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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
WHIST PLAYERS.

The great whist players Of England
M, ly ,lincd, in the usual acceptation of
the word, and never topched the Faler.
ninn before playing. Charles Fox was
The exception. Gen. Anson and Mr..
Clay, N. p. for Hull, the two great En-.
glish players Of our time, took n little
tea and toast at the Turf Club in Airing.
Ton street os nm overture to the game.
and Prof Longfeld, Tom vignolles Of
Tie Castle, and George Mcdowell, Eel
low OF Trinity College, the great Irish
players, never exceeded this mild re-
past. V. ,nrlIes, who was son Of the
Dean OF the Chapel Royal and an ex.
luihite whist artist, had splendid ca
'eor spoiled by being discovered cheat
ny at the Uaited Scrvic., Club by the
luke, then Prince George of Cam
'ridsc, ahd General, then Maj. Gnfiitlls
i Tie Hcots Greys, at the miserable
.nme Of yingtun. Gen. Scott. the fathe,
I the Duchess of Portland and Wis.
ouhtesS Canning, who is said to bnyr
lcarcd G200.000 l,y scientific play nI
'hist, adhered strictly TO II regimen oI
oarlcy'water before sitting down to play.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
BiRNUM on PTGS, nKEr.

"Broiled pigs feet II 7. T. Dsr-
mum" is one of the dishes printed on the
Sturtevant House bill of fare, in New
York. Pigs feet, properly cooked,
were given me to eat long before / was
permitted to partake of any other ami
NAL food, said Mr.. Barnum. "When
old and young feet are bciled two and
one-haf hours, as usual, tta ,ld ones ne
tough and worthless. II they wore
boiled three and one-half hours the
young feet would burst and the gelatine
swim away. Now, the secret is to wrar
each pigs foot in cotton bandnge,
wound two or three times around it, and
well corded with twine. Then boil them
four hours. Let them remain in the
bandages till needed to fry, broil, OIL
pickle. The skin will hold it together
while being cooked, and when you eat il
you will find them oil tender and delicate
as possible" Housekeepers will be glat
to get hold Of this new way of cooking
pigs feet We say new, because it vii
be new to the general public. 1t hal
been known for l",. ime. and there il
n hotel in this State where pigs feet ar,
a special feature OF the bill of fare, an,
the reputation Of the dish has extendet
for and vide. They are cooked there il
the way described by Mr.. BarnuIn.-
BridleLort standard.
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WEST FORK.
No,.Jtil, iSS,3.

-Nbi. Jtl, lNNJ.
Ed. SorTI kENTUCKIAN:
Not having seen a communication
from this place for some time. aud
feeling that we would not like TO be
wholly forgotten. III try in feeble
way to give few items.
Never having before written for
public inspection, trust this may
MT find the waste basket.
Our post office, for It's nothing
more since the death of the head OF
the firm, is situated on one fork of
Red river, surrounded by good mills,
churches, &C., schools and fine
farming county. Our farmers are
live active men, fully up with tie
times. The monotony Of our neigh
borhood was broken short while
since by athc marriage of one of our
faireSt and best. On the eve OF the
10Th inst. at the residence of her
grand father, Mr.. Abe Allen, Miss
Olivia Edwards to Mr.. Joseph b.
Robb. No cards. Mr.. Robb is to he
congratulated on having won so esti-
mable companion. and my wish lie:
that each day may reveal some new
and admirable trait in the character
each 10 the other and as they climl
the hill of life, may the snarcs tha
have besct the path of many entaugl,
not their young feet. The young
couple left Immediately for Guthrie
when, after having partaken of
bountifui supper which the propric
tor gave in honor of the occasion
they left for Louisville TO attend til
Grand Exposition. And here W
must leave them for our pen drop
but our best wishes will attend thcl
through life.
REGINA.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
The World Moves.

