The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-04-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

SOLDIERS in the Italian army are al
lowed two hours in the middle of IN,
day for a nap.
AT Des Moines Ia, the Iowa Knit
ting Co., has been Incorporated with ;
SIS, OcO capital.
THERE are only seven and one-hal
miles of horse-railway remaining il
Massachusetts,.
THE first post Office was opened il
Paris in 1912, in England in 1851, il
America in 17l0.
Few people are aware that the frs
American captain general of Cuba wa:
Andrew jackson.
The postage rates now in force in
the United States will be adopted in
Cuba after April /.
SINCE 1871 the cultivated area of Ire
land has dwindled from about 4,000..
600 acres to 10000
EN-PREsIDENr CAsIMIR- PERIER. OF
France is said TO be contemplating a
trip to this country.
THE Chinese pronounce their dow
ager empress the most beautiful WON
an whom the celestial kingdom las
ever known.
GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, the Eng
!ish artist, who is now So, was Ellen
Terry's first husband, fact not gen
orally known.
BRITISH military authorities agree
that Americas best strategists must be
cent to the Philippines if the natives
are TO be subdued.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Texas Legislature appropriatings $3.50, Ooo
for the building and maintenance of
cotton or wooden mill, or both, in the
Rusk penitentiary.
SCRANTON, Pa, ranks third in the
United States as an organized labor
town, % per cent. of it's skilled mechan-
les being trades unionists.
1T is announced that the big smelt-
ing trust. organized with a capital of
So5, 900, 600, will begin by advancing the
price of silver 10 per cent.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY frequently
does his afternoons work in the white
house library, which is now used as
Mrs McKinley's sitting room.
y. NILSSON, president of a large
wooden mill company in Norway, may
start mill in Milwaukee for the
manufacture of underwear and tweeds.
A QUEEN bee sometimes lays at the
rate of two eggs a minute. As she
lives four or five years, she must lay
about one and one-half million in the
course of her life.
GAIT. c. RATH, who had charge of
the execution of the four persons who
conspired to assassinate President Lin
coin in 1868, is at present n railway
postal clerk and lives at jackson, Mich.
In Sydney, y. S. W., the street car
lines are owned by the municipality
and no fares are charged. Homeless
folk, it is said, use them at night in
stead of going to cheap boarding
house.
THE largest leaves in the world are
said to be those of the Inaj palm,
which grows on the banks of the Am
AEON. They reach a length of from
so to 80 feet and are 10 to IL feet in
breadth.
AN old landmark of San Francisco
will soon be removed to give place to
a modern business building. This is
the Isthmus house, which in 1s49 and
1850 stood on the shore of the bay at
First and Jessie streets
SOME Egyptian boats made of cedar.
probably in use 4,5OO years ago, have
been found buried near the banks of
the Nile, and furnish an interesting
proof of the power of that wood to
withstand the ravages of time.
A STRANGE custom is followed by
Mexican farmers. They use oxen of one
color in the morning and another color
in the afternoon. They do not know
why, but they know it must be the
right thing TO do, because their fore
fathers did it.
Mrs. ELLA KNOWLES HASKELL, of
Helena, Mont, who has just retired
from the assistant attorney general
ship of that state, was the first and
only woman TO hold that place. She
was elected by the populists is native
of New Hampshire and graduate of
Bates college.
PEOPLE speak of their eyes b ing
tired, meaning that the retina or Sec
ing portion of the eye is fatigued, but
such is not the case, as the rctina hard
ly ever gets tired. The fatigue is in
the inner and outer muscles attached
10 the eyeball and the muscle which
surrounds the lens of the eye.
The London county council has pro.
posed that reward of S., 900 be offered
for the discovery of a solution of the
London smoke nuisance.
TROUBLE with the Italian miners at
Lake City, Col, may bring on interna-
tional complications, as kilograms sent
by the Italian consul were opened,
read and withheld by United States
officers.
THERE are 672 known volcanoes in the
world, of which 27o are active; so in
America, "a in Asia, 90 in Africa. Java
bas 100, of which 2S are active. In New
Zealand, within an area of 1877 mileA
there are 90, ranging from 1876 feet To
300 feet in height