The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-09-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

Duluth Hour mills are preparing 10
make 10000 barrels of flour every "a
hours.
From 1902 to 1912 many attempts
were made TO fasten metal points to
quill pens.
The 10000 Indians in Ontario, Cam
ada, own S9,s40.e00 worth of proper
~, or s615 head.
The Japanese earthquake of 1908
was the most destructive on record.
1T killed 100000 people.
Some naturalists say that no in
sect except the silk worm feed upon
the leaves of the mulberry.
This years crop of oysters will
eclipse in number and flavor the har-
vest of several years past.
The 1000 or more Boer prisoners at
st. Helena have started the publica-
ton of weekly newspaper.
A thousand railway cars are need
ed to handle the peach crop in one
country in southern Missouri.
Last year there were 1872 miles
OF telegraphic lines and 933. 153 miles
OF wire in the United States.
Within few weeks the Germans
or Mexico City collected $4,000 for a
German schoolhouse TO be built there.
After the confiscation of monastery
property in Spain by the state, much
of the proceeds were devoted to the
making of roads.
he l.ln4.,. &c coil 70 ha
natures water-proofing. Where it is
rubbed off damp accumulates and de-
cay soon follows.
A new trolley line between New
York and Connecticut promises a reg
nlar run of sixty miles an hour out
side of city limits.
\ hornets nest usually contains
from three to four hundred perfect
males and females and an indefinite
number OF workers.
OF fifty-six glaciers observed in 1879,
tiiTty-nine were fouad 10 De decreas-
ing, while five were stationary, and
twelve were increasing.
The British war Office is said to be
considering the training of dogs 10
carry water and provisions to sick and
wounded in time of war.
Servants in the English royal PAL
aces have received a fresh reminder
of the spirit of economy. with which
King Edward intends y conduct his
h3usehold. -
Labor strikes arc of great antiqui-
~, although, owing TO the different
conditions of labor, anciently they
were on somewhat different lines
from those OF the present day.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has added to
his collection of arms, which is one
of the finest in the country, sword
worn by Simon Bolivar during one
of his South American campaigns.
The game of golf is said to have
been invented in ancient times by a
lonely shepherd who had nothing bet
ter to do than to knock round stones
into rabbit hole with his crook.
John w. Bowler, general superin.
tendent and director of physical train.
ling in the public gymnasium of Bos-
ton. has accepted fve-year contract
as director of physical training at
Dartmouth college.
The oldest known weapon was the
club. The clubs of the lake jewellers
of Switzerland, studded with stones
IN default of nails, and thus making
formidable weapons, have been recov-
cred from their habitations.
In New Jersey there are two match
factories with capacity together OF
$4,000, 900 matches a day. The largest
factory in the country, at Barber
ton, o., can turn out 1O0.000,OO0 match
es day, probably one-seventh of the
entire consumption
A strange sight was witnessed at
bologna recently. A bellringer at a
church was struck by great bell and
thrown violently through the window
OF the tower on to the roof. some
leo feet below. He escaped with moth
ing more than shock.
The total product of wool is 1000
100000 kilos annually. Australia is
lcredited with Oi,0oO,0o0 kilos Ar
gcntina 172 .000, 900. the United States
ll32, 100000, Russia 119, DOC, GOO, England
g, 900 900, France 46, 000, 900, etc. Dur.
Sing the past ten years the product
lof England has much increased. This
lprincipal consumers of wool are: En-.
lgland 114.0o0,00c franc, Germany l00,.
looG. 900, France 100000, etc.
A recent invention by an Italian is
receiving notice from those who &c
80 sea. 1t is net made of hemp and
INTENDED to break the force of waves
One recently tried with success al
lHavre was 800 feet long by 80 feet
wide with meshes il inches apart
The nets viii break the waves at sea
land will also be bulwark for hy-
ldrauIc works against heavy surf.
1t took sixteen years to build the
first Brooklyn bridge. but immensel,
larger suspension bridges can now Ds
CONSTRUCTED in from four to fv.
years
Twenty additional fruit-carryins
steamships were chartered recently
ito reinforce the feet now trading
between the West Indies and Phila-
ldelphia.
Sven Hedlin. the explorer. reached
Charkhiik. in the heart of China, last