The following extracts taken from
"Thc Gazette of The Western Cont
nent," compiled by Jedekiah Morse,
d. d., A. A., S., in the year 1901,
show how wonderfully things have
changed since that time.
'LcXington, formerly the capital OF
the State, contains abtu5 $40 houses,
5 places of worship, . printing Offices
and several stores of well assorted
goods. 1t has 1895 inhabitants,
anon W. ON a'c Il number rof { entc i
families"
louisville is port of entry near
ly opposite Fort Fcnny on the Ohio
riv T.. Its unhcaltl iIcss owing to the
sta, mt waters back of the town re-
tards its growth. II consists of three
streets, containing about 100 housc cs,
$50 inhabitanls,and courthouse and
gaol.,
"Paris is a county town of Bourbon
county, and has courthouse, a gaol
and a Presbyterian church. The
houses are principally of brick and
stone. 1t is thriving town of 377
inhabitants"
"Cincinnati is 4 port town in the
State Of Ohio, oppofitc mouth of the
Licking river. 1t contains about BOO
houses aud is 90 miles northwest OF
Lexington"
"Malt liquors, spirits distilled from
corn and rye, and the juice of the su.
gar tree mixed with water constitute
the ordinary beverage of;hc coun.
try"
One would infer that the water was
poor in those days.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
MEACHAM & WILGUS,
Hopkinsville, KY
OUR JOB OF IL ICE

every respect do a kinds OF Job aud Pamphlet work
with We make specially
Square otom lag Also Paper Flour Sacks
Orders mail promptly attended To. Give Orders.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
a MINISTER'G DAUGHTER.

MIR. Spugeon tells story of an Amer.
ican minister who thought he heard his
daughters talking scandal in a harsh
manner with some visitors, and after
their friends had gone he opened the
door and reproved them. "But, faith.
er," they answered, "what shall we talk
about9 We must talk Of something"
"f you can do nothing else, get o
pumpkin and roll itabout," he answered.
Not long after, the girls heard an asso.
ciation of ministers ut their house Get.
ting very much excited, and almost los.
ing their temper. The eldest daughter
got a pumpkin and took it into the
room, saying, "There, father, roll il
about"
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PUMPED OUT.
Whq, The rhvsieia mean, By "Worh" aud

That the Ihysicist Means bp "Hork" aud
knerJy."
IPru W. II. Pretee, in Popular Science Month'y.l
Suppose gardener, with ton OF
gravel in front of him, were told to move
that gravel to height of three feet. He
would go TO work with the spade, he
would move shovelful after shovelful
from the ground lineup to the tmeo-ieet
height, and after ho had moved the
whole OF it you might readily imagine
that he would feel little fatigued. Now
whenever a person does anything which
causes fatigue, he does what We call
work.
The gardener, in lifting the gravel,
would peiiorm an amount OF work which
is capable of being measured. will
give you another illustration. Suppos'
ing some boys were put beside a
pile OF cricket balls, and for wager or
prize you were called upon to throw the
balls Us fast and as far as You could. A
good thrower would perhaps throw the
first ball eighty yards, he would throw
the second ball seventy-fve yards, the
third seventy yards, the fourth sixIy-iive
wards, and so each ball that he threw
would go less and less distance, until
he had no strength left, and he could
throY no more balls. Now that boy
would have done work something would
have passed out of him into the balls ;
he has, as it were, passed something that
belonged to him into the cricket balls,
and as a result he feels fatigue, through
the loss OF this something.
Take another illustration SuppoSing
two crews sgree TO row race. Thcy
start full of life and full Of energy thoy
pull with all their hearts and might, and
arrive at the goal, in common language,
thoroughly pumped out. Something
has gone ont Of them into the boat.
That which has gone out OF the crew,
and ont of the boy who threw the crick-
ct balls is what we call energy, and what
they have done is 10 Go work upon the
/ boat.
Another example is in the case OF foot.
ball. A boy kicks the football and
makes a splendid goal. To 10 that hC
has sent something out of his body int
the ball, which turtles through the eli
past the winning goal and the game il
won.
In all these illustrations something il
done which results in fatigue, work il
performed and energy is lost; in fact
work done means energy applied. AM
energy applied means work done. A
mental energy is our capacity for learn
ing lessons, for going through examina
tions and that kind of thing, SO the en-
ergy Of the kind / speak of Ia the capaC
ity for doing absolute physical wors
The generality Of this energy is in
mense. 1t is difficult thing to gras
the fact that there is something in Q,
istence that we cannot feel, that We car
not touch aud that we cannes see, br
which gives all the force AMI power "
possess.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
EXCHANGE SCINTIL1AT1oNs.

