The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-23
CURRENT TOPICS.


at Athol Mass
voTINe by machine is gaining in pop
ularity in the east
MARK TWAIN says Vienna is the
wickedest city on earth.
ABOUT 4, 600, 900 bottles of pickles are
consumed weekly in the United States
THE last issue of the London ENG
directory, it is SAID, weighs ~
pounds.
On an average 200 carrier pigeons
are officially kept in every German
fortress.
ALARGE cotton mill will be built a,
High Shoals water-power, near Har
den, y. c.
BRITISH consuls are now required to
send important trade reports and news
by telegraph.
A LARGE silk mill is to be built a;
Roanoke Rapids about four miles from
Weldon. n. c.
NEARLY 1000 commercial travellers
lost their positions when the tobacco
trust was formed.
LABOR strikes of most serious char.
actcr are prevalent at present in Sc ger
al European countries.
TnE principal trade OF Bradford,
Eng, just now is said TO be in me' cer-
iIed cotton dress goods.
Tue Wisconsin legislature has fo-
hidden the use of living rooms fer
manufacturing purposes.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, has joined the
list Of cities where the trades unions
will erect labor temple.
QUEEN VICTORIA has seen every
throne in the world vacated at least
once, and some of them several times
The greatest number OF suicides
take place in the month OF June and
the fewest in the month of September.
ONLY four independent states remain
in Africa They are Abyssinia. Moroc-
co, Liberia and the Orange Free Sta te. |
ALI. the locomotives on the Santa Fe |
railroad in California are run with pc |
troleum for fuel. IL costs about the |
same as coal.
VERDI denies that he is writing a
new opera lie says that "Falstaff" is
his last work and that his lab Dor in this
world is over.
The German government has nomi.
mated. and the president has accepted,
Baron August Won Bruck as consul at
Havana for Germany.
BEGINNING July /, the employees OF
the government printing Office at
Washington will receive SO cent? an
hour, or 81 per day of eight hours
THE Italian government, for q years,
has guaranteed to the pope an annual
income of about SITS. 600. which he has
steadily refused TO accept. The arrears |
OF this annuity amoan. now TO over
$50, 600, 600.
THE Compania General of Manila, |
the largest cigar making concern in |
the world, employs over 10000 hands, |
and turns out every year so, 900, 900
cigars. 40, 600, 900 cigarettes. and nearly |
5000 tons of cut tobacco.
ALONG the Adriatic sea swallows and
other migratory birds are caught every
gear by the hundreds of thousands
and eaten by the Italians, who spread
nets, in which as many as 500 to 500 of
the tired birds are caught at once.
THE most expensive hat on record
cost 81, 500 in gold, and was presented
10 Gen. Grant while in Mexico in 1882
1t is now on exhibition in the National
museum in Washington-perhap the
finest Mexican sombrero that was ever
made.
The bill for the Bradley Martin din
ner in New York for So persons footed |
up s9.525, of which SIS was olives, ca
Ware. celery, radishes and bread, which |
shows that the Bradley Martins do |
not overlook the little Injuries to a
dinner.
TUE death penalty is rarely en- forced |
in Germany. Austria. Denmark or
Sweden. In New York IL out of IL |
murderers escape without any punish
ment. and in the United States only |
one murder in fifty suffers capital pun
ishment.
MARRIED men, according to German
investigator live longer than bachel-
ors and are less likely to become in
sane. Another argument for matri-
mony is found in the fact that there
are 50 criminals among every 1000
bachelors, while among married men
the ratio is only is per 1000.
Nor the least interesting among the
new occupations for women is that
which has been opened at Vienna.
There. in the "gayest city in the
world is woman grave digger She
is the first professional woman grave
digger in civilized Europe.
THE microscope has revealed many
wonders, among others that the com.
mon caterpillar has 1900 muscles in
his body, that the drone bees eyes
each contain 1890 mirrors, and tina.
the large, prominent eyes of the bril-
liant dragon flies are each furnished
with $4,000 polished lenses.
NEW alloy, containing a largo
quantity of aluminium, is German in.
vention TO replace the ordinary type
metal composed OF lead, anthony and
tin. Besides being non-poisonous,
other advantages, such as the qualities
OF taking and giving off ink readily,
are claimed for this alloy.
THE report of the Russian depart
ment of prisons shows that in the
past two years the total number of
persons banished to Siberia has been
20, CSC, of whom s9f were women.
"DHLY-DALLY until 80" is the watch
word OF club of bachelor girls" in
Michigan. The members pledge them