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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06
TIE GRAND CANTON OF THE COL
ORADO.

ORADO.
The Grand Canyon is about 220 miles
long, from five to twelve miles wide,
and from 5000 to 5000 feet deep. Those
who have seen it all unite in declaring
it the most sublime and impressive oil
oil natural features of the world. 1t
consists Of an outer and inner chasm.
The outer chasm is about five or six
miles wide with row of palisades 1000
feet high on either side; and broad and
comparatively smooth plain between.
Within this plain is cut the inner gorge
descending more than 5000 feet lower,
and with width Of about $500 feet.
The upper palisades are of very noble
form and uniform profles with highly
architectural aspect. The region through
which the chasms extend consists of a
carboniferous strata, but about forty
miles north Of the river appear strata Of
later age forming series Of terraces,
each terrace being determined by line
Of cliffs 1900 to 1000 feet high, and of
very wonderful sculpture and brilliant
color. The strata in this stairway Of
terraces are the remnants of beds which
once stretched unbroken over the dis
trict now drained by the Grand Can
yon. The total thickness of the beds
removed was more than $1,000 feet, and
the denuded area more than 1000
square miles. The denudation began
in the Eocene time, and has been con-
tinuous until the present time. A great
amount OF uplifting has also occurred
during the same period, varying accord
ing to locality from 10000 to $4,000
feet, and the present altitude Of the
region is the difference between the
amount Of uplift and the thickness of
strata removed, that is 1000 to 5000
feet. The meeting of the Grand Can
yon is thus merely the closing episode
of long period Of erosion. The cutting
of the present chasm is q comparatively
recent geological event, and probably
had its beginning in the Pliocene time.
The process Of excavating the canyon
consists of the action of two classes of
natural causes. The first is the scour-
ing action Of the stream upon the rocks
in its bed. The stream is fierce tor
rent carrying large quantities Of sharp
sand, which acts like sand blast. A
river will always cut down its bed when
the quantity of sediment it carries is
less than 1t is capable of carrying. When
this quantity is greater a part Of it is
thrown down upon the bottom, protect.
ing it from securing. 1t this respect
the Colorado is an exceptional river.
The other process is weathering. The
stream cuts q chasm no wider than its
water surface, but the cut is thus widened
by the secular decay of the chasm,
which, though slow to the perceptions
becomes greater after the lapse of many
thousand years. Capt. Dutton, befort
the american association.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06

AT a dairy farm near Berlin, where
there are 100 COWS, to the CONSERVATION
of the owners, the whole herd got drunk.
For two days the COWS were wholly in
tractable, attempting to gore the milkerl
and believing in concert. By somt
mistake the person watering the cows
turned the faucet of barrel of corr
brandy, which happened to be PLACED
near the water faucet, and the trough,
instead of being filed with water, re
ceiyed brandy.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06

NJ. DUFoURoET announces in Les
MondeS that he has in his yard two bars
of iron planted in the earth, to each of
which is fixed conductor of coated
copper wire, terminating in his receiver,
apparently telephone. These, he says,
never fail to give notice twelve or if
teen hours in advance of every storm
which bursts over the town.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06
COPIED COMMENTS.
THREE OF A KIND.

THREE OF KIND.
We have often seen it in print,
"lhe happicst man in town." "lhc
proudcst pap in the Kingdom" etc.
but from Il dispatch we received from
Morgantield early this week we infer
that the English languas e fills to sap
ply the unbounded joy of our friend,
+. b. (Dock) Brown, of Morgantield
If lump Of sugar is sweet large
lump must be sweeter-good logic,
Ell! Then why shouldn't Dock be
happy? They say the angels Of plen-
~ visited his house last Sunday night
aud left little girl and two little
b0ys-twin brothers. If a dollar is
worth having who would object TO
having three !-Caseyville Enterprise.
1T is NO WONDER.
In state where a judge of the
highest court can be shot down with
IMMUNITY be- use of decision that
was displeasing to litigant, in STATE
where another judge of the superior
court can be degraded with the lash
and driven to suicide because he
would not degrade his high Office t.
secure a decision from his colleague,
favorable to a clientof his law partner
and public sentiment refused to par.
don him because he did not stain his
soul with the crime of murder; in a
state where personal vengeance il
held preferable to legal redress, is il
any wonder that crime is rampant
and boldfaced, and the law timid and
powerless ?-Brcckenridgc News.
THE TINE DRAWS NEAR.
Soon the sweet girl-graduatc witt
cheeks pale from intellectual com
munings and judicious touch O
chalk, will make the annual trip t.
the calcium foot-lights and proceed
to read her spell bound audienc,
blind with beautiful essay careful
ly prepared Chat she may find II,
difficulty in reading iD by some ont
else. And then the stunned audienc
IN general, and the young-man-with
the. bouquet in particular, will Ii
owake O. nights,
'Muchly TO wonder
How in thunder"
she cornered such an array of bi
words and waged such unrelentin
war on wax at one and the sam
time.-GlasOOW Times,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06
HARD YORK.

