The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-04-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

hAhN bAphA ~ VI lObt-oSs CT the COlOn
thrives.
w. V. SMIrH. of Florencs Kan
claims to have the longest whislers
the world
A LITTLE girl of Bridgeton, n. j.
swallowed her chewing gum and
killed her.
A PLYMOUTH Mass sexton was kille
10y lightning while ringing the churc
bell for services.
HOTEL hambermaids are unknown
in Mexico. Men make the beds IN,
keep the rooms in order.
TwENTY-THREE new cotton mills ar
under way, or projected, in varjou
parts of the southern states.
HYESAs always fight kneeling, tn,
shank of the foreleg being the mos
vulnerable part of their body.
AN English scientist has calculated
that human opens and closes his eyes
no fewer than 4, 00o, 900 per year
AMONG recent attempts at joking iu
London papers is one which refers
Lady Curzon as 1.-The Letter of India
RUDYARD kIpLINs has never been
much of a reader, and what books he
does read are devoted mainly to his
tory.
RICHARD MANsFIELDs share of the
receipts for 20 weeks playing of "Cy-
rano de Bergerac" is said TO amount TO
$780, 900.
The Chinese pronounce their dow.
hger empress the most beautiful wom-
IN whom the celestial kingdom has
ever known.
THERE are millions Of the inhabit.
ants of the Philippine islands who
never knew the dominion of Spain and
never saw a Spaniard
CHiCoPEE, Mass which had IL, 900 pop
ulation in 1890, is the only city in that
state which is without a newspaper,
either weekly or daily
Mrs. MILES, wife of the general, is |
niece of Senator Sherman. between
whom and her there has always exist
ed the warmest sympathy.
OF the SOC, 900 half-cent pieces put in
circulation years ago not one has been
returned TO the government for coinage
or is held by the treasury.
THE highest income received by any
fhorister in Europe or America is that
Vt S., 500 year paid TO Miss Clementina
&c We're for her services as leading So
prano in DR.. Paxton's church in New
York.
WELL KNOWN professor asserts that
the smallest intervals of sound can be
better distinguished with one ea- than
with both. 1t takes the full compile.
ment however, to hear the alarm clock
at $50 am.
EGYPTIAN boats more than 4, 500 years
old have been exhumed from the banks
of the Nile in perfectly good condi-
tion. They are of cedar, and float as
jauntily as if they had been padded
but yesterday.
The silk worm vast introduced into
Europe by two monks engaged as mis-
sionaries in China, who obtained a
quantity of silk worms eggs, which
they concealed in hollow cane, and
conveyed in safety TO nstantinople
in 552.
The pope is the only ruler of the
vatican who has ever strolled down Pail
Mall. TWAS early in his career, when
he was simply Monsignor Pecci. He
was mentioned in the London papers
as having attended reception Of the
queen.
The human system can endure heat
OF 2l2 deg, the boiling point of water,
because the skin is bad conductor
and because the perspiration cools the
body. Men have withstood without
Injury heat of 500 deg. for several
minutes.
In 1903 John Jacob Aston bought two
NIX of ia Al. |
York city and paid for them SOS, 900.
They are now worth about $1,000. 600,
while the Aston family has collected in
these 95 years some $40, 600, 600 of rents
from them.
Two Californians have devised an
improved satchel clasp, having the two
clamps usually placed on either side of
the lock connected with the central
sliding catch by rods, in order that the
of the central catch may OBJ
crate the clasps.
ASBESTOS is found in nearly all parts
Of the globe, but there is proba bly, no
product of inorganic nature about
which there is so much popular mys-
terry. The principal claim for this re-
product is that it can Ut be
by fire.
In new animal trap the cage is
formed OF wire. with a chute in the
bottom made of wires woven into a
tube, with the lower ends of the wires
bent back and sharpened to TO prevent
the rodent from backing out when it
once starts to enter.
CANADIAN has designed an insect
shield for trees which is made of a slip of
metal Of circular shape, with the lower
edge bent to cut into the bark Of the
tree and the top formed into flaring
nood, with n suitable filing between
,he shield and the tree.
GRocERs' scoops are to be made WITT
! weighing scale attached, the upper
PORTION of the handle being cut away
or the reception Of spring-contain-
ng barrel, with a wire bale at the
over end which supports u scoop
when suspended on the scale.
A PARTISAN prize Of 5000 is awarded
to the poor father who can
how the largest and most creditabl,
'rought up family. A shoemaker, who I
las IA children alive, carried it off 1
his wear I,