The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-09-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

trdlldu mineral industries
EVERY blast furnace in Pittsburgh Il
producing to its full capacity.
New YORK is said to have 1900 bar
Der shops and $4,000 BARRIERS.
THE fruit business of Omaha, Neb.
10 valued at 81, 500, 900 annually.
OKLAHOMA is harvesting a whea
crop estimated at 40. 900. 900 bushels
A BERLIN newspaper predicts a grea
panic in the German money market
The number of languages and dia
lects spoken in the world amounts L
1904.
RAILWAY wheels made of leather
have been experimental with il
France.
In Russia you must marry before 81
or not at all, and you may mary only
five times.
A NEW automobile is being built fol
the prince of Wales, who will operate
1t himself
TWENTY-FIVE women have beer
hanged in England during Queen Vic
toria's reign.
AT the present rate Of increase the
i25, 600 physicians.
Nor one drop of intoxicating liquor
IS allowed to be sold at any of the mil.
itary camps of Canada.
QUEEN WILHELMNA, of Holland has
q passion for gay colors and wears
dresses of gorgeous hues
In the first half of 1898 Japan sent
$40, 500 600 gold to England. Thus far
In 1899 it has sent only s4.S5o.
GERMANY publishes about 10000
books year, France IL. 900. Italy 9. 900,
England 5000, United States S., 900.
The constant labor of four persons
Tor an entire year is required to pro.
duce cashmere shawl of the best
quality.
In St Paul recently boy fell from
. wall sixty feet to a railroad track
below, and escaped withou, serious
Injury.
A HUGE wine barrel at Nancy accom-
oodated at dinner $50 workmen, who
bad been building it for the Paris ex-
hibition.
LEO XlII. has just received a present
of an automobile, sent to him by a
devout French manufacturer of these
vehicles.
THE only two great European CAPT.
tails that have never been occupied by
, foreign foe are London and St.
Petersburg.
JAMES CLARK. of Quincy, Ill, who
eelebrA tad l,is Tooth birthday recently,
Is now the only bona fide oldest mason
In America.
I. W. DAVIS, ex-mayor of Peoria, Ill,
although 72 years, is an inveterate
rider of the bicycle, which he began to
ride when 6t
JOHN c. kLAUDER who died recently
In Philadel phia. was the original tin
can mush man and made 81, 600, 600 IN
the business.
BUFFALo's new Union Railroad sta.
ton, to cost $4,000 900. is to have a
waiting room so by 2S5 feet, said to be
the largest in the world.
DURING the last half year 125 vessels
hggregating 234. ST. tons, were launch.
ed on the Clyde, beating all records.
England still rules the seas.
An association of London men
conducts the genial business of caring
for window boxes ann growing flowers
for balconies and small gardens.
j. =. BRYANT, the Bardwell, KY.
millionaire, owns the largest straw.
berry patch in the world. 1t covers
i,70o acres and has made his fortune.
THE Philippine buffalo, which is
preferred to horses or donkeys, is al
most an amphibious animal. L. can
not do hard work for any length OF
time without bathing and wallowiug
In the mud.
PERHAPS the only word that is tho
same in all languages is the "IIellov
In response TO the telephone call.
Wherever there is telephone line the
word is in use, and means Just what il
does in English.
THE hair of rabbits and other ami.
mails in Russia is converted into bowls,
dishes and plates, which are valued for
their strength, durability and light.
ness. The articles have the appear.
ance OF vanished leather.
THE air is clear at Arequipa, Peru.
From the observatory at that place,
$3.50 feet above the sea, a black spot,
one inch in diameter, placed on a white
disk. has been seen on Mt. Charchani,
distance of IL miles, through a ID
inch telescope.
A HORSE can draw on the worst kind
of earth road about four times as much
as he can carry on his back. On a good
macadamized road he can pull ten
times as much, on wooden road 2s
times as much and on a street railway
6S times as much.
AN electrical engineer has made 2
telescope by which it will be possible
TO detect the locality of smokeless pow.
der. He has used brownish-red lenses
which show up the very pale flash
practically invisible in the daytime
as though il were an ordinary flame.
SWEDEN is building a new navy. It,
sixth ship of the new type, the Niord
is receiving its gun and final equip.
ment. 1t is a coast defense vessel OF
8, 500 tons.
SOME authorities hold to the idea
that child's disposition is largely
governed by its diet, citing the gem
tleness of the rice eating races agains st
the quarreling meat eating children
Ia proof.
Italy is the home of postage stamp
eounterfeiters, and the work is so
sleverly done that European collectors
Arc kent in n constant srata nf ANNA