The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

Omaha BARRIERS VIII exact Is cents
Icr shave.
Frisco derrickmen demand IN,
eight-hour day.
Americans pay 100000 a year foi
Paris millinery.
Kansas City is to have a commercial
travellers home.
The castor-oil tree is believed in
Egypt TO keep away mosquitoes.
The population of Jerusalem is as,
900. Of these $4,000 are Hebrews.
1t is estimated that New York has
no fewer than 10000 opium smokers.
About Sl5O.OOO,OOO in American CAPT.
tai is invested in the republic of Mex.
ico.
Paper teeth are alleged to be supe-
rior TO any other substance yet EN-.
ployed.
Ordinary bicycles can be changed
into taodems by an Illinois mans in
vention.
OF the 100000 people in South
America il is stated that 30.OOO,OOO
Rave never seen a Bible.
The banana produces per acre a.
-imes more food than the potato, and
% times more than wheat.
American made clocks and watches
are now shipped direct from the port
10 evsSy quarter Of the globe.
Thus far in the year Cuba has
bought from the United States three
times as much as it did in 1S9s.
Chicago fruit merchants are prepar-
ing 70 establish enormous fruit pack
ing establishments in California.
The fritish government used $4,000
gallons of corn whisky last year in
thc manufacture OF smokeless powder.
A leipsic publishing firm Of
fers 1000 marks for the words
and music of the best German naval
song.
Josiah Quincy, the retiring mayor
of Boston, has been almost contin-
uously in public office for the past 10
Sears-
Pennsylvania claims larger num-
Der of congressman of extended pc
riods of consecutive service than any
other state.
Golf oalls are becoming more and
more expensive on account of the
scarcity of gutta percha, out of which
they arc made.
This years vintage has been an I'M
usually successful one for France,
10th as TO the quality and the guam
tity of the wines.
NM. Rarlet, Papus and sedir have
foundedNa school in the French capt.
tai TO initiate its pupils into the mys-
teries of occultism.
A white marble monument, thirty
feet in height, is being erected on the
grave OF George NJ. Pullman in Grace
lind cemetery, Chicago.
A new million dollar cereal com
pany has been organized in Chicago,
which expects TO become an active
competitor of the trust.
Portable houses are made in Con-
necticut for shipment 20 Venezuela.
Four handy men can in three hours
erect one of the domiciies.
Hiram Maxim first turned his at
tention 10 gunmaking in a very small
way, so late as 1854, yet to-day his
firm employs over $4,000 men.
The National library in Paris has
just acquired the 10000 volumes that
formed the famous collection of books
of NJ. Ristelhuber, the Alsatian author.
Queen Victoria's autograph book
has been carefully preserved during
the 6. years Of her reign, and con-
tsips a remarkably rich collection of
autographs, including those of the
pope. four cars and several German
kings and emperors.
The subsistence of the army during
the past year, according TO the an
nual report of the acting coInmissary.
Gen. Weston, cost S27.OS4,646. This
does no. include the free rations given
20 prisoners of war and others. Uncle
Sam has a big company to feed con-
stantly.
A Creek Indian who went with the
Rough Riders TO Cuba and later en-
listed for the Philippines is described
by Representative Springer. The In
dian met Filipinos whose dialect he
W NQOul ne
could talk intelligently, although he
had never seen them before.
A crematory has been built AZ Rou-
en- and others are in course of con-
structiOn at Havre and Marseilles. |
Last year 4,513 bodies were cremated
sn France.
French women have the privilege of |
being enrolled as free masons, and,
indeed, II they choose, can join a
lodge open TO both sexes, which mas
for grand mistress a woman.
i Washington nam has brough:
suit fer divorce frors his wife b.
caass she sleeps with a razor under
her pillow She viii offer no expla-
uaiion for this eccentric habit, aud
rsfufes 70 give one when asked.