The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-11-03
CURRENT TOPICS,

The profits of Great Britain's postal
service are 500 00o 600 year.
AN energetic temperament and act
i've habits conduce to longevity.
UPWARD of Is, coo horses are annually
consumed by the people of Vienna
REV. j. b. METFoRD, Presbyterian
minister in Scotland, is worth sl,sOC,-
900
MRS JonN j. INGALLS, is famed
throughout Kansas for her black berry
Jam.
WA MAReEAvE has been justice of
the peace at Fort Scott Kan, since
1854
The greatest distance to which
wireless messages have been sent is As
miles.
THERE is cafe in Venice which has
never been closed night or day for $50
years.
IT was 500 years ago in Floren-e,
that the first grand opera was pro
duced.
LONDON would erect a monument to
Dickens but the novelist's will pre-.
vents it.
FRANCIS MURPHY secured 9. 900 sigma
lures to the total abstinence pledge at
Des Moines.
ii. w. DENSIsoN. Of Vermont is the
law adviser OF the Japanese imperial
government
A New YORK father is said to have
offered his son, $4,000, If he would stay
sober for week.
THE London employees of Sir Thomas
Upton are on a strike for higher
wages and shorter hours
CHAs LAURIER, a brother of the Can.
adam premier, is travelling salesman
for a cigar firm of Calumet. Mich.
On the eve of his wedding the moth.
or of a New Jersey man kidnapped him
and no one knows where they are.
Adm. SAMPSON has been invited to
be present at the launching of the
torpedo boat Shubrick at Richmond.
THE Malay language is spoken by
more than 90 900, 900 people. 1t is said
to be easy to learn, as it has almost no
grammar.
IN Southern Russia camels are much
used by farmers for field work. They
even stand the climate fairly well fur
ther north.
WHILE dressing for her wedding
Vienna woman learned of the groom's
death. Three days later she married
: orrmxH dfEsFvfnxIss, the inventor
Of the linotype, who has been in poor
his nc me in Baltimore.
THF Bon Marche department store
In Paris has the largest kitchen in the
world. 1t provides food for all of the
5000 employees of the house.
LIEUT.. BRUMBY, of the Olympia, is
said to be the greatest smoker in the
navy. Except when on duty, he al
ways has a cigar close at hand.
THOMAS A. EDISON will treat oy his
new electrical process the ore from the
Ortiz gold mines of New Mexico, which
he has just bought for s., 600 900.
GEORGE GOULD, who has the fox
hunting fever very badly, has just pur.
chased one of the finest and larges.
packs OF fox hounds in England.
ONE of the rapidly thinning band of
old abolitionists is Mrs. Frances Z. Ii.
Harper, of Philadelphia, who cele-
brated her 74th birthday recently.
An Australian sent his sweetheart
money to pay her passage from Eng.
land. On her way over she fell in love
with passenger and married him.
METALS get tired as we'll as living
beings Telegraph wires are better
conductors on Monday than on Satur-
DAY, on account of their Sunday rest,
and rest OF three weeks adds 10 per
cent TO the conductivity of a wire.
WHAT is called photographing in re-
lief is done by a Frenchman. The
model is placed SO that concentrated
light falls upon him from opposite
sides bringing the salient points into
Freater prominence Two successive
6ms are taken. mud print obtained
from these after they have been exact
~ superposed.
DIR. WELDON, the new bishop of Cal
eutta, has accomplished linguistic
feat Six months after his arrival in
India he took full confirmation serv-
ice in the Bengali dialect at Ranaghat,
N the diocese of Calcutta. Bishop
Weldon has already given sermon in
the Bengali vernacular. which is the
'ne mostly spoken in the Calcutta do
.ese.
The first head of the Vanderbilt for
une lived to the good age of So, the
second dropped of IS years younger
AND the third Topped of nine years
from the age of his predecessor, and
~ years from the age OF his grand
lather. The man who makes and lays
the foundation for it lives tn. longest, (
and those who care for it Sc. m to find
that having countless millions tends to
shorten life's fitful dream
Ex-SESAro. PHLErUs SAWYER of
Wisconsin, has contributed 50, 600 to |
aid the Ladies benevolent society of |
Oshkosh in building a new home for !
ihe friendless, aud securing an endow-
nent for it.
The increase ih the number of med
;al women in Great Britain is held by
the medical men to be astonishing. In
london aiore there are now s5 regis-
Sered and qualae medical women, al. /
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