The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-16
CURRENT TOPICS.


school teachers are women.
StammeriCss is practically unknown
among the uncivilized people
Compressed air moters are supplant
Ing mules in Michigan mines.
Georgia is experiencing the most
prosperous winter in score of years
Originally the common or domesti,
goat was a native OF the highlands OF
ASIA.
Dresdes, Germany, publishes a daily
paper, and all profits are spent on
public parks.
COMPARED to the waters Of the Dead
sea, those Of the Salt lake are com
parativoly fresh.
Seven counties in western New York
received nearly 100000 for their
apple crop last year.
The ratio of men to women among
the public school teachers in Massa-
ehusetts IS l to 10.2.
No fewer than 10000 people are in.
jured in manufacturing industries OF
New York state yearly.
Trolley lines in Connecticut last
year carried 59.OS4,7O2 passengers, and
the steam lines SO, POS, 46S.
The ant hills of South Africa are
Sometimes mounds 80 feet high Snd
100 feet in circumference.
Representative Mercer. of Nebraska,
Is devotee to euchre and very seldom
misses playing a game every evening
of his life.
Representative Mitchell May, OF the
Sixth New York district. has the repu-
tation of being the best-tlressed man
In congress.
There are but two confirmed snuff
takers in the United States senate at
the present time, Senator Turner. of
Washington. and Senator Carter, of
Montana. The old custom of taking
snuff has about died out
Since vaccination was made compul-
sorry in German cities, in 1874. only
few cases of smallpox have been OBJ
Terved, and most of those occurred in
foreigners coming from countries
without compulsory vaccination.
As far back as 1870. on a royal visit
" hOUAhtIAis a NNNANN~ I0nAAAAA hAN1a
gun was tlled twenty-three times with
shot in n minute, sponging between
each fire and loading with great safe
.ty. This surprised every spectator.
The British government keeps II
vessels at work sounding and charting
the ocean beds, to find out where dam
gers lurk. Last year. 10000 square
49,. f,,fI,r III
ent parts of the wOrld--Asia. Africa
and the South Pacific.
Spinach is now in high favor as an
article OF diet. Chemists affirm that
IL contains much iron. Spinach not
only contains salts of iron and potas-
stun. but other salts. which are good
for the liver and the blood; il, there
fore. improves the complexion.
Oak Woods cemetery, in Chicago,
contains the remains of 4,O3o confed-
crate soldiers. The soldiers buried
there were those who u:ed at Camp
Douglas during tn war.
At Queen Nictoria's table an odd
custom which originated at the time
of George H.. is preserved. As each
dish is placed upon the table the name
of the cook who prepared it is an.
nounced.
THAN removes a familiar and prom.
inent figure from the house of lords.
He had sat in 1t for thirty years. and
no man was better acquainted with all
its forms and procedure.
One of the strangest facts regarding
the present war is that English and
Boer have so intermarried in South
Africa that in countless instances
brothers are fighting against brothers
and fathers against their own sons.
II is estimated that IL the laws OF
German CONSUMPTION were applied TO
her East Indian possessions Great
Britain would have a standing army
of 100000 soldiers, and about 100000
recruits coming up for enrolment
every year.
An experimental camp for "open air
treatment" for consumptives will
be opened at Long Lake. Wis. this
summer under the direction of Chi
cago physicians, who contend that
sanitarium treatment for this disease
has proved failure.
German railroa, authorities are
considering proposal 20 abolish re-
turn-trip tickets, holiday excursions
and all special rates, thinking by this
means thru they will be enabled TO
reduce tho regular fares one-third
..itb M resuItino loss
The war in South Africa has caused
a practical suspension of the dia-
mond cutting Industry, owing 10 the
supply of diamonds from Kimberley
mines having been cut of. Thousands
of workmc1 e Amsterdam and Ant
werp and hundred in New York
city are thrown out of employment
as a result.
Travellers IN the east have never
failed TO comment on the great
amount 90 eye disease which is prev
alent i'm Egypt.
Charles Henry Gibbs is believed 10
draw a smaller salary than any other
man in the government employ. lie
is keeper of an abandoned lighthouse
on Nantucket island and gets 81 q
year Ior his service.
Casimir Zalewski, who died in War
saw the other day, was tie oldest
lawyer and newspaper editor in Po-
land. He WAS also noted for receiving
the largest zee ever given a Polish law
yer --lh0,cOC rubles.