The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-03-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

The brain and spinal cord have
100000 nerve-cells.
The average weight of a sheep
fleece is so pounds
Jude has returned to the Paris
stage after years of absence.
There are eight submarine cables
Of over 1000 miles in length.
Kansas City claims to have estab~
lshed afty new factories in 1900.
Only three weeks are required 10
develop perfect mosquito from the
egg.
The marriage rate of Queensland.
Australia, has been steadily declining
from AS per 1000 IN 1865 10 6.3 per
1000 in 1895.
Gen. Joe Wheeler has announced
that he viii be candidate for a seat
in congress from his old district, the
eighth Alabama.
jewelers., robemakers and court
costumers of London look for an
abundant harvest from the corona
ton of Edward VII.
1t is now many years since Gov.
Wells, of Utah. was a newspaper re-
porter in San Francisco on salary
of few dollars week.
Ladysmith received daily during the
siege a dose Of three tons of Boer ex-
plosives, 10000 shells being thrown
into the town before relief came.
The latest census bulletin gives tho
population OF Virginia as 1854, ts4.
The population of Wisconsin is g.
O69,O9a, increasing 2e.7 per cent.
In one case S266. 900 has been saved
owing TO the esta bliShment of wire
less telegraphy between the East
Goodwin Lightship and the South
Torel1nd.
Electricity as a motor for regular
railway trains has been found Is per
cent. cheaper than steam in the eX-
periments recently made at Berlin on
the Wansee-Bahn.
A stained glass window is to be
placed in Burton church. Williams
burg, Vt, in memory of Chief Justice
Marshall, who attended that church
while a student al William and Mary
college
a wonderful cavern, rivaling in
beauty ana natural phenomena. if not
sn size, the famous Mammoth Cave of
kentucky, has just been discovered
across The JuniGta river from Maple
ton. Penn.
Official figures of iron shipments
from Alabama md Tennessee during
January, 1901, show an increase in ev-
cry department of the trade over the
corresponding month last year, eX-
cept in exports.
Chief Justice Story. in his descrip-
ton of Chief Justice Marshall. said
that the letters hair was black. his
eyes small and twinkling. his fore
head rather low. but his features
generally harmonious.
Two OF the most venerable relics of
Che French navy-the dispatch boats
1nconstant and PaPia-have been
bought by the republic of Ecuador
and are now being patched up to be
sent to their destination.
Charles Oliver. the railway commits
sioner of New South Wales, has re-
month in England and four months in
this country getting new ideas in re.
gard to the working of railways.
Fifty-seven thousand eight hun
Aired dollars worth of old Hawaiian
stamps went up in smoke the other
day. They were the remnants of the
republic of Hawaii. and destroyed by
order o; the postmaster general.
In Tripoh barley constitutes the
bulk of the food OF the people The
area under this crop constitutes
abou. three-fourtEs OF the Guilt
waited land, and fhe annual crop is
from 100000 TO 100000 bushels.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Henry C. Bates, of
st. Johnsbury, has beer appointed
district Judge in the Philippines, with
a salary OF from $1,000 to $500. ac-
.cording 30 the district, wh5ch will be
assigned upon his arrival III Manila
Gen. IAsserre. who has arrived IN
France from China, where he corE-
lmanded the French artillery. save
the fighting gave the French gunners
the first real opportunity of testing
the effect Of enelinite shells. 1t was
very deadly Nothing in the world
equals it, and all the allied troops
were amazed a. the terrible nature
of the explosive
Until the German emperor was
shade a field marshal. no one but
King Edward VII. himself was both
a field marshal OF the English arms
and an admiral of theeEnglish fleet
The number of British field marshals
A now nine.
The sultan has made n great limo
sation by authorizing the ladies of
;ie barem 10 be photographed
permission never granted to them be.
sore. II IS n curious sign of the
times iy- Turkey that the ladies have
nil had meir portraits taien in Pa
isS!an evening dresses and not in tlS,iI
Swn proper Oriental costumes