The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-06-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

New York cloth examiners demand
$2i week.
New York pipe ealkers get 50 for
eight hours.
Georgia and Alabama have fine
wheat crops.
The population of Oklahoma is
somsthing over 100000.
Acontrsct is 20 be let soon for 90
600 spindle cotton mill at Columbus.
Ga.
Mrs. VIM. Neill, of Augusta, Ca, has
a mocldngbird which she has taught
10 talk.
A -four war is on in Chattanooga,
and prices have been cat fifty cents
a barrel.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc
with the cotton crop in the Missis-
sippi delta.
On the 40 square miles of London's
area, it is said 1000 tons of SCOT set
ties yearly.
The Chattanooga opera house = to
be remodeled aud made a ground
hoor theater.
There are 10000 more exhibitors
at the present Paris fair than there
were in 1859.
Portland is the largest prison in
England. Nearly 1000 convicts are
located there.
Russia's war debt has been wiped
ont. In eight years the remaining
total, 100000 rubles, has been paid
OF.
Nine important British steamship
companies earned in 1899 a net profit
of S4,96G,O00. against $4.T43,OOO in
1898.
Henry James, the novelist, has
turneds mountain climber and will try
his G,pwess this summer in the Swiss
Alp
hantulas are being raised in Aus
traAa for their webs. which are being
used in making threads for war bal
looms
A pew Substitute for eeliuloid re-
/. ssmh1ng ahsSn uigder the name Of
maIiod.
Since pigs were introduced into the
New Hebrides the natives, il is said
have come to regard human food as
second hest.
The English peerage is divided into
dukes, marquises, earls, viscOunts and
barons, and the spiritual peeragc
into archhishops and bishops
A Russian count and a French
prince are among the prisoners cap
tured by the British and now enjoy
ing the sea air of ST. Helena.
Charles A. Towne, nominated for
the vice presidency by the populists
at Sioux City, is AZ years old-two
years older than Mr.. Bryan. He was
born in Michigan, and all his fore
fathers on both sides were repub-
hcans.
During the czar's recent visit TO
Moscow his sanction was obtained
TO the project for the erection OF
church in commemoration of the lib
Grafton of the serfs nearly forty
years ago. Only half the money has
rs yet been collected.
From Manila to Australia is ''like
going down river, for one is out OF
sight of land only two days" The
voyage lasts twenty-one days, but the
course is through the South Sea
islands, which accounts for its resem-
blance TO river nagigation.
1he French authorities controlling
the athletic events to be held in con-
nection with Paris exposition have
announced that, as a concession to
Americas desire to eliminate Sunday
games, the sports which were SEIZED.
uled 10 begin Sunday, July IS, will
instead commSnce Saturday, July IA,
the great French national holiday,
and will continue on the following
Tuesday and Thursday The finals
In which Americans are entered. will
be put ahead. and the games will con-
elude on Saturday, il possible.
Two persons named William McKin.
ley are on Uncle Sans payroll. One
draws a salary of S4.165 a month as
president, and the other 500 a month
as engineer in the Louisville custom
house. There are forty-eight organs
and three of them were christened
William. There used to be two Grover
cIevelands in the public service, but
Nnf-i - OAAt9 OAit liONs AAt - drHlhlaDl
farmer at the TT. Peck Indian agency,
and receives a salary Of $50 a month.
Adm. Sampson is much annoyed by
requests for autographs. Though
these are not as numerous as they
were just after the war, they still
average some fifty a week
The vail of Damascus is reported to
have discovered the remains Of Ii.
brary which escaped humiliation at
the hands of Tamerlane when Damas.
Gus was destroyed by him in .4O1.
Abdurrhman Kahn, the ameer OF
Afghanistan, who is now trying to
get more money by playing the Rus.
slams off against the English, is al
ready receiving from the latter peo
pie sl.0oO,ooo year.