The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

Tomato juice will remove stains oil
ink, fruit or wine.
Brussels is the nearest capital in
q direct line to London.
There are said to be 500 known
varieties of wheat in the ssorld.
People as a rule hear better with
their right ear than with their let
= ear.
The quail crop in Kentucky is bet
ter this fall than il has been for many
seasons.
The British press urges Lord Rob
erts to be merciless in his treatment
of the Beers.
This is the centenary year of the
introduction of the rifie into the
British army.
An the flowers of the Arctic 'rgl'n
ere either white or yellow, and there
are 762 varieties.
A nursery near Mexico, Mo. CON
tains 25O. 900 young fruit trees, pruned
and cultivated to perfection.
The natural life of an elephant is
said to be 100 years. II is. however,
greatly shortened by captivity.
Fearing a plague of rats, Antwerp
has organized an official rat hunt, .
penny being given by the authorities
for every animal killed.
An Angels Episcopal church, West
End avenue and Eighty-first street
New York. has just acquired what is
described ms the finest pulpit in Amer
lea.
The board of construction of the
navy department has under consider
alton a programme that would cal
for the construction of forty wal
ships.
One O the curiosities of musica
Paris Just now is an Englishman. Mr.
Wod. conducting n German (Wagner)
concert with French orchestra
.namoreaux's).
After suffering for long time
from the migratory rats. the inhab-
ftants of Copenhagen organized wal
against them. and in eighteen weeks
100000 were killed.
Goshen. small city in Indiana. has
q lower water rate than any Other
city in the United States. The plant
is owned by the municipality. rs IL
also the electric light plant.
The University OF Bonn prides .isrli
on having been the alma mater of the
luohenzoilerns' and other German
reigDing houses. Some OF the English
princes have studied there.
A band of American confidence met
has been successfully doing Berlin
and other German cities. passing
confederate ten-dollar bills, which
have been accepted az forty marks
each.
The organ in the old Johannis
kirche at Leipsic. on which Bach Otter
played. has been purchased by Herr
Paul DE Wit. of Leipsie, VINO viii
place II in his musieo-historic mu
scum.
A new name for the nail-bitine
habit has been coined by a French
doctor; it is onychophagia. This
word simply means "nail-eating." hui
II is terrible enough to brighten any
child out of the habit.
The Japanese government is con.
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of inhicting
capital punishment by means Of suf'
focation-placing the subject in ar
air-tight chamber and then exhaust
ing the air from the chamber by
means of pump.
Eovincio. a Filipino rebel captain
has been sentenced ia death for bury
ing alive g. American seaman. 1t is
also charged that he delivered an.
other American TO his followers. who
opened the captive's veins and sucked
his blood until he was dead.
The time required for a journey
around the earth by man walking
day and night without resting woulc
be 42s days; AN express train, 80 days;
sound. at medium temperature
32H hours a cannon ball. 21A hours;
light, little over one-tenth of Z
second. and electricity, passing over
copper wire, a little over one-tentf
of second.
England has one clergyman to every
610 people; Ireland one 60 every 1870
A balloon fitted with automatic
instruments was sent up recently il
Paris and came down safely. The in
struments showed that il had riser
to 1900 meters-56.000 feet--or over
10Z miles. At that height the tenn
perature outside ts@-ssaEeS4 was i5i
degrees below zero.
Joseph Florimond. Count Loubat
is a millionaire who does not fee
the burden of wealth. ColuDl bia uni
versity guarantees him a yearly in
come OF 100000. paid in cash. He pays
no taxes. The university attends tC
that. As its reward the institution
will come into possession of property
in this city worth 81, 100000 whenever
the count shall die.
As a reward for faithfully nursing
Robert +. Bixby through a long i'll
ness Mrs. Lena Gordon has inherited
the sum of 100000 under the pro
visions of his viii, which. together
with two codicils, was filed for pro
bate in the office OF the surrogate
New York.
A lymph has been invented with
which il is proposed to vaccinat,
young Holsters TO protect their
against a growth which is fatal tc
little crustaceans. The vaccinatec
lobster viii have q peculiar scar al
the base Of its tail to distinguish hin
from bis enyacciDated brethren.