The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-30


Hoss & Harness is a livery stable
firm in Indiana.
Out of 100 people born, only one
lives to the age of 65.
In Marion, Ind, law firm bore the
name of Robb & Steele.
In South Pittsburgh there is a law
firm named Bright q Early.
There are fewest children, compared
20 the population, in France and
Brazil.
In Japan IL is customary for the
bride TO give all her wedding presents
60 her parents. INHN rVfW|
Bandmaster Sousa says the Amer
lean people as a mass are the most
musical in the world.
Apples and several other Australian
fruits are exported packed in the
shredded bark of the tea tree.
Almost every class of skilled labor
is said to be scarce in Texas, and
good mechanics are in great demand.
There is an inexpensive cure for
rheumatism which is rarely tried and
will never be popular. Ii is the sting
of the bee, the ordinary everyday
bee.
. Forty tomato growers of Ohio, In
diana and Kentucky met at Cincin-
natl and made an agreement TO raise
the price of their product 30 per cent.
over last season.
Col. Don Augustin Ceramics, of
Havana, Cuba, il man who can
Sruthfuily declare that he'd rather
fight than eat. His IS duels are proof
sufficient of such a statement.
The government of Canada has at
last, after repeated efforts. been pre-
vailed upon to permit the celebrated
4sth Highlanders' Regimental band.
of Toronto. to make an official con-
cert tour Of America.
Over 5000 miners employed in the
Scranton Pa.) region left for other
fields of employment during the re-
cent strike. Many of the Slav and
Hungarian miners returned 10 their
former homes in Europe.
A philosophical statistician calcu-
lates that in the year 1000 there VIII
be 1,7o0,OO0,OOO people who speak the
English language. and that the othcr
European languages viii be spoken
by only 5OO,OOO.0OO people.
Mojeska was a comic opera singer
before she attempted tragedy, and
one of Lecocq's most brilliant COM
positions was written for her, ana
she sang 81 I'm French, afterward IN
German, and finally in Polish.
Chicago woman talked herself 70
death not long since; literally and
actually cut off her lifespan with her
tongue and her teeth. For over ten
years she had never stopped talking.
by night or by day, asleep or awake.
When Lieut. Gov. Timothy Wood
ruff. of New York, visited Dannemora
state prison recently he asked 20 be
locked in dark cell. the extreme
form of punishment at the prison.
Before he had been there a full min
ute he asked 10 be freed. saying thai
ne had experienced enough for life.
time.
John Briee, son of the late Senator
Brice, whose marriage with Florence
Ricketts,, a chorus girl in Philadei-
phia, last spring, created such SEN
sation, has, with his wife, rented a
modest little home in Cragie street.
Cambridge, Mass, and settled down
20 year of hard work in the law
school.
One of the most distinguished Brit
ash surgeons I'm South Africa says the
H.,
are the merciful wounds made by the
rifles in use. the popularity of the
X ray and the ineffeetsveness OF ar
tillery to destroy life. The loss in
killed is insignificant compared with
the battles of the past.
Siamese women crust their children
TO the care of elephants. The babies
play about the hinge feet of the an
finals, who are ever careful not 20
hurt the little creatures. And IL Ian
ger threatens, the sagacious old
nurse will curl the child gently in
his trunk and swing IL out OF harms
way upon his own broad back
A good camel will travel 100 miles
day for ten days through the desert
COhnc, AT lcdSbs VI tuc BrCdt TtuNOOu
trees of California will be preserved,
the state having recently come into
possession of about four hundred
acres of redwood forest through the
will of the late Col J. IL. Armstrong,
of Cloverdale, Sonoma county. The
tract is TO be held as public park.
In the course of an Australian tour
in 1895 Nine. Alva volunteered to sing
seven songs one night at Bendigo
TO some nuns before their going into
"retreat." A wealthy Australian,
who recently died, has left her Si75,-
600 I'm recognition OF her goodness
of heart as well as her magnificent
endownients as a singer The leg
aes was al the rate of s25.0Oo a song
fron the house of mourning OF the
lA'e Nils Daily comes the an.
nouhce,nent Of the engagement o:
Miss Mary Dsv to Mr.. James W.
Gerard, a young 'awver and a mem.
Der Of the firm OF BSvers g saudi
An English manuia.t,rer drives
something of a trade in cl,,,ns rrhe.
are real ones of solid gold, ',;,,. oon
of crimson velvet incrustations -