The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-07-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

Horses in their wild state live TO
The age of 30 normally.
The Boston poor department ex-
pended last year S17S,43O.
The muscles of the human jaw
exert a force Of 534 pounds.
A ten-story Office building Is to be
erected in birmingham. Ala.
A big portion of the Georgia fruit
crop is To be canned this year.
The citizens Of Calhoun. Ga, have
subscribed 100000 for a cotton mill.
A sign outside Lombard street
Philadelphia) restaurant reads:
"Pigs' feet. Walk in
In China. twelve miles from Lion
Chek. there is mountain of alum.
which yields 700 tons yearly.
In 1870 there were 5000 Shakers in
the United States. At present they
do not number more than LOO.
The catalogue of the Paris expo
Eition contains the names of nearly
10000 exhibitors of all nations.
According TO the School Review
only 4l.51 per cent. of the pupils in
American high schools are boys.
Louise Chandler Moulton. the poet.
has just sailed for Europe. where she
will spend the summer in travel
In Kansas il is proposed to start
q magazine which shall be contrib
uted TO only by residents of Kansas.
The aging OF timber. which former
~ required long storage, is now com
pleted by electricity in a few hours.
Twelve dollars and thirty cents is
the annual allowance of 1851 pen
sioners of the state of South Carolina.
Lord Roberts has been in the Brit
Ssh army for forty-nine years, having
started in the service when he was
twenty years old.
The franchises of nearly ! 200 cor
porations in Texas have been revoked
recently because of their failure to
pay the state taxes.
The British government expects a
drought in India about twice in every
nine years-and a great famine like
she present about twice a century.
In Indiana there are 1902 miles of
telephone and telegraph wires. valued
for taxation at S4.695, ESQ, and G39q
miles of railway, assessed az Sl53,Cj9.-
34s.
A Pennsylvania man has paterted
q form OF jug that allows us contents
20 flow out quietly, withoat any
sound of gurgling. The hondIc Is Enl-
low.
Stephen Crane used TO do nearly a.,
his writing very late at night. fire.
quently working until S or o o'clock
and then sleeping for six or eight
hours.
AS there is very little cold weather
in Mexico, no necessity exists To- lay
ing in winter stores of honey, and the
bees is, therefore. as lazy as a grass
hopper.
There were 1.O57.93 acres seeded 10
sugar beets in Germany last year.
The yield is about eleven and "A quar-
ter tons per acre of beets. containing
1T per cent. of sugar.
Iii Hung Chang maintains at his own
expense force OF 1000 soldiers as a
bodyguard. They are no part of the
Chinese army and are the best paid
soldiers in the empire.
American lard sells in Singapore
at "a cents a pound in ten-pouud cans
American canned fruits. vegetables
and meats. as well as American bug
Bies, are also sold there.
Cups and saucers are never used for
tea anywhere in Russia. The teacup
IS an unknown article. The drinking
vessel for tea is the ''stakan," glass
tumbler in silver holder. No Rus-
sian ever drinks rlilk i'm his tea.
Brazil has practically a monopoly
of the carbonate or black diamond.
which is used ia diamond drills and
for other abrasive purposes. IL il
found in Cape Colony and some other
places, but is commercially important
only in Brazil
The number of Mohammedans has
been estimated at 106, 800. ONO. OF
these 100000 are under the rule of
the Turkish government, $4,000, 900 are
ruled by other Musselman sovereigns,
36,500,000 are subject TO African
princes, 2OO000OO live in China. md
99,O0O,0 900 are under other rulers. OF
these last about 5s,OO0,O0O belong 20
INDIA and Belocchistan.
Mrs. Kruger says in an interview
that she has ffty-three relatives IN
the field in the Roer war-four sons.
six sons-in-law and forty-three g-"nd-
sons.
The king Of Siam is very ANXIOUS
20 visit the United States. and will
probably come 10 this country within
the next year in one of the vessels
of his own navy.
The Celestial Empire, weesJy
paper. published in Shanghai. j.
perfect mirror Of Eastern affairs. ana
exercises a tremendous influence on
the other side of the world, although
almost unknown in AmC RIGA.