The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-11-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

rocco army is a Scotchmau.
In all Spain there are only 3, $50 Chi
dren in the Sunday-schoois.
Miss FLoRErTA VINISs, of Hui
Mass, owns nine newspap ers
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT IN,
TicE SHIRAs is a stenographer.
AN international congress of clerk
may be held at Paris next year.
Mosr of the patients in lunatic asy
lums nave brown or black eyes
The centenary of Count Won Moltk,
will be celebrated October rs. 1900.
Explosive bullets were first used il
lnoia for hunting tigers and elephants
THERE are over 900 travelling libra
hes in the United States. Wisconsin
has 2i5
In Belgium a new fuel has been in
vented called "vesuve," made of peat
and resin.
HALF the men you meet are carryin G
the watches they gave their wives be.
fore marriage.
In is said there is more champagne
drank in one year than the champagne
districts produce in seven.
The gifts of John ID. Rockefeller to
the city of Cleveland now amount to
the surprising sum of 81, 200, 500.
ENGLISH and French scientists are
planning for an international scientific
congress at the Paris exposition.
MRS MARIA ALLEN, of Elyria, J.,
who is IS years of age, is the Oldest
member of the Woman's Relief corps
IT is said that a syndicate of Ameri-
can, English and German bankers have
arranged for a loan of SIS, ooo, 600 to
Guatemala
ONE test for distinguishing diamonds
from glass and paste is to touch them
with the tongue. The diamond feels
much the colder.
OWING to the feeling over the Boer
war English shops in the vincinity of
the Grand opera house in Paris have
been boycotted by the French.
ABOUT l, 500 lives have been lost by |
the earth shocks at Ardin, in Asia |
Minor. Many towns have been com.
pletely wiped out of existence.
A PECULIAR clock, of the time of |
Charles l., was the lantern, or bird
cage style, which hung from the walls
high up, with its works exposed.
FRITZ ELoFF, enc of President Kru.
gers 80 grandchildren, bears the hon.
orary title of lieutenant despite the
fact that he is only four years old
OVER s3,OOo,00o have been expended
this year in connecting the main long
distance telephone lines with small
GOWNS east of the Mississippi river.
A GOOD English authority estimates
that $1,000, 000,0 900 foreign capital is
now operating in Russia in manufac-
turing, industrial, steamship and other
lenterpsi.ss. -iisa-1c isss-ssst &. -
LIEUT.. SAN DIEGO MAsEo, a son of
TIE Cuban leader, is on his way TO fight
the Philippine rebels. In an interview
at Omaha he said he hoped some day
to be president of Cuba.
In some towns of Germany the teIe-
phone is introduced by tobacccnists az
an additional attraction to customers.
ANY one VINO buys cigar may, if ne .
desires, speak over the tobacconist's
NEW way to coal locomotives is be-
Ing introduced by prominent rail-
road, All the engineer has to do is to '
run his engine on trestle, touch a v
button and tenderful of coal drops b
INTO his tender, which is weighed as i, v
lrops in.
Miss ALICE SERBER, of New York, u
.he first woman granted the privilege
't practicing in the United States dis,
.rict court. is Russian by birth, and
lid not know English until her twelfth
'ear She, however, speaks without a a
race of accent a
The cooperative stores in Allegheny c.
county. Pa, may be consolidated. The t.
dea is to purchased goods direct from C,
manufacturers and importers. The
GAINESVILLE cooperative association,
of coal miners, is at the
lead of the movement II
1T is estimated that there are IL, OoO,-
90 cows in the United States devoted
butter making, and that their aver
ge yield is 1875 pounds of butter a
ear, or total of 1875, 900, 900 pounds, -
r about is pounds for each one of the u'
opulation of the country. tn
Col BADEN-PowELL, the veteran Pa
outh African warrior. is an excellent in
fhcer, a good sportsman, an inimita- Il
lie entertainer and a bit of literary be
well to boot. He went through the de
No Matabeie wars and gained expert. ha
nee. honor and-no wounds.
THERE are nearly 500 water-power 80
ectric plants in the United States. 20
presenting an investment of over
10 100000 horsepower represented by vel
alter wheel, 200 600 There are COO sib
lies of street railway operated with aw
alter power electrically transmitted.
The Lick observatory astronomers
u us the north star is 2s5, 900, 600, 600
les away. The Lick telescope and KIN
have discovered Is for
iltiple stars The star Mizar the pro
ddle star of the handle of the great bee
'peL has briIliancy 100 times that bor
Sur sun.
Ire electric power is used in the
mes for hosting. Air COMPRISING -.
ised to operate the drill. BY means
electricity low grade of ore is fgh
rked that was never used before. Il.
BOUT half the cases appealed To the Cha
orado supreme court are reversed. who
majority OF them on technicalities. was
largely TO the fact that iudusS of 4,