The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-12-15
CURRENT TOPICS.


fiux of Chinese.
THERE are "a gold mining companie~
in the Transvaal.
FRANCE receives 500 oco year from
taxes on bicycles
Morocco has an army OF a., 700 men
fairly well trained.
NEW YORK has IL times as many
churches as Berlin.
AS MANY as 1000 dates have been
gathered from a single palm.
NEw ENGLAND cities may unite 20
help Boston improve its harbor.
ONE-THIRD of the population of the
world speaks the Chinese language.
The word Bible means simply book.
but it is now con fined to the Book of
Books.
The street accidents of London
amount to about s, 500 year-nearly
ten day.
The treaty for the partition Of the
Samoan islands has been signed at
Washington.
THE cultivation of fruit trees along
the highways of france is being ex-
tended each year
nun Az PokNa 'Nf
stand IS degrees more of cold than IL
not thus protected.
OVER Is. ,vpeople went through yell
lowstone Park this season, breaking
the record by 8, 900.
For every million inhabitants in
Russia there a-e only ten newspapers
and journals OF all sorts
CONTRACTS have been let for a wire
less telegraph system to connect the
islands of the Hawaiian group.
ENGLIsH business men in Paris are
aeing boycotted because of England's
talk of boycotting the exposition.
RENTED houses are unknown in Jet
more. Kan. Every house is occupied
by rs owner. The town has about S75
pna6ssAntk Ia
Pope Leo has reserved only three-a
small sitting room, a little dining
room and bedroom.
In the Sandwich islands the beauty
of women is measured by their height.
MRS. GLADSTONE owns three acres in
Niagara. This piece of land is now
worth SIS 600.
THE speed of a carrier pigeon in calm
weather is l. 200 yards a minute. With
a brisk wind prevailing and blowing
in the direction of its flight pigeon
has been known to make 1000 yards .
minute.
Nor only are Mrs Langtry and John
Hare coming to America to fill theatre
cal engagements, but a strong infiu-
ence is at work to induce Beerbohm
Tree to present a series of Shakspear-
can productions here next autumn.
ELECTRICITY is being practically and
most economically used in the manu-
facture of glass in Germany. Small
portable crucibies are used and the
plants are placed near streams where
water power is availabl instead of
near coal supplies
DAN GODFREY, on his return to Lon
don from his American tour with his
band, is quoted as saying: I'VE play
ed lots of good music. but what Amer
leans really want is catchy tunes with
n swing. A rag-time air would nearly
tear down the house"
THE ear of Russia probably owns a
greater quantity of china than any
person in the world. He has the china
belonging to all the Russian rulers as
far back as Catherine the Great 1t is
stored in an immense closet in the
Winter palace at St Petersburg.
In the reports of the criminal courts
of the state OF New York may be taken
as an index, it is safe to say that crime
is on the decrease in the United States
In 1897 there were 4, 523 convicts, as
against only 8, 567 in 1895. This shows
a decrease of $50 or over 20 per cent
SHOES can be quickly laced by the
use of new attachment, comprising a
pair of slotted ribs carried by the
edges or the upper, with headed studs
set in the slots TO slide freely, with a
lacing attached to the studs to draw
the edges of the upper together as the
studs are raised.
A HANDY tablet for telephones has
been patented by an Ohio man, COM
prising a reel suspended in two brack-
cts at the edge of the battery box, a
roll of paper being. placed on the reel
and held smooth across the top for
writing, with a sharp metal strip to
sever the sheet after use.
THERE are no textile mills of any i'm
portance in the Transvaal, and, in con-
sequence, large quantities of cottons
and woolens have to be imported for
domestic use.
ADELBERT +. HAY, son of the secre-
tary Of state, has been appointed con-
sui of Pretoria. Consul Macrum, who
has been begging for permission TO
come home, will be allowed to leave at
once.
The most curious place in the world
10 the Alhambra- in Spain. It was
originally a fortress, SO great in ex-
tent as to be capable Of holding O,O0o
men. 1t was begun in 1913 and finish.