The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-09
CURRENT ToPIcs.

10 nave smoking cars.
Kiddsille. Right Angle and Log Lick
are Kentucky post Offices.
Twelve million one hundred thou
sand tons of timber. are cut every
year.
Danish lighthouses are supplied
with oil to pump on the waves in
case of storm.
The first treaty with China, which
opened its ports to foreign trade,
was signed in 1912.
There are close upon 100000 pas
sengers carried on every week day
in London by public conveyances OF
all kinds.
The quantity of fresh beef carried
on one trip by an Atlantic liner OF
5000 tons would keep a family of i've
is years.
japanese workmen battle the whole
body once day, and some OF them
twice. Public baths art provided in
every street.
All big vessels are provided with
copper lightning rods, which run
: from their mastheads down 10 the
copper sheathine.
The warrior ant makes raids
against nests Of the small, fellow turf
ant. These, il krows by experience,
make the best slaves.
There are more than 100000 pu-
pills in the schools of this country.
About 36.O00,000 babies are born in
20 the worll every year.
The nearest approach of comet
TO the earth observed was IN 177o,
when one approached 10 within T..
100000 miles of our planet.
( A model Of the human beart, work
sng as In life and. s<ping tkptq
through artificial arteries, is the
work of continental physician.
Bartholdi's Statue OF Liberty is in
a deplorable condition aud an expen-
diture of from S75, 900 TO 100000 viii
be required to put in proper repair.
The inhabitants of Media. Italy, are
convinced that their fields were
sayed by the 800 shots which were
fired during the prevalence of a
fierce haiIstorm which devastated AL
the surrounding country.
r. c. Kirk. newspaper man and
miner, who has just returned from
Dawson, tells of the finding of coin
in the Kl0ndike which would seem
10 establish the existence there OF an
unknown race centuries ago.
The Philadelphia didctory shows
nine men who bear the name Of
Thomas Thomas and eleven known AZ
Robert Roberts. But William viii
liams outnumbers them both, as there
are eighty-six citizens thus named.
The newest labor union in Spring
field, Mass. is an organization of tn,
fruit peddlers of the city. They hay,
banded together in order 10 fight tn,
discrimination at auction salei
charged against the wholesale deal
ers.
Perfumes are put up in tablet form
nowadays A lady simply orders I
dozen or more at a time, and pro
ceeds to distribute them about in hel
pockets, her purse, or within tn,
palms of her gloves. They come il
two sizes.
A new Maine statute prohibits tn
placing of inscriptions upon the star
and stripes, and several politica
flags bearing the names Of candidates
fol president, vice president and gov
ernor have had to be taken down IL
consequence.
The cafe chairs and tables of tn,
sidewalk are a Paris feature that thu
tourist Immediately agrees ought u
be adopted at home. They form tn
most distinctive feature of the Pari
promenade. They give it's Partisan
brightness to the boulevard.
An Australian manufactures, in hi
search for cheap raw material fol
paper-maling, has successfully expe
rimented with turf. He claims 4
produce from the cleaned ant
bleached turf fibers a remarkabl,
strong and durable paper.
The most densely populated spot Il
the United States is the block o
tenement houses in New York, bound
ed by Sixty-tirst and 'ixty-secont
streets and Tenth anil Eleventh
avenues. In this block, the censu
showed, lived 1881 persons, most o
them Negroes
The sword of SaladiD. the adver
sary of Richard Couer De Lien, is a
In the possession OF a native of th'
town of Beyrout, Syria, who is will
ing to sell it for $1,000.
The largest plurality on the popu
lar vote for presidential candidate
was In 1872. when President Grant
running for reelection, had 100000
For his first term he had 305,Doo.
An ocean steamer of the first class
going at full speed, eau not b
brought to a halt in less than thre'
minutes. In the meantime she vii
have traversed a distance Of abou
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