The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-05-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

thousands.
Unclaimed dogs in Chicago are TO
be killed by electricity.
Over 1000 trees are TO be set out in
Riverside park, New York.
The fastest flowing river I'm the
world is the Sutlsz, in India.
II is said that 100000 Italian labor
ers find employment in Switzerland.
There are nearly two thousand
stitches in pair of hand-sewn boots.
The import of crude rubber TO this
country more than doubles annually.
Up TO 1864 Berlin had only ore med
seal journal. Now there are about a
dozen.
The United States practically sup
plies South Africa with building ma
terial. q
4 NAN and a woman left a small
pox quarantine in st. Louis 10 get
married
More than one-half OF the cham
payne sold in France in 1895 went to
England.
Eleven millions OF men are said TO
belong TO the great Chinese society
of boxers.
Three turpcntine plantations OF TO-
600 acres each viii soon be started
in the south.
IL is estimated that ;he people OF
England spend a5O.OO0 day in fur
ni'ure-moving.
The imports of crude rubber TO -sis
country have in the last thirty years
increased 431 per cent.
Kimberley will erect a statue to Mr..
Cevil Rhodes in recognition of his
services during the siege.
France consumes 92s,OO0.OO0 gallons
of wine annually, equal to e4.2s gall
Ions per capita Of population.
Regina. the headquarters of Cana
da's northwestern provinces modnted
police, is typical prairie city.
a candidate nor the school board
in Kansas City was defeated at the
polls because he smoked cigarettes.
Miss Mable Hanna, daughter of the
senator, is one of the best whips
among the women OF Washington,
Tho income tax m India is levied
on all incomes of $50 aud upward.
and then only one man IN 700 comes
within it's scope.
\ child was seriously poisoned in
Middletown, Ct. recently. by eating
sample pills left on doOrsteps by a
distributing agert.
London is TO have a religious daily,
something on the Sheldon lines. as
regular institution. A..E Clarke, of
Wimbledon, is to be the editor.
The Englishman possesses on an av-
erage Si,4sO, the Dutchman. S72O. the
Belgium and the German $3.50, the
Austrian and Itanan $500, the Russian
$500. The Frenehman possesses $1,000.
Philadelphia claims the two oldest
white women in North America. They
are Mrs. Celestine Nigro, an Italian,
10 years old. and Mrs. Sarah Doran
Terry, a native of NCv Jersey, 100
years old.
Robert b. Whitesides. OF Dublin.
who bought the Calaveras sequoia
grove i'm California, recently, for $780,
900, asks S25O.OOO from the government
for il. Experts value the timber at
that figure.
Up to the present time, Egypt has
oniy be,n engaged in exporting its
raw cotton, but il seems now that
trials will I've made in the land of the
Nile TO manufacture cotton goods
from Egyptian cotton.
Rr. Adm. SiIas Wright. who became
the junior flag officer OF the navy by
promotion to the highest grade.
recently. VIII be next TO Adm. Dewey
ia the course of three years. Adm.
Wright Is Kentuckian and - years
OF age.
IL was Mr.. Rhodes who made IL the
fashion in South Africa 10 use Dutch
furniture, and lac bought up all the
good specimens which were TO he
found in the Old Boer houses. Every
piece of furniture i'm his house is pure
Dutch and antique.
BY the last census there were 2O,-
612, e0G communicates la all the
churches of the United States. or
these. 6,257,S71 were Catholics, 4.5s9,-
2s4 Methodists, 3,7I2,4s6 Baptists. L.
27s,a 32 Presbyterians, l.22l, O7s Luther
ans. and 54O,5O9 EpiscopaliaDs.
The Beers have during the war
consumed a large quantity of diluted
vinegar in order TO overcome the las
situde caused by the noxious vapor
of lyddite.
The Isthmian canal commission has
decided that il can not perfect be-
fore December the report of it's ex-
animation of various routes for the
proposed canal.
The street car charges at Cape
Town are high, @ cents being the reg
ular rate for a distance of from two
TO three. miles. Eight miles, the ex-
tent Of the largest line, costs 20
cents.