The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-08-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

EVERY year Chicago uses up aboue
$1,000. 900 pounds of soap.
In Spitzbergen the longest day is
three and one-half months
EVERY blast furnace in Pittsburgh is
producing to its full capacity.
SEvENTy-Two per cent. of the Span
ish people can not read or write.
A STRIKING feature of Havana is the
absence of women in the streets
The Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Co. employees 5000 men.
GREAT BRITAIN buys more than 30,
600 horses In the United States every
year.
LIQUID fuel is fast taking the place
of coal on the vessels plying in the lar
east.
Liouip fuel is fast taking the place
of coal on the vessels plying in the
far east.
In the vicinity of Norfolk, Va, about
1900 acres are devoted to the culture
of radishes.
LAST year there were brought into
London and other English ports 8. 422,
600 hundred weight of frozen meat
MISS ELLA c. WITTER. of Denver, IL
the only woman authorized to practice
before the United States land Office.
A CARTHAGE (Mo.) undertaken exhib
tied the body of a murderer by way OF
advertising mis- skill as an embalmer.
THERE are 1000 vessels which cross
the Atlantic Ocean regularly every
month, some of them twice a month.
Gov. SAVERS, of Texas, is one Of the
champion golf players of that state
and is devoted to all outdoor athletics
A CIGARETTE smoker sends into the
air about 1000, 600 PARTICLES of dust a,
every pull, according to DR.. Atkins in
vestigations.
IT is gravely reported that Kipling
has received seven madstones and near
ly 1000 recipes for the bite of that in.
considerable dog.
WHILE Canada's tax on Chinese immi.
grants is to be increased, japanese are
TO be permitted to COL : in free only for
imperial reasons
MRS WILLIAM K DAY, wife of the
former secretary of state, is an excel.
lent musician and has composed some
music of a high order.
LARGE number of ministers from
other churches are apply ing to be re-
reived into the ministry of the P-esby.
;erian church in Canada
An eminent physician says that nc
person should be permitted to drink
tea or coffee until he or she has at
tanned the age of Is years.
SCOTLAND has LAG parishes without
paupers poor rates or public houses,
absence of the last perhaps account
ing for that of the first two.
SCOTLAND has LAG parishes withou,
paupers. poor rates or public houses,
the absence of the last perhaps, ac.
counting for that of the first two.
A WRITER in the German scientific
periodical Prometheus declares thai
overindulgence in tobacco will prove
the ruin of South American peoples.
AT RouBAIx. one of the socialist,
strongholds of France, the ii, 900 pub
lie schoo. children received free food
and clothing at the expense of the
town.
ENGLAND, France and Germany have
regular travelling statesmen w,o visit
Mexican trade centers every three
months and they get the cream of the
business.
WHALES teeth form the coinage OF
the Fiji Islands They are painted
white and red. the red teeth being
worth about twenty times as much as
the white.
MoBMoNIsM is gaining ground in Eng
land TO such an extent that the advisa-
biity of introducing prohibitive |
measure in Parliament is being serious
ly considered.
IN Switzerland a milkmaid gets bet.
ter wages if gifted with a good voice,
COW will yield one-ffth more milk if
.oothed during milking by melody.
THE lily of the valley is denounced
by the German papers as under its sim.
pie beauty yelling deadly poison. 1t
is stated that both the stalks and flow.
ers of this lovely plant contain prussic
acid.
half miles of bicycle paths within its
c ty limits, and these connect with |
fourteen miles more which the county |
has provided. This gives the cyclist
almost 40 miles of good paths.
A STEEL harness trace is one of the |
latest productions of Sheffield. A mar |
row strip of steel about an inch wide |
Is encased in leather ard used in the |
ordinary way; the steel is of the hes,
q uality and so pliable that it can be
twisted.
THE Memphis Commercial Appeal
says that Jerry Simpsons newspaper
office has become regular sub treas
ury for the reception Of potatoes, tur-
nips, onions, watermelons, squash, |
PUN pkins, greens and other currency |
taken in payment of subscriptions.
A SINGLE foundry in New Jersey. il is
said, casts annually $4,000 bells for the
farmers and about 1000 for schools
churches, engine houses, etc. 1t is es.
.imated by foundry man that at least
70, 900 are sold every year in the coun-
Try TO tillcrs-of the soil and breeders.
Elk SECRETARY JOHN &. CARLISLE has
been invited to deliver an address on
he currency of this country before
he students of the University Of Chi
ago next fall
ACCORDING 10 the reports of the last
assembly, the Southern Presbyterian
hurch had LAS ministers. Asia |