The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

Paris needs 100000 quarts of milk g
day.
Sweden has S175, 54o.oOO invested in
railroads.
There are 200 men training in ath.
letics at Yale.
A small body of infantry covers
three miles an hour.
London annually consumes about
100000 tons of coal.
France receives SL0OO,OO0 n year
from taxes on bicycles.
Sunshine is thoroughly hostile 70
many disease microbes.
Hundreds of squirrels viii be turned
loose in Lincoln park, Chicago, in the
spring.
Patience and long credits are abso-
mtely essential in order to ia business
= in Russia.
The state of Washington furnish.
ed over 100000 tons of coal TO Califor-
mia last year.
In the Transvaal the working day
for both white and black men is eight
hours by law.
Lights dot the coast line of Great
Britain at the rate of one to every
fourteen miIes.
Mime. Loubet, wife of the French
president. is one of the best chess
players in Paris.
Gen. Cronje was strongly urged TO
oppose Kruger for his preside0y in
ls9s, but declined.
The population of Alsacc-Lorain in
cludes 100000 Catholics. 100000 Pro
testants. $4,000 Jews.
The Argentine Republics deficit for
the current fiscal year is officially es-
timated at S15.OOO,OOO.
The house of Rothschild has five
great centers-London, Paris, Vienna
Frankfort ard Naples.
Since the Tyrol first offered DO IN
~ on poisonous snakes, in 1896. IL
has been paid on s.1Tl snakes.
1t costs S4.4Oo,OoO year 10 maintain
the twenty-four royal palaces of En-
Teror William throughout the German
empire.
The legislature OF Mississippi has
passed a bill forbidding the sale of
cocaine except on the prescription of
q physician.
President Steyn has ordered that
none of the English army medical
staff or Red Cross bearers are 10 be
taken prisoners.
According to = German newspaper.
there are at present in Europe sew
enty-one marriageable princesses aud
only forty-seyen princes.
The valley of the Amazon still lie
mains almost unexploreds What has
been done has been accomplished. in
a great measure, by Eropeans.
The Beers of Pretoria are making
vast preparations for the threatened
siege. All burghers from IS TO GO
years have been called 10 arms.
II is strange that the right hand,
which is more sensitive TO the touch
than the left, is less sensitive than the
latter to the effect of heat or cold.
According TO recent official return
sro fewer than three and half million
natives are already employed on gov
ment famine relief works in India
nt UOAAOil VI tnt DtlNttn
Hawaii and California is said 10 be 20
level that a railway could be laid for
500 miles without grading anywhere.
Although now a fluent speaker, Sen
ator Mason, of Illinois, was in earlier
days so much a victim of stage fright
that il was only by severe and con-
slant training that he made himself
all orator.
A strange method Of cooking an
egg is sometimes employed by shep-
herds in the east. The egg is placed
in a sling and whirled round and
round until the heat of the motion
has cooked il.
The London Institution for Lost
and Starving Cats has now been estab-
lished for three years. During that
time 1894 stray pussies have been re-
ceived and cared for, or, If homeless
and unhealthy, destroyed in painless
lethal boxes.
The honesty of the official servants
in Great Britain is attested by the
fact that during the past twenty
years there have not been brought 10
light a dozen cases Of official corrup-
ton in the higher branches of the
service, which administers the affairs
of about 4oO,Ooo,oOO people.
Eighty per cent. of the cattle of
Uruguay are used for the purpose of
making 'tasaio." or jerlxed beef, for
expectation 20 Brazil, Cuba and Porto
Rico.
plant has recently been installed
ut Rouen, in which use will be made
of the carbOnic acid gas given of dur
ing fermentation in breweries and dis
tilleriee.
Malta is one of the most important
coahng ports in the Mediterranean,
and consequently there are many
firms there dealing IN coal, of which
there Ia at all times 4 large stock OF
hand