The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-23
CURRENT TOPICS.


The hair grows considerably faster
in winter than in 1mmer.
In ten years the descendants of two
rabbits will numbe. 7o,OOO.OO
Wheat costs 81 a bushel in Cape
Town. Livery teams hire for SIS a
day.
In small hotels in Russia each guest
Is eX ,scted to find his own bed cloth
ing.
& Massachusetts, has 116 street rail-
way companies, controlling 1.4s2
miles.
The Christian Endeavor society is
represented in every country in the
world.
The world annually produces some
thing like 100000 tons of butter and
cheese.
Artificial flowers, mixed with the
real ones, are used for table decora-
tions.
The Stonewall Jackson Memorial
association has been incorporated in
Virginia.
Twenty thousand people have been
vaccinated in Savannah during the
past two months.
The win of Thomas X. Dowd, Of
Malvern, Kan, bequeaths Sl0,50O to
that town for a free library.
Philadelphia has forty-one wards
and two branches of the city council
Chicago has thirty-five wards.
The military rule is that five times
the number of an entrenched enemy
are required 10 dislodge the latter.
London is IL miles broad one way
and IL the other. and every year sees
about 20 miles of new streets added
10 it.
India rubber heels on shoes. de-
creasing the fatigue of marching. will
be adopted. it IS said, by the French
army.
A movement Is on foot in Hamburg
10 unite the various scientific instr
tutes in the city into a sort OF uni
versity.
Cavalry cover four miles an hour
when walking. nine miles an hour
when trotting, fifteen miles an hour
galloping.
An automobile omnibus service has
been established on the Isle of Man,
between the various towns and sum
mer resorts.
Barring the Egyptians. the ancient
Mayas of Yucatan seem to have been
the greatest pyramid builders the
world ever saw.
Horses in their wild state live 20
The age Of thirty-siN normally. being
stin fairly fresh and hearty at that
age n the desert.
The ancient pillow of India, costing
perhaps IS cents, pulled by oxen, is
used in that country still. Few i'm
plements are employed.
a Chicago company proposes 10 fur
nish electric li.ht and trolley power
for San Juan. Porto Rico, and all the
country for miles around.
Increased attention is being paid
90 tobacco culture in Georgia. and the
article is being profitably. grown in
many counties OF the state.
Miss Mona Clarke, one of the few
women engravers in this country, oc-
cupies a lucrative position with a
Wholesale house in Chicago.
The number of timber RATES on all
the rivers Of European Russia is said
90 be more than $4,000 yearly, with a
total of about 25,OOO.OOO logs.
Prof. Ira Rcmsen. of Johns Hopkins
university, has been elected an hon
orary member of the Swedish acad-
envy of sciences of Stockholm.
Mr.. Rhodes fits out the tattered
prisoners of Kimberley with new suits
and transforms them into clean and
respectable members of society.
There are over 100 gold mines in the
immediate vicinity Of Johannesburg,
stretching out on all sides of the city.
The monthly output of the mines was
fifteen tons of gold.
The multiplication of new COM
pounds in organic chemistry is some
thing appalling. In 1883 the total
number of carbon compounds record.
ed was 10000, but a newly revised list
by DR.. NJ NJ. Richter cnumerates not
less than G7,OOO. And the end seems
yet far off.
The deepest ocean temperatures
ever recorded were taken aboard the
Pacific submarine telegraph survey
sh Up Nero recently. At depth of
6,070 fathoms temperature of 35.0
degrees was recorded. and AT 5.101
fathoms &c degree. The deepest pre-
vious casts We're made by the British
survey ship Penguin.
sis said that there arc over 1000.
600 golf balls used each year in the
United States, American players be-
ing particularly prodigal in their use.
The majority of the gclf balls come
from England. They are difficult Ia
manufacture, slight differences in
the composition interfering with
their usefulness.
The eighty-third annual report Of
the American Bible socie y makes the
statement that 65.062 sos copies of the
Bible have been issued since its es-
adjustment.
The German war authorities have
duplicates of all bridges in Franz
II. in case of war, any of these
bridges were destroyed, they could be
replaced in six hours.
Money is not plentiful among many
British aristocrats. The late duke OF
Teck was frequently at his wits end