The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-05-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

unsatisfactory 70 6reat britaln.
Coal brings the highest price in
Eouth Africa and the lowest in China.
Frau Hedwig Heyl has started a
cooking school for doctors in Berlin.
An African who had visited England
described snow as rain gone 20
sleep"
The worlds stock of paper money
Is now $900.000.00O, equal To the exist
ing stock of gold coin.
There is more false hair worn in
the United States than in all the rest
of the world put together.
DIR. Nagusha. n Japanese scientist.
says that rats cause all the worlds
plaques. and favors their eXtirpa ton.
The longest continuous run on a
railway train in Europe is that from
Paris to Constantinople, 1921 miles,
sn 64H hours.
Durin" the last century 400 human
lives, $l00.oc0,000 and 200 ships have
been lost in fruitlcss efforts to find
the North pole.
The largest body of water in the
world having 70 outlet in the ocean
IS the Caspian Sea, it being 100000
square miles in extent
King Edward VII. contrary To wide
~ circulated reports. has not resign
ed from any of the London clubs OF
which. as prince of Wales. he was
member.
The total number of copies of news
papers printed throughout the world
in one year is estimated AZ 10000. 0OO.-
900. To print these requires .sl.26J
tons of paper.
Mime. Mel. the widow of the famous
French marshal. died the other dav
at the age of seventy-nine. Her son.
Gen. Mel. commands the third bril-
eadc of Dragons at Rheims.
During the fiscal year ended June
30. 1900. Canada exported 205.524 head
of cattle. valued AT SS.6S9.970; the
United States. during The same per-
Tod. exported 396,977 head. valued al
$30,6z3..OS.
An Arkansas bin prohibiting fer
ries from being operated within one
killed by the senate. on the ground
that lit would leSislate widow out
of business
The remains Of Gen. Ohio +. Strahl
who was killed in battle - years
ago. was moved from Column 5ia
Tenn, to Dyersburg. in the same
state, for Refinement by his confeo-
crate comrades.
y photographer of Zurich has in
vented an apparatus for taking long
distance photos. He took good pho
tOgraph of Sacnfis, 12O miles from
Yverdon. where he had fixed an APP
paratus 10 feet long.
Whistling in Iceland is considered
rs much of a sin as profanity. There
are some parts of the world where
the same offense is considered worthy
of fine and imprisonment, but there
are no laws 10 prevent il.
An enormous quantity of fruit is
going to waste in southern California
for lack of cars TO convey it east.
The crop was the greatest on record,
being estimated at from twenty-five
TO twenty-five thousand ear loads.
In Sweden they have land ar.
rangement of this kind: The farmer
will give tenant so many acres of
ground. provided the tenant will give
him so many days labor for SO MANY
years, the labor to be paid as wanted
The Norwegian harvest of 1900 is
reported by the new agricultural de-
partment of Norway to have resulted
in the following yield: Wheat and rye.
1.l59o00 bushels: barley. 3.s0l 900
bushels: oats. 9.2oo.0O0 bushels; and
potatoes. a2,a16.o0O bushels.
The empress of Japan is the patron
ess OF the peeresses' school. at To-
kyo. where the daughters of the fam
ilies of rank receive instruction in
cooking. painting. embroidery. poet
zeal composition and floral decora-
lions. in addition TO an ordinary liter.
airy course
1t is said that the sultan of Mo-
rocco has become deeply fascinated
with highland music. Ten years AGO d
piper became one of the institutions
mt his court. and very recently he
commissioned weli-known Glasgow
pipemaker to furnish him with a sc;
of bagpipes for his own use.
Arizona physicians have just com.
pleted exhaustive tests and found
very satisfactory results from the use
OF apple cider as a preventive and
cure for smallpox.
\ new railroad which is to he bull.
from Florence. Ala. TO Clifton. Tenn
. distance of siNty-fve miles. will
open up an nndeseloped country trib-
Stary to the Tennessee river.
Prof. Hodge of Clark university es-
Inmates that toads are worth Sl9.ss
each for their work as destroyers c.
sntworms. He thinks the propagation
ct toads would solve the gypsy moth
problesn.