"What is your secret of success p
asked a lady of Turner, the distin-
guished painter. He replied, az have
no secret, madam, but hard work."
Says DR.. Arnold, "The difference be-
tween one boy and another is not SO
much in talent as in energy"
Nothing" says Reynolds, sis denied
well-directed labor, and nothing is to be
attained without 1t"
Excellency in any department, +"
says johnson, "can now be attained
only by the labor of lifetime il is NOT
to be purchased at a less price,"
"There is but one method" said
Sydney Smith, "and that is hard labor;
and man who will not pay that price
for distinction had better at once ded.
icate himself to the pursuit of the fox"
"Step by STEP" reads the French
proverb, "one goes very far"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06

The United States is, so to speak, the
pig-pen and pork barrel of the world:
of the $4,000, 900 swine in the civilized
world 100000 are to be found in
America. During the year ending June
80, 1880, we sent abroad 1874, 200, 900
worth Of pork, lard and bacon.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06
SMITH WANTED WHAf HE OR.
DERED.

DERED.
Some years ago an Austin merchant,
whom we will call Smith-because that
was and is the name painted on his sign
board, sent an order for goods to New
York firm. He kept very extensive
general store, had plenty Of money, kept
all his accounts in a pocket memorandum
book, and didn't know the difference be-
tween double entry bookkeeping and the
science Of hydrostatics.
Among other things he ordered was
IL gross assorted clothes-pins.
10 ditto grlndstones.
When he ordered the grindstones, he
meant to order an assortment of twelve
grindstones. The shipping clerk Of the
New York firm was astonished when he
read the order. He went to the man.
ager and said:
"For Heavens sake what do they
want with twelve gross, 1,72S grind
stones, in Texasp" The manager said
it must be q mistake, and telegraphed
Smith
"Wasn't it mistake ordering SO many
grindstones ?"
Old man Smith prided himself on never
making mistake. BE had no copy Of
his order to refer to, and, if he had, he
would not have referred to it, because he
knew he had only ordered twelve grind.
stones. So he wrote back
probably you think you know my
business better than do. I always Or
der what I want, and I want what
order. Send on the grindstones.
| The New York firm knew Smith was q
little eccentric, but that he always paid
cash on receipt Of invoice, and was able
to buy dozen quarries-full of grind
stones If he cared to indulge in such
luxuries, so they filed his order as writ.
ten, and chartered schooner, filed her
full Of grindstones, and cleared her for
Galveston. They wrote to Smith, and
said that they hoped the consignment Of
grindstones by schooner would keep him
going until they could charter another
vessel. Smith sold grindstones at whole
sale, and at low figures on long time for
some three years afterward. Now, when
Smiths wicked rivals in business want
to perpetrate Ipractical joke on an in
nocent hardware drummer, they tell hin
, that he had better not neglect to call OIL
Smith, as they just heard the old mar
say he wanted to order some more grind
stones. When the drummer calls OF
Smith, and, with a broad smile lighting
up his countenance, says, "Mr. Smith
I understand you are needing som,
grindstones," there is a painful tableal
that the reader can better imagine thai
we can describe.-IeraS SJtings.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06

ACCORDING to Herr Richard Andree
there are 6,139,OOO Jews in the world.
Five. sixths live in Europe. Asia has
1S2,847. The greatest proportion is in
Roumania, or twice as high as in Rus
STA. Norway, he says, contains only
tlirty-four.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06

The Indiana coal-felds embrace an
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06

A VERMONT grave-digger makes bar
gains beforehand and discounts regular
prices so per cent.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06
"Muchly 10 wonder
How in thunder"

she cornered such an array of big
words and waged such unrelenting
war on wax at one and the same
time.-GlasgOw Times.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-06-06

90
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-05
GRANTS RETIREMENT.

