Semi-weekly Bourbon news., 1883-12-07

C1nclnQag nave been -preSenleQ With
I $f66 each tor long and fafthfu1 services.
Ioitalbu61sKkT1uR Aapbnbgt Ahd earth
receives about 5000, 900, 900 of meteors
every yeaf, bit tffsy Oily 3nefease=
size of the earth one inch iHlOoP9QQeO
years.
- sDetEait i've zpEamiseR.s to
Vanqu1Sh any one who viii compete
with. himsinI thehmatteE of PieAs eating,
''without regard to sex, color, politics
Inorh rhanythffg else.rh = rDes'6tt P0St.3 avo
Fifteen and twenty dollar b6d9nets
are TO. be Dispensed with, this winter
among the "best'' people of the, meTop-
oils, and only the tiniest punches Of
flowers Hare, t,oha abe min. faKer. IN. VI.
| Graphic. .8gfhiluI van s'iesaisi al ,xsh,At
Two little daughters of Franklin
\ Philiips,s Of aBraExkton County, West
Virginia, bht' powder Into che freso'as
TO- make it bqrn 4 One 9g sf 9f It them hs is
now slgAteSs and the 3thter ilF.f fe Is 5.s de-
a SPARED of.-St LQatls Post.
eat-G GeergeaDI itliami &C Curtis atO4d sthe
Staten Islanders, attheirtatee celebration,
| that ''this precious-stone Staten Island,
set iii their silver Seas is THE sfd6st fe-
spiendeht gem Of the II 'fihifperiaf cfo%n'of
the great metroR9lis; 'WTTM i Z, I. Times,
af-++Asletter was ,reeentlgi sIecfiYed at
the White House4-from a citizen in
Somerset, Kan. - Rhisiecitzen. shnmbly
| 'petftioncd to have the name Of the,place
changed to Handspring. The reason Ae
gave was: There are several men in
the town who, can can 'ttthrrh tdr Hahdsprihgs,
but not one Who can turf a somerset
! Chicago Tribune. s'HH ~ '''''
| s.r t-+-Some time since a. Hartford man
presented "a friend 5of hise a pet squirrel
which he had raised from itssinfancy.
| The next day the pet was gone, having
| forced its way out of the, care. Two
days later it but in its appearance at the
| old homestead, wet, muddy and hungry,
miles,TzH H8arsogd Pos. - 1.;s,,s,.
Among the latest batch sofs sfrratie
suicides are these:e-A Texas lawyer,
because he Host acases ~ Kansas miller,
because a. dam he, had just. built did not
| hold water to turn his wheel ian, Indiana
man, because an old wound would not
get WelE;a a Maryland woman because
She pot religion; an Hfin6is farmer, be-
cause the plowing did not suit him. :.
-PItiiadelpbig RecQgd-t ~. =. ., 4 ;
ro--AmOag the ineidentS .the recent
gale on Lake Erie are therescue. by the
life-saving crew at Cleveland of eigh-
teen. lives, the imperiled Sailors being
| brought to Shore in baskets and the
drowning of four duck hunters at Erie,
who had no faith III the Signal Service
and put off in spite of the warning
of the Weather Bureau and the advice
of friends. = CleUeIdnd Leader. 80
4-4-Jndge Swan, who has passed some
months on the Queen Charlotte Islands,,
in the interest of the United States Fish
Commission, reports the discovery of a
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 asalted, is more. tender and
palatable than codfsh.-zM. Y, Suaa,
Mr. BarnHm reluctantly oonfesses
that the profits of the -'sgreatest show
on earth last year were $700,000.
The circus business is coming up, and
will soon rival journalism as a pr0feS-
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' (spept four years
of her, life acquiring college educa7
tion--.C Chicago Inter Ocean, : ..:.......-..--
Thousands of young American
swells are said bysa fashionable tailor
to- wear nothing of American make
Their measures are sent to Eendoh. tall
Ors, hatters, and -ftrniskefs,, 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 staiIors, here, also. whose
sole employment is to complete imported
suits to make them ft.-M Y Mail
- Five young men. started 7tost take
their girls OUT 60 ride at Lancaster. n.
H, recently; in Single eafffages In
turning cornery the e f6fwAff team
tipped over, and the other four teams
were going SO fast that they could not
be stopped, but one after tie 1ofEer be-
came part Of the general wreck, until
it contained five teams and ten people.
,Noserions1injnfY resulted to the young
people, but two, carriages Mere badly
wFeekeds-+ Boston Rer05d 49, a4tT : @,e.-
| DIR. j. P. Barnums of Louisville,
/ who recently returned from the WON
derfulsat and gassweA int Bradenbnrg,
KY, tells1S Commercials reporter. shat
the flow is as great Fas.iit wSs,at the slime
of its discovery. In 1862 +ThewefFwHich
is. 800 feet deep. has been tqbed SO as to
separate the gas from the water. The
/ Doctor tests Showed an hourly escape
of 57.12Q cubic feet Of gas, with veloci-
ty warranting a company in laying a
pipe to Louisville, forty miles distant,
to supply the city. with light and power.
.Ise Mexico. will never, be, inhabited to
any, great extent : by =. gAnglo-Saxons,
according to DONE PatriciO Milmo,
wealthy capitalist Monterey, ,sforsthe
II very good reason THAT thereis too much
! available land in the United States.for
! people TO Settle on rather than cast
1 their lot among Spaniards and Italians
/ in 5. Mexico. Those EnglishZspeakipg
! people ,Wha are now there are generally
/ .adyen enturersswith no money, '.but plenty
! bot brass aud WiRd.. and Don. PatriciQ
| predicts their. downfall and, final sex-
pulsion in the course of time Chicago