The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

ploys 400 persons.
THE engines of frst-class man-of-
war cost about 500. 000
PHYSICIANS carriages have he right
Of way in the streets Of Berlin.
THE number of children and youth
So the United States is 81. Os2 419.
A COLOSSAL statue of Gladstone is 10
be erected in Blackburn, England.
THE brooklyn bridge has contracted
l416 feet since it was opened to the
public.
IN Russia people must marry before
so or not at all, and may marry only
FIVE times.
THE prince of Wales's breakfast
never varies. 1t consists of tea, toast
and one egg.
THE car is considering the advisa.
bility of abolishing exile to Siberia as
punishment.
WouLp-BE Columbuses will be glad
70 learn that one-tenth of the world is
still UNEMPLOYED.
The Siberian railway already has sc
refrigerator cars for taking butter tC
the Russian cities.
The first advertisements ever known
were placed Gu the doors of ST. Pauls
cathedral. London.
GERMANY makes an excellent brand
of scotch" whisky, which finds a
ready sale in India.
WHEN first known 10 the Romans
elk was so dear that it was sold weight
for weight with gold
GERMAN post office employees are not
permitted to marry without the special
consent of the government.
THE maximum weight of freight To-
comotives is now 2ls, 900 pounds, against
400, 900 pounds Is years ago.
. In some eastern city a proposition
has been made to fumigate all the
books in the public library.
AN offer of SIS, 600 for three orchid
exhibited at the Antwerp horticultural
show has been refused by the owner of
the flowers
The men and women of today arc
nearly two inches taller than their an-
sestors This is no doubt owing to the
growth of athletics.
THE coal production of Great Britain
amounts to 100. 600, 900 tons year. of
Germany to 100, 00O 900 tons and OF
France to 2s, 900, 900 tons
In Hayti there is sunshine almost
every day in the year. Even during
the rainy season the rain seldom falls
until late in the afternoon.
1T is said that one pound Of butter
gives working force equal to that OF
dc ~ MI de Of
tatoes or IL pounds of milk.
p Four thousand five hundred dollars
was the cost of the cake provided a
the wedding of John Jacob Astor Il
Miss Willing, of Philadelphia.
MRS. CHoATE, wife of the ambassa
dor in London, is in Paris, where she
has bought some of the most exquisite
court gowns made in that city.
1t has been found that in bald peopl,
the growth of the hair is stimulated
and its color changed, by the judiciou
application of electric current
AT present England sells Colombii
nearly 10 per cent of the cotton clotl
used by the latter, and the Unite'
States only about IL per cent
THE shepherds of Germany predic
the weather by observing the wool oil
the backs of their sheep. When it i
very curly fine weather will prevail.
DURING the past year the exports O
watches from Switzerland amounted {,
over $4,000, 600. The watches went L
almost all parts of the civilized world
ALEXANDER BEAUBEIS, the first whit
child born in Chicago and a son o
Gen. John Baptiste Beaubein, has jus
celebrated his golden wedding at hi
home in that city.
AN Atchison society woman has TAX
en- down the picture of washington
Crossing the Delaware" in her bes
room aud replaced it with Funston
Crossing the Bagbag."
A CLUB has been formed in Peoria
Ill, with IS charter members, al
pledged to marry none but widows
There is no age limit or other require
ments in regard TO the widows.
DANIEL NJ. BURNS. named by tn
governor of California as United State
senator to fill the vacancy left by tn
legislatures failure to elect, is ma
of great wealth, mostly made in mine:
The Emperor William, despite tn
fact that he has only one arm wit
which he can shoot, is nevertheless
quite one of the finest shots in Europ,
Last year he brought down s97 head c
game while attending the court differ
ent shooting parties
THE large ST loaves of bread baked
the world are those of France an
Italy. The ''pipe" bread of Italy
baked in loaves two or three feet lonl
while ia France the loaves are made
the shape of very long rolls, four fee
or five feet in length, aud in many cas-,
six feet.
A FRENCH naturalist says that if II
world were to become birdless ma
could not .inhabit after nine year
time. In spite of all the sprays an
poisons that could he manufacture
for the destruction Of insects, the bug
and slugs would simply eat up orchar,
and crops.
ENGLAND, France and Germany ha,
regular travelling statesmen who Wis
Mexican trade centers every thr,
mo. this, and they get the cream OF Il
busiless.
Mrs JOHN JACOB Aston spends s5t
BOO year. A great part of the mon,