The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-05-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

Inc Nanualla last week nanuleu liz
cars of stock east-bound.
French Canadians almost entirely
use homegrown tobacco.
Sweden is making rapid strides in
manufacturing industries.
Names have recently been applied
to a number of Alaskan peaks.
A thirteen-foot alligator was cap.
tured near Hardeville, Fla, recently.
The finest shops in Chinese city
are those devoted to the sale of cof-
fms.
Bremen received 1.O45,635 bales OF
American cotton up - November l.
1899.
More deaths are due in England TO
alcoholism than TO diphtheria or ty-
phoid fever.
In Scotland blowing matches are
taking place all over the country
The chances Cor practice lately, how
ever, have been few.
The cost of preparing the American
exhibit at tbs Paris Exposition has
been S24O633 The largest item is
salaries of eNperts-S72,O45.
There are now upward of 400 rural
mailcarriers in the United States.
and during the year just closed shey
carried close TO 10,OOO.OOO pieces of
mail
England has a Garden City associa-
ton, whose aim is 10 build cities in
such a way that they shall combine
the advantages of country life with
those of town life.
\ 9iennaneditor who went TO the
last Paris Exposition in facre has
reached rne present show in an auto
mobile and promises 10 visit the next
one in a flying machine.
II is noted that OF 81 great battles
ae were fought on Sunday. on
Thursday, on Wednesday, ? on Fri
day, while Monday, Tuesday and Sat
nrday claim ? apiece.
Polish women in Pennsylvania cell
citrate the close of the Lenten period
by switching their husbands and del
uging them with water. IL is a Gus
tom imported from Poland.
II is estimated that. during the past
fourteen months, upward OF 10000
wolves have been killed in Wyoming,
in addition to mountain lions, Wild
cats, lynx. bear and coyotes.
Over five tons of documents pro
duced by England in the Venezuelan
arbitration case have been removed
from Paris. They required two rail
way cars TO take them away.
Fifteen years ago native Christians
could rarely find employment in In
dia. Now they are preferred by con-
tractors. because they do more and
better work than the heather.
The viii of the late William Gold
thorp. Of 10 Daviess county. Illinois,
gives about $4,000 TO the Methodist
Episcopal board of education TO aid
needy young men studying for the
Minneapolis has established and
for years three public
for children, at cost Of
$500. OF this sum 500 came from
the city treasury and the rest from
private contributions.
\ Boston policeman, 5. Robinson,
dying, has left $4,000 of a fortune
of $50. 900 to the town of Chinatown,
n. H.. the income of which is 10 be
expended exclusively ON the building
and maintaining of good roads.
The Englis& Agricultural Associa-
ton for Women has begun the pub
LEGATION of the Woman's Agricultural
Times. to interest the women of the
world in agricultural pursuits and
make of women intelligent farmers.
Rev. +. II. James, who has been
preaching in Oakley. Kan. on n Eve
hundred-dollar salary, recently i'm
herited fortune from England, and
intends to use 100000 of IL to endow
a college and a hospital in Oklahoma
Senator Baker, of Kansas, says he
started his son, Z. Burgoyne Baker
in the newspaper work because he
believes Journalism is the best train.
ing for any young man, no matter
whether he intends TO keep il up or
TO go into some other profession.
The next generation will see the
Gould fortune pretty well cut up,
there being so many heirs. The rich
est of these will be Kingdom, George
Gould's eldest child. His father is
rated at s7O,OO0,OO0. Kingdom, though
a mere child, speaks German and
French, and has picked up surpris-
ing knowledge of yachting.
Gen. II. V. Boynton has accepted an
invitation to attend the annual Fourth
of July celebration at Guilford battle.
field, Guilford Court House, \. C.. and
20 deliver the address on the occa'
sion. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has also
been invited, and is expected 10 at
tend.
The total capacity Of the boiling
down, chilling, freezing and meat-pre-
serving works in New South Wales
Is estimated at 100000 head OF
sheen and cattle.
II. w. Williams, of Decatur, Ala, 10
said TO own the largest hog In the
world. II weighs 1920 pounds, IS 10
feet 2 inches in length, and AZ feet
high.
prof. Harnock, a Berlin theologian
has come forward with the startling
theory that the epistle TO the Romans
was written by a woman, probably
Priscilla. whom Paul mentions in ono