The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-10-27
CURRENT TOPICS

PERSIA first grew the cherry, the
peach ana the plum.
PARIsIAS gourmands devour 100, COO
pounds of snails daily.
THE empress of China has over ., coo
dresses in her wardrobe.
THE Romans deeiaed June the most
fortunate month for espousals.
The English troops are TO be sup
piled with American canned beef.
AMONG flowers, the cnrysanthemum
is said to live the longest after being
cut.
The experiment is being tried in De
troit of allowing the fremen one day
off in FIVE.
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN, British colonial
secretary. in the Cos, was a Sunday
school teacher in BirminC ham-
IT is rumored that DR.. Seward Webb
will buy the Vermont farm formerly
occupied by Mr.. Rudyard kipling.
ITALY has bought the Burghese mu-
scum and gallery in Rome for S,60o,ooo
francs, to be paid in ten annual install
ments.
MORE than 1o, o00 900 acres Of the
Sahara Desert have been made useful
for raising crops with the aid of arte-
sian wells.
THE town of Amhei. on the south
side of the island of Ceram, in the Mo
luccas, is said to have been destroyed
by an earthquake.
WooD carvers are in demand in New
York and the trade is booming. Mem
bers of the craft are coming from Lon.
don to secure work.
THERE are s. 900 theaters in the Uni
ted States More than 1000 are fairly
classable as legitimate and over 1000
are devoted to vaudeville.
CHARLES E. LIrTLEFIELp. who sue
ceeds Nelson Dingley in congress, will
be the tallest man in that body, being
Elk feet five inches in height
GIN. JoUBERT's wife has gone with
him in all his campaigns and is said to
opment of his strategic plans
A NEW cotton spindle is said 10 be
capable of running 20, 900 revolutions
per minute, and. if SO. will indeed rev.
o.utionize the spinning process
A CONNECTICUT Yankee has received
permission from the king of Siam to
erect a $500. 900 hotel that will be !, 600
feet long and four stories high.
SENATOR HANNA is said to have paid
for his suite of apartments at Claridge's
hotel, where he stopped while in Lon
don, 115 guiaeas a week. This is about
s925.
ALI. the personal paragraphs and So
cfccv news tnat appear n the London
papers is paid for, except that which
relates to the royal family. the nobili-
ty and the. diplomatic corps.
THERE is lemon grove Of Z 600 acres
In San Diego county, Cal, and IL is
said 10 be the largest in the world. 1t
was begun il 1890, when 40 acres
were planted, and it has been annually
added to, until it has reached its pres
emit size.
The origin OF saying las clean as
whistle" is ascri ped to the whistle
tankard" of olden times, in which the
whistle came into play when the tank
ard was emptied or cleared out, to
announce to the waiter that more
liquor was required.
DEAN +. A. HOFFMAN, of the Union
Theological seminary of New York,
who is the riches: clergyman in this
began his career in the church
rs rector of ST. Marks church in Phil.
idelphia and organized the St. Marks
cub.s
The Tacoma ONash.) Daughters Of
The American Revolution are to erect a
bronze drinking fountain in that city
rs memorial to Narcissa Prentice
" hitman. a pioneer school teacher.
VINO was murdered by Indians a,
saiipu. Wash. November 90, lsi7.
CURIOUS wounds were made by light,
ning strokes on residents of Berlin.
None OF the wounded has extensive
burns; the wounds look as if caused by
! charge of grain shot. The holes
each to the bone and are surrounded
'y web Of blue and brown lines.
In reply to letter of inquiry from
he editor of the Christian Advocate,
zen. Frederick Funston, of Kansas,
writes that he was born in New Car
Isle, .. He says his mothers family
vas from North Carolina, and that he
5 related to the Virginia family of his
Iame.
BEDFORD county, Tenn, 10 having a
latural gas boom. Recently some
phosphate prospectors struck a large |
elm of gas near Shelbyville, and al |
eady there is a considerable rush to |
evelop the discovery. Thirty-five
arge mineral and gas leases have been !
ut on record and the buildings of |
lants has begun.
HERMAN MCINTYRE is suing the city
{ Binghamton, N. Y, for damages.
ONE time ago, under city authority,
ne number Is was tackled on the door
his residence. since then on Janu-
ry 10 his wife died and on Nav ID his
ouse burned down. he Is sure that
he unlucky number which the city
lcked on his door has hoodooed him.
ELLA. WHEELER WILCOX thinks the
iccessful man lis one who has made /,
Apply home for his wife and children,
D matter what he has done in the
ay Of winning money or fame"
Ir is pred cted that in less than Eve
'ars the sturgeon will become prac-
cally extinct in the great lakes and
the Atlantic coast unless their ex-
tence is maintained by artificial prop
'ation.
The reason why the Great Salt Lake