The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-15
MINOR SKETCHES.


will address the Texas State Agricul-
tural Fair, at Austin, next fall.
The result of the Evansville cleo
tion can not fairly be taken as an in.
dicator of party ength in that city.
The Courier unconsciously gave the
city to the Republicans by advoca-
ting change of the city's name. The
cost of childish whims is not unlre-
quently attended with grave expense.
We are in receipt Of the first issue
of the Cumberland Courier, under
Will. s. Marshall, Jr's., regime. tits
a neat, six-column paper, filled with
county news and other items of gen
eral interest. Ifthc people OF Burks-
vile fail to appreciate this now prom
ising paper the fact will certainly re.
dound to their discredit, for the get
up OF it is clearly in the line of civil
iZation.
There was on exhibition at the
Bench Show, Gilmore's Garden, New
York, a poodle dog valued By Its
owner at $4,000. What lament
able thing TO contemplate that the
average editor is worth something
less than a poodle. However, there
is one consolation, although even that
comes from the blunt point of stale
joke: When Barnum's elephant,
Julius Cesar, came TO this country
he hadn't dollar in his trunk. when
he died he. wasworth$40,00O, just four
times as much as the New York
poodle, and neither one of them could
read writing or write editorials
"Man never is but always to be blest'
Among the many interesting fea.
lures of courtship and love being
brought 10 life all over the country,
through the influence of breach of
promise suits, 1t has been ascertained
tina: in Ohio o mother adroitly placed
mirror contiguous to certain
densely populated divan inthe parlor,
TO crafty her fondness for beholding
the extempOre sports of an amorous
arlificer in arms. Think what rev.
olution in society will be consequent
10 such remarkable disclosures of q
, Mothers waichful eye! When the
average beau begins TO appreciate
what oil Send man" he is developing
himself into by the dextrous handling
of rib-bones, why he'll despair in the
thought that he was born 10 decorate
, the fine arts and will begin to turn
, his attention to a more interesting
, subject, the ruling of the hurricane.
And next comes complaint from
, Hong Kong, most grievous com.
, plant indeed; something must be
, done or else the American flag will
be hereafter used as dish rag or q
y 'nose wiper. The new U. S. minister
Y to that port, The black legged fraud
: John S. Moseby, of Virginia, has
g been recently requested by the Hong
h Kongoans 10 cease his disregard Of
Q their usual royal formalilies and GER
d cmonies, to which the turn coat pol
N itician pays no earthly attention. Or
|. recent occasion ofan entertainment
O of ceremony at the gubernatorial res
Il idence in Hong k he was reques
o ted to appear in the right costume o
s polite society. He replied that h,
@ would be I'D before lie woult
lc wear anything except what anothe
IN American citizen would wear; .ha
es he represented the United States, AN,
ut he proposed TO introduce American
s. manners and American customs.
The United States would be dis
graced, in fact her name would g
,o down in fable as connected wit
as some pent up Utica, II Mr.. Moscb
~ had sacrificed her individuality t
90 draping himself in the habiliments 9
~, of a gentleman. II would never hav
done for Mr.. Mosby 10 have lost th
goodly opportunity of disclosing Ii
length and breadth and depth an
to height Of an Americans capacity
al swear and then too, be is in that I'd
D." off county to teach American rel
, gion and doctrine as much as poss
he BILE, and may be he despaired Of ev'
cd finding another suitable opportunii
p of taking his text.