The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-12-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

plague of frogs.
THE second city Of the British empire
In size is Calcutta
The German army includes more
than 10, 600 military musicians
Frogs and toads are gifted with re.
markabiy acute sense of hearing.
GEN. LAwToS, in a recent interview,
declared himself total abstainer.
The copper mines of upper Michigan
are now giving employment to IS, 55l
men.
CHICAGO has the smallest bor led in
debtedness of any large city ia this
country.
HERR KRuPP, the gunmaker, las the
largest income of any manufacturer in
Europe
The assessed valuation of property
in South Carolina has increased Sc, 600.
900 over last year.
THE first Hebrew congregation il
the Hawaiian islands has just been
formed at Honolulu.
Is all the capitals of Europe, exec pt
London, some theaters are kept mp by
government support.
The Baroness Hirsch has given about
$50, OO0 900 toward charity since the
death of her husband.
In Dublin fine system of electric
trans makes it easy for any one to get
about from place 10 place.
GERMANY now has an air ship that
will lift ten tons and remain in the air
for several days il required.
THE University Of Pennsylvania is
about to confer the degree of LII ID.
on President Diaz Of Mexico
=. A. Pope, who made himself q
millionaire out of manufacturing bicy-
cles, never learned to ride q wheel.
THE whole of the trade in cheap hos
iery in Cuba is in the hands of the
German and Catalan manufacturers
EVERY boy in Germany, from the
crown prince to the meanest subject
Is obliged 10 learn some useful trade.
WASHINGTON fremen are provided
with portable telephones, which may
be connected with any fire-alarm box.
A NATURAL soap mine and paint
mine are two of the latest curiosities
which have been discovered in British
Columbia
AMERICAN condensed milk is gaining
a foothold in the Asiatic markets 1t
is rapidly transplanting the German
product in Japan.
A RECENT investigation has shown
that more than half the families of
Stuttgart have only one or two rooms
EDWARD Halt. 81, escaped from
prison at Canandaigua, n. Y, by
sneezing through a hole seven and a
half inches square.
The marriage of Miss Cecil Miles
daughter of the general of the army
and Mrs. Miles, to Col Rsber, U. 5. A,
will occur in January.
BOTTLES of perfume, still fresh, jars
of pomade that had not lost its fra
GRANGE, have been recovered from Her.
culaneum and Pompeii.
THERE are altogether 334 parks well
stocked with deer in the different coun-
ties of England, and red deer are
found in about thirty-one.
BALTIMORE is said TO contain the
largest Negro population of any city in
the world. The coming census is ex-
pected to show at least l25, 600.
CHEAP chemical dyes threaten to
ruin the great indigo industry OF Be-
har, India, where hundreds of thou
sands of families have found EN- ploy-
ment.
A wELL-KNowy specialist on ear dis
eases has made the announcement that
half the deafness prevalent at the
present time can be traced TO the prac-
tice of boxing the ears of children.
ALL the emery used in the world
comes from the little island of Naxos,
near Greece. AS it is one of the hard
est substances known, ordinary quar-
rying tools can not be used to cut it
out.
THE military household of the car
Is composed Of 90 officers of various
ranks, So Of whom belong to the army
e and Is TO the navy. Nineteen mem bers
of the royal family are included in the
list.
NATURAL gas conveyed in bamboo
tubes was utilized in China years ago,
and one of their writer's mentions
boxes which repeated the sounds of
persons voices that were dead-a ma
chine sim lar to the photograph.
PAPER shingles have been introduced
into Japan by an enterprising Tohyo
firm as substitutes for the wooden arti-
Gle The new idea is a slab of thick.
tarred pasteboard, more easily man
aged than ordinary shingles aud
costing only half as much.
ANOTHER blue grotto, like that on
the island of Capri, has been discov.
cred on the shore of the promontory
of Skinafi on the Ionian Island Zante.
The entrance is from the sea and is
larger than in the Capri grotto, but
the interior is smaller. Fishing boats
can make their way in when the water
is calm
The mounted police of Cape Colony
are picked men, used to fighting and
proud of the high reputation CT their
corps. The force consists OF 1000 en-
listed men and IS officers
The most curious place in the world
- the Alhambra, in Spain 1t was
originally fortress, SO great in extent
as 70 be capable of holding 40, 900 men.
1t was begun In 14S and finished in
iSi{.
INDIANA loses 83v 900 600 in its as