The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-08-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

American flour last year.
The Cuban tobacco crop bids fair 10
be the largest ever grown.
Fargo. n. d.. with a population OF
less than 1900. has SIS secret societies.
The lifeboats around the British
coast during the last year rescued CSC
people.
II is said that the population of the
world increases ten per cent. every
ten years.
Soldiers of the Italian army are al
lowed two hours in the middle of the
day tor a nap.
II is estimated that armor for the
new battleships for the German navy
will cost S65.O0O,OO0.
The lord mayor of London wears
q badge of office which contains dia-
monds valued at 100000.
a French physician, DR. Hervieux,
has made Investigations which indi-
cate the flies spread smallpox.
The railway from Tien-Tsin 10
PeSing. a distance of about 20 miles,
was the frs. constructed in China.
A New York musician has brought
= suit for $1,000 against n hotel barber
for cutting a mole from his cheek.
Competent Judges have estimated
the number of deer slain by sportsmeD
in Maine in one season 20 be 10000.
1t costs 81. 100000 a year TO maintain
the "a royal palaces of Emperor VIII
Lam throughout the German empire.
Tea ives cultivated In China 2.70O
years before the Christian era. and
"a that country IL was first used as a
beverage.
The average age of the men now at
the front is nearly two years higher
than that of soldiers who fought at
Waterloo.
India rubber nails are a novelty in
Germany. They are used in places
where metallic nails would be liable
10 corrode.
In Siberia acetylene gas is largely
used TO light up various operations
along the line where work is carried
on at night.
The German Association for Saving
the Shipwreclxed rescued last year POI
persons, the largest number since its
establishment
Sheffield is the smokiest city in
England. In proportion 20 its size
ST consumes eight times as much
coal as London
The Afghans never leave their
homes without having an arsenal OF
weapons in .heir belts. Arms are
their adOrnments.
The poulation of the largest five
cities of Russia arc: ST. Petersburg.
1897 900; Moscow. 9ss, 600; Warsaw.
614,750; Odessa, 4O4 $50; LODI, 314.TsO.
Since 1912 the population of Eng
LAND, Scotland and Wales has in.
creased 75 per cent, while lrelan.l
shows decrease of nearly 65 per
cent.
The government stopped coming the
old style of silver dollars ard coined
The first Bland dollar in 1875. The old
style dollars are not available for pub
lie use.
Railway freight rates in Austria
Hungary have been advanced sharply
on the ground that the rise in coal
has unduly increased operating lex.
penses.
Education in Mexico is almost en-.
tirely under government direction
There are few private educational
institutions, and such are Of minor
importance.
4 hon
sands of acres of land in New Mexico
that have never been taken up. IL is
the finest country in the world for
stock raising.
The average whale is from 80 feet
20 65 feet in length and IS feet in cir
conference. The jaw-bones are 80
feet 10 % feet long. and a tongue has
been known to yield almost q ton OF
oil.
During The year ended May 81 the
home circulation of the Chicago pub
lie library was l,749,775 volumes
which, the Chicago papers say, eX.
ceeds the record anywhere in the
world.
The opium war which was declared
against China by Great Britain in
1870 was responsible for the opening
of that nation TO the worlds com
merce by means OF the treaty ports
which were afterward established.
Adm. Bendemann, of the German
navy, who has been placed in com
mand OF the east Asiatic squadron Il
represent Germany in the Chinese i'm
broglio, though little heard of here
tofore, is one of the oldest and most
experience commanders in the Ger
man navy.
The number of persons crematcd Il
Germany from 1879 10 1899 was J,lil
The tip Of the tongue is chiefly sen
sible TO pungent and acid tastes, th'
middle portion TO sweets or bitters
while the back Is confined entirely u
the flayors of roast meats and fat!
substances.
An ex-governor of Mississippi is re
ported 20 have entered suit against
local street railway because a motor
man failed TO stop for him when III
signaled TO do so, thereby causing
him TO lose a train. lie claims dam
ages TO the extent of $4,000.