The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

only 20 are lemdieS.
No fewer than 80 generals are serv.
ing in South Africa.
Pleasant Duck and Blush Pigg are
two Missouri gentlemen.
Turkey bought s243,325 worth of
American flour last year.
The life of an Australian native
rarely exceeds nifty years.
a Lithuanian in Chicago bears the
name of John Uppermost Short.
The Russian ministry of marine has
recently ordered six torpedo boats.
France. Algeria and Tunis produced
,26s,o16,OoO gallons of wine in 1899.
The Iron Mountain railroad pays
100000 year in taxes in Arkansas.
Rats exterminated n colony of as
prairie dogs in Lincoln park. Chicago.
Bubbles made of filtered CASTLE
soapsuds and glyeerin will last for
days
The Florida democratic state con-
vention will meet at Jacksonville,
June 10.
Wiesbaden harbors n woman who
mas btcA lAohiBASA IL a 'hS~-NA 49,
90 years.
If all the cabs in London were
placed in a line. there would be total
length of 80 miles.
Spanish girls who make the famous
fans of Valencia are paid about TWEEN
ty-fve cents per day.
Americans use more than 90,000,o00
pounds of tea year, nearly all Of
which comes from China.
Former Gov. Taylor. of Tennessee,
s. said TO have cleared $4,000 on his
lecture season, just closed.
Charitable persons send E6,oO0,000
every year 10 the secretaries of char
dties and missions in London.
Liability for service in the New
England militia ranges, in the event
of need, from II 10 O. years.
A San Francisco lady who owns
hotel in that city has been Joined
In matrimony TO her elevator boy.
A horse will eat in year nine times
his own weight. COW nine times, an
OK six times, and a sheep six times.
Two new steamboats, are 10 be
placed IN the Chattahooehee river
1rade. The boats will be built at JEFF
fersonville.
A stray chimpanzee from Central
Africa sometimes goes as far north as
Morocco, where IL is looked on as "a
hairy man with four hands"
Portland. Ore, exported 100000
bushels of wheat during the last eight
months. More than half of this was
raised in the state of Washington.
Gen. Thomas II. Hubbard, of New
York, has given Sl50.0Oo to Bowdoin
college. A Brunswick, Ne, for the
construction of a new library build
ing.
The casket containing the remains
of Lincoln, through fear of vandal
thieves, has been removed no less than
cen times since il was first placed in
the vault at Oak Ridge cemetery May
4, 1865.
Senator Depew said recently that
the largest fees he ever received were
from clients TO whom he presented no
bills, but who, assessing their own
valuation, paid far more than he ever
charged.
Mrs. Despard. a sister of Gen.
French, Lord Roberts well-known
cavalry leader, is strong adherent
in sympathy OF the Boer cause, and
has written several magazine articles
supporting her position.
In New York city there IS q move
ment TO establish a city ice plant.
This is upon the theory that II the
city furnishes IL at cost in q liquid
form there is no sound reason why IL
should not be Furnished an blocks.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is q
strong believer in a diet which he has
himself devised. His breakfast never
varies. II is always eaten at o'clock,
ond invariably consists OF only one
cup of black coffee and a large piece
of cinnamon bun.
The First Baptist church in Dover,
Pa. has converted a building hereto
fore used for church social affairs
into a shirt factory, in which church
members are given preference in en-
ployment. Five per cent. of the wages
IS 10 revert 10 the church work in
town.
A Germany authority estimates that
almost a third of humanity speaks the
Chinese language, that the Hindu Ian
guage is spoken by more than 1907
100000, the Russian by $4,000, 800,
while the German is spoken by 77,OOO,-
200 tongues and the Spanish by as
100000.
Silk OF the great spider of NADIA
gascar is strong, fine and elastic. IL
is used by the natives for fastening
flowers TO sunshades. The spiders
which produce it are busy spinners,
and spider has been known to pro-
duce two miles of IL in twenty-four
hours.
The scales used in weighing dia-
monds are so delicately poised that
the weight Of single eyelash will
turn the balance.
Over so per cent. of the cotton ex.
ported from the United States Is
cleared from the ports of Galveston
and New Orleans.
The grand yizier Of Turkey gets
twice the salary enjoyed by The Brit.
fish premier and has perquisites of
about as much more.
Medical men in Italy derive so much
Of their income from foreigners that