The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-08-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

Field rats are esteemed a great deli
cacy in Cuba.
Egypt and the Soudan have now
2,O14 miles of railways.
On the 10 square milo of London's
area 1000 tons of SCOT settle yearly.
Memphis will spend $4,000 in enter
tanning the Confederates next spring.
infectious diseases are unknown in
Greenland. on account of the dry
cold atmosphere.
Tests of japanese coal demon
strates that il compares favorably
with American coal.
Sam Beard. sr.. of Henry county.
Tenn, has ballot-box that has been
used forty-nine years.
Chicago rules that noisy cows and
chickens are no longer to be tolerated
in the residence parts of the city
II takes something like e39 a year
20 keep a railway carriage ia proper
working order in the British isles.
There were 49, wolves killed in
France last year, and the bodntie'
equaled 1908 francs. OF over $500.
Newport News will name a street
in honor of the late c. p. huntington.
There is also talk of building a mon
ument.
Senator Ucitfeldt, of Idaho, used 20
be a cowboy in Kansas and has al
ways been more or less engaged In
stock raising.
Bombay receives its water from
three large lakes. which receive their
supply from a region that is intense
~ malarious.
All buildings belonging TO the Chi
nese emperor are yellow, and il is
capital offense for any private person
10 use that color.
Canada has been awarded the grand
Irize for forestry, fish and game and
mineral and agricultural exhibits at
The Paris exposition.
A cod caught off the Scotch coast
recently was four feet long. and
weighed so pounds. Two and half
feet is the usual size.
Tie Dublin Queens bench has de-
cided that. under the employers and
workmen's act. a barber is not work
man, because he must use his brains.
There is now in storage in the
Brooklyn Water Supply Co.'S reser-
voirs 4OO.27s.OOO gallons of water, or
4l7.sl2, 400 gallons less than a year
ago.
Physicians in Vera Cruz, Mexico,
were successful in their practice with
ahe yellow fever serum discovered by
a Brazilian experimental, DIR. Bellin-
zaghi.
The alligator and the crocodile DOS
sess great strength in the tail. One
blow from either of these animals is
powerful enough 20 break the leg of
a strong man.
Senator Heitfeldt, of Idaho, is prob
ably the largest man in the United
States senate. He is only Al years old,
and is of even greater proportions
than Jeffries, the pugilist.
OYSTERS can not live in the Baltic
sea. The reason is that it is not
salty enough. They can only live in
water that contains at least q parts
of salt in every 1000 parts.
The tea outturn for the month Of
June has been normal in Assam, but
poor in the Tersai. where the weather
IS unfavorable, and in Dariiling, where
there has been a severe blight.
The largest cotton ginning plant in
the world is now under construction
az Corsica, Tex, and the next largest
is being constructed at Bryan, Tex. A
third is being put in at Mexia, Tex.
The telephone was first practically
used in England in 1876, when over
I15 miles of wire existed between Lon.
don and Norwich, but no telegraph
exchange was established until 1879
The garments of the Oriental WON
en- are not subject to change of fashion
the shape always the same from gen
Grafton TO generation-and for thii
reason their wardrobes are very ex
tensive.
Lieut.. Robert :. Clarke, of the 81
regiment. now in China, is probably
the richest officer in the United State
army. Mr.. Clarke; grandson of tn
principal heir of the late Alfred Corn
ing Clarke. is stin in his early TWEEN
ties. is a graduate of Yale and com
mands a fortune Of millions.
The largest steamers in the worl'
are about TO be built at Stettin, II
Germany by the Vulcan shipbuildinl
firm for the Norddcutsche Lloyd ser
vice from Bremen TO New York
Their length will be 700 feet, horse
power about 10000, speed 1874 knots
The Washington police are con
Quoting a crusade against profanity
Two men who had been caught wer
arraigned in the police court Re
Gently. One was fined, and the othe
released on the ground that he yield
ed TO temptation because of the no
weather In cold weather. he saif
he was a total abstainer from prs
family.
Don Carlos l.. king of Portugal,
20 be the guest of Queen Victori
early next December. Despite IN
fact that he rules one Of the smalles
of kingdoms he has more titles tina
any living sovereign.
Rev. w. II. Murray, who is suppose
TO have been killed ina China, invente
q system OF representing the sound
af the Chinese language by raise