The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-12-21
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Nail plant at Belfont. Pa. costing
$4,000. sold as junk tor Ss.S-S
Leipzig, in Germany. sells looe
tons weight of books in one year.
The lxiale. or household fox. Is s
favorite pet among Chinese women
English people drink yearly. on an
average, eight ounces Of cocoa a head
Insurance companies win now take
risks for limited amounts on football
players.
Powdered charcoal. IL laid thiekly
ON a burn, almost instantly aliays
the pain.
Henry Labouchere. NJ. p, editor Of
Truth. completed the 69th year of his
life recently.
Buffaloes are found at the height
of $4,000 feet on the African mount
ain of Kilima Marc.
Over 81 900 worth of diamonds
are stolen every year from the South
African diamond mines.
More than half Of the Sl.s2l 900 gold
imported into this country during
March came from Canada.
The Indian name of the Charles
river at Boston was Mis-sha-um,
which meant great highway.
Thirteen million cubic yards of
earth were removed in making the
canal across the isthmus of Corinth.
Three hundred Negroes from va
rious parts OF the south win leave
Birmingham, Ala, in January for LIZ
IBERIA.
New Scotland Yard is the largest
police station in the world. II Is
capable of accommodating 5000 police
officers.
According to Mint Director Rob-
erts' estimate. the output of gold for
1901 will exceed 100000 a day,
$365.0O0,Oo0 for the year,
Switzerland complains that the
cheese trade is little dull. and yet
during 1899 that country exported
Is. 0t0, 600 worth of cheese.
The king of Siam owns an army
corps of 500 elephants, all wen |
trained for military purposes and
under command of a general.
Watches are tested as to correct
ness of time in heat and cold, eight |
hours at 10 degrees Fahrenheit and
eight hours at freezing point.
r. J. Reynolds. has given 5000.
half the sum needed, for the con-
struction and operation of a Negro
hospital at Winston-Salem, ". c.
The American District Telegraph
Co, of New York, win put in little
telephones at its call boxes, and thus |
have a telephone company Of its own.
Moscow has the largest hospital in
Europe, with 1000 beds. There are % !
physicians and 900 nurses, and about
1900 patients are cared for annually. |
The greatest steel structure ia the
world, so far as railroad work is con-
cerned, is just about completed in
Pennsylvania. II is the wonderful
bridge of the Erie railroad across the
Kinzna valley in Mexican county.
Tae bishop of Chester CDR. Jayne)
has issued a letter on licensing re-
form, urging the adoption of the
method of placing the public house
in public hands. that it may be man
aged as a public trust with a single
eye TO the public welfare.
The Siberian railway will cross al
together thirty miles of bridges, and
of these the line to Irkutsk required
a large number, including such i'm
portant ones as those over the Irtysh
at Omsk, 200 yards; over the Yenis-
sci at Mimi Udinsk, $50 yards. =
The common hen lays about 500 or
600 eggs in 10 years. In the first
year the number is only from 10 TO
IN; IN the second, third and fourth
years from 100 to 1856 each, and there
after it rapidly diminishes. In the
tenth year the ordinary hen lays but
10 10 IL eggs.
A Boston China house received
two Interesting orders recently. One
was from Cecil Rhodes, to be sent /
TO his residence in Cape Town, South
Africa. and the other was from /
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling. TO be sent to
her home, The Elms, Nottingham,
Sussex. England.
Florida continues 20 make steady
progress in population. II now has
52s,542 inhabitants. gain of IS per
cent. over 1890, while in the two pre-
eeding decades its percentage OF
g-owth was 45.2 per cent. from 1850
10 1890, and AS per cent. from 1870
10 1854 remarkably uniform IN
crease.
Max Billigheim and Max Eiche,s-
heimer. two students from Beidel-
berg, the noted German university,
arrived in New York recently aud
nave now started on a allxing tour
across the continent. They wear
khaki costumes and will help nay
their expenses by delivering OCCASION
81 lectures.
A West Australian exploring parry
that recently arrived at Oodnadata
reported that there had not been
drop Of rain for two years in the re-
gion traversed.
The good roads movement is doing
things in New Jersey, in which state
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