The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-09-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

OUR annual cheese output is $50, 00o,-
900 pounds.
FoRTY-FIvE Kansas counties have no
poorhouses.
GERMAaY's textile mills employ $685.
600 persons.
PEORIA distilleries use 40, 900 bushels
of corn daily.
MODEL yachts cost as much as $3.50. 600
and may be considered fairly expen sive
Hlaythings.
The department of fisheries of New
foundland has at present % hatcheries
in operation.
MAURICE GRAU now sports The grand
cross of the Legion of Honor and he
got it for song.
WHEN a Holsters shell becomes too
small it bursts it by a series of spasms
and grows a new one,
SCIENTISTS declare that black letters
on a white background form the worst
possible strain on the eyes.
WHEN an unmarried woman dies in
Brazil the coffin, hcarse and livery Of
the coachman are all scarlet
Thirty years ago there were only
Two uOLcn tAp4OSlNSS hHONu W CiSLh
lists; now there are over 1000
UNITED STATES SENATOR HANS
BBoUGH of North Dakota, acquired his
education in d newspaper office
Ii is estimated that the consump-
tion of beer in the entire world
amounts to sl.OsO, 600. 900 per annum.
IL some parts of Russia the only
food for the people consists at present
OF acorns leaves and the soft bark Of
trees.
IN the course of the last decade the
manufacture of cotton goods has be-
come firmly established industry in
Brazil.
BJoRSsTERNx BJoRsoN spends four
hours of every day looking after his
farm, after he has given three TO liter
AIRY work.
AN exploring party is said to have
been attacked by natives in Central
Africa and all except one OF the mem.
bers killed.
QUEEN VICTORIA has. at Windsor cas-
tie, the most costly dinner service in
the world. 1t is of solid gold aud is
valued at "a. 600, 900.
SIGSoR MAROON of wireless tele-
graph fame, is now in London, whence
he will probably sail for the United
States in a few days
The natives of Central Africa kill
force the mother either to kill herself
or become an outcast
An electric lamp for use under water
"a consummation that has haffied
electricians for years-has beer pro-
duced by a German firm.
" THE 9andAngham estate originally
belonged to the Cowper family. and
was purchased by the prince of Wales
for sum of over 81. 900, 900.
The human heart is of almost uni
form size in all adult subjects, which
accounts for the prevalence of heart
trouble among large people.
TYING knots in the handkerchief 10
jog ones memory had it origin in
China thousands of years ago, before
writin. was invented in that coun-
try.
LORD KELVIN in lecture stated that,
rs result of recent Investigations, it
was estimated that the earth bad been
the abode of life for about SO, 900, 0Oc
years.
An enterprising western firm is max
ing arrangements to set up modern
American saw mill in China, where
lumber is still sawed by the primitive
methods of a century ago.
CAREL HENDRICK KRUGER, a nephew
of the president of the Transvaal re.
public, is a recent graduate from the
Edinburgh university. where he won
the Syme surgical scholarship.
PEOPLE employed in sticking labels
on tin cans are now face TO face with
a machine which will stick 10, 600 la bels
H. 10 hours, which does not give a
hand worker much of a chance.
REV. JOHN NJ. LuCEY, of Pine Bluff,
Ark., native southerner, suggests
holding a state convention of white men
to deal with the practice of lynching.
against which he vigorously protests
THERE is much French and Belgian
capital invested in the principal rail-
way lines of Spain, while England
owns many Of the shorter lines and is
also at the head of the mining in
terestS.
IL Nelson, New Zealand, if you use
the telephone you must not give the
uum Der; you must name the party you
wait, and the exchange girl will cheer.
fully tell you whether ne Is in or out;
If the latter, where he is and when he
will be back.
PROF. RoENTGES is in great demand
by the German universities. Some
time ago he received a call 10 Leipsic,
and Wurzburg only succeeded in keep
ing him by promising TO erect new
physical laboratory. Now Munich is
trying TO secure him.
ACCORDING to the Constanzer Zei-
tung, the sultan has great affection
tor Switzerland. Il love it," says the
su tan, beyond all the other states in
Europe. and for good reason-be-
cause it sends no ambassador to Con-
to worry me with it griev-
ances."
j. Il. FRYE, one OF the oldest resi- |
dents of Virginia, died recently and
was buried according to his wish in a
" alnut coffin made with his own hands |
from an old walnut tree on his farm.
IT is reported that John Brisben
alba. - 10 CA.mAnAli- |