The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1891-02-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

swamps Of New Jersey.
skIItr-DANcER's costume contains
nearly 100 yards Of material
GERMAN hostility To American pork
seems 90 be insurinountable.
AN academy for scientific travellers
IL to I've established In Genoa.
MR PARNELL contradicts the report
mat he Intended 20 visit America
MASSACHUSETTS last year expended
S'2so'Ooo for educational purposes.
CHARITABLE lady has presented a
brand new graveyard 10 jefferson City,
Mo.
T.k newest ball L--lics il noth..s ,,.;
TWO bits of shoulder tape and a waist
band
bishop BowMAS, Of ST Louis. ha,
passed more than nifty years In church
work
LORD SALISBURY In said 10 work four.
teen hours day, writing and reading
dispatches
AN English writer speaks Of Oklahu-
ma IA 'surroundcd by the Great Amer
can desert"
rwELvn-Ys sR-oI.p boy Of Dcarborn
,"unty, Ind, has feet which are fifteen
inches long
IT cost he corporation OF Glasgow
si''o u bestow the freedom Of the city
upon stanley.
NAHAsArE, the yiolinist, has pockct.d
$4,000 ~ the net prof, ~ a two mon,lA'
tour In England
TN largest olive oil factor, In the
world viii soun hc built ut Loo Guilicos.
Ia sonoma County. Cal.
thi IS going into the cultivation Of
tohacco "a iargc scale. aud under t,uv. |
'rhineht encouragement
I"E sea serpent IA, appeared IN
river near Knoxville. Tenn aud has
ei~t 10 dcvOur two mou
Tux proprietor Of "a Phladclphi.
cigar store has posted q sign in hi.
place t;.-,.,,!!:i.;;...!::- ss.a!.!:.:-
ctrsrKR Of fine ferns frozen in IN,
hrsrs of a BLOCK OF ice iccKcd n rhiia.
delphiA dinner table lately.
a RUSSIAN paper SAYS that Siberian
cSilcs are clothed. lodged and fed ho,.
Ter Than German soldiers arr
Foes In London have !s,.,y h..sn
THICKER and blacker than for wears.
and gas Is frequently lighted a, mid
day.
At dinner given in New York the
other night To thirty-thrcc persons the
hih was $500. or just about 500
plate
FHk largest county In the United
stats II Ii said, il Custer County. OF
Montana which contains ~. 900 souar,
miles
tnAhLrs NItIERs, the oldest member ,
az the House 81 Commons. has q record ,
~ diner-out extending over sixty {
years
SuFTIELp tCt man IL taking sleigh. ,
rides this winter in u sleigh which was 4
owned 100 year, ago by his great grand. c
father. !
A rRorrssoss' strike Ia In progress a, {
bucharest IL In not ~ painful as tho q
srise ~ an culinary district-schuol
master.
s,sAroH seuIHE, Of Washington. has
an income ~ $1,000 month lie
owns great deal 81 rial estate i'm
seattle y
TnHEE-FouErHs Of the letters that are
rceetyed a, the Worlds Fair headauar- -
ters arr from persons who wan, c,n. :,
ployncnt
MI Of the Chinese Of Milton. Ore.
were drivcp ont 81 town with ropcs
HIound their necks by white mob the
other day
ThK road from Jaffa 20 Jerusalem n
will he completed next year. Tarsus, o
NJ Pauls town, has had railroad for n
several years. a
SrrRGss Mich, burglar caused the ie
p""'Ponement q n wedding recently 10y q
stealing the wedding trousers Of the fc
groom. p
Mas. r. oDrrrY, n Young woman
about twenty years old. is one Of the
largest importers Of and dealers in ~
''iAd animals In this country Al
IN the German Empire, for tho year $500 II
The consumption 81 beer was 100 $40 h,
quarts Tor every man. woman and child of
m 1850 II was only 81 9-i0 quarts lc
CARLOAD 81 maple sugar was re- "a
cived NJ 81 Joseph, Mo, the other day
rom Canada. II contained 20. 40
Wounds and was valued NJ u, lsolS =
~ there were truth in German ofl!ai.! =,
tatcmcnts about American pork large :.
'-rc~"tage If the people II the United -
'iatcs would be victims of trichino.iS. ~,
Ia NIDSER Of California, who has 80,
wed among the Indians for thirty b..
ears, says that nc white man can hopo
equal them In physical development. Ii,
TuE English telephone patent. have
Npired, and the monopoly there has &c
ome tn an end The Bell patents in IN
his country have still three years 90 st'
nm. Ia
EMPEROR WILLIAM owns an estate in wa
'orway and recently let contract for ne
ne erection OF n hunting lodge and fine roc
Has on II. The Norwegians expect
i'm u visit every year.
TIM late Historian Bancroft, snys Ho
ISIS Munford, who was nj one time his pr,
used 10 reply 10y letter TO cas-
very one of the kilograms and letters Tor
iat poured In upon him at every birth $40
~ ers
scHLIEMASN, the Pail Mall Gazette pa
ates, died while eight doctors, all
aiding authorities, were considering q
bout the question Of trcpanning" 20 re. NM,
Eve him Of the trouble which caused nri,
= doath
FAIR HAVEN, In the New State of 4,
ashington, in September, 1889, had
'pulation Of 1870, and in December, 4
30, of 5000, with buildings worthy of sns
city ten times its size. bcz
FRENCH army authorities are discus Co,
ng the question of replacing the lance lie
Ith bsyonets ON the carbincs Of the lost
valry, 80 that when the foe is brought CHI
wn he may be relieved Of his misery
"a thrust -,
Mrs. WM. NORRIS, wife Of the Lon
n artist, poet and Socialist, is said to 49,.
the most beautiful woman in the VIZ"
1rld She goes ont hut little, and is
rely seen by the multitude who visit 81
r husband. GOV,
A CURIOUS scarfpin worn by Nash
lie man Is petrified human eye set In
gold frame. The present owner of ~
Is singular ornament found 1t In Peru ung
lille he was on an exploring tour in the Wn'
id Of the Incas with party of scien- oSr'
b. me
CASH in New York In which fam. ,nf
barely escaped suffocation with W"
), in which IL seems 10 be question