The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-09-30
the HICKMAN COURIER.
Published Every Friday By
GEORGE WARREN
H!ck imam. Kentucky.
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GEORGE WARREN, Editor.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

10 I've living In France.
EVERY fifth hoy In India Is at school,
but only every fifteenth girl
TuE average number Of persons quar-
tered In the houses OF Berlin Is fifty.
Gronar WILLIAM CURTIS bcqueathed
his estate, valued at t60, 900, TO his wife.
ir cost over t2OO recently In legal
fees In south Carolina to settle claim
Of g.
A CHICAGO man has sued his doctor
for eco, ooo for breaking the drum Of
his ear.
TnKHk is pumpkin vine in North
Topeka sixty feet In length aud stu
growing.
Tnr democratic whcclmcn Of Nashua,
n. H., have formed q bicycle campaign
company.
TmE largest pyramid in Egypt has by
late measurement been proven To DO
s8s feet high. sr-..
A Nxw ycnk soctuy swsmsn siSs<u(
album WITH Photography OF all her cos
tunes for ten years past
Tlin New Jersey court OF chanecry
has decided that oysters are not real cs-
tate. but personal property
THK cost Of a onc-nan sea diving APP
paratus for a dcpth 81 200 feet Is csti-
mated only 10 be about ass.
TnK titles Of the writingsof Mr. Glad
stonc an twenty-five pages Of the Brit
ish museums printed catalogue.
Al the castle Of Simonet,a. Italy.
there Is m angle in the building which
rc-echoos pistol shot sixty.one times,
\ tArGE nfo insurance company Of
Sew York offered the state authorities
60. 600 10 aid in keeping out the cholera
l>piA rubber irces grow Wild all over
Lee county, fla. AZ Fort Myers they
re the chief shade and ornamental
trees
\ LARGE police force is required 10
Keep visitors from despoiling Mhit'icr's
grave. ~ great is the desire 20 procure
mcmcntov>
THrUr are pear trees growing about
Monroe. Mich. which were planted 10y
the frat French missionaries nearly 200
year, agn
4 NAN 100 year old has just been
committed TO prison for three months
IN Russia for petty theft II was his
first ofcnsc
TnrRr are still fourteen different
places ON this globe where cannibalism
j. praciiced but the custom Is gradu-
ally dying out
TnE cars personal expenses are CO.
O00. OoO year. which Is o.. eco 600 more
than Bussias annual appropriation Tor
common schools
THH Ruumanian crown Ia ma,ic OF
metal FROM the cannon that we're capt
urcd from the Turks Ny the Roumanians
At Ilcvna In 1871.
Tmr cmpr,ss Of China carries with
her 5000 dresses when she travels.
These an 600 boxes and are taken care
81 by 600 coolies.
4 pisnw ASKING machine has been for
me time In use In New York hotel.
with two persons t. attend IL itwashcs
."oc dt,hes al nuur
TnE socialistic congress az Tours
Tasscd among others. resolution for
bidding married women TO work out
lie their own houses
N the four states Of Illinois, Wiscon-
IN. Michigan and Indiana. there are
GOO. So citizens 81 German birth OF
these SIS, 600 are voters
PErnArs the largest well in the
United States is the sampson, at Waco.
Tex. II is claimed 90 throw mp 500, 900
gallons Of no, water daily.
Mn AND MRs ilENpKY, Of Grecnvillc.
Mich, are the parents Of fourteen chill
drcn. The birthdays of five are De
cemhcr ~, IS. H. u and 10
IRELAND has only eight thcatcrs-
three for Dublin. one IN Belfast, one at
Cork. one in Limerick, one at Water.
A CHINESE highlander arrested at
Sacramento recently was encasod In "A
tuilcr-plate coat Of mail. lie carried
two rcvolvcrs aud three knives
MUCn 10 the CONSERVATION Of the la
dies Of Ipswich, Mass, one 81 the dry
goods dealers advartiscs in the local pa
per corscts for sale by the yard.
TIM aluminium works In Switzerland
the largest In the wurld--uses water
power Of 1900 horse power, and turn
out about 1900 pounds of the metal
daily
Ia has only boen eighty-onc years
since the first tomatoes were introduced
into America The original plant was
cultivated as u vegetable curiosity at
Salem, Mass
THREE Macon (Ga.) young ladies In n
1T Of merriment waded the 0cmulgoe
river, and n wicked kodak manipulation
got a snap on them; and now they are
sorry they did II.
ID. GARDNER TYLER has been nomi-
mated for congress by the democrats of
the second Virginia district lie is
son OF ex.President Tyler, and was born
in the White house.
ANoNa the curiositics seen at the
Lake county (o) fair was an old Buck
eve stove, cast Mt the Gcauga furnace in
gainesville in 1924. II Is probably the
oldest cooking stove In the United
States, and will be exhibited at the
Worlds fair.
TIM only known lady chime-player,
IL is stated, is Miss Bertha Thomas. as
sistant organist of Grace church. New
York. She doesn't have 10 climb into
the steeplc TO play the chimes, which
she handles from below by the aid of
an electrical device
Bricks made of plastey OF paris and
cork are now used In the construction
of powder mills In case of explosion
they offer slight resistance, and are
broken To atoms
LAST year New York city expended
a, 600. 900 on its schools and si,250,0Oo
for its police. In three years the in
crease OF the cost OF the police has been
sixty.thrcc per cent and the Increased
cost of the schools seventeen per cent
Tnr main railway station within the
Worlds fair grounds, where all eNcur'
.ion trains will discharge their passen-
gers. will be handsome structure
costing s22b, 200, and will accommodate
$4,000 people at one time
NOVELTY In counterfeiting appear
ed In Sioux City where a young man
took new silver quarters cut out the
''ouar" and changed the last to N,
making IL read "ten dollars" and plated
the coins with gold. He bought five or
ten cent articles to get the change till
he was caught
Tnr youngest journalist in Missouri
Is Austin Lcitwich OF the Miami News
He is nine years old aud u son Of du,
Ieftvicn. proprietor OF the Miami