The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-03-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

ON rainy days Gov. Roosevelt still
dons the old sombrero which he wore
at Santiago and San Juan.
SENATOR TURNER, of Washington,
was one of the famous Grant 3O6' in
the national convention of 1850
IF all the railway tunnels of the
world were placed end to end they
would reach distance of 5iI miles.
HALF of the ships in the world are
British. The best of them can be con-
verted into ships of war in As hours.
The stars on the United States coin.
age are six-pointed. while the United
States flag carries tive-pointed stars.
The latest cable which has been laid
across the Atlantic weighs $50 pounds
10 the mile. This is the biggest of all
the cables.
THE capital stock of the Havana
Electric Railway Co, Incorporated in
New Jersey, has been increased from
s.. OOO 900 to $40, 900, 000
ONLY two rulers of Russia since Peter
the Great have died natural death
Catharine ii. and Alexander Ill, the
father of the present car.
ONLY one marble statue of the hu.
man figure with eyelashes is known.
II is the sleeping Ariadne, one of the
gems Of the vatican, and was found in
1908.
PROF. HEWITT, of Williams college,
speaking of the recent Boston alumni
dinner, said that in the past seven
years Williams had received $1,000, 00O
in money.
The robbery of graves is the only
crime under Chinese law for which the
thief may be justly killed on the spot
by any one finding him out.
BRUSSELS has a tower clock which
has never been wound up by human
hands BY an ingenious arrangement,
the wind keeps it wound up.
A BRoKEN-wINDED horse is rarely
seen in Norway. A bucket of water is
always placed within its reach when
feeding, and the animal alternately
takes a mouthful of hay and a sip Of
water.
A SPECTATOR in a japanese theater,
on payment of a small extra fee, is
permitted TO stand up and the person
behind him can not object, although
the latter's view of the performance is
Cbstructed.
Miss ANNA DANBRIDGE MITCHELL, a
southern girl, who has Just made her
debut in New York society, is great
granddaughter of Betty Washington
Lewis, sister Of oar first pre- sidsns; "a. aud
XAE Wos ~ & p Sn ~, nat VI III
which, when dressed, becomes yer,
attractive blue. A single skin is wortl
as much as $1,000. A pelisse worn by
the Emperor Nicholas, lined with THU
fur. cost $4,000.
TIE heirs of Peter Cooper have sign
ed deeds which will eventually add
$3.50 900 to the endowment fund OF
Cooper union in New York. This will
bring the total amount given to the in.
stitution by the Cooper family up &c
more than So. 900, 900.
THE largest 10 ayes of bread baked in
the world are those of France and
Italy. The pipe" bread of Italy is
baked in loaves two or three feet long.
while in France the loaves are made in
the shape of very long rolls, four OF
1--WE feet in length, and in many cases
Six feet.
EAzoRs can be quickly sharpened by
new device formed of circular piece
or flexible material, having a fine
grinding powder on its surface, the
sharpener being folded over the back
OF the razor so that the grinding sur
face acts on the blade as it slides TO
and fro.
THE lord chancellor of England is
never allowed under any circumstance
10 make journey which involves sea
voyage, however short the passage. He
is supposed to have the great seal in
his immediate keeping, day and night,
under all circumstances, and its safety
is not to be risked.
AT 81. Paul Park, a suburb of st.
Paul, the other day, Mr.. and Mrs. AL.
pha Gardner cele Grated the SEVENTEEN
anniversary of their wedding, which
occurred in Sackett's Harbor, n. Y,
February IL, 1929. Both were born al
the same place, Mr.. Gardner in 1905
and his wife in 1910.
A BELFAST (Me.) man, Elbridge S.
Pitcher by name, has leather wallet
OF an extremely old pattern, on the
inside of which was written: This
pocketbook was taken from BENJAMIN
Nentworth's pocket after he was
wounded in battle, by Sion Went.
<orth, his brother, in the French war,
1876"
The new freproof curtain for the
Paris opera house to be lowered after
each representation, or in the event OF
accident or panic, will be made of
aluminium plates 3.32 inches thick, Is
feet long by feet 39s inches wide, rep.
resenting surface of nearly seq
square feet, while weighing is ton,
whereas similar curtain made of iron
would weigh nearly Eve tons.
FoR the 20 months ending with Feb
ruary exports from the United States
aggregate So, 062, $50 800, while the ex.
ports from the United Kingdom for
the same period aggregated 81, $50, 9Oi,-
15s.
In Germany it is considered neces.
tary that child should "go up before
Il goes down in the world, SO it is car
ried upstairs as soon as born. In case
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