A great deal of buncomb has been turned
OH the people of the United States by the
| writer's and speakers of the republican par
ty. because Of the proposition to place Gen.
Grant on the retired list. 1t would be rank
treason if Il Southern democrat should make
objection TO putting the great Ulysses in a
neat little financial bed and tuck him in
with greenbacks for all time to come; but
we may, we presume, be excused for pub
fishing Il series OF resolutions adopted by
the Coleman Ashbury Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Ohio. They are to the
point, and put Grant just in the position
that his constant demands for public and
private aid entitle him to.-Norjoik Lcdyer.
Whereas, the Senate Of the United States
has passed Il resolution to place Gen. L. S.
| Grant on tho retired list of the army, with
full rank and pay OF General Of the army,
| And whereas, the said General Grant has
heen highly honorcd by the people Of the
United States, insomuch that he has been
twice elected to the horored position of
President Of the United States, for which
services as President General Grant received
| the magnificent sum OF $500 900.
| And whereas, the wealthy and generously
disposed citizens Of the cities of New York
and Philadelphia have subscribed and plac-
| ed in trust q further magnificent sum O.
$250,000 for the benefit of said Gene RAJ
Grant, from which he receives an annu' Il in
come of SIS 900;
And whereas, the said General Grant re-
tired from The army of his OVID free will
and in perfect soundness of boz. V and,heatb
| therefore be it
ReSolrcd, That we hereby offer our re
monstrance against the passage of said bill
and condemn the acti on of each and every
Senator who voted COR it, be he democrat OF
republican.
The motive which urged these ex-soldiers
to take this action appears from subse-
quent resolution that the passage of the bill
! would be all outrage upon the memory of
those gallant comrades who fell in the front,
and whose widows are to-day eking out a
miserable existence on the beggarly sum of
IS per month, and upon his ruined and
crippled comrades whose small pensions are
no just compensation for the loss they have
sustained. The project is also declared to
be an outrage upon all those thousands of
soldiers "who, through the exposure Incl
dent to camp and army life, received dis
abling and permanent injuries to health
and happiness" and are now drawing pen
sions ranging from two to six dollars a
month for disabilities, and the many thou
sands who, having "like Gen. Grant return
ed home sound in body and health" are
too patriotic to ask for or even EXPECT Il
pension"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-05

He TRIED THE ALARM.-For the past
few days there has been gentleman in
town selling patent burglar alarm, which
works something on the style Of a pistol. 1t
is fastened on the door or window, and
when either is opened spring is thrown
against blank cartridge, causing an ex-
plosion. Mr.. William Jones purchased one
of these and carried it home. After explain
ing the mechanism to his wife, he fastened
it on the door, but instead of putting the
regular blank cartridge which accompanies
the machine, he placed in it No. 49, He
then went on the outside and attempted to
enter. The thing worked like charm. His
wife heard the explosion and William felt
No. 80 in his forehead The bullet was ex-
tracted by physician, and William says he
is satisfied with its NOTWITHSTANDING
AdrcriiScr.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-05

BRAZILIAN SNAKE SToRY.--While
hunting in Brazil n Spanish gentleman came
across snake sixty feet long. 1t had just
finished eating deer, but had not been able
to swallow the horns, and they were still
sticking out ofthe snakes mouth. The gem
tleman said it was common thing in South
America for snakes to eat deer, and wien
the antlers refuse To go down into the stom
ach, the snakes would 90 and lie in the
run and let the acids from the stomach
work on the horus and dissolve them This
monster snake was very likely perforp. q
this act when The hunting party cs.ma "9
him. They advanced cautiously onI ,varo
about t" fire, when the snakr spranr for.
ward and struck the guij>. in the ." 1ra os
with the stays horns aat' or,si.d hi,n int"
aiely. Before the ~ do a"uid ra,ant IT,
playful little past me n billet from one , Of
S "nG Ems , =, .H' party killed him. He was
n nonrost W. :" ID carried by the party to the
;S s,;;i Jwn and shipped to Rio, where he
-; Ss". on exhibition. The antlers are yet j.,
u" MISUNDERSTANDING
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-05

