The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-09-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

AUTOMOBILE watering carts arc use
in Paris.
THE men of Chicago spend IS, 500, OC
year for shaves.
ENGLAND consumes IS, 900, 900 wort
Of fish every year.
IHE best marksmen are usually thos
with gray or blue eyes.
NEW YORK is said TO have $500 bar
Der shops and 25, 600 BARRIERS.
ABOUT l,5oo. 900 persons are employee,
in the coal mines of the world.
The proportion of sickness in huma,
life is nine days out Of the year.
PRINCE CAcHULA a Russian, is 4,
waiter in Budapesth restaurant
BRAZIL will exhibit 500 varieties O.
serpents at the Paris display in 1900.
IHE princess of Monaco was the
daughter of the famous banker Heine
ACCORDING to our insanity returns II
Eases in 1000 are caused by love affairs.
THE recent storm in Chile are said &c
have caused property loss of Gl,5oO,
,0O
MINNEAPOLIS carpenters struck for
the eight-hour day and thirty cents an
hour.
THERE are IS admirals in the French
navy and $50 generals in the French
army.
IN the Havana custom house are en-
ployed 2l4 Cubans 81 Spaniards and 81
Americans
lT is estimated that bout 40, 900 acres
VI land in the United States are plant
I'd with vines.
MIN YOKE wHoU, the new minister
70 Washington FROM Corea speaks
English fuently.
BIRTHS and deaths occur all the
world over more frequently at night
than in the day time.
LIVERY German soldier carries four
ounce religious book with the rest of
his personal equipment
SECRETARY GAGE has ordered that the
national quarantine regulations be en-.
forced at San Francisco.
THOMAS Balm, new speaker of the
canadian house of commons is the
orst farmer to gain that post.
THERE is a district in Liverpool in.
nabited by 60 900 people where intoxi-
eating liquor can not be bought.
SPECIAL courses of lectures on rail.
reading as a science are being delivered
IN Berlin and Breslau this summer.
ENGLISH engineers are making com.
nendable progress in burning garbage
as fuel in electric light stations. At
canterbury, England, Is tons are
burned in twelve hours under a forced
araft. This process is in use at several
places.
The breaking off of the engagement
between Prince Max of Baden and the
Grand Duchess Helene of Russia was a
great grief to the Princess Wilhelm of |
Baden, who always desired that her |
son should marry into the imperial |
house of Russia.
GERMAN firm undertook to sa.ve |
the Paris on the mo cure, no pay" |
principle. If fioated the salvors were |
10 have half the value of the vessel.
The operations of the firm on the
cost $50, 600. and half the
value Of the faris is estimated at 1875.
200.
IHE discovery of a serum to combat
The bubonic plague is reported. Prof.
bandi, of the University of Messina,
claims TO have found it. Government
officials are interested and with their
he will proceed to Oporto
md make experimental applications of
he serum
ONLY two women are left to draw
tensions on account of the revolu-
ionary war; There were three OF
hem until few days ago, the widows
4 continental soldiers. but their num- {
'er was decreased by the death of Mrs.
ancy Jones' of Jonesboro Tenn. She
vas 95 years old. y
MINNESOTA man captured n kinp-
sher when IT was young. made a pet
it. and trained the bird to capture l
sh and lay them at its masters feet. |.
summer the bird is taken to the
yer where fish are known TO abound, u
nd set at liberty. 1t poises high in D
he air, and suddenly dropping, grasps q
S victim and promptly delivers the II
sh to its master. b
RUSSIAN women are said to be re.
arkao bly, frank about their ages. Sew.
al years ago one of them misrepre,
nted her age in court and she was a
sent to Siberia. 1t is said IL
!e courts of France are absolutely un- Il
Die to get correct statements of the Il
amber of years the fair dang hters of Is
lat land have been upon earth. es
The king Of the Belgians travels as d,
'unt Rivenstein, invariably putting az
at his hotel in Paris with far less te
lstle than that which the arrival OF
ordinary foreign count would entail. q,
The smallest man who ever lived was Of
e dwarf Bebe, born IN France in ba
10. He was just 20 inches high and We
,ht pounds in weight when full Ju
own. 81
The Rev. IL. r. Haweis is said 10 bs ch
greatest clerical traveller of the cen. On
ry' Between 1855, when he was D. au
inted Lowell lecturer at Boston and or
iversity preacher at Cornell and Har- m,
I'd, and 1895, he covered no fewe, 70,
IN 100000 miles outside Of Europe