The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-06-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY is becoming a
iuveterate a smoker as Gen. us. Grant
OSCAR FRIcKE, aged IS, of New York
was strangled to death by swing
rope
Pins have been made for $50 years
but needles have been used for fort,
Centuries.
THOMAS MANN, the English labo
leader, has become landlord of a Lon
don tavern.
THERE are 65 steamers on the Svis
axes. The largest can transport s0
passengers
ENGLAND's merchant marine include
over 2l,000 vessels, of which about S, 00
are steamers.
ENGLAND has built for other coun
tries since January /, 12l ships, valued
at fa,716, 754
SPRINGFIELD, H., is soon TO have {
new labor temple, with library ane
eading rooms.
CHICAGO has o27 miles of track eleva.
ton completed, and sixteen miles NOR,
has been ordered.
CoRsRTs made of aluminium are now
used by medical men for the treatment
of spinal disorders
OF every 100 school children in Lon
con IS leave school between their tent h
and eleventh years.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now near
ly so years old, but in better health
than for years past.
A BAPTIST preacher at Madison. Ind,
has resigned his pastorate in order to
become a Mormon missionary.
THIRTY years ago there were only
two dozen explosive compounds known
TO chemists; now there are over 1000.
UTAH gives its convicted murderer.
the choice of how they will be exc
cuted. The latest one chose to be shot.
One of the features of the Como
electric exhibition is to be a contest
between operators in rapid telegraphy.
GEN. WHEErER Is a religious man
and members of his stan in the Cuban
campaign say he always prayed on re-
firing for the night.
NINE. CAMILLE FLAMMARoN. wife of
the astronomer, is heading a popular
movement among French women for
general disarmament.
ENTERPRIsINe citizens of Mountain
View, o. T.. have purchased the rival
town of oakdale and are moving il to
Mountain View in sections.
HANS LANGsETH, a Norwegian farm
er of Glyndon, Mimi, has a beard 90
inches long. He wears il coied inside
of his vest when he works.
ONE Ct Gov. Roosevelt's admirers has
presented him with a rare old Damas-
Gus blade supposed to be that carried
by Gen. Blucher at Waterloo.
PENS resembling our quill pens, but
made of reed, have been found in
Egyptian tombs supposed to date from
a period ., 500 years before Christ.
The United States is about the only
alton whose great days, like the
'ourth Of July and Memorial day. are
celebrated all over the civilized world.
BUFFALo's new union railroad sta
tion, to cost Sc O00, 600, is TO have a
waiting room so by 235 feet, said to be
he largest in the world. The other
accessories and the train shed arrange
ment are on the same liberal scale.
In 1871 Germany lost las, 900 lives by
making vaccination obligatory in the
first year of life, and compelling its
repetition at the tenth year. The re-
suit was that the disease almost entire
ly disappeared.
To LESSEN the jar of railroad cars a
cushion wheel has been patented, The
edge Of the disc having a V-shaped
slot, which is covered with a cushion
ing material before the outer shoe is
put on, the latter having its inner
edge shaped to fit the groove on the
wheel.
THERE can be no doubt that the most |
obliging postmaster in the state Of |
Missouri lives at Bethel. He recently |
put a telephone in his Office and an. |
nounced that for the benefit of those |
out-of-town patrons who are connected |
by wire, and who may desire it, he will |
'pen thsir letters and read the con- |
tents to them over the phone.
A KANSAS farmer in fit of anger
because he was delayed by freight |
train at a crossing drove his team on |
the other track and obstinately refused |
TO move when the mail train came
along. Orders, threats, entreaties and |
curses alike failed to move him, and he
held up the train 90 minutes, when the
freight pulled out.
The city of Detroit has appropriated
the sum Of $1,000 for public concerts
this summer, with the proy;so that
union musicians only shall be engaged
10 furnish the music.
culiarity, which is that he will have
several kinds of bread on the table at
every meal, of all of which he partakes
In turn.
The largest cask in the world is the
Blatner cask, of Nuremberg, Germany.
II is l05 feet in diameter and 81 feet
deep, and its completion a few years
ago was celebrated by ball, at which
over 500 persons were on the floor Of
Lhs cask. y