The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-05-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

lions were formed IN New York state
in 1898.
THE Federal Steel Co. is to build two
modern blast furnaces at South Chi.
cago, III.
THE Roane Iron Co., of Chattanooga,
Tenn, is to build a new blast furnace
at lockwood, Tenn.
The immigration laws of the United
States have been extended to Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines
LoNDoNs record of deaths by violence
was 1914 last year, being 1e4 above the
average of the preceding 10 years
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered Sir John
Lubbock's 100 best books. They were
sent by special messenger to Osborne
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION bottles OF cham
payne are drunk annually in the world.
A Rheims dealer keeps 1900, 900 in re-
serve.
A LIVE lizard was found comfortably
been shipped from the United States to
London.
CLOTH is now being made successfully
from wood, and is said to be as flexible,
soft, durable and susceptible to dyes
Is other fabrics.
HAVANA municipal taxes are ~ here
after be collected in American currency
or its legal equivalent in Spanish or
foreign gold coin.
A SYNDICATE, headed by Warner
Miller, has obtained an option at ST.
900. 600 on the famous Candelarra mine
at San Dimas, Mex.
THE fierce crusade against tobacco
cigarettes in London has developed the
tea cigarette, which is particularly pat
ronized by woman.
A FIRM of glass dealers at Cincinnati
brought suit under the antitrust law
against the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.
for $50, 900 damages
NINE tons Of pennies are taken from
the London slot machines each week.
the firm which runs the ''mutoscope"
averaging So, 500 alone.
PARIro, believed to be the last Yaqui
Indian in California, is dead. He was
los years of age, according to the rec
ord kept in pioneer days
RELA kITTRIDGE, Of Belfast, Me-,
holds the worlds record for fine writ
ing, having succeeded in placing ~, OOJ
words on an ordinary postal card.
THE United States Worsted Co., with
n capital of $40, 600. 600. has incorporate
ed at Trenton, N. J. Will seek TO com
bine all the New England interests.
THE heart of a vegetarian beats, on
an average, So to the minute; that. of
the meat eater IL. This represents a
difference of 20, 600 beats in - hours.
u. 5. GRANT, JR-, of California, re-
sembles, his famous father not only in
face and figure, but in voice and in a
thousand little mannersms and traits.
RIO DE JANEIRo is, next to Buenos
Ayres, the largest city of South Amer
lea 1t has TOO. 900 inha bitants. and
Buenos Ayres claims about 100, 900
more.
SENATOR HANNA is said to employ
five stenographers merely TO answer
the letters of persons who think they
ought to have an Office and that he
ought TO get it for them.
LORD SALISBURY once handled pick
and shovel. During the great Aus
tralian gold craze he set out as a gold
hunter, and the howell in whica he
lived as ID rough, red-shirted miner is
still standing.
THERE are three states in which the
colored population is in excess Of the
white-Louisiana, white, 55s, 1856. color.
ed. $50, 1872; Mississippi, white, 544. sal,
colored. 744, T49, South Carolina, white,
4G2, COS, colored, $50, l4l.
CUMBERLAND furnace. of the Buffalo
Iron Co., at Cumberland Furnace p. O.,
Tenn, which has been out of blast
since 1893, is expected TO be blown in
about June l. The weekly capacity of
the furnace will be about 275 tons Of
charcoal pig iron.
THERE is a rule in Vienna theaters
prohibiting curtain calls, but on the
occasion of Herr Sonnenthal, once
playing favorite part, Emperor Fran
els Joseph himself arose in his box and
for the evening abrogated the decree.
with the result that the actor wac call.
ed AZ times before the curtain.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Co. pro-
poses TO erect $1,000, 900 steel bridge
across the Potomac at Washington,
and also a new station in that city.
The contemplated improvements will
cost from 20, 600 900 TO So, 600. 900, and
will give employment to very large
number of building mechanics in all
branches.
COLD water is the greatest stimulant
known to the medical profession, pos
sessing more lasting power than the
strongest brandy. Ii has been known
20 bring the pulse up TO 100 from 70 in
q few minutes time.
Miss ELLEN BuRDLETr, young
American, is said 10 have purchased
the Pompeiian palace, in Paris, built
by Prince Jerome Bonaparte, with the
intention of turning it into a restaur-
ant during the Paris exposit in.
THE blast furnace Of the Poughkecp-
sic Iron Co., at Poug hkeepsie, NY, will
be put in overation as soon as repairs
are finished The stack has Dcen idle
since 1896.