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


NEW YORK has 4oO-foot-high offic
building
ENGLAND's stock of coal will last tw,
centuries.
SHREVEPORT. Ala, is to have a $3.50,
600 cotton mill.
FRANCE has 500, 600 places in which
wines are sold.
ANOTHER spinning mill for Anderson
S. C., is now assured.
LONDON is to have a school of instruc
tion for wireless telegraphy.
GEN. WooD says the death rate in
Santiago is now less than IN Phila
delphia.
A BALTIMORE man is trying to com.
bine $50 of the largest clothing estab-
lishments in the United States.
SOME industrious individual has as
certained that most of the great mer
of the world have had blue eyes.
COUNTERFEIT presentment of Rud-
yard Kipling can now be seen at Nine.
Tussaud's wax works in London.
THE city of Pekin has only one
street lamp. and that is in the street
where foreign ambassadors reside.
IL Cuba women are now able to dine
alone in restaurants-a thing that was
never possible under the old regime.
THE production of soap in Great Br-
tain is about 45, 900 tons per week, of
which between s. 900 and 1000 are made
in London.
The Mexican government intends TO
make experiments to see il the quality
of canned goods can be determined by
the use of N-rays
JUDGE JONAS BROOKS. of Mcpherson,
Kan, adjourned his court at noon the
other day and then walked seven miles
TO attend a circus.
A NEW word applied to Americans is
''quinophagists," indicating that they
consume more quinine than any other
people in the world.
THE mainsail of the new boat to rep
. resent the United states in the coming
cup contest will contain over 1000
square feet of canvas
IN memory of the Poet Cowper a new
museum. library and town hall is TO be
erected at Olney in Buckinghamshire,
at a cost of about SIS, 900.
MRS. GEORGE GouLp's children have
a head nurse, two assistants, two gov
ernesses. two grooms and two footboys
to minister TO their wants.
SCIENTISTS say that the whole human
body is full of microbes, and that
person is healthy as long as the mi
crobes are In good condition.
A CLOCK is being constructed for
Liverpool street station in London.
The interior of its case could allow
five persons TO dine comfortably.
JOHN MILTON. of Gardiner. Me-, has a
COW that can be MIXED three times a
day. She recently gave in three milk
ings in one day "a - quarts of milk.
THE japanese are taking to Gig
arettes very kindly. More than $685.
900 worth were sent to Japan from
the United States alone last year.
1t may not be generally known that |
the original idea of the Chinaman's |
pigtail was that it formed a con venient |
handle by which one day he would be |
lifted up to paradise.
THE children of the blacklist Afri- |
cans are born whitish. In a month |
they become pale yellow; in a year,
brown; az four. dirty black, and at six |
or seven, glossy black.
NEXT to the seamen of the United |
States, British seamen get higher |
wages and better fare, and more com
Portable conditions of employment |
than do seamen of any other country.
PARIsIAN BARRIERS are legally COM
pei ed TO wash their hands after at
a customer and before waiting
on another. They must use, also, only
nickel plated combs. Il
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says that the war Office, in
paying Ereyfus his arrears of salary,
will deduct l,592 francs for lodging
expense at one franc day. his lodg-
ing being cell on Devils island.
OF 1000 cases of hydrophobia in
Paris in n year only six were fatal
Before the Pasteur treatment was
adopted the number of deaths would
have been, in the same number of
cases l47.
ALMOST every nation, with the excep-
ton of Great Britain and the United
States. is overtaXed TO meet the expen-
ses of maintaining its army and navy.
France runs behind to the amount of |
BOO, 900. 600, Austria has an annual de-
felt of $50, 900. 900. Russia of $50. 900, 900
and Italy of $50, 900, OOO
A MINER returning from the Klon-
dixie country reports that there are
}, 900 penniless men at Dawson beg |
ging for assistance TO get up the
river
EX-CHIEF HORROR, of Kansas, can
race his ancestry back 10 Robert De
Horton, a knight who distinguished
himself in the armies of Edward Ill,
Of England.
SIR TnuMAs O'CoSyoR Moore, bart,
has been elected from the one room he
with his family in Cork be-
,ausc he was unable TO pay the rent of
3 cents a week. lie is the eleventh
,older of n title which date back 10
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