The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-03-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

shine and a shave daily.
There will be no colored men in
The next house of representatives
Canada expects population of
100000 in its census returns next
year.
pounds, theSsame amount of oak. 63
pounds.
On an average 100000 people are
staying in Paris hotels. 1000 of whom
are foreigners.
Out of 1900 plants used for com
mercial purposes 429 are used for
their perfumes.
There are 72.OOO.OOO cubic miles Of
water in the Atlantic ocean, 141,0O0,-
COO in the Pacific.
Two thousand gallons of air are
grown-up persons allowance for
twenty-four hours.
Oak, ebony and mahogany are the
three best-known woods which are
heavier than water.
Between 1900 and ] $50. 400 theaiers.
ont OF a total of 1884 in Europe and
America. were burned.
In Norway vaccination is not com
puisory. but no unvaccinated person
can vote at an election.
An ounce. of cabbage will give the
consumer 10 foot tons of energy, an
ounce OF butter PSI tons.
A commercial estimate of the
cranberry crop of the United States
for 1900 places it at 10000 barrels.
Russia has 900 newspapers. Ger
many has seven times as many,
and England four times as many
T. Y. Gray. secretary Houston
Manufacturers association. estimates
the area sown TO rice in Texas in
1900 at 10000 acres.
Al SchOenbrunn. the Austrian En-
peror's palace. is the finest collec-
ton of orchids in the world, num-
herring $4,000 plants.
On l72 miles of its line the St
Gothard railway has 32i large bridges
and LOGO artificial structures. The
line cost s33O,OOO mile.
The empress of China is said to
carry with her 5000 dresses when she
travels. These fill COO boxes. and are
taken care of by 1000 coolies.
Elongated ear lobes are considered
a mark of beauty in Borneo. Girls
with this feature reaching down to
their elbows are not uncommon.
AS a rule, the consul who saves
money-outside such prize places as
London, Liverpool. Paris, Hamburg
or Bremen-is viewed with suspicion
by his colleagues.
The inks of ancient days were much
like black paint, and. on account Of
the large quantity of gum used Ia
their manufacture. the letters stood
up in relief on the parchments as
though embossed.
The buzzard is a fast-fying Dir I,
one that was recently shipped from
Charleston, y. C., TO New York, for
the purpose of testing its speed, sue
ceedlng in making the trip back home
in about four hours.
ID. a. Tompkins, of Charlotte. y.
C., stated before the United States
about zoe. 900 barrels of refined cot
ton-seed oil are annually used in the
manufacture of oleomargarine
Karl keffer, Jr.. of Charleroi. is the
youngest managing editor in Pennsyl-
vania. He is but 10 years old. His
paper is The Bubble, a four-page
monthly publication. which has be-
come one of the most popular of To-
cal journals.
A landslide occurred recently in
Switzerland. An inn and its garden
and outbuildings slid down hillside
a distance of IS feet without being
3n the least injured. Two stately elm
tree in the garden were also moved
without injury.
The most ancient and most noble
order of the Thistle is the smallest of
three great orders of ghthood in
point of Plumbers and the longest in
point of title. 1t consists of the
British sovereign, British princes
and 16 knights.
A strange custom is followed by
Mexican farmers. They use oxen of
one color in the morning and an
other color in the afternoon. They
do not know why. but they know
that it must be the right thing to
do because their forefathers did il.
Willis Mcdonald. the eleven-year-
old son of Judge William Mcdonald. |
Of the superior court. of Whitman |
county. Washington, claims TO be |
the youngest court bailiff in the |
United States. The lad has for some |
time acted in that capacity in the |
court of his father, and has a good |
record for keeping order and main
tanning the dignity of the court
A number of Yale graduates sug.
gest that that university place |
memorial window for Elihu Yale in |
the church at Wrexham, Wales, near |
which he lies buried
A tunnel 25 miles long, reaching a |
depth of l.s00 feet below sea level. |
3s planned between Vaqueros bay.
6pain. and Tangier. in Africa. Ii
would be the deepest in the world.
II is said that Prince Charles of |
Denmark. the second son of the Dan
Ssh crown prince. will probably here