The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-05-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

not bring happiness or satisfaction
King Edward will distribute 10000
naeGais during the coronation exer-
cises.
There are 100000 pension claims
pending before the pension depart
nent.
Japan now has 4,02I miles Of rail-
way. of which the government owns
1.06s miles.
voted nearly thirty years to the pre-
paration of his Dictionary of Sta
fistcs."
An Australian government report
testifies to the great progress made in
the paciication of the Philippine
islands.
The area of Martinique is 3S1 square
miles. its population prior to the vol
canic eruption was less than two hun
dred thousand.
The old receiving ship Vermont will
IN few days be burned in order to get
the metal. The Vermont was built in
Boston in 1912.
In December. 1856, 10000 people
persisted at Naples by an earthquake,
and in 1926, 20 towns were destroyed
and 10000 lives lost.
London is to have at Hackney its
drst Yiddish theater. Besides the
plays the managers intend to give
grand opera in Yiddish.
II is said that full investigation of
the British army remount scandal will
reveal the fact that the nation has
been swindled out OF $4,000 900.
The largest sum ever spent in inn
proving one street was s14 100000. in
the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. New Can.
non street. London, cost $3.50 900.
Word comes from the Great lake
fisheries that never before were fish
more abundant than this season, the
big catches fairly straining the nets"
In France fuel briQuettes are made
from garbage. The refuse from the
streets, from markets and abattoirs
Is minced and mixed with naphtha and
Tar.
In 1903, at Medod, Japan, an earth
quake killed 100000 people. In 1881.
on November 80. 100000 people were
buried by an earthquake in Pelzing.
China.
For suddenness, completeness and
number of victims the destruction OF
st Pierre. Martinique. appears to sur
pass nearly all disasters recorded by
history.
Moscow has the largest hospital In
Europe, with 1000 beds. There are
sc physicians and 900 nurses. and
about $4,000 patients are cared 70.
annually.
adopted by a hen in Nicetown. Pa.
The hen drove the mother cat away
from the little ones and has since
acted in the feline's place.
A site for the st. Louis Carnegie
library has just been bought for $685.
600, which sum was contributed by
citizens of st. Louis. who each sub.
scribed amounts of $4,000 or less.
The recent earthquake in Guate-
mala is reported to have wrought ter
Tible damage. The city of Ocos Was
ruined and hardly any coffee planta-
tion escaped damage. The loss of life
was large.
Ex-Governor Morrill's apple orchard
In Kansas now contains over $4,000
trees. and is said to be the largest
single apple orchard in the world.
Eight thousand trees have been set out
this spring.
The Russian mercantile marine has
745 steamers and 2,293 sailing vessels.
All the Latin poems written by the
Pope have been collected and pub
lished at Milan in a two-penny volume
OF 112 pages.
At last years census there were
r2234 actors in London, an increase of
rs per cent over the figures for 1891.
OF literary people in general there
were 1866. an increase OF "A per cent.
IN the last ten years.
Vaccination of plants is the idea of
. French botanist. He proposes TO
raise suitable cultures of parasitic
fungi and inoculate the plants in or
der to make them proof against the
attacks of those parasites.
The star Arcturus, the hottest OF
celestial bodies, gives us as much heat
as a standard candle six miles away.
This fact was ascertained by the
Jadiometer, an instrument which will
show the amount of heat given Oh
from mans face at 1000 feet dis
tance.
The celebrated NJ. Arton. who was
one of the central figures in the great
Panama scandal, and who. 1t will be
remembered. was arrested in London
and extradited at the request of the
French government. Is now a rich
man. Last year he made between
100000 and $250,000 by specializing
on the bourse.
Herr Kaufman. whose election as
second burgomaster of Berlin the
kaiser declined to sanction. on &C.
count. 1t is supposed. of his former
political opinions. has suddenly be
come mad Some people In Berlin are
ascribing his madness to disappoint-
,ment in consequence of the kaiser's
action.
Stockholders in English railways
are distracted by loss on freight
traffic. A large part of their bust