The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-04-27
CURRENT Topics.


In value SlO,OOO,OoO per annum.
Port Tampa is built on piles driven
deep in the bottom of he bay.
A Venezuelan or,hid now on exhi.
bition in London is valued at $1,000.
The great lakes of the St. Lawrence
system have an area of 1900 square
miles.
The great wealth that lies in the
nuarries of Sweden is at last being de-
seloped.
British government expenditure is
running now S7.0O0,O0O week beyond
revenue.
France does not furnish the TWEEN
tieth part of the coal production of
the world.
There are five automobile clubs in
Belgium and their combined member
ship is 54O.
The locomotive of today weighs
about 100 tons, ami haGls from 1000
60 1.s0O tons.
The British and Foreign Bible So
riety recently celebrated its ninety
sixth birthday.
Germany has az present thirty-nine
dock yards, where last year 52s YES
sells were built.
Seventeen per cent. of the watch
makers in this country are women. In
1850 all were men.
The women of New York's four
hundred are preparing to erect a fine
athletic clubhouse.
The great popular msladies throat,
nasal and bronchial catarrh. are quite
unknown in Spitzbergen.
The University club of New York
numbers AGRA members. and pressure
for admission is constant.
A fast train has been pu. on be-
tween Berlin and Constsntinople.
making the run in fifty-one hours.
The price OF the Transvaal sixpence
m London is now Ave shillings. Kru-
gers pennies. however, are relatively
more expensive.
The latest statistics show that the
United States has over 100000 miles OF
railroad, and less than 10000 miles Of
good wagon roads.
Twin boys born in New York on
the day the tunnel was started have
been named Robert Rapid Transit
and William Rapid Transit.
In Virginia a company has been
formed 10 make artificial marble of
milk of lime. salt and marshmallow
root. together with cement.
So useful are toads in gardens tina.
they are sold in France by the dozen
Tor stocking gardens 10 free them
from many injur GUS insects.
Coral is again in favor after its
long period of disuse. The pink coral
Is the choieer. from its purity, but
the common red is much worn.
A purely Scottish expedition is
about 10 be organized to the South
Pole TO work in conjunction with the
British and German expeditions.
The balloons used by the English
army are different from those of other
nations, gold-beater's skin being EN-
ployed in their construction. instead
of oiled silk. il being much lighter,
and much mo-e impermeable.
Rev. J. ;. Bitter, Methodist clergy
man. of Missouri. is organizing COM
pany TO develop gold mining claims
at Cripple Creek, the proceeds OF
which are TO be devoted 10 the fund
for evangelistic work in large cities.
Statistics OF consumptive sanitari-
ums in Germany show that &C 1-3 per
cent. of the inmates were able to
work the first year after the cure, 60
per cent. after two years, As per cent
after three, and IS per cent. after four
years.
The natural coral formation, to-
getber with good workmanship, has
made the roads to bermuda famous
in the cycling world. and enthusiasts
OF the wheel who have been so for
tunatc as TO visit this island have call
ed IL the Cyclers Paradise.
In recent case OF pneumonia, in
Brooklyn $500 gallons of oxygen gas
was used, the sick man was packed
in ice, an alcohol bath was given him
every twenty-five minutes. end four
quarts of milk were administered
daily. The patient recovered.
Wizards hotel is TO be torn down
and the Virginia hotel. a modern mil
lion-dollar structure. is to be erected
in its stead. Willar.l's has been one Of
the landmarks of Washington, and
half century ago, like the Astor
house of New York, was numbered
among the grandest hotels of the
world.
There are six wars going on I'm AZ
RIGA just al present. England is fight
ing the Beers and the Uganda hill
tribes. France basathree rather mild
campaigns on her hands. all directed
against tribesmen in the interior. and
the Moors are battling with the
tribesmen along the boundaries of
Algiers.
The commissioners of the District
of Columbia have Forbid m he sale
of giant firecrackcrs and dynamite
torpedoes.
A thousand packets ~ shamrock
seed. the gift of resident OF Cork 10
the duke of York, have been sent 70
South Africa. Their contents will be
sown upon the graves of Irish sol
diers.
From the white pine forests OF Min
nesota, Wisconsin and MICHIGAN last