The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-09-20
CURRENT TOPICS.


The demand for electrical yentila-
tors in India is ahead of the supply
The crack scholars of Harvard 'ol
were Freund, Bauer and Petersen.
two Germans and Swede.
The inhabitants of the Province OF
Ontario write more letters than those
of all the rest of Canada.
The number OF Protestant Chris
tians in Ceylon has increased in fif.
teen years from 446,7s0 to 1854.
Japan has two imperial universities
--one at Togo, the other at Kioto
The latter is only three years old.
William Dorsey Jelks, the new gov
ernor of Alabama, is a lawyer by pro-
fession and has made a fortune 10y
his practice.
1t is claimed that Joseph Gaspard
Chaussgras de Derry, a French engi.
neer, made the first maps of Detroit
IN 17i9 and 1884.
Mosquitoes sometimes live 60 days
in captivity. Nobody has been able to
find out how long they live when they
are not in captivity.
Match making, once the most peril
ons of handicrafts, has become per-
1ectiy safe through the discovery of
amorphous phosphorus.
A curious criminal law exists in
Greece. A man who is there sentenced
to death awaits two years before the
execution of the sentence.
Greater New York, although over
100000 less in population than Great
er London. covers an area of sos
square miles, a worlds record.
An electrical generating plant al
most as large as the Great Niagara
Falls plant will soon be in operation
AT the Falls of Glomen, Norway.
There are ar least three varieties
OF dogs that never bark-the Austria
Ian dog, the Egyptian shepherd dog
and the ''lion-headed dog" of Thibet.
Some of the more expert railroad
men in the country believe that the
limit of sustained speed with the ex-
listing style of locomotives has been
reached.
Fred {. Easton, son of the late ].
C. Easton. retired millionaire. will
give 100000 toward the erection of n
new Presbyterian college in La
Crosse, Wis.
Last month, on the news of our
corn crop troubles, England imported
from producing countries AZ per cent
more of that cereal than in the same
month of 1900.
The umbrella has taken firm hold
upon the native of India. or. at any
rate, upon the Bengal. No less than
100000 umbrellas are imported into
the country every year.
Mont Blanc has for the first time
seen fully equipped company of SOL
diers on its summit. Alpine ChasselIrs
made the ascent and the usual salute
was fired at Shamonix.
One of the most brilliant entertain
ments ever seen in Constantinople was
that recently given by Mr.. Leishman.
the American minister, in honor of
his daughters birthday.
In her sham maneuvers the English
navy has lost two destroyers and 9TH
er vessels have been crippled. One
may imagine what would happen to
the English navy in real war.
The jarrow wood, which grows in
Australia. is almost the only kind
known to the lumbermen which eff
fectively resist the depredations of in
sects. Not an insect viii touch 4.
Helen Gladstone, daughter of the
great liberal, has become warden of
the Wonian's University Settlement in
Southwark, London. and win soon
leave Cambridge to live in that dreary
slum.
Naval Cadet Herman Smith Turner,
OF Maryland, recently appointed. has
been admitted into the naval acad-
envy at Annapolis, despite the fact
that. while over six feet tai, he
weighs but ninety-five pounds.
The Canadian government is INSTALL
ing the Marconi wireless telegrapbic
system in the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
and the steamer Tyrian has been de-
spatched TO establish the first sta
ton at West Point, Anticosfi.
Some of the stories told concerning
the sudden fortunes acquired down
in the new oil fields of Texas MAKE
like tales of old California and the
new gold diggings in the Klondile
tame and weak in the comparison.
William c. Whitney will not allow
his great park in the Adirondacls 70
be numbered" in the ordinary way.
Instead he cats trees of over ten inch
es in diameter, leaving the smaller
ones TO grow, and thus always las a
handsome forest.
Careful observations have been
made in order TO find out which col
ors for uniforms present the best
marks for the enemy's shot. and il
has been found that the most fatal
color is rcd. rife green coming next.
brown third. while Austrian BLUSH.
grey is the least fatal.
OF the 1850. 100000 busheis of bar.
ley produced by the civilized coun.
tries of the world Russia produces by
far the largest amount. Next in or.
der comes Austria. which is followed
Ivy Germany, the United States. En-.
gland and Spain.
The statistics of the strikes in
France for June have Just been pub
]ished. In all the month gave birth