The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-23
CURRENT TOPICS.


France 1yooi years ago.
The explosive force of gun cotton
Il more than twice that of gunpow-
der.
High angle fire is that fired from
guns at an elevation exceeding is de-
grees.
White blackberres and green roses
have been propagated in Louisiana
this year.
Scales for weighing diamonds are
30 accurately poised that an eyelash
will turn the balance.
United States Senator Jonathan
Ross has been elected president of the
Vermont Bar association.
There are no less than 11,0c0 rooms
IN the papal palace. and many of them
never receive a ray of sunlight.
Thirty million persons left Europe
during the century just closing TO
seek their fortunes in other lands.
The stoutest OF European monarchs
IS the king Vt Portugal, who is only
{ five feet six inches tall and weighs sOs
pounds.
No military parade or drill. except
On case of war, riot, invasion or insur-
rection is lawful on election day in
New York.
Six hIiSdred "cow punchers" of Ne
braska. Wyoming and Colorado were
included in Canada's volunteers for
the Transyaal.
New Scotland Yard. London, is The
largest police station in the world.
1t is capable of accommodating 1900
police officers.
In 1890 the population Of Arizona
was placed at s9.62O. and tleS year il
is given 122 .212, an increase of 10f.9
per cent. in the decade.
A French physician has announced
that not only is yawning healthful,
but il should be resorted 10 artificial
" in case of sore throat.
The Norwegian parliament has de-
feated the bill making eight hours
a legal days work in ala government
and railway employment.
A call has been issued for the an
nual convention of the United Mine
Workers OF America TO be held at
indianapolis on January 81 next.
A man in Atlantic City has made
himself famous. In a whole year he
kept a quarter of a dollar in his
mouth, and thus won a wager of SO.
A single shaft of white marble two
and half feet in diameter and thirty
one feet long was quarried last week
by the Alabama Marble and Stone Co.
at its Cautt quarry. near Sylaeauga,
Ala.
A tablet marking the site Of the
house I'm which Samuel +. b. Morse
made his home for many years and
died has been placed on a ten-story
business block in Thir:y-second street,
New York.
A life-size bust of Gen. Francis A.
Walker. former president of the Mas
sachusetfs Institute of Technology,
Sc 70 be placed in the Boston Public
library. IL represents the general in
military uniform.
The colossal memorial to King AL
fred the Great. now in course of prep
aration, which is to be erected in Win
chester. England, viii probably be one
OF Inc UiOSl pieces Oh
sculpture in the kingdom.
The expenses of Mr.. Herbert Spen-
GERS chronological expedition TO Cen
trail Australia will be betrayed by
well known Melbourne man, NJ David
Syme. Mr.. Syme is the head OF a fam
fly hailing originally from MontFose.
During 1898 there were 226 accidents
A.
in Minnesota, resulting in deaths av-
eraging enc TO every 1913 employed.
During 1899 there were 421 accidents,
with the same average rate of fatal
flies.
A smart piece Of WORK was reeen.iy
accomplished on the railway at Street
vile. near Toronto, where an old
bridge was replaced by a new steel
lattice girder bridge Of 1870 feet span,
the traffic being interrupted for forty
Cainntes only.
Pittsburgh locomotive works have
Just completed two engines which are
claimed 10 be the most powerful and
heaviest yet constructed. Each weigh
11lA tons. the tenders having a water
capacity OF $500 gallons and coal
capacity OF IA tons.
Senator William Lindsay, of Ken
lucky. who will retire from public life
next March. has decided to join the
colony of former statesmen who are
practicing law in New York city He
has begun his preparations for NOV
ing from Frankfort.
Wireless telegraphy is now in reg
nlar use in the North sea by the
North German Lloyd line. Instru-
ments are installed on Borkum light
ship, and the arrival of every incom.
sng vessel is telegraphed to Borkum
ISLAND. from which a cable carries the
message to Bremen.
Rev. OTTO +. Humphreys, for five
years past rector Of St. Marks Episco-
pal church OF Milwaukee, has quit
the pulpit TO engage in business pur
suits.
In the archaic vase-room at the
British museum anyone can gaze up
on babies feeding bottles of sun
baked clay, which were antique when
Joseph went into Egypt.
A newly invented match machine
automatically cuts the splints from a
wooden block. dips them, dries the