The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-05-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

irish prayers are exempted from
. duty in courts.
There were no whits residents in
Kansas in 1850.
Glasgow has about $4,000 more in.
habitants than Liverpool.
Germany has thirty-six fewer bicy-
Gle factories than il had last year.
In proportion to its size. fly walks
IL times as fast as a man can run.
In a short time the Japanese popl-
lation of San Francisco will reach 20,-
600.
The curfew is a recognized institu-
tion in twelve municipalities ian New
York
There are c, 564 American exhibitors
on the programme of the Paris expo
sition.
United States courts in New Next
go cost the government about $4,000.
a year.
Coal is worked ~ easily in China
tbat in Shaasi ii selE al thirteen cents
per ton.
The freight business on the Chatts-
hoochie river amounts to over $4,000
600 a year.
The Imperial bank OF Russia now
holds 100000 less gold thns il held
year ago.
The blossoms on the Georgia peacA |
trees are so thick that so per cent |
of them will have TO be shaken of.
Mark Tapley and Mr.. Pielwick were
the defendants in two successive suits
in the Bloomsbury county court re
Gently.
Eastern capitalists contemplate the
erection of a 100000 electric power
plant on the Muscle Shoals canal.
near Florence, Ala.
Ths Mississippi river each yeas
washes away an alarming amount of
shore. equal to ten square miles Of
territory eighty-six feet deep.
Good cavalry horses are easily
bringing from $50 10 SIPS, Rccording |
20 size and condition. and artillery |
horses command higher prices.
The total vote in the electoral coll /
leRe will be the same this year as il
was in 1896, when Mckinley received
271 electoral votes and Bryan 176.
The United States has to pay a
royalty for the use Of most of the tel
eseopic sights now employed on the
sea coast and field artillery guns.
Mrs. Nancy Washington. colored
woman of Boston, celebrated her
105th birthday recently. She has been
married six times and is now a widow.
Il is estimated that during the past
fourteen months upward of 10000
wolves have been killed in Wyoming,
in addition TO mountain lions, lynx,
bear and coyotes.
On June IS the seat of the national
government in Washington will have
been occupied 100 years, and a grand
celebration is being planned TO com
memorate the event.
In It's mineral productions there is
no country in the wong the superior
Of Canada. They include coal. gold,
silver, copper. iron, phosphates, salt,
nickel, mica and gypsum.
Adna Adams Treat. of Denver. Col,
is probably the oldest mason in the
world, having joined the order in Feb
ruary, 1923. Mr.. Treat is now in his
1O3d year, and stiIl in vigorous health.
There are 1900 persons upon the
German emperor's list of employees,
including $50 women servants, who
are engaged in looking after the %
royal palaces and castles that belong
10 the crown.
neutrality-suspicious. meaning
incapable of limitation, has been ad-
United into DIR. Murray's new English
dictionary. on the strength of its use
by a covenanting Byield of the sew
enteenth century.
In 1898 there were 1,O30 savings
banks in the United States, and the
deposits in them amounted to S1,S41,.
100000 in 1899 there were 1912 saw
ings banks in the United States, and
their deposits were S2,401 100000.
There was shipped to the United
States from the Dutch colonies coffee
TO the value OF S427,OO in 1897, S3O7,-
600 in 1898, ard $4,000 in 1890. and a
smaller, but still considerable item
of Dutch expectation, is TO be found
in cocoa.
George Fred Williams Is of German
parentage. His fathers name was
George Weinigman, but had il
changed by act of the legislature to
Williams.
Labor organizations in England
have presented a testimonial TO Lord
Avebury (Sir John Lubbock in reeog.
milton of his services in shortening
the hours of labor.
There are plenty of snakes in Sa.
moa, but they are all harmless. In
certain districts IL is the custom of
the native girls to wind live reptifef
around their necks and arTas NJ
ornaments for their dances. !