The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-02-16
CURRENT TOPICS.


The present season has been one of
particular benefit to oyster farmers.
Cape Town is ordinarily calculated
ms % days distant from Southampton.
A lawsuit which has lasted over a
century has come to an end in Ire
land.
The number of languages and dia-
lects spoken in the world amounts to
s,O64
There was less poultry buying in
London at Christmas than for many
years.
In 1850 Texas raised 5s,072 bales of
sotton. Now she raises 100000 bales
annually.
There are 80 yoemanry regiments in
England, with a muster exceeding TO-
boo men.
The sales girls in New Jersey town
have started a crusade against the
asc of slang.
Itissupposed that the average depth
IF sand in the deserts of Africa is from
30 TO 40 feet.
The queen of Greece is said TO be
The finest needlewoDan among Euro
pean royalties.
The first attempt to manufactd re
pins in this country was made soon
after the war of 1912.
Forty-three per cent of the fruit
trees in southern California are orange
and Is per cent lemon.
Female bootblack are increasing rap
hly in France. They wear a costume
pot unlike that of nuns.
The longest continuous run of rail.
way train in Europe is that from Paris
TO COnstantinople, 1921 miles. in 64h
hours.
The olive crop of the past year OF
pouthern California, including picked
olives and olive oil, was estimated at
100000.
The number of IrishmeR who have
Seen prominently associated with the
srisis and the war in South Africa is
remarkable.
Pottery makers in Great Britain and
BE United States of America are draw.
ing up price list 70 govern prices ir
both countries. ~
Mrs. Gladstone attained her ssth
birthday recently, and the bells Of
Hawarden church We're rung in honor
of the occasion.
\ volunteer in a Colorado regiment
at Manila has been cured of stutter-
ing by being shot through the throat
by Mauser bullet.
A book published in Japan 1.00c
years ago notes that at that time good
silk was already produced in s5 PROV.
inces Of that country.
In the London meat market has been
sold a consignment of frozen kangaroo
tails, which are said TO make a soup
more savory than oxtalL
The French government is perfect
tion by rail of torpedo boats of small
size in the event of war.
In Devonshire the cycle has been ap,
piled TO butter making. A man sits
on his bicycle, pedals, and Sy means
of a chain turns the churn.
The postal money order service il
New York for 1s9s amounted TO 500
Osl, 7s2. For 1899 il amounted to Sll5..
4ss,O2s-a gain of S25,4O7146.
The former military camp at Mon.
tauk Point. which a few months ago
was fairly alive with American sol
diers, Is now only wild waste.
Thus far in the year Cuba has
bought from the United States three
times as much as il did in 1s9s. In
value the increase was S13, 100000.
The wood of the redwood tree never
decays, il is said. and fallen trunks
which have been overgrown by old
forests are as solid as the day they
fsiI.
Prof. A. ]. Henry. for 20 years in
The weather bureau service, will fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Prof. II. A. Hazen. At present Prof.
Henry is chief of the meteorological
division.
Each battalion chief of the New
York fire department is shortly to be
supplied with pocket telephone,
which may he affixed to any fire box.
and will then enable the operator &c
talk directly with headquarters. The
attachr.ent is simple and the device
II will doubtless surprise most pco-
pie 10 learn that any soldier of the
British army who is captured by the
nemy gets his pay stopped at once
Therefore the 1000 English warriors
who are now playing football on the
race course at Pretoria are in no sense
of the word wage earners.
Roswell Beardsley. of North Lans-
ing. n. Y, is said TO he the oldest post
master in the service of the United
States He was appointed i'm 1928. when
John Quincy Adams was president, and
John Mclean was postmaster gem
eral. His salary was fixed at the mn
nifcent sum of Sl2 a year. He is ~
years old.
Former Senator Ingahs' mother IL
still living AT the age of 90 years. She
lives in Boston, and recently sent the
senator's family three slumber robes
which she knitted her self.
The annual consumption Of cotton
by the mills of the Russian empire for
the last few years has been more thar
2OO. 900 tons. the amount showing
steady increase for many years.
Germany is a more boolSish country
than either Great Britain or the Unit.
ed States. The historical novel SEX
kenhard" is now in it's 164th edition