The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-07-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

An ordinary piano contains mile
OF piano wire.
Express trains in Russia do not run
Over 22 miles an hour. IL
Since 1850 the population of France
has increased but 100000.
A copy of the Cuban constitution
has been received In Washington.
The diamond il laid in the sun and
then carried into dark room shows
distinct phosphorescence.
The bottled beer of England re-
quires nearly 10000 tons of cork year
ly.
Canadian exports have increased by
lel.ooo,ooo during the past clever
months.
The concession of the Turkish
match monopoly has been secured by
. German syndicate.
chestnut tree, planted by King
Edward, grows besides the tomb OF
Washington at Mt. Vernon.
Kansas City has city forester
whose duty it is TO plant and protect
trees on the public streets.
Ice melts al; 30 degree, water boils
at 212. lead mclts at 594. and the heat
of a common coal fire is /, 14O.
Abyssinia was converted TO Chris.
tianity in the fourth century. The
country has now over 1900 monks.
Great Britain purchased ,O00..
900 worth of American farm products
in 1900. Germany took S134, 100000
worth.
People in the West End of London
are spending much money this year
their houses. SO
Paris population. according TO the
census just taken, is 2,714,O6S, an in
crease of 140,f04 over the last census.
Paris is now over 100000 behind New
York. ~ss5F
Although there are many cold win
ter days In Northern Italy, third
class railway cars are never heated,
and second-class ears only on express
trains.
Jury trials are going out of favor in
England. Out of 494 cases in the
Kings bench at the present Trinity
session, 162 are to be tried without
. jury.
Census statistics show that the Ne
gro population of the United States
has not increased in proportion to
the gain in the total population of
the country.
In the Himalayas people protect
their cattle from tigers by placing
bells about their necks. When the wild
beasts hear the bells they leave the
neighborhood.
There are 100000 Smiths in the
world, according to a statistician.
About half of them are of the fcmin-
inc persuasion, and most of the other
half are named John.
Kansas farmers will lose 500, OOO,-
600 because of the drouth, which has
practically ruined the corn, oat and
other crops. In two-thirds of the
state corn is a total failure
The Forth Bridge is constantly be
ing repainfed. So vast is the struc-
ture that it takes fifty tons of paint
TO give it one coat, and the area dealt
with is something like 40 acres.
Bolivar, the pride of the Philadel-
phia Geological Garden, and proba-
bly, the largest elephant in captivity.
has been chained, standing in one
place, for nearly thirteen years.
1t is stated that representatives OF
the German government are scour-
ing Arizona for horses for the Ger
man army, and that several hundred
of q rough and hardy variety have al
ready been selected.
In Whitfield county, North Georgia,
Mr.. w. j. Summerour has an orchard
of 250, 900 peach trees. Only one-third
of his orchard came into bearing last
year, and from these he realized q
net profit of $4,000.
The Berlin municipal authorities
have granted 6 1000 for the prepare
ton of n plan for an underground
railway, which Is to run from north
TO south of Berlin, following the line
of the Friedrichstrasse.s
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is plain,
practical woman, who buys carefully,
and, while her gowns are modish, she
wastes no part of her husbands mil
lions on the extravagant confections
in dress, for which Paris is noted.
In japan they have a very simple
way of collecting butterflies alive
They streak trees with phosphorus
and saccharine matter, and then the
butterflies in the night time are at
tracted, stick fast and are taken off,
Miss Alice H. Day. of Batavia. n. Y.
was the only woman graduated in the
law department of the University of
Buffalo. Because she had not taken
her whole course in that institution
she was disqualified from taking the
second scholarship prize, which she
had won. 1t was awarded to the man
next below her in rank, but who had
the good fortune to be in the univer-
sity long enough to entitle him to
honoFs-
An old copy of the New York Spec
fator shows that the population of
New York City just one hundred years
ago this month was 60.4s3. Philadel-
phia then contained 5s,7s2 people.
Hetty Green's most valued posses