The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

at the Paris exposition.
There are great many caves and
prehistoric mounds in Iowa.
\ message travels over an ocean ca
BILE at about zoo miles a second.
Blanca Peak, 14.S0s feet above the
sea level, is the highest in the U. 5.
The Salvation army. for the second
time. failed to get foothold in Mexico.
More than $4,000 Michigan farmers
raised sugar beets for the first time
last summer.
Nearly so per cent of the people of
France and Germany are engaged in
farming pursuits.
About $4,000 tons of American coal
has been orded for Italian and other
Mediterranean ports.
Compared with the thoroughfares
of other industrial countries Glas-
COWS streets are mean.
Eighty-two pictures of the Henry
Hilton collection were sold recently
in New York for S56,465.
The bee industry employs 100000
persons, and the revenue from>it is
about s20,OOO.OO0 a year.
Paris expects to expend 100000 ex-
ira on the police service alone during
the exposition months.
More than 100000 acres of the sa-
hara have been converted into fertile
soil by means of artesian wells.
IL is supposed that the average
depth of sand in the deserts of Africa
is from thirty feet 20 forty feet.
In time of war France puts $40 out
of every 1000 of her population in the
field; Germany, 80; Russia, 21O.
Henry Savage Landor went about
Boston in summer clothes. saying the
climate was tropical compared 10 that
of Thibet.
Sycose is the new material used IN q
substitute for sugar in diabetes. It's
sweetening power is $50 times greater
than sugar
For calling another man a liar
through the telephone. a citizen of
Boone county, Iowa, had TO pay a
fine of 50.
Seven shillings n day has been
adopted by the New South Wales gov
eminent as a minimum wage TO rail-
way laborers.
The Russian government contem-
plates the purchase of more than
twenty thousand cars for the Trans
Siberian railway.
The Boer depends entirely upon his
horse, which is often beautifully
trained. and stands unmatched behind
him while he fires.
Since the visit of Sir Henry Loeb TO
Pretoria, in 1898, the Transvaal presi-
dent has positively refused TO utter
one word of English.
The Mauser bullet makes a cnan
pcrforation of bone and muscle. Sol
diers shot through both cheek bones
have lost the sense of.Gmell and taste,
but are otherwise quite well. Most
of the wounds are in the hands and
arms.
Lord Wolseley, Lord Roberts and
Sir Evelyn Wood have all written con-
siderable for the press. Sir Redvers
Isuller has never written anything but
dispatches to the war Office, and shows
his aversion 20 any other channels of
publicity.
4 Boer farm and homestead is, IL is
said. TO be one of the features of the
Paris exposition. Ia this form will
be exhibited the chief wild animals of
the TrSsvaal The means of trans
portation in the country are also to
be illustrated.
Miss Maude Earle is spoken of in
England as the successor TO Rosa Bon
heur. She is said 10 be one of the
greatest living painters of animals.
Dogs are her speciality. All the noted
dogs in England are sitting" TO Miss
Earle for their portraits.
One of the military journals in
France calls attention TO the fact
that. owing TO the intensity. of the
electric light used on board men-of-
war, the men are frequently affected
with eye complaint. which i'm some
cases have led 10 total blindness.
The czarina of Russia has a fad for
black roses, and these odd flowers
have been making a sensation in ST.
Petersburg. A florist named Fetisoff
has produced in his garden roses jet
black in color, and the finest speci-
mems are now owned by the ear
ina.
Chicago knights of Columbus are
perfecting plans TO preserve the car
nvel Santa Maria, which is now falling
into decay in the lagoon of Jackson
park.
George Everett, builder Of post Of
fees and custom houses Cor the Unit
ed States government, worked as
day laborer and stone cutter less than
twenty years ago.
The Chicago post Office shows
great decrease in the sale of postage
due stamps since the rules Prohibiting
the forwarding of underpaid second
and third class matter went into ef.
feet.