The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-22
DR.. Talmas
of Get
CURRENT TOPICS.

i new cigar factories are To
congratulated at Tampa, Fla.
n. r., Sl,5O0,000 worth of articles
,,raa,,h;n,- =, ned in London weekly.
The Great citiBritain employees $4,000 for
which he desc zen in her merchant service:
life 80 Observation-Disclosures ca the aw
year t ssF'' '''''''''' IONS ''' 80
Thetextrage walking pace of a
healt trebian or womaa is said to be
IS st41p minute.
Tw3vteHollars and thirty cents is
the ami a allowance of 1851 pen
kioners Or the state of South Caro-
lima.
London now has two electric sub
Sxays--the City and Waterloo railway
ny ansthe City and South London rail-
herei It
the immorfettes are smoked almost ex-
Cheyne' vely in Germany, Austria, Russia
gaId Greece. and generally through
Europe.
Lord Kitchener is a freemason of
high degree and holds the Office of
district grand master of Egypt and
the Soudan.
papers has increased from 90 to 100
per cent. since the beginning of the
war in South africa.
The nearest approach of a comet
20 the earth observed was in 177O,
when one approached to within q 4OO,-
600 miles of our planet.
Memphis wants to have the Forrest
monument ready for dedication dur
ing the confederate reunion which is
TO be held in that city next year.
municipal authorities of London
are eng iced in the establishment of
eterilizd II milk plants in different
parts otthe English metropolis.
In coming such modern words as
''telegram." photograph" etc, the
Japanese have recourse to the Chinese
language, as we do TO the Greek.
A floating variety theater. to be
towed from one watering place TO
another along the coast. is an English
idea for the coming summer season.
The word hussar is from the Mag
var void houtzar, meaning the
twentieth. Hussars. as cavalry sol
diers, were first confined TO Hungary.
Senator Hoar frequently amuses
himself by piano playing. He plays
well, il is said, but few save his inti-
mate friends have ever heard him.
An enormous quantity on old from
in the shape of old anchors and
chains is annually rescued from the
sea. During one period of ~ months
as much as $50 tons weight was
dredged mp on the east coast Of Eng
land alone.
The married and unmarried women
of the United States of Colombia,
South America, are designated by the
manner in which they wear flowers
in their hair. the senoras wearing
them on the right side and the senior
itas on the left.
Statistics have been published 10
show that brainworkers are long
lived. Five hundred and thirty emf
nent men and women of the present
century were taken, and their dura-
ton of life gives an average of IS
years and 3 months.
A prehistoric city. covering several
hundred acres, has been discovered in
Mexico. The ruins were covered with
earth, but the excavations already
made show that the discovery i6one
of great importance from an archae-
logical point of view.
a school of employees has been start
ed in one of the shops of the United
States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry
Co. of Cincinnati. The company has
fitted up a room with drawing appa-
ratus and instruction will be given
IN the company's time.
and has made several wooden wraps;
the princess of Wales has worked
cushions. and Princess Christian
knitted a number of comforters for
use in the hospital train equipment
under her supervision.
Some iourneymen bakers in Dept
ford, England, threatened to strike
because their employers made il a
custom to hold prayers on Sunday
night before preparing the dough for
Mondays bread. and refuse 20 pay
Tor the time thGs spent.
NJ. Danyez, Of the Pasteur institute
in Paris, has found microbe which
will wipe rats out Of existence. He
has tried the effect of his microbe in
warehouses farms and other places,
and in 80 PEI cent Of the cases the
rats completely disappeared.
substitute forefnger was shown
by a Koenigsberg doctor at a surgi.
cal congress n Berlin. He had cut
off the patients second toe and sewed
81 to the stump of the missing finger.
Primary union followed and the new
finger could he moved by it's owner.
In Jewish marriages the woman
IS always placed to the right of her
mate With every other nation of
the world her place in the ceremony
81 10 the left.
A tongue made OF rubber, and rest
ing on pivot set between the teeth,
e belontTs TO New York man. He is
able tkfall< distinctly and freely and
eats VI p ease.
Mimi -ota, which has a population
of 1,3F-s26, and which cast 139,G26
votes AT BRYAN in 1896 and 1920