The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-05-19
CURRENT TOPICS.


to inaugurate street cars "ior ladie
only
The annual loss by fire in the Unite
States is about 81, 500, 600, 600 on insure
property.
SwiNBURNE, the poet, is said to
growing very eccentric as he nears hi
s0th year.
A GERMAN doctor finds that only Il
one case out of Is are both eyes in goo
condition.
THE people of the United States con
sumo about 4, 600, 900 bottles Of pickle
every week.
A GENUINE lock of Napoleon's hal
was sold at London, the other day, 70
FIVE guineas-
SEPTEMBER T. Labor day, has beer
declared legal holiday N the Philip
pine islands.
THERE are no 'trusts" In England
In that country they are called char
tered companies
A CHINESE teacher in private schoo
receives about one cent a day for every
pupil in his class
Ir is considered a heinous ofense to
ride bicycle anywhere near the city
Of Con tantinople.
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected
for fourmilling trust, with capital
ization of SIS, 100000.
Iowa, Kentucky. Maryland, Nassa.
chusetts, Mississippi and Ohio elect
governors next November.
A QUART of milk contains about the
tame amount of nutriment as three
quarters of pound of beef.
AT Atlanta, Ga, Mr.. and Mrs Will
liam Alexander Curry, white, were
married by colored minister
AN English syndicate is said TO be
negotiating for the purchase of ten
cotton mills at Fall River, Mass.
ELEVEN years after burial the body
of Niagara woman was disipterred
and found to have been petrifled.
A FRENCH chemist has invented a
blue soap which renders unnecessary
the use Of bluing in laundry work.
MRS LELAND STANFORD is the owner
Of one of the finest jewel collections in
the world. it is valued at 81, O00. 900.
THE Turkish minister at Washing
ton says the sultan is not hard up, and,
therefore, will not sell Palestine to the
Jews
In New Granada is an ink plant, the
juice of which is red, but which turns
black after writing and can not be
rubbed out.
MARGARET DELAND says she reads
economics. history and the newspapers
for instruction and novels only for en-
tertaipment.
A LITERARY statistician declares that
for the year 1s9s eight novels a day
were published, Sundays and holidays
not excluded.
AT the railway stations in Russia
books are kept in which passengers
may enter any complaint they may
wish to make.
HERMANN HoIDHIEM, German Jour.
nalist, has been arrested fifty times for
political offenses and has served twenty
terms in prison.
AN artificial rubber. as good as the
real thing, is now made of glue and
giycerine mixed with sulphur oil,
such as ichthvol.
IT is estimated that at the present
rate of growth London. which now
has a population of 1851, 600, will in
-94l, haco over IS, 900, 900.
EIGHT of the "a governors of Indiana
who have died lie in unmarked graves,
and yet in their time they were the
marked men of the hour.
QUEEN VICTORIA has dress, which is
made from webs spun by spiders. II IS
said TO be finer and more beautiful
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CoFFINs in Russia are never covered
with black. If the deceased is a child,
pink is used; il woman, crimson,
though for a widow they use brown.
The queen of Italy, says gossip.
weighs 176 pounds; Queen Victoria. III
pounds; the queen of Spain, LAT pounds,
and the queen of Belgium. l43 pounds.
MANY, even poor Chinese, says the
Celestial Empire, spend from 20 to 25
per cent of their income in idol wor-
ship which practically eats away their
capital.
A WHITE tiger was shot lately in the
Dibrugarh district of Assam, accord.
ing to the Calcutta Englishman. He
was nine feet long and in the pri me OF
life. The Calcutta taxidermist who
prepared the skin states that in ls
years he had neither seen nor heard OF
such thing as white tiger
SIX of the 81 state senators of Mis-,
souri, are over six feet tall. 1.-THE big
four" as they are known, are Charles
Schweichardt feet 20 inches, &c
pounds; Buell. L. Matthews, feet z
inches 2l0 pounds; +. IL. Fields, 6 feet
2 inches, 2a5 pOuads, and j. NJ. Rollins,
feet 80 inches e4J pounds.
ROMAN newspapers record the death
of the last descendant of the I.antt
family, the Countess Gozzadina-G oaza.
dina. Her father was Senator Goaza
dina; her mother Marie Teresa Segl,
Alighiri. She was married as a young
girl, and afterward left her husband,
Count Zucchini Her Last will disposes
of about 5000, 600 francs
SPEAKER REED is now 60 years of age
He was SO when elected speaker. Jas
g. Blaine was the. youngest speaker
being only 80 when he receiver the
honor.
TIE Waldorf hotel, New York. is to
be enlarged this summer to the height
and capacity of the Astoria. This viii
be the first step toward making the
WalfdOrf-Astoria the largest hotel ia
the world