There is many slip twiXt the cup
and the lip" and, he who takes, too
freely, the cup is not likely to touch
the lip if it belongs to sensible girl.
State journal.
A Hopkinsville special to the Cour-
ier Journal is headed. "Duct of
Weddings, with a Trio to Follow.
How does the dispatcher know there
trio is a TO follow? And if he does
know, which of the wives are to have
twsns? ?-State Journal.
The Paducah Journal says Pa
ducah girl didn't want her lover to
name a boat after her, because she
didn't desire to read in the papers that
matilda Slocum is up for repairs,
Matilda Slocum is on deck to lie
scraped," etc.
The following is Il BARRIERS advcr.
tisemcnt in the St.LOuis Post-Dis'
patch:W H-.prOfessor of crinicult'
ural abscission and chronological trip
sis, tonsorial artist, physiognic hail
facial operator, Uranium manipula
tor, and capillary abridgcr.-Eliza
BEETHOVEN News.
A travelling man, noticing 4 prett!
girl in the car, went over in the di'
recti"n, and smiling!y asked:
Is this seat engaged, Mss?
No, sir, but l am, AMI he's going tC
get on at the next station.
Oh-ah-indecd-5cg-parIon-
and he picked up his feet, after tumb
linz over them, ami went into tn,
sm king car TO be alonc-Elizabcth
town News.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
ssllVEEgly SOUTH gsyvV!slAy,
NASHVILLE STREET,
HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY
CLUB LIST.

We will furnish the following papers and pc
rodcals with the SEMI WEEKLY SOUTH KIN-
TrOKIAN at the subiOined cheap rates:
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09
EyaLIsu vegetarians now style them

ENdt1su vegetarians now style them
solves "vcmists." The word is d rived
from "vem"-a combination of the mi
tial letters Of vegetables, eggs and milk.
Prot. Newman, who fathers the new ap-
pellafion, says that tho titlo "vegeta.
tnl" is misleading and inaccurate, and
hat some substitute was necessary.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1883-11-09

irTdcIrY, pure and unalloyed felicity
= not plant Of earthly p"cw'h; he
.nrluns are skies,
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teal business sense. He has not been ham,
pered by red tape nor bound by musty prece-
dent, but his administration has been char
acterized by an appreciation of the fact that
the Postoffice Department is for the convent
ence OF the people, and should be managed
in such way as to bring about the largest
possible measure of such public convenience.
Mr.. Hatton is man OF ability, of pluck
and push, a Republican of aggressive
ideas and character, comes from State that
produces No. men and No. Republicans,
and is, besides, of the profession of all others
in which a man is most likely to keep his
respect for the people and to acquire a
thorough knowledge of men and affairs.
There are host of reasons why Mr.. Hatton
should become Postmaster-general, and we
hope the President will honor the young Re-
publcans of the country, and recognize abil-
ity and fidelity in Office, even though it be
in the person of young man, with deserved
Dromotion
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woman until she fell down stairs Just why
falling down stairs should make one think
of such a measure is not apparent to the
common mind. But by ratiocination it be-
comes plain. The impulse to throw up
things when falling is universal. A man
carrying home ham and basket of eggs
from market trips and falls, and
spontaneously hurls the eggs into a
neighboring doorway while the ham lodges
on the telegraph wires overhead. During
the icy spell last winter a lady slipped as
she was getting into a street-car, whereupon
she did not hesitate to throw a sack of cara
mels into a third-story window, while her
shopping-bag was picked up where it came
down in an adjoining street. From these
and equally trustworthy incidents it is easy
enough to see how lady who has made up
her mind to fall down stairs would throw up
a small object like a shirt button. 1t, is not
claimed that the full reason of this cure has
been exhausted in the limited space of this
article, but enough has been adduced to
place the subject fairly before the medical
fraternity, and it is to be hoped they will
formulate it for the benefit of future genera
tiOns
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BREAKFAST CHAT.

