The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-09

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learning.
STREET refuse in Italy is sold by pu
lie auction.
ST. PETERSBURG is the unhealthiC
capital in Europe.
A LOAD of two tons can be readi
carried by full grown elephant. IL,
A band of Mormons from salt
City has started a crusade in go,
In ten years the production, nor,
engines in Germany has
than doubled. ..t.o 90,
THE Ohio penitentiary $50, nm,
inmates. OF these IS ~
2,SO6 are men. Los :,
t-;n.N' or taking butter Z
the Russian citie" ., -,
les Of Lord Bfon were iee'"'- ma is
New York IN -, 's"' large ouan.
OIL re6<dng in ny Y"''
making astt nm Paris three great
tities-er houses, where 500 600 head of
-ttle are killed annually.
AMONG the coachmen of Berlin are
sever retired army officers, three ex.
KOREA is about the size of the island
OF Great Britain, being 600 miles long
and from 100 to 200 miles wide.
The maximum weight of freight To-
comotives is now 2ls.OOO pounds
against 100000 pounds 10 years ago.
GEN. MILES has received an invita-
tion 20 be present at the coming mill.
tary maneuvers at Windsor, England.
The duke of Cambridge is the oldest
member of the English royal family,
icing two months older than Queen
Victoria.
INDIANS in Oregon market every
spring tons of wool gathered from
sheep that die on the ranges during
the winter.
The educational system of Denmark
is so perfect and popular that through
out the entire country there is not an
illiterate family.
The king of Siam has a bodyguard of
female warriors-400 girls chosen from
among the strongest and hsndsomest
of all the ladies in the land.
1t has been found in Switzerland
that in building a railway laborers
could work only one-third as long at a
height of 20. 0o0 feet as a mile lower.
ARTIFICIAL legs and arms were in
use in Egypt as early as Il. c. roo
They were made by the priests, who
were the physicians of that early time.
ANIMAL trainers say the most intelli-
gent animals for their purpose are the
walrus, elephant, monkey, seal and
sea-lion. A young walrus, that is
hanarht g. ~ l..
is worth S.. 000
MARK TwAIs's lawyers have bought
for their client the old frame house in
which he was born at Florida, Mo. II
is said that the new owner will reno
vdte the place and restore it to the
condition it was in during his boyhood.
The princess of Wales possesses a
cross which is supposed to always
bring good luck TO its owner. 1t was
formerly the property of the king Of
Denmark, having been discovered
yeas ago in the grave of the beautiful
Queen Dagmar.
The young duchess of Marlborough
and several other ladies of much
wealth and rank are going in for fal.
conry. 1t is an expensive form of sport,
an ordinary hawk costing as much as
$500 and requiring quite an outlay for
maintenance and training
lr is not all pleasure TO be the wife |
of president of the United States.
Mrs. Mckinley receives about 200 let |
tiers day, all OF which she feels bound |
TO glance at, II not read entirely,
and very many Oh which she is com |
PEELED by circumstances to answer.
A WHITE tiger was shot -,telv in the |
Dibrugarh district, of Assa.> accord. |
ing to the Calcutta Englishma, uo
was nine feet long and in the priri- ~ |
life. The Calcutta taxidermist, WI
prepared the skin, states that in IS
years he had neither seen nor heard of
such a thing as a white tiger.
A FORCE fully equal to 47S, 600, 600
horse power was estimated as devel-
oped in West Indian cyclone. This
is about 10 times the power that is ere
atable by all means within the range
OF mans capabilities within the same
time. Were steam, water, wind mills
and the strength of all men and all an
finals combined, they could not at all
approach the tremendous force exerted
by this terrible storm.
THE continental papers, commenting
on Queen Victoria's trip to Nice, say
that since her last visit there she has
aged rapidly ind that her health seems
to be steadily failing.
ANY one can distinguish poisonous
serpent from a harmless one, for a ven
omous snake invariably possesses a tri-
angular shaped head and blunt nose,
while it's tail is correspondingly blunt
and stubby.
sIR THEODORE MARTIS, the trans
Iator of Horace, has given TO the Eng
fish actors benevolent fund Sl0,o in
memory of his wife, who was Helen
Faucit, the actress. It will be Gale d
iLs Helen Fsucit bequest."