The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-08-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

The average height of N English
man is feet s94 inches.
Lewis Wilkins, of Minnesota, is nine
feet tall, lacking half an inch.
The masons of Atlanta. Ca, will
spend $4,000 on a masonic temple.
Work has been commenced on a
100000 yarn mill at Admission, Ala.
According to the Soir, it will cost
$3.50 to see all the sights at the Paris
exposition.
NEGOTIATIONS for the plague are
made in Bombay at the rate of about
5000 week.
Before the war the mines of South
Africa gave work to between 10000
and 10000 men.
The advocates of cremation in Ger
many have their own periodical, called
Flamme (flame).
The slaughter houses of the City OF
Mexico net the treasury about $4,000
a month in taxes.
\ man walking ten miles day
would require nine years to cover all
the streets of London.
In proportion to its size Great Brit
ain has eight times as many railways
as the United States.
Opelousas. La, boasts the unique
distinction of possessing one of the
very few, If not the only, woman's
brass band in the south.
The tube of a twelve-inch gun has
80 spiral grooves inside, which cause
the shot TO revolve IS times per sec
ond as il rushes through the air.
Physicians arc-f1 great demand In
Brazil. They are well paid, but their
life is a hard one, as they often have
TO ride all day TO reach a patient.
Gen. Cronie amuses himself at ST.
Helena by games of golf with other
Boer prisoners there. As the time
of the players is unlimited, they FREE
quently spend whole days on the
links.
After lying in the dead letter Office
for thirty-seven years, letter has
been returned TO a Smith Center
(Kan.) man, with the memoranda that
his brother can not be found at the
address.
One man makes all the burglars
jimmies in London. The police know
the man well, and are fully aware OF
his peculiar trade; but there is no law
by which he can be arrested or stop
ped.
DR.. James ". Stafford, who has been
professor of geology in Vanderbilt
university for many years, has Just
retired at the age of seventy. For
half century he has been state ge-
olOgist of Tennessee.
Sir Charles Dixie, in a paper read
before the Statistical society, of Lon
don, declared that the normal cost OF
British armaments in time of peace
is e6O,OOO.OOO 10 the taxpayers of the
United Kingdom, G2O,OOO,OOO to In
dian and e. 1,750,OOO to the self-govern-
ing colonies.
Jesse Holdom, of Chicago, is said
20 be the first foreign born lawyer
TO be president of an American state
bar association. He was born an Eng
lishman. but has spent his whole ac-
tive life in Illinois, and has just been
chosen head of the Illinois Bar asso-
citation.
Apples are useful in nervous dys-
pepsia. They are nutritious, medicinal
and vitalizing; they aid digestion,
clear the voice. correct the acidity of
the stomach, are invaluable ia rheu-
matism, insomnia and liver trouble.
An apple contains as much nutriment
as a potato, in a pleasanter and more
wholesome form.
Swallows migrate to Central Amer
ica and the southern part of Mexico.
They like il pretty warm. Along
about March they begin TO appear in
the southern states, but they seldom
get far north until the latter part of
April. The robins don't care for such
- warm climate, and very few of them
get as far south as Mexico.
The little Grand Duchess OLGA. Of
Russia. may be said 10 be the richest
baby in the world. The week she was
born $4,000. 900 was settled on her, and
81 is said chat this huge sum was
safely invested in British aud French
securities. For in a country like Rus
STA no one knows what may happen
10 members of the reigning house.
At Picking the heat in summer
ranges from 90 degrees to 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, but the winters are so
cold that from December to March
all the rivers are frozen.
DIR. u. +. Lancaster. of Norridge-
wock, Me-. picked up an old Spanish
coin in his field the other day. The
coin was about the size of a ten-cent
piece. and bears the date of 1894
The secretary of the navy has Sc
lected as names for the six new sub
marine boats the following: The
Grampus, Shark. Pike, Porpoise, Ad.
der and Moccasin. These are worse
hsh in the sea than ever were caught