The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

British Columbia will settle all
claims in the Klondike.
America leads in the size and mum
Der of Paris exposition awards.
Under rational treatment the av-
erage yield of a beehive in Palestine
is two pounds.
The ribs of tobacco leaves are
among the substances out of which
paper is made.
Over 100000 worth of diamonds
nre annually stolen from the South
African mines.
The corn crop of Spain for the
year 1899 is officially reported at "a
s66,954 bushels.
Last year Germany imported 2l4,-
l39 metric tons of potatoes and l.
370.s50 of wheat.
The Southern railway has furnished
the Birmingham division with eigh-
teen new engines.
II takes as much heat to turn one
pound of water into vapor as to melt
Eve pounds of iron.
Warm water is much lighter. hllk
for bulk, than cold. Water is heaviest
just before it freezes.
The Tennessee board of health re-
ports that smallpox exists in mild
form in six counties.
Blacksmith's aprons are made of
sheep-skin, tanned with alum. which
renders them heat-proof.
American cabbages are being ship
ped TO Europe, Germany. sprincip-
ally, where the crop is short.
The Cigar Markers international
union now has a membership of over
$4,000 and is growing rapidly.
The smallest coin now current in
Europe is the Greek lepton. 1t is
worth one twentieth of cent.
Queen Wilbelmina, of Holland, has
proclaimed her betrothal to Duke
Henry of Mecxlenburg-Schwe
The fastest flowing river in the
world is the Sutlej. in India. Its
descent is $4,000 feet In $50 miles.
1t is alleged that flies stick more
closely just before "A rain in fear of
being blown away by sudden winds.
The receipts of the Birmingham,
Ala, post Office show an increase of
so per cent. in the last three years.
The London boycott of Irish cat
tile creates a good deal of III feeling
among the farmers and grazers of
Ireland.
The area of London is css square
miles metropolitan district); New
York, 3O6.O1; Chicago, 1sO.12; Phila-
delphia, 1898.
The Queen Regent of Spain has
been appointed arbitrator on pend
ing international differences between
Chill and Peru.
Philip Ashley. a discharged British
soldier, was the originator of the
modern circus. He gave exhibitions
of riding in a ring in 1770.
Goats used to accompany strolling
musicians, just as monkeys do to-
day. Hence the expression, cutting
capers." "Caper" is Latin for goat"
Forty-nine million gallons of Rus
sian and American kerosene oil en-
ter China each year, yet China has
enormous stores of petroleunein her
own inland provinces.
The Rajah of NATHAN owns the
largest diamond i'm the world. IL
weighs 367 carats and is shaped like
an egg. with a queer little denied hol-
low at the smaller end.
In some Italian towns, instead of
giving books as prizes in public
schools. they give savings bank books,
with n small sum entered to the
credit OF the prize winner.
According to a report of the Ar
gentine commission for the extirpa-
tion of locusts, that body in 1s07-9s
destroyed over 2O.5OO tons of these
insects and over 80 tons of locust
eggs.
Gout is rarely known among the
working classes Of Ireland. Their
immunity from this complaint is
thought 10 be due TO the fact that
their food consists largely of pota-
toes.
Human hair varies in thickness
from the two hunderd and fftieth
90 the six hundredth part of an inch.
Mrs. Jane X. Sather, of San Fran
cisco. has given 100000 10 the uni
versity Of California.
An electric railway 400 miles long
and to cost Sl4,OOO,OOO is TO be con
structed with a government appro-
priation to the extent of S6,OOO,0O0
connecting the states of YucatCn, To
basco, Campeche and Chiapas, Mexico
The late Mrs. Catherine Carcelon's
will has just been interpreted by the
United States supreme court, and
Bowdoin college will receive 100000
and nearly as much viii go to the es-
Establishment of hospital in Oakland.
Cal.
The most splendid royal yacht
afloat is the Hohenzollern. She Is a
warship as well as q yacht. To a
large extent. aluminium replaces
wood in her fittings
Rosewood and mahogany are so
plentiful in Mexico that some of the
copper mines there are timbered
with rosewood, while mahogany is
used as fuel FOR the engines.
The sea cucumber-one of the GU
rious iellylike bodies thar jnhabit the