The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

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Atlanta on the old statehouse lot.
A line of German steamships TO
Brazil is TO be established in July.
The finest looking people in Europe
are Tziganes, or Gypsies, of Hungary
About thirty cities in Wisconsin are
supplied with water from artesian
wells.
Munster, Germany, has high
school which has been in existence
1.lOo years.
For every million inhabitants in
Russia there is oply an average of 10
newspapers.
The British war Office anticipates
spending 100000 on bicycles for the
volunteer force.
A foreign sculptor says the naval
arch in New York is the most beautl
fnl in the world.
One of the men serving in the I'M
perial Yeomanry in South Africa is
worth 10000 a year.
The average duration of the reign
of English monarchs for the last COO
years mas octn II years
WI Ting Fang. the Chinese minis
ter to this country. has become an
accomplished golf player.
In Great Britain, in certain streets
of large cities. drunken women are as
numerous as intoxicated men.
At Miles. Mont, the saloonkeepers
have petitioned for permission TO close
on Sundays. They need the rest,
Ground will probably be broken
July for Memphis new hotel The
building will cost about 100000.
Consul VanBuren, OF Nice. states
that an American company has Nist
completed a new electric traction sys-
tenn there.
The Barnum-Bailey circus paid the
street car companies of Hamburg So
600 to stop their cars during the cir
Gus parade.
Philadelphia policemen carry canes
with curved handles. They are some
times useful in reaching for escaping
lawbreakers.
Glycerine is a by-product of soap
and candle factories, and something
like 10000 tons of this commodity are
made yearly.
The peach crop in Chattanooga dis
trict is estimated at $4,000 crates.
Georgia is expected TO furnish over a
million crates.
From the beginning of the war 20
the end of April. $4,000 horses had
been sent TO South Africa for the
English army.
In Germany one man IN 2l3 goes 20
college. in Scotland one in ESQ, in the
United States one in 1000, and in Eng
land, one in 5000.
Princess Mathilde Bonaparte has
Just been receiving congratulations
In her Paris residence on the occasion
of her S1st birthday.
Several communities in lower Italy
have recently petitioned the king for
the abolition of compulsory educa-
ton, because OF its cost.
Capt. $. L. White. of Columbia, s. C.,
an old confederate soldier. will erect
a monument TO the dead Indians who
helped the confederate cause.
The authorities of a Missouri town
have invited the wrath of the public
by leasing the city park TO cattlemen
10 be used for grazing purposes.
No states except Rhode Island 8d
Mississippi require more than one
years residence for citizens. In Min
nesota only four months is required.
Such well known English garden
plants as the phlox and the verbena
have run wild over hundreds of acres
of sandy Texan plains, as well as in
Australia.
The latest fad of Emperor William
of Germany is the collecting of the
boots and shoes of famous people.
lie has already got together at Pots
dam some 1000 pairs.
There are only three members of
the original Mckinley cabinet of three
years ago still in ofiice-Lyman j.
Gage. secretary OF the treasury; John
ID. Long. secretary of the navy, and
James Wilson, secretary of agricul'
ture.
George W. Dart, native of Attica.
n. Y. and the man who first raised
the Stars and Stripes over the con-
federate capitol at Columbia. s. C.,
after Shcrman's march, has just en-
tered the Soldiers home at MARSHALL
town, Ia.
Season tickets to the Paris expo
sition must bear the photograph OF
the persons 20 whom they are issued.
The Algerian, Tunisian and other Mo-
hammedan exhibitors, however, re-
fuse 10 have their pictures taFen, as il
is contrary 20 the Koran.
Secretary Long has sent 70 Speaker
Myers, Of the Massachusetts, house,
handsome big Ravel for the speakers
desk. The head is made from wood
of the Olympia, and the handle from
the rail of the Spanish gunboat San-
doval, captured i'm the late war.
Chinese immigration TO Australia
has almost entirely ceased. Masters
of vessels are forbidden, under a
heavy penalty, TO bring more than one
Chinese TO every 800 tons
The secretary Of state of Texas has
Cancelled the permits of 500 corpora
tions TO do business in that state be-
cause they failed 10 pay the fran
chise taxes imposed by Texas.
There is a servant famine in st.
Louis. The state employment bureau,
which is looked on as u last resort
e.. 10.