The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-09-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

Illinois apples were awarded the
first prize at the Paris exposition.
A chateau near Prague has been
lighted by 1.2O0 jets of acetylene gas.
Carnegie company will establish
trade.
Two thousand gallons of air are a
grown-up persons allowance for "a
hours.
Only citizens Of Canada will be EN-.
ployed ON government work on con
tracts.
The number of languages and dia-
lects spoken in the world amounts
TO 1904.
There are 1000 vessels which crosa
the Atlantic ocean regularly every
month.
Two steers ran amuck at Rogers
Ford, Pa, and terrorized populace
Sunday.
In South Australia a mine OF
natural India rubber has been lately
discovered.
John Brisben Walker assembled
Pixies Peak TO the timber line en-
an automobile.
The Indiana fire insurance agents
have formed a protective union for
mutual benefit.
In proportion 10 its size. Great Brit
ain has eight times as many railways
as the United States.
The building trades of Omaha are
enjoying prosperous year, all meE
being fully employed.
A German doctor finds that only
in one ease out of fifteen are both &
,eyes in good condition. 4
United States government will col. q
ionize lepers ON a group of smalf !
islands in the Philippines.
Andrew Schlake, lost in a swamp, 3
near Pana, H.. was tOrmented by mos a
quitos until he went mad. d
There are no living descendants OF II
Shakespeare. COwper, Dryden. Swift
'Chaucer. Pope. Shelley or Byron.
Hawaiian planters are importing Z
Louisiana Negroes To work on theiI =
plantations, paying $50 per month. !.
A London bankrupt has been or i
dered to pay debt TO a grocer at the
rate of S125 per week. 1t will take q
him 81 years TO do il. b
In Manitoba and northwest terri. a
tories during the year 1899 there ar ;
rived from European countries 2o.36l Z
settlers and from the United Statei c
$3.50. 5
There are about l25 corset fac. d
tories in Germany. most of which
are located in the Rhine provinces d
Hesse-Nassau, Berlin, Hamburg,
Saxony and Wurtemburg. II
Caterpillars are said to be so thick o
in Colorado that they are obstructing "
t-afiic on the railroads near Florence .
They swarm upon the rails in great
and when crushed make >
the tracks slippery .
When DIR. Murray's new English die. =
is completed il viii contain :
about 100000 words, of which one.
half have come into use during this
century. and of these the larger part :,
are technical or scientific terms. !,
1Ae London Telegraph notes that n
there has been of late a notable de- II
crease in the hands of Negro min a
strels who go about the streets of II
London singing for coppers The n
public cares at present only for war d.
songs. @,
During the sixty years that Judge
Reagan. of Texas, has been in public Il
life he has kept up his farm. He now il
has fine ranch of 500 acres near Pal n
estine, Anderson county. to which he IL
will retire when he surrenders his Il
office of railroad commissioner. n
Those nations who are figuring on u
= fight with the car of Russia OF OF
course understand that he has over II
great armies ard naEies. p'
Two hundred and forty ships are now a.
in service. The Russian army figures q
IN grand totals, -, 800 officers and N
J, 79s,OOO men. ID
In 1891 there was printed in St. /,
Petersburg a book containing inter =,
Tiews with many prominent persons ~
pm the position Of Hebrews in Rus
Tia. The authorities interfered. and ~.
apparently every copy was DESTROYED. :.
)ne. however, found its way to Ber- o.
in. IL has been Translated in Ger III
man, ana the original presented 70 -
he British museum. n,
The Italian duke OF Abruzzi has "A.
ONE nearer getting an introduction W
O the North Pole than any explorer
rho has ever undertaken the task. Va
While he has the qualifications of trav- he
ling farther Eorth than any one else. hs
e has not, 80 far as reported. added r,
o the worlds stock of usefUd infor- ".
nation. However, the full account "a
Z his arduous Voyage has aat yet wi
cen rendered. tn
In Zululand the atmosphere IL so "a
lear that objects can be easily seen
v starlight at a distance of seven ra
tiles. -,
Capt. y. S. White. of Columbia, A. oh
D., an old confederate soldier, viii ful
'ect monument 10 the dead In 81.
ans WIG helped the confederate s@'
use.
A man in Keolxuk, Ia, committee
fofHa fho n4hoe dav In hon..f.,,. |