The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-04-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

lost at sea.
1T is estimated that about ., 900. O0t
bicycles have been made in Europ,
and America.
The juice of the banana, being strong
shoe backing
EXPERIMENTS to reproduce dead mems
features from their skulls are being
made in Germany.
THE eyes of snakes are never closed.
Alive or dead, sleeping or waking,
they are always wide open.
The price of medicine in Prussia is
regulated by the state, a new price list
being published every year.
THE only artisan buried in Westmin-
ster Abbey is George Graham, who in
vented clockwork in the year 1900.
THE most extensive cemetery in the
world is that at Rome, in which over
5000, 900 human beings have been in
TERED.
The largest telescope in existence
does not make the planet Mars appear
any bigger than the moon does through
an opera glass.
and so eggs each time. The descend
ants of one female fly in single sea-
son may number . 0s0 500
PLANTS suffer from the smoke of
cities because the fumes injure the po-
rous structure of the leaves and inter
fere with their free inspiration.
LEMON baths are popular in the West
Indies. Three or four lemons are cut
mp and left to soak in water half an
hour. The bath is very refreshing.
The greatest coal field in the world
(21, ZOO square miles, is in the Chinese
province of Human. At the present
rate of consumption the world could |
be supplied with coal from Shansi for |
10000 years.
Mrs. TAN JIoK KIM. late of Singa-
pore, is buried in a $4,000 coffin. 1t
was decorated with silk, gold and
precious stones, and was the most cost
ly coffin ever constructed in the
Eth aight's settlement.
I've Shah has in his palace at Tehe-
ran q twelve-inch globe, upon which
the psrts of the world are set out in
jewels of various colors-England with
rubies, India with diamonds, the sea
with emeralds, and so on.
HAWKS have been seen to follow in
the wake of a moving railway train, to
swoop down on small birds that were
suddenly disturbed and frightened by
the noise, and therefore for the mo-
ment were off their guard.
.IT is IS years since the first Japanese
new spAper was established, and now
there are in existence 575 daily and
weekly papers. 35 law magazines, IS
med cal magazines, IL scientific and a |
large number of religious journals
FOREIGNERS in China buy nearly ev-
erything on credit, giving signed
''chits" for every purchase, the reason
being their unwillingness to load them
elves down with silver or native
DIN. while paper money fiuctuates too
much.
WHEN a Chinaman gives grand
party he sends three invitations to each
guest; one two days before the event,
another on the day itself, and the third
just before the hour has struck. to sig. !
nifty how impatient he is for his visit
ors' arrival.
OF % countries 10 have flags with |
red in them, the list including the |
United States, England, France, Ger
many, Austria, Italy, Spain, Denmark, |
Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Tur.
key, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Venezu-
ella and Cuba.
SENAToR-ELECT HAYWARD, of Ne |
braska, wears upon his watch chain g |
valuable child's ring set with a small |
diamond, which he found on one of the |
streets of Chicago twenty years ago
and for which he has never been able |
TO discover an owner.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Massachusetts legislature to provide
that the city fathers shall use car
riages at public expense only for public
funerals and at the entertain ment of
distinguished guests, and then only
upon the written order of the mayor
AT BirlSin, near rybridge, Eng,
the other day aplow came into contact
with a stone coffin covered with a
stone lid and containing human bones.
The coffin is seven feet six inches long,
three feet wide, and the sides four
inches to five inches thick. 1t weighs
nearly two tons.
Mr.. BoRkEDAL, of Norway, an.
nounces that the sun is burning on,
more rapidly than is usually believed,
and that unless something interfere.
onr grandchildren will see its extinc-
ton. Mr.. Mohn, also of Norway, has
checked Mr. Borkedal's calculations
and finds them correct.
The japanese torpedo boats have re.
eeived names entirely out of keeping
with their destructive purposes. The
following are examples: Dragon Fly,
Full Moon, Moon in Clouds, Sea Beach,
Peewit. Lightning, Thunder, Dawn of
Day, Clustering Clouds, Daybreak,
Ripples, Evening Mist, Dragons Lamp,
Falcon. Maggie, White Mapped Crane
and White Hawk.
ACCORDING to high authority, cold
water is a valuable stimulant to many.
II not all, people. Its action on the
heart is more stimulating than brandy.
1t has been known TO raise the pulse |
from 70 TO over 100.
Adm. SCHLEY Is a mathematician |
who can do most of his work without |
the aid of paper. In Liverpool some |
years ago he triumphantly bested a |
professional lightning calculatOr'wiio |