The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-10-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

NEAR Grobogana, Java, there Is a
lake of boiling mud.
ONE-FIFTH of the married couples in
France have no children
BosToS owes 500 for every man, wom-
an and child of it's population.
oSE-THlRp of the people who go mad
are said to recover their senses
A RAILROAD is being built up the Rax
Alp. which is 6, 400 feet in height.
THE man who invented angel cake
died leaving a fortune of $500, 600.
ABOUT l75 congregational churches
have adopted the individual commu-
nion cup.
THE telegraph will be extended /. 900
miles south of Khartoum by the end OF
the year.
No PERSON in Norway may spend
more than six cents at one visit to a
drinking place.
LONDON policeman have been forbid
den to wear tan shoes on the .ground
that they are too stylish"
L. MARION CRAWFORD is now in Sici-
" and does not expect to return TO
America for at least year.
GEORGE BERRY. the English band
master, has retired after SO years
service with military bands.
A New YORK geneologis; traces Adm.
Dewey's ancestry back 20 King Alfred
the Great through both lines.
DURING the last half year I25 vessels
aggregating 234. ST tons were Launched
on the Clyde, beating all record.
LORD CHIEF Justice RUssELI, OF
England is said always TO have a bet
on every important sporting event
In Madagascar silk 10 the only fabric
used in the manufacture of clothing.
1t is cheaper than linen in Ireland.
GERMAN army officers are ordered by
imperial decree to wear reddish brown
dogskin gloves during the maneuvers
VERDI was knighted and decor
nted with the Order of the Anunciati
on October 10, when he will be So years
old.
IT is no usual thing for a vessel ply.
ing between Japan and London to car
~ 1000, 900 fans as a single item of its
largo.
A SIGN of politeness in rhibet, on
meeting person, is TO hold up the
c.asped hands and stick out the
tongue.
SIR THOMAS LIPToN estimates that
the entire cost OF his attempt to take
the America cup will come to about
5000, 600.
which, being alright, may be attached
to the waist belt in an emergency and
used as life preserver.
HIGH heels, 1t is said, owe their
origin to Persia, where they were in
t-oduced to raise the feet from the
burning sands of that country.
The worlds births amount to &c.
792 600 every year, 100, 500 every day,
T. 200 every hour, 20 every minute, and
one and a fraction every second.
AT &c years of age Judge Jackson, of
the United States district court for
West Virginia, is still active on the
bench. tie was appointed by Lincoln.
The latest thing in company promot-
Ing comes from Paris, where a dogs
cemetery has been foated, with a cap
nai of $40, 0oo. The promoters are
ladies.
The latest within for owners of dogs
is 10 make them wear shoes in the
house for the purpose of protecting
the polished floors. They are made Of
chamois with leather soles-
OUT of Also 500. 900 letters that
passed through the British post Office
last year. there were as many as 8. 500,-
900 which the officials managed not to
deliver. In those opened at the dead
letter flee property of the value of
$4,000, 900 was found.
RUNNING horses are unknown in Rus
sia- No one drives there without hav.
ing a thin cord with a running moose
round the neck of the animal. When
an animal bolts the cord is pulled, and
the horse stops as soon as it feels the
pressure on the windpipe.
A FUND is being collected in England
TO raise a monument to John New bury.
the first man to collect and publish the
immortal melodies of Mother Goose"
He was friend of Goldsmith, and his
grave in ST. Thomas's churchyard,
Waltham, is almost unmarked.
HoM EelnoIe dutiduity tHc taTo mas
contributed Importantly to the food
supply of the natives of southern Asia,
portions of Africa and many of the
island groups of the Pacific. 1t is to-
day one of the plants most commonly
cultivated throughout the tropics
A SWISS physician. DIR. Otto Naegeli,
declares that the best way to overcome
insomnia is to initiate the breathing of
a man who is asleep, and to make the
head undergo the various movements
to one side and the other which one
occasionally makes while falling asleep
in sitting posture.
MANY flashes of lightning not only
measure mselves, but actually
the recorder by which
hey are measured. When an electric
meteor strikes bed of sand it plunges
downward into it, transforming stimuli
into glass and silica in the
through which 1t passes
PRESIDENT KRUGER of the Trans
vaal. sleeps eight hours each night.
No matter how tired he feels upon re.
firing, he nightly sets an alarm clock
10 allow him just that amount Of rest