The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-11-18

been found to the west OF Cape Fiattcry,
Washington.
x eswtsEu ouv.- a, ss. |. wonder
Z 'tnF freak OF naturc, ifis ciaiinAd. in"the
shape of live calf with bull dogs head.
T. H. ScuENERMoRS, u gcologist,
claims 10 have found fossil forest ia
Custer county. Idaho
BoTTLE corldng machine, with a
feed reservoir Of corks like the magazine
gun, II recent invention
Gov. PE-K's excuse for writing
''Pcces Had Boy" Is that he was only
forty-thrco years old at the time
Tar largest catfish ever caught in the
Mississippi river was landed near Ca.
rondclct II weighed 200 pounds
Tar Dry Goods Examiner says 100
pearl button factories were started In
this country during the pas, two years.
Two pclicans were lately killed In
Jasper county, Mo-, one OF them meas.
uring nearly nine feet in oSpansc OF
wing.
THE new whslehnck steamer % be
built at Everett Wash, will bc 800 feet
In length, o. feet beam and 90 feet in
dcpth
Nnur In Maine one can visit Norway,
Sweden, Mexico aud Peru. and n post.
Office has just been named Ia Knox
county for Turkey.
An ingenious lndianian has invented
pillow In which an augrr or screw
mold board Is operated by means 81
drive wheel In the rear
JoNrspoGo, Ca has resident ~ho
II Is reported, has only spent IS In the
past six years for clothes lie il said
to be worth over sl0. OOO
Al the head e the Gnlf % Bothnia
there Il a u..rI'aiu. ON the summit Of
which thc go thlucs Prrpctunlly dur
ing lunr i. ID atuHlg.
TIr- very .gc adv g, was given by an
age priest Always treat an insult
like mud from a passing vehicle; never
brush 1t M until Il is dry"
Miss liTRtir CAMrHiIt. Of Allentown,
Ia, tct money that she could make
pumpkin pie In Eve minutes She made
s, od ore In four minutes
Al average of three British scamcn
lose their lives every day by drowning,
and 500 British steamers and sailing
vessels are lost al sea yearly.
No INSTITUTION or device has with
stuod rid.rui- ~ wen n the nickvi-in-
the-slot machine. which a. collector
81 small coin il still great success
A MostIEN, Pa farmer grew, IL Is said,
an Irish potato, the stalk Of which was
i've feet seven inches In height, aud
borc al it, roo, "a bushcl ~ potatoes.
Mus q V. :. QUAoNENBUsB, OF Troy,
y. y. has given TO the trustees Of the
Troy Female seminary fund for the
erection Of a school for music and art
Tnr moth has fur Jacket and the
butterfly has none because the noctur-
nal habits Of the moth require H. The
diprnal movements OF the butterfly do
mot.
An automatic match ignitcr il re-
cent novelty. You pull a lever, match
travels along u roughencd surface and
Is then thrust out Of an opening already
ignitcd
4 Pm ADEirnA woman goes shop
ping with a baby carriage which Is
pushed by q small colorcd boy In livery,
and she returns with 1t loaded with
parcels
Niw ZEALAND has set apart two
islands for the preservation Of It's re-.
markablc wild birds and other animals,
forbidding therein all hunting and
trapping
SENATOR lioAB, who sailed for Eu
rope In May on account of serious
trouble with his eyes, has returned in
good health aud with his sight greatly
improved
A CuAIN made for the United States
government at Troy. y. V, IN 1883. was
six miles and fraction in length. IL
was made OF bars OF iron each ga inches
In diameter
SIX brothers of the Frost family at
Kansas city own the following odd lot
Of names; Jack Frost. Winter Frost,
White Frost, Cold Frost Early Frost
and Snow Frost.
A sIELrING car company official
states that fifty dozen whisks and sixty
dozen combs are used up on his cars
every month. This is suggestive of the
memcnto gatherer.
Tnr Cotton marble works have just
quarricd what Is claimed To be the
largest block of marble ever taken out
In California. II is reported To he 10
feet In length, feet inches In width
and o feet 8 inches thick.
Ir IL asserted that there is not liv'
ing stream Of water in Thomas county,
Kan, nor tree of natural growth. All
the same tho farmers there don't find
any trouble in raising wheat that turns
out thirty bushels to the acre.
As NEARLY as can be ascertained, the
irrigated lands of California comprise
3. 500 900 acres Irrigation has cost SEQ
900, 900, but II has increased the value
Of the land $500, 900, 900
PRor. A. u. HoPKINs, of the West
Virginia experiment station, has ar
rived from Europe with bug which,
he thinks will destroy the pine-treo
beetle that has SO greatly damaged the
West Virginia forests.
An advertisement appears in west
ern paper which reads thus; III Geo
william Brown, who deserted his poor
wife and babe twenty-five years ago,
will return, the aforesaid babe VIII
knock the stufiing out OF him
A CORRESPONDENT of the Confection-
ers' journal says that banana juice
makes a first-class indelible ink A
spot On a white shirt from u dead ripe
banana is marked forever, and the Juice
fron. bananas thoroughly decayed jsa
bright, clear carmine
Al AsKA covers an area OF 10000
SOU. re- miles. and has 25, 900 miles of
Goa. line The population is probably
nbort 80 900, of which all but 5000 are
nat 90 Indians. The United States gov
ernn mt derives 4 large revenue from
it's ,Ist 6shcrle4and fur trade. The
fur seal and fur otter trade alone is
worth $4,000, year