The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


yard law school
THE saw mills at West Duluth ar
.unning night and day.
A CATERPILLAR can eat coo times II
weight of food in month.
FREE sewing schools will be started
by the Prussian government.
PAPER is now being made in HOLLAND
from potato stems and leaves.
THE length of life of a tradesman /,
only two-thirds that of farmer.
BISMARCK fought 2s duels. and in
these conflicts received but one wound
GERMANY's receipts from picture pos
tai cards were increased from 1856 tc
1897 by 5000, 600.
MANY houses in Berlin are numbere
with luminous figures, which are east
ly visible at night
CONGRESSMAN kETCHAM, of New
York. has served in IS congresses and
has never made speech.
MORE newspapers are printed in the
United States than in England. France
and Germany combined.
NJ. lola first sought membership or
the French academy on May /. 1890.
Since then he has been a candidate
twenty two times.
THERE are more wrecks in the Baltic
Hea than any other place in the world
The average is one wreck a day
shroug hout the year
IMMENSE coal fields have been discov.
sred in Zululand, the seams being IS
feet in thickness and of good quality
t. ID har
In Spain Hebrews are not permitted
70 erect and maintain houses of wor-
ship. They have no civil rights and
exist in the kingdom only as aliens
WITHIN a mile from Congleton, Eng.
land. on the high road from Maccles.
field, there is "A deserted village of over
3Ohouses, not or of which is tenanted.
THE largest mass of pure rock salt in
the world lies under the province OF
Galicia- Hungary. II is known TO be
$50 miles long, 20 broad and $50 feet
in thickness.
Ice cream in church is opposed by
dist, who says: when an ice cream
freezer goes into church the Holy
Spirit goes out"
WHEN maid Of honor to Queen Vic
toria has survived her youthful charms
and at middle age is still unmarried,
she is relieved of duty and has her
salary increased from 81, 900 year to
$4,000
A NEW wheel for motor cars and sim
liar heavy vehicles is called a flexible
wheel. The box is formed of block
1 - l.. l.
weight Of the conveyance and acts as a
spring.
The manufacture and sale Of dolls
in Europe exceed, at low estimate,
10000, 900 per annum. One firm in Paris
alone turns out 1000 dolls day, and
many other houses make even larger
numbers.
VIENNA has begun the construction
of bicycle paths through the streets.
Ground has been conceded for the pur-
pose of building a new street on condi-
tion that strip be prepared for the
use of bicyclists
THE submarine telegraphs of the
world mum Der 1900. Their aggregate
length is 40, 600 miles. their total cost
is estimated at $780, ooO OOO, and the
number of messages annually trans
United at about 6, 600, 900.
GOLD production in West Australia
reached its maximum last January,
when 10000 ounces were taken out.
The March output was less by 8, 00C
ounces. South African gold production
reached its maximum in March.
In several respects the peace confer.
ence. now in session at The Hague, is
the most remarkable assemblagc OF
nations which history records. OF the
LOGO 00O 600 people who constitute the
population of the entire world about
1,40O, 600. 900 are represented in that
gathering.
THE oldest tree on earth with an au.
thentic history is the great Bhoo tree
of Burma. For 20 centuries it has
been held sacred to Buddha, and no
person is allowed to touch the trunk.
When the leaves fall they are carried
away as relics by pilgrims.
PAINTED coffee beans are among the
latest curiosities of the adulterated
food market. Inferior beans are col
cred with burnt lumber and made to
look ike lIC lhCJ
described as "shiny brown outside.
yellow inside and tasteless."
THOMAS Edison keeps his shop with
everything an inventor could possibly
want. a fact in which he takes consid
cradle pride. The other day he Of
fered prize of 81 to any of his assist
ants who would need in his work ap
ar,;cla not in the shon The man yyht
took the prize wanted a clothespin.
Gov. ROOSEVELT spends the entire
time from 10 a. m. to 5 T. m. every day
in seeing people," When the legisla-
ture is in session the hours of from 10
to II and from TO are reserved for
its members. The time of guess 10
divided into minute portions, each Gall.
er receiving card with the time al
lotted 10 him written upon It