THERE are 800 women employed as journalists
in the United States.
DIR. TANNER, the faster, who has lived in Cory
for several months, has removed to Jamestown,
NY
FRANKLIN PIERCEs old home, in the outskirts
OF Concord, N, H, is to be transformed into a
Protestant Episcopal school for girls.
Mr., JAMES MAcALLIsTER, superintendent of
schools at Milwaukee, Wis, has resigned to &C.
cept the superinteudency of the public schools of
Philadelphia.
FRED GEBHARDT is reported to be studying
"Pygma!lon" for the purpose of supporting the
Jersey Lily in her performance of "Galatea."
1t is not announced when his debut will be
made.
LEVY, the cornet-player, has been getting
$500 a week for footing his horn on COney
Island. This year he is surprised to find they
will have him only if very cheap. Toots have
their time to fade.
AT his own request, Sitting Bull and his imlne-
date followers, now at Fort Randall, will be re-
moved to the Standing Rock agency on April Is.
Sitting Bull has heretofore declared he never
would be reservation Indian.
CAPTAIN BOYCOTT, who two years ago had to
be escorted out of Ireland by the military, re-
turned to his home, and determined to make
peace Will MS HolSuDOrss ne nus Decu so sue
cessful that he is free to go where he pleases,
without either constables or soldiers to guard
him.
THOMAS A. EDISON has offered to present the
trustees of Columbia College with collection of
electrical instruments, which he sent to Paris
for exhibition, and valued at $4,000, If they
will establish a school of electrical engineering.
The offer has not been accepted and if NJ action
is taken Mr.. Edison will establish such school
himself for the education of electrical engineers,
at his works in Goerck street, in New York city
SETH GREEN, who started home from Florida
in excellent health, found the sudden change of
climate too trying for even his robust constitu-
ton. Ten days ago serious cold, with which
he had been troubled ever since he came North,
suddenly developed into pneumonia, with de-
lrious tendency. Since then his condition has
continued to be most alarming, although his
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RETRIBUTIoN for wrong doing is pretty
sure to come sooner or later, the most of US
are ready to admit, but seldom does it fol-
low the transgressor so swiftly as it has done
in the case of Mrs Dewell, of Honesdale,
Pa She was the widow of a clergyman who
had been dead only few weeks, and has
always been an exemplary and devoted wife
and mother. A crafty stranger, a man of
fine appearance, made her acquaintance, and
IN a short time succeeded in beguling her to
such an extent that she sold her house and
furniture and fled with him to New York,
leaving her four little destitute children
asleep in bed This was six weeks ago, and
this week she found her way back, walking
the last fifteen miles of the road for lack of
money to carry her all the distance. The
fascinating man had deserted her after secur-
ing her money, and she returned only to
find her children scattered, neighbors and
relatives with averted faces and no place to
lay her head.
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THE CHEAT OF GAMBLING,

"Dink Davis, the lucky Philadelphia,
played faro in the big Barclay-street game
yesterday till the bank turned up the box,
and would no longer deal for him. He had
won $17 900. This makes his total winnings
in New York something like $780, 000." New
York Sun.
Such items as this are calculated to in
spire the cupidity of others, and to encour-
age the hope that similar good luck might
attend other like ventures. The chance is
deceptive; the scheme delusive. 1t is posi-
BILE that run of luck" enabled Mr. Dink
Davis to win the sum named. Such things
have happened before. But they are so re-
markabiy like angels visits that such phe-
nomenon never sinks into obscurity, but it
is blazoned before the world. Where there
is one lucky Dink Davis there are ten thou
sand unheard-of unfortunates who do not
win, yet night after night contribute of their
scanty means to keep up the game, hoping
against hope that the tickle goddess of good
fortune may yet smile upon them and re-
that not one gambling scheme IN score is
honest at any time, and none of them when
the tide of luck is running out The
writer once talked with a well-known
gambler, and finally asked him about the
business as being conducted on fair princi-
piles. His reply was: 81 play fair game as
long as luck is with me. When it turns"
He gave a significant look, and it was under
stood that when luck ran against the dealer
he at once resorted to cheating to preserve
himself from loss. The same man declared
that that was the plan of all sporting men,
and it was apparent that if any one came out
ahead of game it must be man like Dink
Davis, whose familiarity with the tricks of the
profession would shield him against cheating
There is no chance in ordinary gambling
Those engaged in it are so engaged to make a
living, and, by fair means or foul, they
always succeed occasionally giving encour-
agement to outsiders by allowing lucky
one to win for time.
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IN noticing the letter of Lady Florence Dixie,
Mr. Egan, extreasurer of the Land League,
says:
"In her letter she calls OH ME to prove my de-
NAL of her charges. AS a matter of fact she has
no standing to attack the Land League at all.
She mas never subscribed penny toward the
with the Land League, and is not an Irish wo-
man. She is not daughter of the peer"
What sort of an answer is this3 1t is miserable
pettifoggtng amounting almost to a confession
OF what has been charged. Mr.. Egan should
waive the question OF standing" aud "sym-
pathy" and reply TO the direct charges of
misfeasanoe as treasurer of a sacred trust fund.
1t is very funny to hear Mr.. Egan comforting
himself with the reflection that Lady Florence
is not the daughter of peer. Would the acoi-
dent of such birth elevate her in the opinion of
the great Irish agitator3
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70 the Editor o. the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

