The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-03-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

iut ldSN - years
The value of the average annual pro
duction of the earth has been estimated
at $4,000, 600, 900.
CHILE is said to have more poets, in
proportion TO population, than any
country in the world.
THE Aiuu women in Japan tattoo
their faces to give them the appear.
snce of men with whiskers.
IN ancient times many of the noun
tains of Palestine were terraced and
some of these terraces still remain.
SCIENTIFIC men generally believe that
the bed of the Pacific ocean was once
above water and inhabited by men.
A BERLIN matchmaker has invented
an instrument which will measure
time to the thousandth part of second.
AMONG the Egyptians embalming
ceased about 200 A. ID. About 1900
years before it's recent revival in war
practice
SINCE 1879 more than 5000 houses
have been detenanted and closed in
Dublin on account of their unsanitary
condition.
A CAPTIVE bee, striving to escape,
has been made TO record as many as
Is $40 wing strokes per minute ia a re-
cent test.
JOSEPH ii. CHoATE SAYS he owes his
success as a lawyer to the fact that he
never neglected a case, no matter how
unimportant it was.
IN London alone there are upward of
40 piano forte factories, while over
1900 shops are devoted to the supply
ing of musical goods of all sorts
Two Rockland young men have sud
denly left home TO see the world and
for once the reports do not hold the
deadly dime novel" responsible.
LEMON baths are popular in the West
Indies. Three or four lemons are cut
up and left to soak in the water half an
hour. The bath is very refreshing.
In Germany it is considered nee
issary that n child should go up" be-
fore it goes down in the world, so it is
,lrried upstairs as soon as born. In
iase there is no upstairs, the nurse
mounts table or chair with the in
FAINT.
VESSELS can be easily removed from
sandbars by a new apparatus consist
ing of an endless chain of buckets, to b
attached TO the sides of the vessel and
driven by engines, to excavate the sand
from around the hull until the ship
floats free.
SHEARS no bigger than pin is one
of the exhibits of the skill of a Shelf
6old workman; b dozen of these shears
leikh less than half a grain or Abou,
! he lksisbf of a postage stamp, they
are as perfectly made as shears Of or
binary size.
A CUSTOM peculiar to Buddhists is
that of wandering about the country
with hammer and chisel, and carving
holy symbols upon rocks by the way
side. In this country the man with
the hammer carves his way by unholy
knocking after the rocks
RUDYARD KJPLiNG has but one sister.
now married TO an English army of
ficer, in the staff corps stationed some
where in India. She is a great beauty.
and Familiarity known as Trick ey.r
She is very accomplished woman, and
has written several clever stories.
In his eulogy of the late Mr.. Dinghy
Representative Dockery spoke of the
great changes in the house since il met
at the opening of the Forty-eighth
congress. OF the $50 men who were
then sworn only II are still there, and
In the next session there will only be Is.
THE German debt is growing con-
etant!y at the rate of about $50, 900, OOC
year In 1855 it was SlT3, 00O, 900. AT
the end of 1898 it was three times as
great. These figures are from Ger.
man statistical paper. The total debt,
$500 600, is very small, as debts &c
in this age.
FAR away from civilization gesture
language is still extant in Australia.
Some of the tribes possess such an ex-
cellent code that it is almost as efficient
rs the spoken language. The two facts
may have no particular bearing on
each other, but, nevertheless, divorces
are almost unknown there.
KAISER WILHELM's tactics of expell-
ing foreigners from Germany are be-
ing applied to Germans by some of his
neighbors. Prof. Leo Meyer for 80
years professor of comparative phi
iology at the University of Dorpat, in
Livonia, has been dismissed and a Rus
sian appointed in his place.
Miss VIRGINIA FAIR, who is soon to
we'd William X. Vanderbilt, jr., was
born in rough twc-story wooden
shanty in Virginia City. New, where
her father was hard working miner.
The Fair children played with the
other miners children and showed
slight promise of future prosperity,
BRIGHT red spectacles, accompanied
by internal doses of calomel, form
new German specific against scasicls-
ness. Seasickness is due TO lack of
blood in the brain, while red sends
blood to the brain with a rush. BY
looking at one point for some time
through the red glasses the patient is
cured.
THE czar has had his special den in
the st. Petersburg palace papered with
cartoons relating to himself, including
Il great many caricatures of the most
ridiculous sort.
OFFENsEs against Kaiser Wilhelm's
dignity in the one year 1895 were pun
ished, taken all together, with $500
years of imprisonment, according to the
Nuremberger Zeitung, a social demo-