The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-09-07
CURRENT TOPICS.


There are nearly 1000 stitches in a
pair of hand-sewed boots.
The city of Picking consumes nearly
100000 tons of rice annually.
Usually with long-lived folk the
body is long and the legs short.
A British comander-in-chief. while
In active service. receives & rs a week.
- Steam thawers are expediting the
work in the mines of the Klondike
this year.
The Cuban exhibit at the Paris Ex-
position has achieved a notable sue
cess, winning 14O prizes.
The Hartman, Tenn, cotton mill
has received orders from England for
100000 pounds of thread.
The London papers report That
Richard lie Gallienne, the poe', is
again TO visit this country next win
ter on a lecturing tour.
The princess of Monaco is the first
Hebrew to sit on an European throne.
She was born a Miss Heine, and her
first husband was the late duke of
Riehelieu.
The postal savings bank system
Sc in operation in Austria, Belgium.
Canada, France, Hungary, Italy,
Netherlands, Sweden and in most Of
the colonies.
Rosewood and mahogany are so
plentiful in Mexico that some of the
copper mines there are timbered with
rosewood, while mahogany is used as
fuel for the engines.
Moses in the person OF beauti-
full full-blooded Indian woman has
appeared among the Delawares,
Chickasaws, Cherokees and Creeks
and is leading them into u new prom
Used land in Mexico.
There are number of our profess
sional men who have hung out their
signs in Manila. There are a hsb
dozen lawyers and an equal number
of dentists and doctors.
Murat Halstead's memories of To
peka are not the pleasantest. He has
delivered public speeches there three
times, and each time has been intro
duced by wrong name.
France imposes heavy export duty
on everything transported from, and
an import duty upon everything car
ried into, her colonies, unless it is
conveyed under a French flag.
A hundred thousand tons of coal
were handled in ST. Thomas. Danish
West Indies, twice during the past
year, the Hamburg-American line us
ing more than 5000 tons per month.
IL has been found that smallpox
patients are least marked when kept
in rooms darkened with red curtains.
Sunlight passing through a red me
dunn loses its chemical power. II
thus prevents smallpox from taking
a continent form.
Camille Saint-Saens, the famou-
French composer, has become very
near-sighted, so that il is almost not
too much 10 say that be is blind.
What little work he is doing now is
with the aid of the strongest glasses
and at great risk TO himself.
The time of the Roman occupation
of Britain, five distinct species of dogi
were there, most of which can with
Certainty be identified with those OF
the present day. There were the
house dog, the greyhound, the bull
dog, the setter and the slOwhound.
Manila is rapidly putting on its
American clothes. You see American
signs on every street, and although
most of the businesses so far are
small, the day will come when there
will be large American stores there
handling all kinds of American goods.
Thin bamboo tubes are fastened to
carrier pigeons in China 10 protect
them from birds of prey. When the
bird is in motion the action of the
air through the tubes causes a
whistling sound. which alarms birds
like the hawk, and keeps them at a
respectful distance.
All classes in China dress by i'm
perial command, and when the Pc
king Gazette announces that the cru
peror has put on his winter hat on a
day prescribed by centuries unvary-
ing astronomical custom, all China
does likewise aad'turns oyer the chair
cushions, exposing their 'winter
side"
fhe present mikado of Japan is seen
much more in public than most of his
predecessors. He is described as
short, but well proportional and mus
Cular.
President Loubet. of France, is q
musician. He not only plays the
piano and violin with remarkable
skill, but composes some music Of no
mean order.
The supreme court of North Caro-
lima has sustained decision rendered
in Burke county imposing a fine OF
$1,000 on a railroad company for hav.
ing given an annual pass to door
keeper M the legislature in 1897.