The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-10-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

dit bOouN 1As %
than women ina Chicago.
Wood and charcoal are in great
demand for fuel in Cuba.
A beach at Nome COO feet long has
yielded S475.0O0 this season.
A cent changes hands $4,000 times
In the course of lifetime.
rs many as 4,O6i muscles have been
counted in the body of a moth.
Chocolate is favored with vanilla,
the only orchid of marketable value.
More living fish are sold in Berlin
than IN any other market in the
world.
IL is proposed at birmingham 10 is
sue 100000 bonds to build a new sew
erago system.
The Farmers and Traders bank. OF
Atlanta, has been incorporated with
capital of $4,000.
The eondensers in an Atlantic liner
will pump at least $4,000 gallons of
cool water a day.
A Chinese rice merchant of Annoy
recently gave $1,000 to the Christian
mission in that city.
In three years the expense of run
ming an Atlantic steamer exceeds the
cost of construction.
OF the total area Of the japanese
empire-147.0OO square miles-hardly
~ per cent. IS cultivated.
At the end of the year 1sos there
were 1859 savings banks in Prussia,
with s,O49,59O depositors.
New Orleans rice dealers are dis
posed 10 discredit the rumor that
rice trust has been formed.
About one-fourths of all the agri-
culturists in Wurtemberg, Germany.
are cultivators of vineyards.
The loss through drought in west
ern Queensland during the last seven
years has been about G7,600,OOO.
The greatest number of races ever
won by a jockey i'm one season was
the 246 by Fred Arthur. in 1855.
Macon. Ca. will attempt 10 secure
The Rogers locomotive works. which
are TO be moved from Paterson, n. J.
II is alleged that flies stick more
closely just before a rain in fear of
being blown away by sudden winds.
The miners of the Yukon district,
Alaska, employ $3.50 men. who re-
ceive an average wage of 81 an hour.
In the tropics the heat of the sun
HTS three-quarters of an inch of
water from the sea every "a hours
that is, % feet in a year.
A large party of masters and pilots
has left Pittsburgh in a small craft
for a tour of inspection of the Ohio
river as far as Louisville.
A: San Francisco the board of SUI
pervisors has passed an ordinance re-
ducing the hours that laundries NAV
be in operation each day.
Samuel Stevens escaped Jail in Chi
cago by leaping from his cell win
dow to a fire escape on a building
across an alley Is feet wide.
The omnibus company of Paris has
90 lines and 1900 vehicles, perform.
ing $4,000 journeys a day. and capable
of transporting 1,02s.OOO passengers.
John Grossmith. lately returned
from Klondike, will marry Gertrude
Farley, of Philadelphia, and will give
her a necklace made of gold mug
gets.
Iron visiting cards are popular in
Germany. The name is printed in
silver. and forty of the sheets only
measure one-tenth of AZ inch in thick
ness.
Cardinal Steinhuber, project Of the
Congregation of the Index, has I'M
dertaken to revise the condemnation
of the books decreed In the last 800
years.
The Stout's Mountain branch Of the
Louisville g. Nashville railroad, in Ala
bama, will soon be ready for traffic.
Track-laying has begun on the Alfalfa
and Oneonata branch.
Rotary fight can be given to an
arrow like hat of "A rife by using
feathers OF one wing for the same set
of arrows. the curve of the wing Civ
ing the rotary motion.
Flowers bloom in the Sandwich
islands all the year round; therefore,
IL is believed that that country is
more deserving than Japan OF the
title "Flowery Kingdom"
A fire insurance company, with ST.
100000 capital. is being organized at
jackson. Miss. Over 100000 has been
subscribed. The comapny will begin
business about December 1.
Count Won Waidersee specially
prides himself on his fine collection
of maps, which includes most com
plete charts of Chilli and the Yangtse
valley, compiled by Prussian officers.
Left Erickson, who led band of
Norsemen on the expedition which
resulted in what is supposed to be
the earliest discovery of america. is
TO be honored by the Chicago society
that bears his name. A statue is 10
be erected soon.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland il
being called an "arrant firt" and a
"heartless coquette." And all be- |
cause she wants another year or two |
of maiden meditation. fancy FREE"
A horse can live 25 days without |
solid food. merely drinking water;
II days without either eating or
drinking, and only five days when