The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-04-03
EXCHANGE sc1NT1I1AT1oNs.

President Arthur is in bad health.
His physicians have not yet decided
whether he is IN love or whether he
eats too much.-Glasgow Times.
Young men should be careful how
they fool about girls-their hair-pins
now days are no thicker than a cam
brio needle and about as sharp.-State
Journal.
The vagaries of fashion are not al
ways without method. "Crushed
Strawberries" is a new color designed
for the creme de la creme.-Brecken-
ridge News.
A timid Newport old lady objected
to travelling to the West on the "Bee
Line" to see her daughter for the
reason that she feared the bees might
sting her.-Statc Journal.
An Iowa editor has Been asked by
correspondent for an answer to the |
question: "Do hogs pay" Looking
over his subscription list he finds they
do not.-Mayfield Monitor.
The Georgia Major sets forth life's
uncertainties in the following lines.
De man what ponds on de rooster fer ter crow
An wake I'm up Early in dc mawnin',
May su,ntime fin dat dc rooster s no mo,
But wuz stolen scv'al our fore de dawuin.
Paris Citizen.
Sixteen negroes in the South were
killed by mules last year. The long
sought solution of the Southern labor
problem appears to be found in the
hind-leg of the gentle mule.-Glas-
gov Times.
Once dyer of Lexington asked
Tom Marshall to furnish him motto
for sign. 'What is your trade"
he asked. ''I'm a DYER" was the re-
ply. Tom took up a pen and wrote
OH strip of paper: "Othcrs live to
die, but dye to Notwithstanding
News.
1t takes twenty blows ola hammer
in the hands of woman to drive
ten-penny nail an inch. She misses
the nail twice where she hits it once.
How many blows does she strike in
all, and how far can her voice be
heard when she strikes her thumb ?
Mayfield Monitor
A book agent tried to sell Cincin-
natl Irshman copy of "Hlawatha."
Pat looked at the title and then at the
canvasser. "Higher water, Is it?
says he: ''be jabers the wathcr in
these diggins is quote high enough
me by, for any dacent mon. So be
off wild yez!'-Elizabethtown News
The first instance where physicians
are mentioned in the Bible is Ill.
Chronicles xvi. II. 1t is not fiatter-
ing to the faculty: "And Asa, in the
thirty-ninth year of his reign, was
diseased in his feet until the disease
was exceedingly great; yet in his
disease he sought not the Lord, but
the physicians. And Asa slept with
his fathers. Park City Times.
The cheerful information comes
from Washington that Secretary
Chandler is "being ground beneath
the upper and the neither stone"
Remembering the redoubtable Will
liam's performance in 1876, large
lumber of his fellow-citizens will be
DESTROYS that the upper and the Meth
or stone shall emulate those of the
gods and grind exceedingly small
Courier Journal.
'.Love One Another" is the Scriptur-
al Injunction that is neatly worked in
letters and framed and hung above
the parlor door in residence here in
town. A young fellow who goes
there frequently says he finds no
trouble trying TO carry out his part of
the injunction, but the other and bet
ter partner to this pleasing arrange
ment is not so easily persuaded
Madisomville Times.
AT fancy dress ball at Sydney
Australia, an editors wife appeared
dressed in copies of her husbands
paper, printed in fancy colored inks
on white satin. This novel adver'
.isement doubled the subscription list
of the paper, and made 1t the favoritt
of the place. This is the kind of
wife for a man to have; one wht
takes an interest in his business
even if he is an editor. If any bless
ing can cast ray of light on TIN
dark path of the struggling journal
ist, it is a loving wife who is Willing
to turn herself into an advertising
ulletin.-Louisvill Post.
A young lady in a neighborinl
town one day last week went into
dry goods store and thus unburdene'
herself:
at is my desire to obtain a pair o
circular elastic APPENDICES, capable
of being contracted or expanded b.
means of oscillating FURNISHED stee
appliances, that sparkle like particle
of gold leaf set with Cape May dia
monds, and which are utilized for re
tanning in proper position the habili
ments of the lower extremities, whic
innate delicacy forbids me to men
ton"
The vendor of calicoes was non
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