The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

dug up recently at North East, Pa.
THE total cost TO Russia of the i'm
perial family is $50, Oo0 900 per year.
IN Germany a clock has been mads
that is warranted TO go for O. 900 years
IT is believed that in China there i,
20 times as much coal as in all Eu-
rope.
The favorite small arm in Brazil is a
doublc-barreled pistol made in Bel
GUM.
Music boxes for bicycles are now
manufactured 10y firm in Hamburg.
Germany.
DANIEL Wills. Of Milwaukee. aged
IS, is the oldest living ex-congressman
In the west.
PAUL KRUEGER's favorite dish is salt
herring lie eats at least one OF these
FISH every day.
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE is said to be con-
templating the writing of life of his
uncle, K. Z. Lee.
MAI Gen. OTIS wife regularly re-
ceives cablegram from her husbs nd
on t he 18th of every month.
IN he farming districts of Russia il
costs So cents to hire a horse for one
day. and 81 cents to hire a man.
HENRY ii. BENEDICT, the millionaire
type writer manufacturer, was once
teacher of Latin in the Fairfield semi
nary.
1T is said that at the death OF Hetty
Green 1000 900 of her fortune will be
divided among 100 distant connec
tions.
CONGRESSMAN KETCHAM. of New York,
has a unique claim to fame. He has
served in Is congresses and has never
made speech.
A BALD eagle whose wing extension
near Milford, Del, while trying TO
carry OF lamb.
A SUCCESSFUL firm of tea merchants |
in London is composed entirely of
women. The blenders, tasters and
packers are also women.
THERE are three varieties of the dog
that never bark-the Australian dog,
the Egyptian shepherd dog and the
''lion-headed dog of Thibet.
IN 1850 Germany imported eggs to
the value of S., 500, 900. In 1898 the
amount was nearly trebled. Russia
provides 80 per cent of them.
TO-DAY so, persons and $50, 900, O0G
are employed in the business of max
ing and distributing newspaper clip
pings among those whom they concern.
THE ordinary folding fan was in
vented in the seventh century by a |
japanese artist. who derived the idea
from watching bat closing is wings.
THE prince of Wales has warned his |
brother free masons not TO make |
themselves cheap by wearing their |
regalia on ordinary occasions.
THE oldest creature living in the
world belongs TO Walter Rothschild.
1t is giant tortoise, weighing a quar-
ter of a ton, and it has a known life OF
$50 years.
LAW was recently passed in Nor
way prohibiting the sale of tob2 eco to
rny body under 16 years of age without
a signed order from an adult relative
Or employer.
A LAW was recently passed in Swift
zerland prohibiting the manufactur-
ing, importation or sale of matches
con tanning the ordinary form of VEL
iON
Ir is averred by famous Chinese
doctor that nervousness is kept out of
the Celestial empire by the use of soft
soled shoes. The hard soles worn by
the Anglo-SaXon race are said to be the
cause of their extreme nervous temper
ament.
RAILWAY whistles infiict torture on
30 many people that Austria has intro
duced a system of dumb signaling to
start and stop the trains. Belgium is
trying compressed air whistles instead
Of steam, and Germany experiments
with horns
WILLIAM OxLEY THOMPSON. the new
president of Ohio state university,
spent ten years in getting his diploma
from Muskingum college, he ny so
poor that to get one years study he
had sometimes to work three years to
save the money required.
IT is not generally known that S.
Coleridge Taylor, who composed the
cantata played at the last festival in
Norwich, England, is a full blooded
Negro. Mr.. Bispham declares the com.
poser of "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
the coming musical genius.
EACH day of the week has served a,
a day of rest somewhere: Sunday
among Christians, Monday with the
Greeks, Tuesday with the Persians,
Wednesday with the Assyrians. Thurs
day with the Egyptians, Friday with
the Turks and Saturday with The He
brews.
A GIFT of 1925, 900, just made by Mr..
Longstaff to the Royal Geographical
society, makes British expedition to
the Antarctic probable. The society
has now collected 5000, 900 for that par.
pose, and when it has $50, 900 more win
again ask the government TO under
Jake the wor!E.
AMONG the delegates at the interna-
.ional council of women was DIR. Ida
Kahn, Chinese woman, who was edu.
'ated at Ann Arbor by American mis-
,ionaries-
The most costly piece of railway line
n the world is probably that between
he Mansion house and Aldgate sta
ions in London, which required the
Of close upon $40, 900, 900
,er mile.
TORTOISE she'll, as it comes from the