The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-09-28
CURRENT TOPICS.


Ohio will not take place until spring.
Archbishop Feehan. of Chicago, has
accepted chancellorship of A. o. ii.
The silverwsre belonging to Queen
Nictoria's table is valued at s12,S0O,-
600.
Biggest workhouse in the world IL
IN Liverpool. 1t has accommodation
for 5000.
1t will surprise many to learn that
ear diseases were studied some S,4OO
years ago.
In the best of years Europe never
produces enough wheat to supply her
own needs.
All signs point TO Vancouver as the
great center, the mining capital, OF
British Columbia.
The tidal wave along the Texan
coast will rank among the most dis
astrous in history.
Potatoes in Greenland are always
very small Frequently they grow no
larger than marbles.
The corn crop of the United States
this year covers 100000 acres more
than it did last year.
More newspapers are printed in the
United States than in England, Ger
many and France combined.
England has the greatest number
of lighthouses and lightships-o for
every IA miles of its coastline.
The relocating Chinaman coulds
consume the present worlds greatest
crop of wheat and still go hungry.
Pike, dace, roach. barbel, chub-in-
deed, all British fish but trout and
, salmon-ere known as coarse fish.
Gussie Raabe, aged %, of New York.
swan ~ miles in seven hours in the
Hudson river without once touching
ground.
Among the Chilians belief pre-
walls that the juice of onions is a sure
cure for typhoid fever If given in its
early stages.
A big New York restaurant esti-
mates its loss in food spoiled while
on the counters and in the windows
ut $1,000 year.
Cork and poplar are the tightesi |
woods in the world and pomegranite
one of the heaviest; il is more than
one-third heavier than water.
An automobile recently made the
trip from Boston 10 Newport in 24z
minutes. Thss return was made by
another route in less than three
hours. The distance is 25 miles.
In the formation of single loco
motive steam engine no fewer than
BAG pieces have 10 be put together.
and these require 20 be as accurately
adjusted as the works OF a watch.
Dragon fly grabs are most destruc-
tive TO the fry of fish. Out Of $4,000 |
turned into a pond one April only 81
could be found the following Septem- |
Der. The pond was infested by drag |
on fly.
Not far from Laytonville, Cal, q
crop of little volcanoes has appeared. |
There are IS of them, each with the
characteristic crater, and from each
crater gushes mud and warm vapor.
Each volcano" is about five feet
high.
In Bavaria each family on Easter
Sunday brings TO the church ward-fire
a walnut branch, which, after being
partially burned, is carried home 10
be laid on the hearth during tenn
pests as a protection against light
ming.
The longest word in the English
language is said TO be 'nonintercom-
municability." Here is sentence
from a recent biography: "But the
free kirk of the north of Scotland
are strong Observation-Disclosures
rians."
Most people talk about a million
without realizing what IL really is.
An expert coin counter can count
about 5000 in an hour. II he worked
ten hours a day, il would take him
33 10 days to finish the counting OF
s1,OO0,OOO.
II is said that as a general rule
substantial frame buildings in Gal
weston better withstood the blasts
of the gale than those of brick,
though some of the frame buildings
were picked up bodily and carried
squares away.
Pasture in the embarrassing section
tributary to New York has been burn
ed by long-continued dry weather
As a result the price OF milk has gone
up, and there IS a prospect that the
poor will have TO do without the ar
ticle altogether.
In Santiago in the better class OF
houses the bedsteads are surrounded
with a close kind of netting, begin
ming at the floor and gathered at the
top. This is intended as a protection
against tarantulas, the bites Of which
are poisonous.
The costliest paintings OF modern
times are Meissonier's 1854" and Mil
let's ''The Angelus;" 100000 was Civ.
en- for "1sl4" aud $l50,0OO for This
Angelus." .
According TO return of the inn
perial customs authorities. the total
number of foreigners resident in the
open ports OF China was 13,42l at the
end of the year 1898.
The average cost of two months
good fishing in Norway for one per-
son is about $3.50. including rent OF
water. The sportsman who In this