The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

crop in about Is weeks.
Paris has nearly 100 more periodicals
than il had year ago.
The nominal price of wild land in
Cape Colony is 25 cents an acre.
OF the inhabitants of Paris, 1,475,o0o
live by the labor OF their hands.
In Austria coarse cloth of good quail
fly and cheap paper is made from peat
fiber.
The present crop of peanuts, while
not of excellent quality, is abnormally
large.
The leasing of water flowed lands
for oyster beds in Rhode Island yields
$4,000 annually.
The peat bags in Sweden, many of
them eight TO ten yards deep, cover
an area of about Seas, 900 acres.
Geneva, Switzerland the old watch
making town, is now leading in the
manufacture of ingenious toys.
The New York grape belt contains
$4,000 acres and the average yield is
1000 cars, 5000 BASKETS to a ear.
Waiter girls in Munich restaurants
work IA 10 10 hours a day, without
single holiday all the year round.
The Yellowstone park was visited
last summer by about $4,000 tourists,
or 5000 more than in any preceding
year.
IL is asserted by authorities that
Chicago has more rats in proportion
- its Sis than any other city on
earth.
Only by an expenditure Of 100000
IN combating grasshoppers was il pos
sible last year TO save the crops in
Algiers.
Blue-eyed people are rarely color
blind. The gray-eyed are usually the /
best in distinguishing slight variations
an tints.
Berlin is TO have a network Of IN. /
derground railways. II is expected 1
that two years will suffice for com
plotting il.
Inasmuch as Adm. Sehley will retirs
on account Of age in February. 1901.
his cruise can not extend over a period
of IS months.
The highest masts of sailing vessels
are from 100 20 $50 feet high, and
spread from 10000 TO 100000 square
feet of canvas.
Gorgonzola cheese is italian, and il
made from goats milk. 1t comet
from near Milan, and needs TO ripen
two OF three years.
An English paper has been Offering 1
prizes for the best guess as 10 the date
on which the British flag will be
hoisted in Pretoria.
Khartum may now be reached from
Cairo by boat and rail, and a hotel,
with room for GO guests has just bee5
completed at Khartum.
The phosphate output of the state
of Florida last year amounted TO 425.- 1
600 tons, and of that total 100000 tons /
was purchased by Germany.
A Jerseyite has successfully sued the
New Jersey Central and recovered S25 |
for blocking the street and kee5ing
him rs minutes in porting rain.
The highest ranking officer of the
United States navy TO be retired from
active service during 1900 because Of
the age limit will be Capt. w. c. Glib
ron. Usually from one to four rear
admirals are retired annually.
Bolivia is the most mountainous
country in the world, ana that portion
oI the great chain known as the Cor
dillera lie Paz is a colonnade of pure
white SUBMITS. extending more than
81, ~, 1fva
II is observed by travellers in Siberia
that the effect of constant cold is
practically the same as the effect of
constant heat. The people develop a
dissemination 10 work, and become
strangers to ambition of any descrip-
tion.
Doctors say that the high collars so
much worn by both men and women
are productive of dire physical re-
suits. The head is thus thrown for
ward 10 relieve the back of the neck,
and this narrows the chest and de-
creases the lung capacity.
That venerable part of the Tower
of London known as the Bloody Tow
er is undergoing considerable repairs.
The upper part OF il, which faces the
Traitors Gate, has been refaced in
parts, painted and colored TO resem-
BILE age. The building is to be restored
all around.
The Russian cruiser Brodino, now
under construction in the ship yard
of the new admiralty, in st. Peters
burg, is of interesting type. The
length is 300 feet; its width, IS and
one-half feet; tonnage, $4,000 metric
tons (2,204 pounds each). The en-
gines have 10000 horse power.
When ladies go to buy a dress in
Japan they tell the shopkeeper their
age, and if they are married or not,
because there are special designs for
the single and double relations of hfe,
as well as for ages.
The Maharajah of Benares, while re-
Gently entertaining Lord Curzon, pre-
scented him for Lady Curzon with a
superb coronet of pearls worth fab
taous sum.
A cause of serious damage 10 trees
I'm city streets, complained OF by the
city forester of Springfield, Mass, il
the drying out of the roots of the
trees by the steam pipes In the streets.
The number of soldiers slain in bat