The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-09-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE greatest customers the Peoria
distillers have are the Japanese.
AN exhibition of Canada's mineraI
resources is to be held at Toronto.
The rearing of silk worms gives EN-
pioymeut to 900, 900 people in Italy.
The finest shops in a Chinese city are
those devoted to the sale of collins.
A PERMANENT exhibition of Spanish
products is being established at Hayti.
Ii the wear ended June so. 4,7+6 inn
migrants were received at San Fran
cisco.
THE Dominion of Canada imposes a
tax of $50 on every Chinaman that en-.
tiers that country.
ONE hundred thousand Americans
have visited Europe this summer,
breaking al records.
OF every 100 school children in Lon
don. 65 leave school between THEN
tenth and eleventh years.
The president has authorized the or
ganization of a company of Indians
for service in the Philippines
BES CLENCH. the highest mountain
in Scott nd. will have an electric road
20 its summit and a sanitarium.
AFRICA mas nearly 20 different Ian.
cuages and this fact presents great
difficulties 10 missionary efforts.
BELLA NJ. HUGHEs, OF Atchison, Kan,
recently celebrated the fftieth ami.
versary of her second marriage.
oVANCoUvER city council has voted
$500 to the trades and labor council to.
ward the Labor day celebration.
PARIS has a burial vault fitted with
electrical appliances for the detection
of recovery n cataleptic subjects.
EVERY boy in Germany, from the
crown prince to the meanest 81 beet 10
obliged to learn some useful trade.
OWING TO the large increase in bust
ness the Great Siberian railway is TO
be rebuilt before the line is completed.
REPORTS of the cotton crop of Texas
Indian Territory and oklahoma show
q decrease in the yield Of ST. per cent.
JoHASSEsBUBs is ia miles from Port
Elizabeth, LoI% from Cape Town. 666
from East London, as from Durham
It'd 500 FROM De!zgos bay.
The health authorities of Bavaria
examined last year S. +S7 samples Of
food and drinks and made complaints
in 1853 per cent of all cases
FARMERS in Audroscoggin county,
Maine. complain bitterly of the injury
done to their crop by the protected
and rapidly-increasing deer.
ATa recent meeting of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Prof. Dills advo-
Gated the use of English as universal
language for men of science.
A sHELLFIsH known as the pianna in
the Mediterranean has the curiou:
power of spinning a viscid silk, which
is made in Italy, into a regular fabric.
WOMEN do the mining in Colon bia.
No man with any self-respect can be
induced 30 engage in that occupation,
because in Spanish times it was the
work of slaves.
IN the center of the plaza in Lima i,
a pretty bronze fountain that was
spaniard, and is probably the oldest
fountain in America.
BERLIN booksellers are strictly for
hidden TO sell school children book.
stitched with wire, as several cases o.
blood poisoning have been traced tc
scratches from rusty wire.
ONE of The queere st villages known
is in New Guinea, and is called Tupu'
selei. The houses are all supported or
piles and stand out in the ocean a con
siderable distance from shore.
Ii would be difficult TO imagine more
extraordinary digestive powers than
those of the hyena. One of these
beasts has been known to swallow siA
large bones without crushing them.
THERE is much French and Belgian
capital invested in the principal rail.
wy lines of Spain, while England
owns many of the shorter lines and is
also at the head of the mining inter.
sts.
The Ortiz mine grant of "a 900 acres
located 80 miles south of Santa Fe, y.
NJ, and covering the richest gold bear
Ing district of New Mexico, has been
sold to Thomas A. Edison and a New
York and London syndicate for S. 0o0,
hoo.
Cot. w. L. ALBRIGHT. of Ohio. Or.
ganizing a company with S3,0O0.tot
capital. TO build the Missing Link
railway" from Chattanooga to Walhal-
la, ;. c., distance of $50 miles, is in
Georgia to secure a charter in that
state.
a CONVERSATION of glove manufacture
ers has been effected, with a capital
stock of $40 900. 600. of which IS 900, 00O
is preferred stock. representing the
cash value of the properties merged,
and Sl2. 900 900 common stock, which is
to be distri buted as a bonus.
The weights of classes of students
before and after examination have
been made the subject of recent inves
tigation. In high classes. where natur-
ally the examination was most felt,
several pounds we're lost. showing how
the mental strain was felt In lower
classes the loss was not so great
THE number of failures from all
causes in automatic block signals as
compared with the total number of
movements of each signal does not ex-
ceed more than one in 80, 900.
A REMEDY for the bites of mosqui-
toes or gna,s and one that will even
alleviate the pain from the stings OF
bees and wasps, is 10 sponge the part
affected with a weak solution of liquid
ammonia and water.
The color of flowers. even the most