrr-oNs young American sailors
completed the two years course of
study on the Saratoga the other day.
Her sister school ship at Philadelphia,
the 81 Mary's. will graduate about the
same number
The Empress OF Austria has ordered
that fifty thousand rose trees should be
planted around the statue OF Heine, to
be erected on her property at Corfu ON
rock over two thousand feet above
the level of the sea
TEE body OF Gambetta IL In Nice.
His brain Is IN the museum Of the Paris
Antbropolpgicsl society His heart has
Just been deposited beneath the monu-
mcnt erected to his memory mt VILE
d'Avray. where he died
A NOVEL wager 10 to be decided In
Belfast. Me, where one man has bet
e. that no one can drive apig a mile
without the porker turning 10 see who
IL driving, and another man has risked
hig dignity and Is to prove the con-
trary
PARNKIL's widow claims as her pea
sonal property sl77, 800, now locked NJ
In Paris This was all sent from
America for the relief OF the suffering
Irish, and the late Mr.. Parnell succeed.
ed In preventing IL from reaching liza
destination.
Two fishermen at Isle au Haut, Me-,
recently captured devil fish which
measured four and a half feet In length
and twenty-threc inches across the
back and weighed over 100 pounds. The
creature fought furiously and would
have been more than a match for one
man
GEORGE JAYsEs, OF Gainesville, No
Is q rattlesnake farmer in large way
of business, having about TO- 900 Of the
reptiles in stock. lie keeps the pests
for the sake of the oil which he gets
out of them when they are fattened
and killed, and he slaughters about
1000 OF them every season. Their oil
y worth one dollar n pint
A CERTAIN country parson in Eng
land has written 1873 900 begging let.
ters His W fe has written II 900 more,
and his children a few thousand be-
sides. About one person in fifty writ
ten to responded, one TO the extent OF
$4,000