The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-07-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

Coal operators have put up the
price of coal in Chattanooga.
Two hundred and fifty of the Paris
police are mounted on bicycles.
Ninety thousand men in the British
army have good-conduct badges.
South Carolina has just recognized
a divorce granted in another state.
The sultan possesses no crown, cor
onation being unknown in Turkey.
In $500 there were 200 horses in
Australia; in 1900 there are 100000.
Married couples in Norway are priv
ileged to travel on railways at fare
ana a half.
More street cars are manufactured
in St. Louis than at any other point
in the world.
A single journal in Paris causes the
destruction of 10000 trees year as
material for paper.
Over $500, 600 worth OF diamonds are
stolen every year from the South AZ
Tican diamond mines.
In Paris fine human hair of fash
ionable color is sold for as much as
$3.50 per pound by dealers.
I'rojectiles for modern big and rap.
jd-fring guns require about half their
weight in powder TO fire them.
Among the clocks TO be seen at the
Paris exposition is one of the year
1850, which belonged to Henry III.
TO South African oxen the tulip
plant. which the beasts greedily de-
YOUR il they can get it, IS rank poison.
The town of Brunswick, Me-, owns
1000 acres of land, which they will
plant in white pine as public invest
ment.
According TO a San Francisco paper,
children of James Watts. inventor of
the steam engine, are now living in
California.
A single wild tribe of western In
dams is using Al kinds of vegetables
viii are absolutely unknown to civ
ilized nations.
A six months cruise will decrease /
the speed of ship IS per cent. This
IS owing TO the barnacles that gather |
on a ships hull.
Red bananas are coming into the
market again. Very few have been
shipped TO the United States during
the past five years.
The latest statistics show that the
United States has over 100000 miles
or railroad, and less than 10000 miles
of good wagon road.
Women have been elected to official /
positions in the vestry of the French |
Protestant Episcopal church at St. |
Sauveur in Philadelphia,
Nineteen new missionaries of the
Presbyterian church will soon start
for China from New York, undaunted
by the present dangers.
There is $4,000, 900 worth of United
States government property, as APP
praised locally, within the boundaries
of the Greater New York.
Teachers with physical ailments are
40 be barred from the Chicago schools
in the future. Only those of robust
physique will be employed.
A pneumatic rocking-chair has just
been patented. The air-cushions at
tached TO the rockers are very sim
liar 10 ordinary cycle tires.
SO use1ul are toads i'm gardens that /
by are sold in France by the dozen
for stocking gardens, to free them |
from many injurious insects.
Kruger pennies are being purchased
as souvenirs throughout Cape Colony, |
81 being assured that no more of them |
will be coined after the war.
The military reservation at West |
Point occupies a rock promitory |
which extends into the Hudson river |
and contains about 1886 acres.
Nearly half of the lightning strokes /
reported occur out in the open, "a per
cent. la houses, IL per cent. under |
trees and 8 per cent. in barns.
The supreme court OF Michigan re-
Gently held that conductor is not |
bound TO give women and children |
assistance in alighting from cars.
The Tennessee convict coal mine is |
a paying institution. IL is estimated |
that the enterprise will show profit |
of over 100000 for the past six
months.
The wire elothesline was the cause
of at least a dozen deaths last year.
That number of women was struck by |
lightning and killed while removing |
clothing from the line.
The Chinese have no use for bath
rooms o. bathing paraphernalia. |
Their toilet is quickly made, andf is
not begun until nearly all the gar
ments 20 be worn have been put on.
At a recent fur sale a Partisan pur- |
chased in the open market black ST. |
berian fox skin As inches by inches, |
paying for il the sum of $4,000. When |
dressed il will cost its wearer $500. |
With population of 100000, Lon
don harbors every day 10000 stran-
gers. Some may remain a week, some
a month, but all the year around |
there is an average of 10000 visitors
who are within the metropolitan
boundaries.
A railway is 10 be built between
Cape Nome and Fort Clarence, Alaska,
and rails and narrow guage locomo-
tives and freight cars have already
arrived at Seattle.
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