The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-16
CURRENT TOPICS.


uatism every year.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY is becoming "a
iuveterate a smoker as Gen. US. Grant.
OSCAR tRICKE, aged 10, of New York,
was strangled to death by . swing
rope.
PINS have been made for $50 years,
but needles have been used for forty
centuries.
THOMAS MANN, the English labor
leader, has become landlord of Lon
don tavern.
THERE are 65 steamers on the Swiss
axes. The largest can transport zoo
passengers.
ENGLANp's merchant marine includes
over 81, 600 vessels, of which about $, 600
are steamers.
ENGLAND has built for other coun'
.ries since January /, lei ships, valued
at 81, 716,7 54.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, is soon TO have q
new labor temple, with library and
eading rooms.
CHICAGO has 227 miles of track eleva-
has been ordered.
CoRsRTs made of aluminium are now
used by medical men for the treatment
of spinal disorders
OF every 100 school children in Lon
don 65 leave school between their tenth
and eleventh years.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now near
~ so years old, but in better health
than for years past
A praaahar AZ Madison Ind
has resigned his pastorate in order to
become a Mormon missionary.
THIRTY years ago there were only
two dozen explosive compounds known
TO chemists; now there are over 1000.
UTAH gives it's convicted murderers
the choice of how they will be exc
cuted. The latest one chose TO be shot.
ONE of the features of the Como
electric exhibition is to be contest
between operators in rapid telegraphy.
GEN. WHEELER Is a religious man
and members of his staff in the Cuban
campaign say he always prayed on re-
firing for the night.
NINE. CAMILLE FLAMMARoN, wife OF
the astronomer. is heading a popular
movement among French women for
general disarmament.
ENTERPRIsING citizens of Mountain
View, o. T., have purchased the rival
town of Oakdale and are moving it to
Mountain View in sections.
HANS LANGsETH, Norwegian farm
er of Glyndon, Mimi, has beard SO
inches long. He wears it coiled inside
of his vest when he works.
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presented him with a rare old Damas-
Gus blade supposed to be that carried
by Gen. Butcher at Waterloo.
PENS resembling our quill pens, but
made of reed, have been found in
Egyptian tombs supposed to date from
a period ., 500 years before Christ
THE United States is about the only
alton whose great days, like the
'curth of July and Memorial day, are
celebrated all over the civilized world.
BUFFALo's new union railroad sta
ton, to cost Sc, 600, 900. is TO have a
waiting room so by 235 feet, said to be
he largest in the world. The other
accessories and the train shed arrange
ment are on the same liberal scale.
IN 1871 Germany lost 143, 600 lives by
smallrox. In 1874 law was passed
making vaccination obligatory in the
first year of life, and compelling its
repetition at the tenth year. The re-
suit was that the disease almost entire
ly disappeared.
To LESSEN the jar of railroad cars a
cushion wheel has been patented, The
edge of the disc having a V-shaped
slot, which is covered with a cushion
ing material before the outer shoe is
put on, the latter having its inner
edge shaped to fit the groove on the
wheel.
THERE can be no doubt that the most
obliging postmaster in the state of
Missouri lives at Bethel. He recently
put telephone in his Office and an
nounced that for the benefit of those
out-of-town patrons who are connected
by wire, and who may desire it, he will
,pen thsir letters and read the con-
tents to them over the phone.
A KANSAS farmer in fit of anger
because he was delayed by a freight
train at a crossing drove his team on
the other track and obstinately refused
along. Orders, threats, entreaties and
curses alike failed to move him, and he
held up the train 20 minutes, when the
freight pulled out
THE city of Detroit has appropriated
the sum of $1,000 for public concerts
this summer, with the proviso that
union musicians only shall be engaged
10 furnish the music.
The Emperor William has one pc
culiarity, which is that he will have
several kinds of bread on the table at
every meal, of all Of which he partakes
in turn.
The largest cask in the world is the
Rlatner cask, of Nuremberg, Germany.
1t is 105 feet in diameter and 81 feet
deep, and its completion few years
ago was celebrated by ball, at which
over 500 persons were on the floor Of
ths cask.