THE New YORK Herald says the only
reason for the opposition to President Ar
thur among the New York delegation to
the national republican convention, is that
ahe has honorably refused to prostitute the
Presidency of the United States to the
grudges of certain republicans in their
State" Strange as it may seem, and unfor-
tunate for the moral as we'll as the material
interests of Virginia, the reason for the OPP
position to the President among the reputa-
BILE republicans of this State, is that he has
dishonorably prostituted the Presidency to
certain scalawags, calling themselves repuh-
licans, in Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-05

In READING the proceedings Of the ma
tional republican convention those familiar
with the blue book are struck with the large
number of Office holders who are members
of that convention, and who are taking part
in its proceedings. Indeed the whole OF
some of the Southern delegations seems tc
be made up Of men who are dependent
upon the Administration for their living
And yet candidate for the Presidency will
benominated by Observation-Disclosures
they are, as they collect money for and con-
tribute money to election funds, though for
hidden by law from doing so and they not
only disregard, but ridicule the executive
order prohibiting them from taking any &C
tive part in politics.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-05

GEN. SHERMAN.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 5.-Gen. Sherman
was seen mt his residence yesterday, and
asked about his acceptance ola nomination
by the Chicago convention and about the
rumored telegram to John 3. Henderson.
~ sent no telegram to Chicago" he said
"but three days ago I mailed a letter to
Gen. Henderson. He telegraphed me last
night, and l presume my letter reached
him to. day, and / am glad it got there"
"You would not accept then, unanimous
nomination ?"
mo, would not.'
"What are your reasons?"
81 have plenty Of them, but keep them te
myself"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-05

A JEWESS kIDNArrED.-The Vienna cor
respondent Of the London Daily TlruaM
sends particulars OF case Of kidnapping.
recalling in many respects the famous Nor.
tara affair. Some ten years ago Herr Philipp
respectable Jewish tradesman of Prague
was left widower, with little girl named
Regina, about five years Old On marrying.
again, shortly afterwar1, he sent the chi ID
to his grandparents at Lembcrg. Eu the
course of last year he invited bis daughter
to visit him ut Prague: but OF. some
preteXt or other the invitation WAS
refused. A day or two later he re-
ceiVcd Telegram from Leulbcrg, an
nouncing that BIS daughter had suddenly
disappeared and inquirng whether she had
joined nm N Prague. A day or two later
nc receive another telegram, stating that
his daur, liter had entered Il convent in Lem.
berg Herr Philip Immediately proceeded
TO Vac convent, and at his pressing request
BIS daughter was brought to him by two
, nuns. The girl refused to listen to him.
and expressed her determination to remain
where she was and to embrace the Christian
| faith
Herr Philip thereupon appealed to he
representative of the Archbishop and to the
inspector of the nunnery, who both declined
to interfere, alleging that the girl had fled
| to the convent, where admission could not
be refused to her; but if she voluntarily
asked to leave the establishment she wouh!
not be prevented from doing so. After
Herr Phillip had been in Lemberg few
days longer the girl consented, in the pres
| ence of the Mother Superior and lad,
living in the town, to follow her father
declaring that she had finally resolved
to quit the nunnery. But the Mother
Superior said she would not allow the girl To "a
without Il written order from the Inspector of thr
convent. The latter agreed to accompany Hc r
Philip to the convent the same afternoon, ',ut
when they arrived the girl had been induced once
more to change her mind and refused to go away
The distracted father appealed to the pol .cc but
to no purpose. lie afterward addressed. himself
to the Stasthalter. who referred him to the courts
of law. He could not even Obtain ? ,sistaucc il.
securing the postponemcnt of the, girls haptisul
until the case should be judcialiy decided. The
trial promises to rank amongst tho cnuss crlrJrc,
of tho present decade.