The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-02-22


Southern cotton manufacturers
have decided 10 curtan production
because of small profits.
There is railroad in the south
which has been operated for 80 years
without killing a passenger.
The United States has a lower per-
centage of blind people than any
other country in the world
a kangaroo consumes as much
grass as six sheep. There are but
about 100000 left in Australia.
On one OF the japanese railways
terra Gotta slecpers are used. They
gre far more durable than those of
wood.
Timothy McGrath. a beggar. died
from starvation in New York. and it
was found he had $1,000 in saw
ings bank.
Endless litigation will result from
the claim that the state owns the
Texas oil lands. More oil has been
found there.
In the average man there are %
500.0OO,O0O red-blood cells. All told
there are 26.5OO,OO0, 100000 cells in the
human body.
In the country between Cowcta and
Chasha. l. T., twenty miles northwest
ot MusSogee, smallpox is assuming
a. alarming nature.
The right hand. which is more SEN
sitive 10 the touch than the left, is
less sensitive than the latter to the
effect of heat or cold.
II has been discovered by the Agri-
cultural Department that one Of the
uses TO which sunfower seeds can
be put is 70 make salad oil.
For the first time on record skin
taken from a dead person has been
successfully grated onto living
man and the latter is getting we'll
The Argentine Republic and the
United States have each IA per ceny.
of foreign born inhabitants. Great
Britain has. one-third of l per cent.
A Missouri lawyer has set UP in
wife's cross. bill in divorce suit
TIE fact that the husband under
took 10 poison her without just
cause"
Cock fights are almost as popular
in Mexico as bull fights, and all of the
best fighting cocks that they have
down there come from the United
States.
Some time ago thirty-two children
of Liverpool. England. contracted
typhoid fever on the same day from
partaking of ice cream from an Itali-
an vendor.
The largest carpet in the world is
in Windsor Castle. Vt is 40 feet in
breadth, and contains 5S,S4O.OOO
stitches. The weaving of il occupied
rs men IA months.
The Berlin National gallery has
purchased two Vandycks for 502. go
marks, representing two of the
Guistiani family. a couple of pictures
formerly in English hands.
So much war material is now being
manufactured at Woolwich. England,
that the arsenal is really not large
enough for the purpose and the de-
STABILITY of enlarging it is under
consideration.
Fifty American and two hundred
Filipino women organized the Wom-
ans Peace League at the Libertad
Theater, Manila. the other day. The
league advocates American sover-
eighty. A Filipino woman presided
1t is now apparent to the officers OF
the administration that it will
scarcely be possible for the United
l.
government of Cuba under the most
favorable circumstances for some
time.
Eduard Bernstein. the weil-knoWn
socialist writer, the warrant for
whose arrest issued twenty years ago
for political offenses, lapsed January
81, and was not renewed. has returned
90 Berlin from a long residence ia
London.
The throne room of the sultan at
Consfantinople Is a gorgeous sight.
The gliding is unequaled. and from
the ceiling hangs a superb Venetian
chandelier, the 200 lights of which
which make "a CLEAN like that of
veritable sun. The throne is huge
seat. covered WIN req Nei'et anu h"'
ing the arms and back of pure gold
The British census will be taken
on the last day of March. 1901. Ten
years ago. when the last census took
place, the population of the United
Kingdom was 37,732.922. The Register
General estimates the present popu'
1ation at 4O,92i.471.
There is in Lincolnshire England.
. woman in her ninety-first year who
acts as parish clerk. attends all we'd
dings, christenings and funerals,
keeps the church ia order. performs
the duties of the church warden when
that official is absent and occa.'on
ally undertakes the work of the or
gan blower and the beu ringer.