The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

dug up recently at North East, Pa.
The total cost to Russia of the i'm
perial family is $50, 600 900 per year.
lN Germany a clock has been mads
that is warranted TO go for 9, 600 years
IT is believed that in China there i,
20 times as much coal as in all Eu.
rope.
THE favoriie small arm in Brazil is a
double-barreled pistol made in Bel
GUM.
Music boxes for bicycles are now
manufactured 10y firm in Hamburg,
Germany
DANIEL WELLS, Of Milwaukee. aged
IS, is the oldest living cX-congressnan
In the west.
PAUL KRUEGEB's favori'e dish is salt
herring. He eats at least one of these
fish every day.
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE is said to be con-
templating the writing of life of his
uncle, X. Z. Lee.
MAJ. Gen. OTIS wife regularly re.
ceives a cablegram from her husba nd
on he 18th of every month.
IN he farming districts of Russia il
NCoN1 10 SShNS ~ ii1At a iAOI sc AOi OhC
day. and 81 cents to hire a man.
HENRY II. BENEDICT, the millionaire
typewriter manufacturer, was once o
teacher of Latin in the Fairfield semi
nary.
1T is said that at the death of Hetty
Green 81, 000 600 of her fortune will be
divided among 100 distant connec
tions.
CONGRESSMAN KETCHAM. of New York,
has a unique claim to fame. He has
served in IS congresses and has never
made speech.
A BALD eagle whose wing extension
was seven feet, was killed recently
near Milford, Del, while trying to
carry OF lamb.
A SUCCESSFUL firm OF tea merchants
In London is composed entirely of
women. The blenders, tasters and |
packers are also women.
THERE are three varieties of the dog |
that never bark-the Australian dog, |
the Egyptian shepherd dog and the
''lion-headed dog of Thibet.
IN 1850 Germany imported eggs to
the value of S., 500 900. In 1898 the
amount was nearly trebled. Russia
provides 90 per cent of them.
TO-DAY so, 900 persons and $50, 900, O0o |
are employed in the business of max
ing and distributing newspaper clip |
pings among those whom they concern.
The ordinary folding fan was in |
vented in the seventh century by a
japanese artist. who derived the idea
tohf hot 81 &c t.yis
THE prince of Wales has warned his
brother free masons not to make
themselves cheap by wearing their |
regalia on ordinary occasions. |
THE oldest creature living in the |
world belongs to Walter Rothschild. |
1t is a giant tortoise, weighing a quar-
ter of ton, and it has known life OF |
$50 years.
A LAW was recently passed in Nor
way prohibiting the sale of tobacco to
under i6 years of age without
a signed order from an adult relative
Or employer.
A LAW was recently passed in Swift
zerland prohibiting the manufactur-
ing, importation or sale of matches
the ordinary form of ye!-
low phosphorus.
Ir is averred by famous Chinese
doctor that nervousness is kept out of |
the Celestial empire by the use of soft
soled shoes. The hard soles worn by |
the Anglo-Saxon race are said to be the |
cause of their extreme nervous temper |
ament.
RAILWAY whistles infiict torture on |
30 many people that Austria has intro
duced system of dumb signaling to |
start and stop the trains. Belgium is |
trying compressed air whistles instead |
Of steam, and Germany experiments |
with horns.
WILLIAM OxLEY THOMPSON. the new
president of Ohio state university, |
spent ten years in getting his diploma
from Muskingum college, he ng so
poor that to get one years study he
had sometimes to work three years to |
save the money required.
IT is not generally known that s.
Coleridge Taylor, who composed the
cantata played at the last festival in |
Norwich, England, is a full-blooded
Negro. Mr.. Bispham declares the com.
poser VI hldWdLhd . w couiHg TSdSL-
the coming musical genius.
EACH day of the week has served a,
a day Of rest somewhere: Sunday
among Christians. Monday with the
Greeks, Tuesday with the Persians,
Wednesday with the Assyrians. Thurs
day with the Egyptians, Friday with
the Turks and Saturday with the He
brews.
A OFT of 1925, 600, just made by Mr..
Longstaff to the Royal Geographical
society, makes British expedition to
the Antarctic probable. The society
has now collected 5000, 900 for that par.
pose, and when it has $50, 900 more win
again ask the government to under.
take the worl-.
AMONG the delegates at the interna-
tional council of women was DIR. Ida
Kahn, a Chinese woman, who was edu-
rated at Ann Arbor by American mis-
,ionaries.
The most costly piece Of railway line
n the world is probably that between
he Mansion house and Aldgate sta
ions in London, which required the
Of close upon $40, 900, 900
Der mile.
TORTOISE she'll, as it comes from the