The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-09-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

Snlrt-WalSl man was ltluscu sup
per in a birmingham hotel.
Savannah capitalists will erect a
large hotel on ST. Simon's island.
The scabbards worn by Russian Of
ficers are made with papier-mache.
There are to-day, in all eountrits,
more than 100000 Italian emIgran's.
The startling report comes from
Virginia that the peanut crop is
failure.
The death list of Bellevue hospital,
New York, contains this record:
Unknown man, admitted August -,
taken 10 ward No. -, died at 1913
=. m, August -"
Jerome X. Jerome, the English hui
morist. is a great friend of Charles
Il. Nerkes. the Chicago traction mag
nate, and was his host the other day
at dinner in London.
Elephants have only eight teeth
two below and two above on each side.
All of an elephants baby teeth fall
out when the animal is about IA years
old. and new set grows.
The tea out-tUrn for the month of
June has been normal in Assam, but
poor in the Terai, where the weather
Is unfavorable, and in Dariiling, where
there has been a severe blight.
Few houses in Uruguay are pro
yided with stoves for hea,ing pur-
poses. No chimneys or fire places are
provided, as a rule. one house recent
ly built at a cost of $4,000 having for
ats only chimney a stovepipH from
the kitchen.
The married and unmarried women
of the United States of Colombia.
South America, are designated by
the manner in which they wear flow
ers in their hair. the senoras wearing
them on the right side and the SEN
oritas on the left.
Runo Fischer has served just an
even 100 terms as instructor first and
then professor at Heidelberg.
Though ne celebrated his 10th birth
day last month, he still gives six
lectures a week on Goethe" and on
the history OF philosophy.
Miss Louise Traux. a 17-year-old
great-grandniece of Ethan Allen. has
csptivated New York society with
her ability as a whistler and imita-
tor of birds. She has just received
a fiattering offer to go TO London
and whistle for fashionable Mayfair
A stained glass window in memory
Of Izaak Walton is TO be placed in
Winchester cathedral. The project
has the support of Sir Robert Max
well, the dean of Winchester. and
number of known anglers in this
country and in England. The window
will overlook Walton's grave.
Prince Flu VIVA, the second son OF
the king of Korea, is again in this
country, having come for the purpose
of falling a course at Roanoke college,
in Virginia, among the alumni Of
which are several of his countrymen.
Prince Flu spent several months in
Washington, three years ago, as the
guest of Pom Kwang Sob, the former
Korean minister.
Recent statistics show that, al
though the seaman of the present day
is better cared for and less exposed
AAAaM TIC NtdluflA VI -ADi hhN - Viz
ease of the respiratory organs have
increased enormously in the British
navy and invading for bronchitis,
pleurisy, pneumonia and phthisis has
more than doubled since masts and
yards have gone.
lit is said that Mrs. Clemens, Mark
Twain's wife, plays a very important
=.
All that he writes passes under her
severe censorship. She is a most
acute critic, and, IL there be anything
in what he may have written which
does not meet with her entire APP.
proval, the copy" goes straightway
10 the waste basket or is held back
for revision.
As a mark of appreciation of the
conclusion of the commercial agree
mcnt between the United States and
Germany the emperor has conferred
upon the ambassador TO the UniteG
States, DR.. Won Hollenben, the or.
der of the crown; upon Herr Koerner
CT the foreign Office the order of the
red eagle. and upon Herr Herman,
WHO ~ hAAdinta ~ NnG fuiDdHal az
Washington, the order of the red
eagle OF the fourth Glass.
The German crown prince is to
complete his education at Bonn, and
his brothers will also study at the
same university as soon as they ar
rive at the proper age.
The win of the late Charles c.
Bowen, of Detroit, gives S5O,O0o to
Kalamazoo college TO endow a chair
of Greek, 10 be known as the John
A. Broadus professorshio.
The present establishment OF the
military forces OF New South Wales
consists of 9,7f4 officers and men;
that of Queensland Of 7,215; South
Australia OF 5,2l7; Victoria of TO-.
Els. and Western Australia OF 1920