The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-02-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

New Zealand's export of gold was
100000 greater in 1899 than in 1898.
New York city owes $35O,OOO, 900 and
has taxables amounting to S., 0O,OOo,-
900.
Hamburg added forty new steamers
20 its feet last year; il now numbers
436.
The total paid for college education
In this country is about S100,00O,00o
annually.
Winter suspends the activity of GER
tain microbes, but does not destroy
their lives.
President Kruger's ultimatum is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
In the Chino-Japanese war all the
japanese soldiers were supplied with
binocular glnsses.
For many years the income of John
Ruskin from his literary work was
$4,000 annually.
Out of 1,54S,654 votes polled ia the
recent election in Mexico, only 92,l72
were against Diaz.
The war in South Africa is said 20
have ruined the diamond trade for
long time to come.
France makes nearly 100000 pairs
of gloves yearly. and of these 1s,OO0,-
600 pairs are exported.
The Lancet says the climate OF
Egypt may, without exaggeration, be
described as magnificent.
The president of Switzerland only
gets ST. 700 per year, and the law for.
bids him TO succeed himself.
Thirty years ago there were only
about 25 explosive compounds known.
Now there are more than LOO.
Like nearly all Natal rivers. the Tu.
gela is not navigable, and a bar of
sand stretches across its mouth.
Gen. Theodore Schwan. who is dis
tinguishing himself in the Philippines
enlisted as a private soldier in 1857.
A novelty is the cold storage OF
hops. This is done in several places
Several systems are employed. notably
the Linde. Pontifex and De la Vergne
Size the war of 1894 the popula.
tion of Shanghai has grown from 400.
900 TO 700 700. The attraction lies in
the many new industrial establish.
ments.
Gen. Joubert, by way of being .
huomrist, complains that the English
countermanded an order TO attack his
troops without notifying him. and
thereby deprived him of a whole
nights sleep.
The Boer is no mean fisherman. Civ
en- a pipe and a goodly supply of HIS
favorete weed he win sit for hourF
angling. Very fine sport, indeed, may
be had in any of the streams north
of the Orange river.
Of'every 1O3 shots which strike some
soldier 43 win lodge in the legs. 80
shots will lodge in the arms, % strike
between the neck and the waist, one
in the neck and IL shots some part
of the soldiers heads.
In killing game the Beers use n bull.
let of which the lead point is exposed
30 that il mushrooms" when II strikes.
On entering the bullet expands and
tears an ugly hole. If il strikes side
wise the effect is horrible.
The Cathedral of st. John, in course
of erection on Morningside Heights,
New York, will be the largest eccles-
iastical edificc in the United States. II
will be $50 feet long and POS feet
across at the widest point.
A new method of preserving tele-
graph poles is TO surround the por.
tion in the ground with an earthen.
ware pipe like the drain pipe. into
The space between the pole and the
pipe is poured a mixture of sand and
resin.
Frederick Stearns, Of Detroit, who
presented the University of Michigan
a year ago with one Of the finest col
lections of musical instruments il ex
istence, has added a collection of nu
steal scores and compositions of the
old and modern masters.
Ann Ruth Seneca, an Indian prin
cess, is studying medicine at the Med
zeal Chirurgical hospital, in Philadel
phia. She took a classic course in The
Carlisle Indian school, where she de
veloped her love for nursing the sick
Two of her brothers were on the Car
According TO the kaiser's new nava
programme, Germany will have forty
battle ships in 1910 instead of the sew
snteen she has now, twenty large
cruisers instead of eleven, foTty-eight
small cruisers and gunboats, in place
of thirty-two, and ia torpedo boats
instead of eighty-four, as at present.
An eminent doctor says that no per
son should be permitted to drink tea
or coffee until he or she has attained
the age of is years. In the vcung
those beverages unduly excite the ner.
vous system, and have an injurious eff.
feet upon the digestive organs.
San Francisco Denver and Chicago
aE have trolley funeral services, and
row Milwaukee Is considering the
proposition.
A single wild tribe OF western In
dians is using forty-one kinds of veg
etables which are absolutely unknown
90 the majority Of cooks.
Senator Beveridge carries his papers
In a handsome black leather portfolio
bearing his name in silver lettering,
the gift of some OF his constituents.
A doctor with cavalry experience
has invented patent galloping hos