To settle a dispute, please state what reduce
tion there will be, il any, in tobacco and whisky
taxes aud lice nses under the new law.
BAINBRIDGE, Ind, March %.
The act of March 8, 1888, reducing internal
revenues, provides that from the first day of
May, 1888, deaersin leaf tobacco shall pay a
license of $12 per annum, and dealers In manu-
featured tobacco $2.4o. The tax, on snuff.
smoking and manufactured tobacco is reduced
from sixteen cents to eight cents per pound The
tax on cigars is reduced from Sc to So per
1000 No reduction is made in the taxes on
liquors or On the license to dealers in liquors.
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THE Lafayette Journal of yesterday. says:

"Judge Gould is here out of courtesy to this
judicial circuit He relied upon the dignity and
refinement of the Tippecanoe county bar for
proper behavior. He could not anticipate i'm
proprieties, and could only check them after they
always been bad enough, and the record of ill
behavior will give the legal bar OF this county
an unsavOry reputation, which will bring shame
to the faces of the participants and principals
days to come"
And yet, when the Indianapolis Journal took
occasion to critcise the proceedings in court in
this trial. We reoolleot that the Lafayette papers
did not seem to like it,
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journsu:

For the benefit of those interested, will you
please state where arrearages of pensions date
FRONT Do those applying now get arrears from
date of muster out or only from the date when
the pension is granted2 JOHN f. SMITH.
CLINTON, Ind, March %.
The acts of January 25 and March 3, 1879,
amending the pension laws, allow arrearages
only from the date when the application is made.
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IT is reported that the President will APP
point successor to the late Postmaster
general Howe in a few days, holding that the
law compels the filling of the vacancy within
ten days 1t is TO be hoped the appointment
will be promptly made and that the APP
pointee will be the present first assistant, Mr.,
Frank Hatton. The only objection urged
against him is his age, or rather want of age.
But, as in the case of Pitt, and OF good
many other people, age is neither crime
nor disability. The talk about the age OF a
man is usually the cry of mediocre conserva-
tism whose only claim to regard
is the natural reverence due
to gray hairs. A man old
enough by the constitution for the Office of
President is old enough for any Office be-
meath the presidency. Mr.. Hatton has
shown himself to be possessed of unusual ex-
ecutive ability. His work in his present po-
sition has been eminently in the line of prac-
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The trite adage, "Where there's will there's
a way" is a true one. 1t is the result of
economy, which is the stepping-stone to in
dependence and wealth.
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his ability. 1t now appears from the testimony
of a young Hebrew, whom she threatens with q
breach of promise suit, that the young lady
changed her faith because the rabbi promised to
get her rich husband II she would do so. The
young man selected by the rabbi for this office
was pleased with the girl, and was about to sue
eumb to the Joint Vaccinations against his
peace and pocket when he learned Of the con-
spiraoy and declined the!unlon. In the heat OF
his Indignation he administered personal chas-
tisement to the rabbi, and great disturbance
and scandal is the result.
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A COMPLAINT comes from New York that mar
riageable young men hesitate to enter into mat
rimonial bonds. And yet New York has 10000
girls who support themselves and $4,000
women who provide for themselves and their
husbands. Dear, dear; what can the matter
he9n
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ARoH.EoLoGIsTs are digging up the earth in
the District of Columbia to find stone axes, ar
rows and other relics of the fifty native tribes
which once roamed ON that reservation. If the
weapons and work of the big Injuns of this day
were not SO perishable, what a mine Of jaw
bones and fragments of regulations the archBol-
ogist of the future would find on the site of
Washington.
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"THE Springfield Republican prints this adj
vertisement without cost: Wanted = Enough
played-out Republican demagogues to fit out the
Democratic party with candidates for the rest
of the States. '"-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The indications are that Indiana will be able
to furnish few for the Democratic party in this
Gtata