The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-04-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


which had reached the aged of almost
: 90.
TELEGRAMs in Chile cost'eight cents
each. The government owns all the
lines
The distance from the farthest point
of polar discovery to the pole itself is
400 miles
TEN leading safe manufacturing con-
Germs Of the United States have agreed
to combine.
PROF. PICKERING. of Harvard observ-
atory, has discovered a new satellite of
the planet Saturn.
LII is probable that Gen. Miller, now
at Iloilo, will erect a summer residence
in Stockbridge, Mass.
The rubber trust has announced an
increase of z per cent. in the prices of
al hard rubber goods.
sPEcK of gold weighing less than
one millionth part of a grain can be
seen with the naked eye.
The oldest national flag in the
world is that of Denmark, which has
been in use since the year 1919.
AUSTRALIA is the only country in the
native smokers have been found.
The late II. c. Warren has bequeathed
20 Harvard his rare library of San.
skirt, collected at great expense during
years of study.
1T is an unexpl ainable fact that
glow-worms are much more brilliant
before an approaching storm than at
any other time.
The demand for steel at the Phila-
delphia mills is so great that outside
orders are being refused. The mills
are crowded with local work.
THE doctors of Sweden never send
bills to their patients, the amount of
their remuneration being left entirely
TO the generosity of the latter.
GRANT ALIENS favorite amusenents
are sculling and wheeling, while Rider
;. xkseg~sA enjoys ,aimsclf oy~experi.
mental farming and gardening.
HAwAIrA's foreign trade last yea;
amounted to SEQ, 600, 900. an increase of
g.. 200, 600 over that of the year before
The gain in population was 9,9l6.
In regard to longevity, the clergy
stand at the head of the professions.
and physicians near the bottom. below
coal merchants milkmen and grocers.
ASPARAGUS is so plentiful on the
Russian steppes that the cattle eat it
like grass. The seeds are sometimes
fried and used as a substitute for cot
fee.
The Kansas volunteers were frs,
into Malolos, and the flag of Mon
tana regiment was the first bit O.:
American bunting flung out from the
rebel capital.
The inventor of the propeller wheel
studied the motion of fish's tail when
swimming. The volutions of the pro-
peller's blades are exactly like the mo-
tions of the fish's tail.
The Detroit council has appointed a
commission headed by Gov. Pingree
ITO negotiate. purchase and operate
all the street railways of Detroit under
municipal ownership"
In Palestine the swallows are al
lowed the freedom, not only of the
houses and living rooms, but of the
mosques and sacred tombs- where they
build their nests and rear their young.
IT is getting to be the fashion TO ad-
dress and stamp envelopes on the back.
With the directions written across the
folds the letter can not be opened by
an unauthorized person without the
fact being noted.
MANY Roman remains, including q
colossal head of Marcus Aurelius, have
been dug up at Carthage by NJ. Gauck-
Ter, director of antiquities in Tunisla-
He seems to have reached tine Roman
r., - L..
not to have struck the Phoeniciln city
as yet.
THE Mexicans have a queer way of
burying the dead. The corpse is tight
ly wrapped in mating and placed in a
coffin hired for about a shilling. One
or two natives, as the case may be,
place the coffin on their heads and go
at trot to the grave, where the body
is inferred, and the coffin is then re-
turned.
The prince of Palermo is said TO owe
his wealth chiefly to the trade in snow,
of which he has a monopoly. The
snow is brought qt night in baskets on
muleback from the mountains of Italy
20 the coast, and is thence shipped tO
the large cities, where il is sold at two
and three cents pound for refrigerat-
ing purposes.
The tube of a 12-inch gun, which is
used in some war ships, has 30 spiral
grooves inside, which cause the shot TO
revolve at the rate of as times second
as IL rushes through the air.
The Norwegian army has a highly
trained corps of skaters armed with
repeating rifles. These men car be
Unanswered on ice with a rapidity
equal to that of the best trained cav
airy.
A PORTION of the damaged cargo of
the wrecked steamer Fairfax was sold
At auction in Boston the other day,
among the articles being a grand
piano which had been Tin soak" for
several daya 1t went for so cents