The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

under construction.
The United States and Canada con-
tain 100000 coal miners.
senator Hanna wants an elevator
put in the white house.
EN-Congressman Tom l.. johnson
Will soon return to Cleveland to live.
There is talk in jackson. Miss, OF
turning the old statehouse into n
0bteL
The first Indian regiment TO don
Khaki became known as the dust
men"
London spends SI40 year on the
education of each child in the public
schools.
During 1898. 27s.s29 pounds of good
ivory were brought TO the markets
of Zanzibar.
Gen. Wheeler has brought home a
collection of Philippine curios valued
at considerable sum.
IL is stated the Beers test every rifle
bought, but the British buyers for the
army only l per cent.
To South African oxen the tulip
plant, which the beasts greedily de-
sour, is rank poison.
Monroe, Ca, is to have another cot
ton mill. The entire capital stock Of
$4,000 has been subscribed.
Living animals have been newly
discovered at n depth in the ocean
two miles greater than any hitherto
reached.
The Chicago Woman's club is try
Ing TO have n course of domestic
science for boys introduced into the
public schools.
Massachusetts, imposes a tax OF
per cent. on requests coming TO uni
Versities and colleges from outside
the state limits.
A huge wine barrel. weighing sew
enty tons, has just been built at
Nancy for the Paris exposition. Its
cost was $4,000.
The Boer has shipped lions from
the Transvaal TO all lands. and he has
killed seven thousand of the beasts
within its borders.
Eighty thousand elephants are re-
Tuired annually to supply the world
with ivory, and most of them come
from South Africa.
South Africa is of volcanic origin,
and the land in the vicinity of kim
berly is so salphnrous that even ants
can not exist upon il.
Queen Victoria win spend the en-
tire spring at Windsor and in Italy,
and not return 20 the Isle of Wight
until the middle of Julys
Johannesburg has German school,
which. last June. was giving instruc-
tion to l13 boys. 81 girls and % chill
aren in the kindergarten.
The wild pigeon can fly 800 miles
nm hour. the teal one hundred niles.
the mallard eighty-five, the wild goose
seventy TO seventy-iive miles.
In some parts of Colorado bears ore
go destructive of cattle that the farm
ers have offered rewards of $50 to 5000
for particularly dangerous beasts.
The directors of the Paris Exposi-
sion have received 10000 requests for
permission 10 erect refrcshment and
newspaper booths on the grounds.
Miss Elizabeth C. Jordan, the new
editor of Harper's Bazaar, began her
literary career as a reporter attached
90 the local staff OF New York daily.
The King OF Sweden never touches
a gun. The King of Belgium has shot
only once in his life. and the Sultan
of Turkey can not bear to see gun.
The deserts of Arabia are specially
remarkable for their pillars of sand
which are raised by the whirlwinds.
and have n very close resemblance in
appearance to waterspouts.
On a train going from Client to
Brussels snch fierce discussion
about the war arose among some of
the passengers that the alarm was
given. the train was stopped and the
disputants were compelled to get out
and finish the discussion on the
ground.
Several motorcycles are being used
I'm South Africa for patrol and scout.
ing work. Zach is capable of going &c
miles AZ hour, and as the Transvaal
veldt is specially suitable for rapid
motor travelling, good work is being
accomplished with the aid of these
machines.
Adolph Monell-Sayre. within two
years. aud beginning fresh from
school, with a legacy OF $4,000. has
amassed n fortune in Wall street
which places his name among those
of the ten riches men in America. lie
IS only "a years old, and BIS mother
was formerly of Lexington. Ky.
The Ontario government has com
plsScd arrangements for the forma.
ton OF "A forest of almost three thou.
sand square miles in extent, embrac.
ing the district in which Lakes Tenn.
agami and Lady Evelyn are situated
The bulk of the reserve is virgin for
est, with the finest white pine in
Canada upon il.
On account of the military law.
which clears the streets NJ $3.50, invi,
tations TO dinner at Manila are al
ways accompanied by an invitation
TO spend the night.
According TO the Iowa State Register
that state has zoo more tinaD.:ial insti
buttons than any other state in the
Union. The banks are generally small.