The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-03-11
me HICKMAN COURIER.
dybIIshsd Every Friday By
RGE WARREN,
ome.-Jsefsan. Kentucky.
.-.~.s. neg, door 70 Uu Hail.
GEORGE
lREN, Editor.
Price or SubsG =. -
CURRENT FOX.

hhfhicAss are now buying damon
h the rate OF $4,000. 600 a year
1T Is said that when victofleo snrd,
laughs he Ii the uglicst man In PAL.
IN australia no newspapers are pu
i'shed or railroad trains run ON su
day v" o"
AN Albino lobster was capturea =,
Gently In the Atlantic off Eas,nor
Maine. 'P''
ROCK, hog butchered the 9th,
aay az fardville. N. j.. weighed o.
TREASURY officials deny that Enylap
mas agreed to participate In a mone,ar
conference.
A GIRL burglar, six ye,r. ola 49,.
,sp,ured Mt work the other night a
Milford, Mass
muspnEDs OF imported song bird,
n.as .sIns1 o io'>s fs~- naxs- ana ma.
A PnmApELrmA ragman found Z
Greek grammar ao5 years old In an ash
barrel recently
A RAILWAY In the Argentine Repub.
lilo has ono stretch Of 2ii miles without
curve or bridge.
fiFrY-oSE metals are now known 10
exist Four hundred years ago only
seven were known.
cRnMArnD body leaves rcsidium OF
only eight ounces; all besides Is restored
20 the gaseous elements
WALKING sticks. 10 be fashions able,
should show little or no metal The
natural sticks are preferred.
TnE theaters Of London are now
fumigated after each performance 10
prevent the spread Of the grip
A PHILADELPHIA saloon has . sign In
tho window which readH "a bi-chior.
ide-of-gold sandwich with every drink. &"
MOUNTAIN in Australia was named
after Mr.. Gladstone last year Another
has now been named Mount Sails.
bury.
Tnr only really happy monarch In
Europe jus, now Is the king Of SPAN.
and he Ia not old enough 10 know any
better.
In proportion 20 It's population New
Hampshire stands first among oil the
states in the amount OF its savings bank
deposits.
A BLIND black eel WAS found In a
pord in Maine recently and sent to the
United States fish commission a. a
curiosity.
TnE new German army tent Is divisl.
bio into two portions each Of which
can 10 converted into an overcoat in
case % rain
MEXICO will enforce tho collection of
an export duty on ores. In order 10 in
ducc the establishment, Of smelters in
that country
WITHIN I've years electricity has revo-
lu,ioniEed the welding OF metals and
chespened the production OF aluminium
over 10 per cent
PRoY. wN. McApAss. Of Alton. Ill,
dug mp bundle OF fossiliEed vegetation
which he estimates had been buried
nearly :. 900 years
1riKs VrEsE predicts the invention
OF ''telephotc." that win enable PEG.
pie at the distance OF thousands OF
miles to see one another
RErRrsESrArIvR CooswRri. Of Mas.
sashusetts, has introduced . bill ~ ga
tabiish a national sanitarium Tor tho
treatment Of consumption.
In the Old Testament Although great
numbers OF women are mentioned,
there il but one-sayah. Abraham's
wifc-whose age IL recorded
GeS. O. q HowARp Is preparing 10
write life of President Zachary Tay.
Tor, and has been st work for nearly a
year gathering material therefor.
A SISTER OF Cardinal Manning, MrA
Austen. has survived him. and. al
though over NINETY years OF age. she ia
still active in charitable ind benevolent
work.
J. H. JOHNSON, Of Blakely, MINI,
advises farmers TO build their own
They can then get ala
bushcl for their own wheat says Mr.
Johnson
NEW diamond il being cut In Ant
werp said 10 DO the largest ever found
In Africa II weighs 400 carats, and
when IL is finished II will DO reduced
onc.half
RECENT pamphlet on the railways
Of London states that there are $50
railway stations within q six-mile ra.
illus OF St Paurs cathedral, and SOL
within atwelve.mile radius of the same
center.
Two hundred and fifty electric rail
ways are running In tho United States
2,o2+ miles Of track and Q, SO
motor cars. with i74.$ S6 horse. power.
These railways represent a value OF
over sio, 900. ooo
KNOWLEDGE Is power-likewise money.
\ French economist has been charged
n the chamber Of deputies at Athens
With receiving enormous pay from a
french syndicate for his services in ef.
orts TO depreciate Greek bonds.
In was the Chinese who invented the
plan OF capturing ducks
nd other waterfowl by wading toward {
hem with n basket over the head and
Raging them under water before they
new what had caught them by the
cgs
The election board at Neville, Pa,
4 a recent election ruled that a legal !
otter must be twenty.one years and
hirty days old. which shut out q young {
nan who was but fourteen days past ,
Is twenty-first birthday. No explana-
ion is offered.
SENATOR PErTIoREw's first home in
outh Dakota was q rough log hut
which he built with his own hand, at
ioux City, when he went out there as /.
laborer to United States deputy sur
cyor. nearly twenty-five years ago
AMONG the recent innovations In Der.
n 10 n matrimonial clubhouse. II is J
large, roomy building. divided into =
overall apartments, In one of which
ortraits Of each woman subscriber arc .
with full descriptions of her :
&c, talents, fortune. color of hair, :
yes, etc, size OF hands and feet, and u
eneral contour. There 10 also brief =
ccount Of her life. whether widow or ,,
pinster "
THE story comes from Benson, MINI,
rat Bertha Carnahan, OF that place 10
, marry Samuel Kahn, better known
} Mai Atom" Bertha is 90 Year, p
ID and as inches In height and weighs u
} pounds The "Major" Is 10 years a
ID, SO inches high and weighs 90 "
ounds
A MISSISSIPPI man who has counted :,
le number Of seeds In u bushel of va
Gus grains found that corn went H..