The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-07-13
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OF the 3,7OO Chinese in New Zealand
only 90 are females.
The Egg Inspectors union is the
latest one in Chicago.
Cherokee Indians decorated the
graves at Fit. Gibson, l. I.
A college of photography has beeu
founded at bingham, Ill.
1t is estimated thai there are u.s.
100000 Germans in America.
In $500 there were 200 horses in Aus
tralia: in 1900 there are 100000.
New Zealand has now sent nearly
1000 men TO the front in South Africa.
A train was stopped in Coffee coun-
~, Tenn, 10 allow a bear to get of
the track.
Parliament building, Wellington, y.
T., is the largest wooden structure ia
the world.
No receptacle made has sufficient
strength TO resist bursting power Of
frozen water.
Bank of England notes are number
ed backward. that is. from l to 1000,
hence the figures OO,00O1.
IL is estimated that the. number Of
Germans and their descendants in the
United States is 100000.
The Newfoundland sealing season
has been the largest for the past 25
years, $4,000 seals having been cap
fured.
An official return from the British
war Office shows that the distinctly
Scottish regiments in the war contain
10000 men.
Residents Of Atlanta hope that cir
cuses win come there, now that the
license has been reduced from 81 900 a
day TO $500.
According to a report of the labor
commissioner of New Hampshire the
shoe output of that state last year
was s22sOO,0Og
President Eliot, Of Harvard, has
been asked to deliver an address at
the opening exercises of the Univer-
sity of Michigan next fail.
There were 100000, 600 fowls in the
United States last year, and the num-
Der of eggs laid as estimated at about
,5O4,OOO,OOO dozen, or 1900 OO. 900
eggs. The value of these fowls ami
their product is set down at $4,000
600.
In good years the average fig crop
of the Smyrna district amounts 10
about 26,OOO.00O pounds, but last year
the yield was only 100000 pounds.
The harvest time in Asia;ic Turkey
is November. The figs are chiefly ship
ped three months later.
A substitute for the glass stopper
which, although il prevents fumes
from escaping from the bottle, has an
awkward habit of getting fixed is TO
be found in a cork stepped in vaseline.
It answers all the purposes of the
glass stopper. without its disadyan-
tages.
A nugget taken from the Connecti-
cut Zinc Co.'S property, at Joplin. Mo-,
a day or two ago, which ranks as one
of the handsomest specimens ever
mined there, weighs an even ton. 1t
is principally zinc ore, prettily trim
med in caleite, pink spar and cubes of
galena.
Gen. Miles, as Lieutenant general,
will enjoy the privilege accorded no
other officers of the army of pre-
scribing his own uniform. He may
wear what he pleases. The Russian
sword belt. which he secured when
last abroad, will, il is said, remain a
part Of it.
Prof. A. ID. Kent, of Jewell, Ia, has
been appointed by the sultan OF Tur-
key instructor of farming for the en-
tire Turkish empire. Prof. Kent wal
recommended for the position a year
ago. but on account of the usual
Oriental dilatoriness did not receive
the appointment until recently. He
IS now a member of the faculty of
the Iowa State Agricultural college.
In England there are only about 176
centenarians; in Ireland, SIS, and in
Scotland, &C. Sweden has 10, and Nor
way 8; Belgium, 8; Denmark, 2;
Switzerland, none. Spain, with a pop
ulation of 100000, has 4O1 persons
over 100 years of age. OF the $3.50, 900
inhabitants of Servia SIS have passed
the century mark. France with pop
Rt 1OhNOsOOos SIC CCH-
tenafiaDs.
The largest nugget yet found in the
Klondike was picked up on Gold Hill
recently. lt weighed seyenty-seven
ounces and was valued at $4,000
In the fourteenth century arrnor
became so heavy that many soldiers
only 20 years old were deformed or
permanently disabled by its weight.
The North German Lloyd is about
20 start a steamship line on the
Yang-tse- Kiang river, in China, TO con-
meet Shanghai with the ocean ships.
The stairway leading 10 the tower
of the Philadelphia city hall contains
COS steps, and is said to be the long
est continuous stairway in the world