The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-07-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

New York is making progress in
abating the smoke nuisance.
Wild canaries were not yellow orig
inally, but green or gray in color.
Miss Henrietta A. Kelly. of Charles
ton, S. c., has gone into silk culture.
A complete set of new stamps has
been ordered for Orange River Colony.
In the United States newspapers ap-
pear printed in "a different languages.
A $50 100000 combine is proposed
OF so glazed kid leather plants in the
east
Residents of Buffalo. N Y. use
more water than any other city in the
world.
Among new surgical instruments is
steam saw for removing diseased
parts of the liver.
Tigers killed 357 persons and
panthers 295 last year in the Indian
central provinces.
The annual crow hunt OF the Elkin
(lll) Gun club resulted in the slaugh-
ter of 1896 crows.
Horace Greeley could read a book or
newspaper upside down. He learned
10 do so when boy.
Rev. Or. John Bancroft Devins aud
John A. Oxford have purchased the
New York Observer.
watch that makes FIVE beats a
second makes 432. 1000 day, or nearly
$4,000. 600 in a year.
Seven clergymen and 16 lawyers are
inmates of warehouses (alms-hOuses)
in Yorkshire. England.
Bamboo in Java makes an effective
poison. the hairs on the young root
being mixed with food
Science has no record of the dis
oovery OF mercury; history knows
nothing of the discovery.
All the employees of the Barnum 3
Bailey circus. now travelling. in Flu
rope. are total abstainers.
Forchon lace of any pattern can now
be made by one machine, owing TO a
recent invention in Vienna.
The price of medicine in Prussia is
regulated by the state. new price list
being published every year.
The butterfly invariably goes 10
sleep head downward on a stem of
grass. with its wings tightly folded.
Thousands of Londoners have taken
on special insurance policies against
smallpox, ranging from $500 to $780,
GOO
The highest mountains in Cuba
reach greater heights than any peaks
in the eastern ranges of the United
States.
The mosquito eggs are. 1t is said.
Matched in from four to seven days,
according to the warmth of the
weather.
The physical effects of violent emo
fion are shown by hysteria and various
forms of insanity in animals as well
as in man.
Watchdogs are to be purchased and
trained to accompany the police on
their nightly rounds in Schaerbeck
near Brussels.
Berlin statisticians have found that
only 597 Christian names are en-
ployed for the 1000 children born
there each year.
The sanitation of the city OF Ahmer-
dabad. India. is so bad that me NOR
tally is 20 per 1000, with no epidemic
10 account for II.
The Fortieth Foot holds the distinc-
ton of having once been absent from
England on foreign service for 33
wears at one stretch
Because she refused TO wash a ba-
by's face. native nurse at Hong
Kong has been fined S. for ''disobedi-
ence of lawful orders
From China $460. 900 worth of human
hair is annually exported. II comes
mostly from the heads of malefactors,
paupers and dead people.
The consumption of meat in Eng
land has reached the total of 1l3
pounds head year. which is more
than double what it was so years ago
r. H. Alley. of Seattle, Wash. has
returned from Australia, where he
says he secured 81. 500 900 capital to
erect and operate wooden mill in Sc
attic.
DIR. Patrick Manson. the malaria ex-
pert. points out in a London periodical
that malaria is far too frequently as
snmed to be present in patients when
no such faint exists.
Mrs. Neve. of Guernsey. Channel
Islands. aged Ill. is said to he Ed
ward Wis oldest subject Her birth
is on record in St. Peter Port Parish
church. on the island.
Miss McKeever. of Roxbury. Mass,
has resigned after serving as army
nurse for four years. In the Philip
pines she was at the head of one of the
largest army hospitals in the islands
>Ali the new trains on the Central
London railway are 10 he of fireproof
construction. steel and asbestos heing
largely used. Other precautions for
the safety Of passengers are being
taken.
Mary Eta Davis. colored. living with
her great granddaughter. Mrs. Ellen
Brooks. at No 1906 New Hampshire
avenue. Washington. celebrated her
125th birthday.
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