Semi-weekly Bourbon news., 1883-12-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

years, have been bachelors.
Eleven street car conductors in
Cincinnati have been presented with
800 each for long and faithful services,
Prof. Newton says that the earth
receives about 5000, 600, 600 of meteors
every year, but they only increase the
size of the earth one inch in 100000. 900
years.
a Detroit detective promises to
vanquish any one who will compete
with him in the matter of pie eating.
without regard to sex, color, politics
or anything else. ."-DetrOit Post.
Fifteen and twenty dollar bouquets
are to be dispensed with this winter
among the ''best'' people of the metrop-
oils, and only the tiniest punches of
| flowers are to be in fayor.-N !.
Graphic.
Two little daughters Of Franklin
Phillips, of BraxtOn County, West
Virginia, put powder into the fire so as
to make it burn up. One of them is
now sightless, and the others life is de-
SPARED of.-St Louis Post.
George William Curtis told the
Staten Islanders. at their late celebration,
/ III.
set in their silver seas, is the, most re-
splendent gem of the imperial crown of
the great metropolis. IN Y Times.
| A letter was recently received at
the White House from a citizen in
Somerset, Kan. This citizen humbly
petitiOned to have the name of the place
changed to Handspring. The reason he
gave was: There are several men in
the town who can turn handSpBings,
but not one who can turn a somerset"
-ChicdsD Tribune
Some time since a Hartford man
presented friend of his a pet squirrel
which he had raised from its infancy.
The next day the pet was gone, having
forced its way out of the cage. Two
days later It put in It's appearance at the
old homestead, wet, muddy and hungry,
having travelled a distance of thirteen
miles.-HarJord Post
Among the latest batch of erratic
suicides are these: A Texas lawyer,
because he lost a case| Kansas miller
because a dam he had just built did not
hold water to- turn his wheel; an Indiana
man, because an old wound would not
get we'll; a Maryland woman because
she got religions; an Illinois farmer, be-
| cause the plOwing did mot suit him.
Philadelphia Record.
Among the incidents of the recent
gale on Lake Erie are the rescue by the.
life-saving crew at Cleveland of eigh-.
teen lives, the imperiletl sailors being
brought to shore in baskets, and the
drowning of four duck-l1nnters at Erie,
who had no faith. in the Signal Service
and put off i'm spite Of the warning
of the Weather Bureaus and the advice
of friends. Cleveland Leader.
| Judge Swan, who has passed some
months on the Queen Charlotte Islands,
In the interest of the United States Fish
Commission, reports the discovery of u
new food fish, which he calls the black
cod. He says it is one of the finest fish
he has ever seen, and iS caught in great
numbers by dredging in deep water,
and, when salted,, iss more tender and
palatable than codfish.-N Y. San.
| Mr.. Barnum reluctantly confesses
that the profits of the, greatest show
ON earth" last year were 800, 900.
The circus business is coming up, and
will soon rival journalism as profess
sion. The girl that slides down the
wire from the center pole to the ground
gets bigger salary than any editor OF
earth, even if she hasn't spent four years
of her life acquiring a college educa-
tom Chicago Inter Ocean.
Thousands of young American
swells are said by fashionable tailor
to wear nothing OF American make.
Their measures are sent to London tail
Ors, hatters, and furnishers, who pro-
vide the articles,ordered very promptly.
1t is true that garments thus obtained
are liable to prove poor fits, but there
are English tailors here also, whose
sole emplOymentis to complete imported
suits to make them fit--N. 7. Mail
Five young men started to take
their girls out to ride at Lancaster, n
H., recently, in single carriages. In
turning a corner the forward team
tipped over, and the other four teams
were going so. fast that they could not
be stopped, but one after the other be-
came part of the general wreck, until
it contained five teams and ten people.
No serious injury resulted to the young
people, but two carriages were badly
, wrecked. Boston Herald
DIR. j. p. Barnum, of Louisville,
who recently returned from the Won
derful salt and gas well in Bradenburg,
KY, tells al Commercial reporter that
} the flow is as great as it was at the time
of its discovery in 1865. The well which
J is 500 feet deep, has been tubed so as to
separate the gas from the water. The
| Doctors tests showed an hourly escape
of 57.120 cubic feet of gas, with Veloci-
ty warranting a company in laying a
J pipe to Louisville, forty miles distant,
to supply the city with light and power.
Mexico will never be inhabited to
,, any great extent by Anglo-Saxons,
according to Don Patricio .Milmo, a
: wealthy capitalist of Monterey, for the
very good reason that there is TOO much
available land in the United States for
.. people to settle on rather than cast
their lot among Spaniards and Italians
in Mexico. Those English-speaking
people who are now there are generally
adventurers with no money, ''but plenty
1 of brass and wind" and Don PatriciC
D | predicts their downfall and final eX.