The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-10-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

~ are now 4l'lnp.
THE famous PAGER, Joe Patchen, ha:
been sold for $50, 900.
THERE are nearly 900 stitches in {
pair of hand-sewed boots.
THREE out of every 1856 English
speaking people have red hair.
Chief Justice of England. Lord Rus
sell, attended the Dreyfus trial.
The finest shops in a Chinese city are
those devoted to the sale of collins
The Anti-Imperialist league will hold
mass meeting in Chicago October Il
RUSSIA consumes on an average nc
less than 1000 900 tons of liquid fuel a
year.
NEARLY one-third of the surface OF
Newfoundland is covered with fresh
water.
CONTRARY to popular belief, excite
monotony.
Within the last 90 years 8, 900 houses
in Dublin have been closed for sani-
tary reasons
SINCE shaving his mustache Senator
Deboe closely resembles President Nc
kinley in appearance.
THE instruction of each student costs
the French universities 5ll francs per
unnum on an average.
A DUoUEsSE Qa) man has dog
which was sent him by express all the
way from Manila, p. |.
THOMAS Balm, new speaker Of the
Canadian house of commons is farm.
er, the first to gain that post
THERE are /, 900 vessels which cross
the Atlantic ocean regularly every
month, some of them twice a month.
HUGH J. MCGOWAN, the Indianapolis
millionaire, has been a farmer, street
car driver, cabman and police sergeant.
THE value of all the precious stones
found in the United States in 1898
was $3.50, 920, as compared with sl56,675
in 1897.
A MONUMENT to the seven Mosby men
executed at Alexandria, Va. during
the war was unveiled the other day at
that place.
BIG department store in New York
has offered Dreyfus a million francs
for his story of his famous case, to be
published in book form.
MAHOGANY comes to the United
States from Mexico TO the value of
SIS, 900 per month, an increase of about
10 per cent over last years figures.
AT 20 years of age Judge Jackson, OF
the United States district court for
West Virginia, is still active on the
bench. He was appointed by Lincoln.
FERNAND LABOR, the consul for
Dreyfus, is the editor of an exhaustive
encyclopedia of French law, the 18th
volume of which was issued last year.
DR.. BREDIys has discovered hither-
10 unknown picture by Rembrandt in
a Baptist church at Amsterdam. 1t is
the portrait of handsome youth of
go dressed in black, with white col.
lar and large hat. Its probable date
in 1852.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, is the location
of the Missouri state penitentiary,
which is the largest peniteutiary il.
the United States, with the largest
Aumber of prisoners confined within
it's walls. In addition, jefferson City
boasts the possession of the largest
mandatory of saddle trees in the
world.
In the seclu sion of an Oriental
harem a woman invented the weaving
of cashmere shawls, and besides this
evidence of brilliance gave such wise
advice to her husband that he changed
her namc from Nourmahal Oight of
the harem) to Sourjehan Oight of the
world The same woman invented
altar of roses.
THIRTY years ago the sardines and
young herring in Canadian waters were
sold mostly as fertilizers. In 1891
nearly million boxes of sardines in
oil were put on the market The price
paid To fishermen varies eXtraordina-
rily, according to catch, season and
year. b ing sometimes as low as Sc per
hogshead. and sometimes as high az
500.
The American war ship of $50 years
ago was not exactly the fighting ma.
chine of to-day as exemplified in the
Olympia or the Brooklyn. A model OF
the first AM rican battle ship has re-
Gently been .aced in the collection of
historic curios at Independence hall,
Philadelphia. This model, which is
some seven feet long, was carved by
Joshua Humphreys in l777
AMONG the points dwelt on at the re-
cent tuberculosis congress in Berlin
were the facts that more than 40 per
cent of the printers of Berlin who had
died were phthisical.
A UNIQUE ring made Of an emerald,
with the center followed out for a
finger TO 60 through, was the token of
betrothal given recently by the mahar-
ajah of Cooch Behar, India, TO the
maharanee
CANADA requires only 237, 900 square
miles TO be as large as the whole conti- !
nent of Europe. 1t is nearly 80 times /
aS large as Great Britain and Ireland, |
and is 3 900 square miles larger thar
tAe United States including Alaska