The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-04-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

ably be In operation nt the Worlds fair.
TnE emperor Of China has ten men
whose sole duty Is 10 carry his um-
trclla.
TuE most expert woman conductor Of
Davies.
TnE palace at Versailles, France,
which Louis XIV. built, cost $780,
000, 900.
ONr.HALF OF the paper used in the
United States Is manufactured az llol-
yoke. Mass.
SECRETARY RUsR proposes To have o
plantation Of rubber trees in tho ever
glhdes Of Florida.
TuE fastest ship nnoat Is the CITY Of
rckin owned by the Pacific Mail Co.
She cost o. ,ooo. 900.
ON an average there are iO6 boys born
90 every 100 girls, but more boys die In
infancy than girls.
II. Ia estimated. chs, '4&i.~sst sesa0e
horses were ousted from Nr.ct car scrv-
Ice last year 10y electricity
JAY GoILD's unmarried daughter
Helen, has now three lowers who are In.
mates Of the insane asylum.
fRrSCn reporters now take notes at
night by the light % tiny incandcsccnt
lamp attached To the pencil.
RECENT data places the population Of
the globe at ,ts0, 600, 900 souls, the land
AREA at 81, SCI 200 square miles.
In 1855 a tame elephant could bc
bought In India for s225; now their
prices range from $3.50 TO 5000.
TnE sole personal effects of a man
who died in Auburn, Me, recently,
were a Bible and a pack Of cards.
An English doctor has traced the In
huen1n In many cases TO infected post
age stamps on letters from diseased per
sons.
A FAMILY now living at Helena,
Mont, possesses bones NJ brittle that
they are broken by the most trivial acci-
dents
NINE young men are about To walk
from Americas. Ca, ~ Chicago, III,
distance Of 1000 miles by road, ON =
wager.
TRrnE il brisk trad<& second hand
tombstonrs In London. Still stranger IS
the custom Of selling family vaults part.
~ filed
DELIVERY wagons, the motive power
81 which l. electricity. are the newest
vehicles in London A grcen-grocer had
the first
AiInINiM water bottles in the Ger
man army have failed on account ~ cor
rosion. They would stand water. but
not brandy.
AFTER a search Of thir,y-nine years a
son found his father In the Allegheny
mountains. in New York, living the life
Of hermit
THr anti-slavery societies Of Earope
arr 10 make an exhibition at the Chi
cago fair Of all the instruments used by
slave captors.
A stREIr letter box, charged with
electricity from crossed wires. gave a
severe shock to = Pittsburgh letter car.
ricr recently.
TIM latest discovery In dentistry is
that new teeth may be grated on old
roots and made 20 grow as finely as the
natural teeth
TIN Italians invented the term influ.
enaa in the ssvcnteeth century, and at.
tributcd the disease u the influence OF
certain planets.
:. r. PARK, Of Mexico, Mo. has what
Is said 10 he the Till Of sale of Eliza,
one Of the principal characters IN
Uncle Toms Cabin"
SENATOR NooRHEIs, oi Indiana, will
deliver the Grafton at the formal open.
ing of the new steel bridge over the
Mississippi at Memphis. May ~.
Ex-SPEAkLR RfEp has enc of the
largest mails that come 10 the capitol
Every morning an enormous batch OF
letters and papers covers his desk.
A NEW NoHK scholar in tailoring has
enriched the English language with the
word pan,orium, which signifies place
where pants are pressed for hire.
TBE conductors on two lines OF street
railway in New York have been notified
that they must wear white shirts, linen
collars and white ties while on duty.
THE majority of the white haclmcn
Of Washington, ID. c., says the Post Of
that city, refuse to carry a negro, but
all make Fred Douglass an exception.
A LARGE cave was recently discov-
cred in Montana which contained the
bones OF hundreds OF animals that had
fallen into II and were unable 10 es-
cape.
THE Rothschild family, OF Europe,
says Herr Flurscheim, the German econ
omist, Is estimated 10 be worth 81 ,OOO,-
Oo0. 200, and their income TO be ESQ.,
900, 600
THERr is a Whirlpool in the Sante Fe
river. three miles northwest of High
Springs, Fla, into which 900 feet of
line has been lowered without finding
bottom.
In about eight out Of ten cases of d.
vorce In the United States IL is. from
statistics OF the past twenty years,
found to be the wife who asks for the
separation.
Ill. recently, Mrs. Mary Willard, the
venerable mother of Miss Frances l..
Willard. cast her first vote, at the ripe
age OF 10 years.
A MAN has been arrested at Bedford,
Pa, for sitting under the window Of his
divorced wife in the small hours of the
night and playing Home, Sweet Home"
ON q French harp.
THE last male heir of Pulaski, the |
Pole who aided the patri- |
OTIS OF the revolution, lives in Savannah,
Ga. where he earns u scanty living |
peddling small wares.
THE cofYcc crop of Brazil has been so |
large that the railroads of one blocked,
every available car being in service,
freight depots being crowded and fur
Their receipts Of coffee being declined.
KANSAS CITY man has mania for |
killing rats. lie sallies out at night |
with terriers and engages in the work
with much enjoyment. llesays he win |
not stop until he has killed 100000 ro-
dents.
EsoIIsH parlor maids wear distinct
livery. This consists usually of plain
long black or dark wooden skirt, q
loose, open jacket of the same material,
and either white vest with gilt or
buttons or vest made Of
livery stripes. With this are worn cap