The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-11-10
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JOIN BU11. uses LOO. 600, 600, Oos
matches annually.
POULTRY and eggs yielded 50, ooo, 100
in Missouri in 1898
ARRowRoor comes from the bulbs o.
South American cannas
THE strike of the Boston upholster-
ers is now in its twentieth week.
The imports OF Irish linen into Ger
many has q M nished very much.
DENvER Coll has more bicycles IL
proportion ihau any other city in the
country.
HAwAn's unofficial territorial dele
gate in Washington is a graduate OF
Harvard.
A FEATHER Of an eagle shot by
Dewey has been turned into a pen by a
Cincinnati man.
BRITISH recruiting officers are said
TO De engaging German under-ofticers
for service in Africa
RAIN has never been known to fall in
that part OF Egyp; between the two
lower falls of the Nile.
PARIS municipality erected Frances
chief labor temple. II cost $500, 900.
and is used By 81 organizations
A LAW requiring corporations to pay
wages at least monthly has been de-
clared constitutional in California
EMPERoR WILLIAM wants an enormous
Increase made in the German navy to
make it the equal of any sea force ex-
cept that OF England.
IL London the various underground
electric systems for rapid transit in
volve the expenditure of about $780,
o00 600 for their completion.
THE anti-British crusade of the Ger
man press on the Transvaal war is said
to be greatly against the wishes of the
emperor and the government
ACRE once meant field of any size.
The Germans still use the word in this
sense. Gods acre, meaning a cemetery,
=3rnzczn2kAace Of the old meaning.
MBS LIE BRETON, Mrs. Langtry's
mother, lives in Jersey and is still one
of the bes. looking women in the
island in spite of her advanced age.
THE heart of q vegetarian beats Oh
an average IS to the minute; that of
the meateater IS. This represents a
difference of 90, 900 beats in "a hours
NEARLY so. coo claims resulting from
the Spanish-American war have been
hled al the war department, and they
are still coming in at the rate of 60 a
Gar.
IN the king of Saxony's museum at
Dresden there is a cherry-stone upon
which by the aid of a microscope,
H.. -,
guished.
THERE are parts of Spain where the
hat is unknown except in pictures
The men, when they need a covering,
tie IN their heads, and the women
wear flowers.
Ok the Queensland, New South
Wales boundary line, on the edge @.
the Australian desert, an artesian za,ll
has struck yield of water of 4, 600, GOO
gallons a day.
BERLIN booksellers are strictly for
hidden TO sell school children books
stitched with wire, as several cases Of
blood poisoning have been traced to
scratches from rusty wire.
The spanish are among the most
charitable people on earth. Without
a poor-tax, Spanish communities of
Co. 900 self-supporters feed pauper
population of 5. 900 or more.
PRESIDENT KRUGER is said to be able
to write as well with the left hand as
with the right. but detests pens and
ink so much that he uses indelible
lead pencils whenever possible.
The progress of invention and dis
covery ana applied science is constant
ly adding new words 10 our language.
The words and phrases under the
letter "B" in dictionary published "
years ago are 6,9s3; in lately publish.
ed one. SO, 736.
IT is not generally known that the
remains of all the czars of Russia since
Peter the Great lie in a memorial.
chapel built on one of the islands Ct
the Neva All the cenotaphs are exactl,
alike, each being block of white mar.
Bile. without any decoration whatever.
The smallest repu bile in the world is
that Of Tavolara, an island about five
miles long, with an average width of
little more than half mile. situated
about a dozen miles TO the northeast of
Sardinia. The total population of the
whole republic does not exceed go, but
they elect a president every six years.
and a council of six members, all Of
whom serve the state without paw.
As sHowIss TO what proportions the
chewing gum habit is attaining ia the
United States, it is said that in (hica-
go alone 5000, 900 sticks costing $780,
600, are used weekly.
LIBEL once had no reference - any
thing offensive. but simply meant a
small book or pamphlet But pam.
phlet wars, which often were nt thing
but printed foul attacks, changed its
m.aning.
LEyDs the diplomatic agent OF the
fransvaal In Europe, says there are
Z. 0O) Americans IN the Boer army,
while our state department. says there
arc only LOCO Americana in all South
Afris-.