The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-10-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

SPAIN has more sunshine thar ANY
country in Europe.
AT Santa Ana, Cal. the,. is 4 celo ~
garden of 500 acres.
The Smithsonian institution has a
woman expert on Holsters and crabs.
Gen. Miles is an amateur photo
grapher of considerable ability.
A MAINE hunter claims &c have once
had his pipe lighted by flash of light
ming.
ARCoLA, H., with n population of
less than 5000, leads the world in the
b-oomcorn industry.
THE khedivo OF Egypt draws salary
ten times as great as that of the presi-
dent of the United States
GEORGE BERRY, the English band
master, has retired after 60 years
service with military bands.
HIRAM CRoSK ( New York is the on
ly surviving pensioned soldier of the
war of 1912. He is 80 years old.
THE screw of an Atlantic liner Pc
wolves something like ESQ, 1000 tim.s
between Liverpool. and New York.
In France advertising posters must
bear revenue stamps varying in value
according 10 the size of the poster.
1HE richest acre of land in the world
is that near Lionsar, in Thibet. on
which grows the sacred tree of Thi bet.
Two OF the sons Of James j. Hill are
vice presidents of railroads Both have
been carefully trained in the business
by their father.
DRIED orange peel, allowed TO smol-
der on piece of red.hot iron or an old
shovel, will kill any bad odor in exist
epce and leave a fragrant one behind
Instead.
In Boston school the pupils were
asked to define arithmetic. One boy
gave the following: Arithmetic is the
science of numbers and the art of COM
piication."
AT Munich there is a hospital which
is entirely supported by the sale of old
steel pens and nibs collected from al
parts of Germany. They are made into
watchsprings knives and razors.
CECIL RHODES order of 500, 900. 00C
feet of southern yellow pine from deal
ers in the Mississippi valley is said to
be the largest single order in the his
tory OF the trade in this country.
CECIL RHODES regards marriage as q
hindrance to the full employment of q
mans business capabilities When
one of his secretaries got married
Rhodes dismissed him. but gave him {
check for s25, 600 as a set-off.
REV. JOHN NAILIE, of Trappe, Pa, il
the oldest clergyman in active servic,
in this country. He was born on Feb
ruary is, 1901, and still breaches in the
German Reformed church in his town
where he has been pastor over 81
years.
AUTHENTIC history and biography in
Oh ma embrace period from the year
leg of our era back to the remote per
iod 2697 years before Christ. The
historians of China EN- brace a success
sion of uninterrupted series of more
than 2,400 years.
SKAGwAY has annexed Dyea by TAX
ing up all it's buildings, floating then
across the bay and distributing them
within its own corporate limits. Ever
the warning of an earthquake while
the removal was under discussion die
not stay the process.
TILL recently the employment o.
electricity in any shape or form in
Constan tinople was strictly forbidden
Incredible as it may appear. the sultar
naively imagined that a dynamo mus
have something TO do with the manu-
facture Of dynamite.
SCOTLAND seems a strange place TO fine
a statue of Abraham Lincoln, and ye
there is one there. 1t adorns a monu
ment erected in old Cation buryinl
ground, Edingburgh, TO the memory
OF the Scottish Americans who Tough
in the American civil war.
THERE is an animated controversy
In San Francisco over the fact that tn
new city hall, planned 20 cost l,500,
600 represents NJ 10 date a municipa
investment Of s., 600, OO0 but is no
completed. At the rate at which de
fective work is being discovered i
LOOKS as If the editce may have TO b'
almost entirely rebuilt.
THE Eifiel tower is being put in readi
ness for the exposition. 1t is TO be Civ
, en- a coat of cname. paint in five shades
graded from monochrome on the sum
init TO deep orange on the pedestal
Two coats will be applied for which
nearly 50 tons of enamel will be re-
CURED.
MAYOR BUCK. of Portland, Ne,
gentleman rs years of age, has jus
completed the feat of walking to thu
summit Of Mt Washington, n. H., an'
back again.
go In is authoritatively stated that Pres
. ident Mckinley has been sn.p shottet
by camera fcnds 8 600 times In the pas
is months. This Is on an average o
more than five times a day, withou
any rest on Sunday.
1T is q curious fact that Queen Vic
toria should have an equal number o.
grandchildren and grcat-grandchil
dren-.32 OF each-whicb, together with
her seven children make the humber
OF her desce dants II.