The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-07-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

Or Sandwich.
Zamboanga is ore of the prettiest
towns in the Philippines.
Gen. Cables. a Filipino insurgent, is
said to have surrendered by proxy.
France has the most expensive
parliament II costs & 100000 a year.
Sir Edwin Arnold is said TO be to-
tally blind now, though he keeps up
his literary work.
Spain has more sunshine than any
country in Europe. The yearly aY-
erage is 5000 hours.
The earliest mention of shoes is in
an Egyptian papyrus, about 200
years before Christ.
y man. walking day and night with
our rest, would take 42S days TO jour
ney round the world.
A Morgan syndicate is making ef-
forts To purchase the New river coal
properties of West Virginia.
feet of thirty-six steamers is to
run hereafter on the Thames between
Battersea and London Bridge.
in some of the cantons of Switzer-
land all the dead rich as well as poor,
are buried at the public expense.
The Salvation Army is at work in
4. different countries. and has 50 pc
riodicals, printed in 21 languages.
Some of the scales for weighing
diamonds are so accurately adjusted
that specl1 of dust or an. eyelash will
affect the balance.
The illiterate nations are, chiefly,
Russia. Spain. Turkey and the UNI
of South America.
The nearest approach of comet TO
the earth observed was in 100, when
one approached TO within 100000
miles of our planet.
According to an old English statute
dog has a right TO bite anyone once
without that person having claim on
the animals owner.
About 200 men in Paris find live
lihood of some sort by hunting in the
streets for stray coins. They are
known as '.filonneurs''
Vanillin. one of the most delicate
products of coal, is used by the gallon
in making the extract of vanilla, for
favoring custards or buildings.
The oldest man on earth is said 10
be izai Rodafsty. l35. of Moscow. Rus
STA. and the oldest woman Mrs. Nancy
Hollifield. III, of Rattle Creek, Mich.
We have decided that lace gloves are
not intolerable. and we are now to
have lace stockings, not lace fronts
but hose that are entirely made of
lace.
One of the greatest, If not the
greatest. incubators in the world is To-
Gated near sydney. in Australia. 1t
accommodates l1,44o duck eggs or a.
kens' eggs.
The rarest fish in British waters is
the ribbon fish. Only sixteen speci-
mems have been recorded in the last
century. 1t swims in the deepest parts
of the sea.
The Washington Manor association
is preparing to buy Hardwood. the
famous mansion built under the di-
rection OF Gen. Washington at Har-
per's Ferry.
The heretofore despised and feared
mouse is rapidly becoming a fashion
able pet. Society people are taking
up this dainty and long-tailed ami
NAL as fad.
The casE balance at the close of the
year would approximate Si90.000,000,
but Secretary Gage is keeping il un-
der control by the purchase of unma-
tured bonds at a premium.
Five and one-half tons of diamonds,
valued at from sl50.o0o.ooo 10 S2oO. oOo,-
coo, have been taken from the famous
Kimberley (South Africa) diamond
mines since their discovery in 1871.
Miss Mary Aughinbaugh. of Wash
ingfon. recently made a trip across
the Andes Mountains from Caracas TO
Ia Guayra. Miss Aughinbaugh is the
first white woman TO make the jour
ney over that trail.
Scores of mail carriers in the sparse
1y settled parts of Mexico walk and
run more than 40 miles every week.
A few cover on foot 40 miles a day
six days in the week and 90 up and
down rough mountain roads at that.
They don't seem to know what fatigue
memsss - r4 ~
The largest seal cargo ever OBJ
tanned has been landed at ST. Johns.
Newfoundland from the steamer Ter
ia Xova. 1t consisted OF 10000 seals
weighing 500 tons.
The heaviest precious stone in the
zircon. which is four and one-half
times heavier than an equal ouanti-
tyot wsser.z Thesiiglstest is she opal.
only twice AZ keavy IS water.
r apfearstlntin the United King.
donG there are 10000 postmen, and
in the course OF year dose upon
s.c0o. Qo0. 200 letters. postcards, par
GELS, circulars, boxes and newspaper
arc delivered.