The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-05-12
CURRENT TOPICS.


ONE province in Cuba reports but 10.
600 cattle, against 10000 before tn
war.
MExrco has had SIS presidents sine
1921. OF these Is have died violen
deaths
The Red Cross society is feeding 132,
600 people in the Russian province o
Kazen.
THE Union Match Co., capital $40,
100000, has been incorporated in New
Jersey.
NEARLY 90, 600 pounds of bread ar,
daily eaten in the sultan of Turkeys
household.
THERE are S064 languages in the
world, and the inhabitants profess
more than 1000 religions
The United States is the only great
nation whose postal receipts fall below
ats expenditures for the service.
LoNDoN's record of deaths by violence
was 5, lb4 last year, being l24 above
the average of the preceding 10 years
IT has been ascertained that one of
the mountains in the moon is Sc, 600
feet high, while several are upward of
sc, 600 feet.
AN artificial rubber, as good as the
real thing, is now made of glue and
Clycerine. mixed with sui phur oil, such
rs ichthyoi.
ONE of England's consuls in Egypt
reports that English is now generally
spoken among the middle classes in
stead of French.
THE oldest medical recipe is said by
3 French medical journal to be that of
q hair tonic for an Egyptian queen. 1t
is dated 400 b. C.
GEN. BooTH, head of the Salvation
army. will establish an industrial farm
of Is, 200 acres in the Collie district of
western Australia.
The water of the Salt Lake in Utah
Is six times as salty as that of the
ocean. 1t is estimated that it contains
s, 700, 600, 600 tons of salt.
AN electric arc lamp for use under
water--a contamination that has baf-
fed electricians for yearS-has been
produced by German firm.
A SCHOOL girl of Elizabethport, n.
j., died from blood poisoning, result
ing from blows on her arm playfully
inflicted by schoolmate on her birth
day.
No total eclipse will be visible in
New England or the middle states til,
January "a, 1925. On June 30, 1855,
will occur the longest eclipse for many
centuries, totally lasting more than
seven minutes in the Island of Luzon,
at or very near Manila.
An Assyrian tablet in the cellar of
the British museum has on il a repre-
tentation of the hanging gardens of
Babylon, according TO Herr Bruno
first testimony to their existence
found among the cunciform inscrip-
tons
THE East Greenlanders Journey
round to West Greenland TO get snuff,
and will consume four years in single
excursion there and back, often, ac-
cording TO Manson. remaining no long
err than an hour at the trading sta
tion before taking up their homeward
march.
TIE life of an editor in Servia Is not
q delightful one. Within the last two
years a weekly paper has had 10 edit
ors. Fifteen of them are in Jail for too
keenly commenting upon government
affairs; and the 10th has just been
hustled off TO join them for the same
offense.
A WRITER in the Arena contends that
the deash penalty has been a failure in
b = hos .
the increase of homicides. The figures
given are somewhat startling. In 1850
there were only 1920 homicides in the
United States but in Is years the num-
Der went up to 10. 500.
STATISTICS gathered regarding the
bubonic plague in India shows that
since the beginning of the last out
break at Bombay 25O, 900 deaths have
been recorded. This number, how
ever, is believed to be much below the
actual total, because the natives are
known 10 have concealed deaths from
the disease.
IL Japan most of the horses are shod
with straw. Even the clumsiest of
cart horses wear straw shoes, which.
in their cases, are tied round the ankle
with straw rope, and are made of the
ordinary rice straw, braided 50 as TO
form a sole for the foot about + alf an
inch thick. These soles cost about one
cent pair.
LIZARDS crawl along the walls of the
ha citations in the Philippines, disre.
garded by the human occupants, and
make themselves useful by catching
flies and mosquitoes.
LIGHTNlNG recently brought about
the discovery of an Etruscan tom near
Volterra. 1t struck an Old pine tree
on a hillock, and in cutting down the
tree the workmen found the top Of tho
sepulcher under the roots.
ONE of the largest and most cumber-
some forms OF money is found in Gen.
tral Africa, where the natives use a
ingot of copper ore, over ten
inches long. 1t is heavy enough TO be
! formidable weapon.