The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

by washing cats.
THE United Kingdom has $50, o0(
women school teachers.
TIE car of Russia is the best cus-
toner of the clipping bureaus.
MAIZE CoRRELII is Mary Anderson
Navarros most intimate friend.
TnE average amount of illness in
human life is nine days out of the year.
IT has been estimated that steamers
are 20 per cent. safer than sailing YES.
sells.
MORE than 5000 persons are buried
annually in the paupers' cemetery OF
Berlin
IL Norway the average length of life
is greater than in any other country
on the globe.
IL the British navy there are $50 YES
sells that have been in service at least
quarter of a century.
The toll on an ordinary ship passing
through the Suey canal averages about
$4,000. The distance is % miles.
AUSTRALIA is the only country in the
world where no native pipes and no
native smokers have been found.
TIE greatest depth 20 which a ship
has been anchored is 1900 fathoms.
considerably more than two miles.
IN Berlin the pawnshop is a royal
and philanthropic institution. Any
profit that is made is spent on charity.
a KENTUCKY woman has secured
Judgment of SEQ against a man who
kissed her when she didn't want him 10.
A DRINKING fountain is to be erected
in Brooklyn by the W. c. 4. u. of that
city as a memorial to the late Frances
Z. Willard.
SENATOR ALLISON, Of Iowa, in max
fng a speech generally talks from
sheet of note paper.
The Turkish government refuses TO
consider any offer from rich leaders of
the Hebrew Zionist government to sell
q part of the Holy Land.
TWELVE years ago one sailor out of
every LOG, on an average, lost his life
by accident Now the proportion has
been reduced one in $50.
j. j. HILL president of the Great
Northern system of railroads, is a short
man. swarthy. with brown eyes aud
tACt lull OA ruEScO lines
PAPER is now being made in Holland
from potato stems and leaves The
farmers are paid five francs ffty-six
centirnes a ton for the vines
A CHICAGO promoter is working Mp a
new railway from Knoxville to Mem.
phis. and claims to have sold 10000
600 worth of construction bonds
AUSTRIA is the country most lenient
TO murderers. In ten years over 500
sersons svs-e found a.silty of murder
OF whom only 2s were put TO death.
The heart of the vegetarian beats on
an average of IS to the minute; that Of
the meat eater IS. This represents
difference of 20, 600 beats in "a hours
SMOKING goes on in the Philippines
everywhere but in church. Even your
cab driver will offer you cigar il you |
are not smoking and he thinks you |
have none.
WATER is the hardest of all sub |
stances to heat, with the single exeep- |
ton of hydrogen gas. The easiest two |
are mercury ana lead, which stand in |
this respect on nearly the same footing. |
THF United States sent abroad dur |
ing the ten months ending April so, |
1885,, exactly 275 locomotives. In the |
same months of 1895 it exported 36c, !
for the same period of the current ifs |
cal year the record has risen to Ala
IL maid in Germany falls sick her
mistress is not allowed 10 discharge |
her. bnt must pay her A. cents a day |
for her hospital expenses until she is
perfectly well. The wages OF girls
vary from ST. 40 10 s.. 20 a month, with
board.
THE greatest of Injuries in Central
Africa is salt. The long continued use
of vegetable food in that country Gre
ates so painful a longing foi salt
that natives deprived Of it for a long
period often show symptoms of in
sanity.
The greatest sea depth known 10
man is in the South Atlantic ocean,
midway between the Island of Tristan
de Cuba and the mouth of the Rio de
Ia Plata, the bottom being here reached
at depth of 40, 1886 feet or eight and
three-quarter miles.
WALTER RoTHscHILD cansed a mild
in the house Of commons a
few evenings ago by appearing in a
tall hat made of light straw. The
weather was very hot at the time and
Mr.. Rothsehild's light headgear
aroused considerable envy.
IT is not generally known that when
! person falls into calm water com
non felt hat may be made use of as
life preserver, and by placing the hat
,pon the water rim down. with the
irm round il. pressing it slightly to ,
he breast. it will bear a man up for
hours
THAT quiet domestic lady, the queen
If saxony, enjoys the ownership o,
our sapphires. equal in size and beauty
o the one that gIows in the crown OF
England, and the favorite wives of tn.
hah OF Persia and sultan of Turkey
year turquoises the like of which nc
western queen can boast. G
The wild horses of Arabia will not
Omit a tame horse among them, willis
he wild horses of South America en-
eavor to decoy domesticated horses
tom their mastsvs, and seem eager t e
Welcome them. o.
SCIENTISTS have discovered that the d