The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-15
CURRENT TOPICS.


holidays.
Georgia is very proud Of a 1,lsS
pound hog.
The sulphur mines Of Sicily yield
over 100000 tons a year.
Unvaccinated persons are not per-
mitted to vote in Norway.
In Chile two-thirds of the public
school teachers are women.
Louisiana per cent. bonds are sell
ing at S109.sS and interest.
Women's colleges in England are
said TO be filed to overlooking.
Woodstock, Ca, is TO have a cot
ton seed oil mill and a rope factory.
w. 5. Witham. ttlanta, Ga, is pres
ident of thirty banking Institutions.
Free lunches in saloons have been
forbidden by the Des Moines council
The only European country which
has a lower death rate than England
rs Norway.
The Swiss cabinet consists of seven
members, each of whom draws $1,000
per annum.
Paul Heyse, the German novelist,
has made his debut as a painter at
the Sge of 20.
One Georgia fruit grower has or
dered 5000 barreis in which TO ship
MS pear crop.
The air is so clear in Zululand that
objects seven miles away can be dis
tinctly seen BY starlight.
A reduction of postage in Egypt
from one plaster TO quarter of a
plaster resulted in doubling the num-
Der of letters posted.
Charlotte is n corruption of the old
English word charlyt. which means
dish Of custard. and charlotte russo
IS Russian charlotte.
The greatest height ever reached
in balloon was 6,16O feet. Two Of
the three aeronauts who made this
ascent were suffocated.
The finding OF pearls OF value 10
the regular oyster of commerce is a
rare occurrence, though the reports
of such finds are frequent.
Alaitre Labori, who so ably defend
ed Dreyfus. is coming TO this country
next year TO lecture on the famous
case. He speaks English fuently.
The human eye is from 1 TO 1%
inches wide. AMI, in perfectly pro-
portlonate face, the distance between
the eye is equal 90 the width of one
Bankers estimate that American
visitors TO The Paris exposition will
spend abroad this year $4,000 600
more than il usually spent by Amer
leans in Europe during the vacation
season.
Dawson Y. Clarke, WHO died at Lit
tlsson, n. H., the other day. was
known throughout New England as
the oldest of the White mountain
stage drivers. lie was 70 years of age
and had driven since he was II.
levi Brisson, of Danville, Ct. is the
father of forty-two children. He is a
French Canadian. ~ years old, and
weighs 10 pounds. His present wife
is lis third. His first wife bore him
six children and his second twenty
five.
Besides the "welcome home" tC
Gen. Otis in Rochester next month
the returning soldier will be the
guest of Lafayette post. G. A. X. o.
New York at banquet 10 which
many persons of national reputation
have been invited.
The Oldest love letter in the worlC
IS a proposal OF marriage for th'
hand of am Egyptian princess, made
$500 years ago. IL is in the form o.
an inscribed brick, and is therefore
not only the oldest but the most sub
staatial love letter ever written.
The giraffe has such powers O
mimicry that. although It's size nigh
be supposed TO make it conspicuou
object TO its enemies, the most prac
ticed eye has been deceived by tn
animals resemblance TO one of tn
dead and blasted tree trunks whicl
abound in its haunts.
Carp were reported as being 81
plentiful near Easton, Nd, the otbe
morning that they were caught witt
a pitchfork and two shovels by tire
men. who could easily have file
their two-horse wagon with the fish
st is said. The carp were on their wa.
TO the Tired Avon river, where III
water is cooler and deeper. The mi
gratory rush lasted six hours.
The strawberry crop in the Ct-t
tanooga district is estimated at rs
900 crates. The crop sold for abou
s2s0.O0o, OF which about s15O,OOO wa
profit.
The commander-in-chie' of IN
army of Morocco is a Scotchman. II
Is the son Of the Maclean of Loo
Bule, and his father owns grea
part of the Isle of Mule.
The number of vessels passiD
through the. Sault Ste. Marie cana
prior TO May was AT carrying 473
4s2 TINS of freight. In 1899 no f-eigh
passed through the canal bcfor
May j.