Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-12-12
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rule, and 90 to measuring whisky
barrel.-Yeoman.
Political parades are pretty much
over The Republicans are yet TO
have turn out-on the 4th of March
neXt.-Old Guard.
An exchange remarks that "husk-
ing bees are in order" If the ques-
ton be not impertinent, we would
respectfully inquire the best method
of husking bee with safety.-Sun-
day Argus.
"You want to aim very low when
you are hunting the bison," said the
hunter. How low 7" asked the ten
d,rfoot. Buffalo," replied the old
hunter, without struggle.-llawk-
eye.
Blaine will now turn his attention
to his Twenty Years in Congress"
lie might give an additional impetus
to his book sale by going a little faith
Ell back and put in "a Few Years in
Kentucky.-Frankfort Capital.
Shot silks are very fashionable.
| The garment Should be hung over
the back fence and peppered with
about four charges of BIB shot. Any
thing smaller is liable to produce the
same effect as moth holes.-Durling-
ton Free Press.
la, ha!-Supposing now drug
gist was to mislay his watch-key,
why would that key then become
like unto himself? Well, because it
would be key missed. Chemist
AHA D-London Serio-C omic-Journ-
al.
as your chum a close student u
wrote father to his son in Il college.
You bet he is father. was the ie-
ply. "You cOuld't borrow u V, OF
him if you were in the last stages OF
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
When Bass was cousured for jilt-
ing one girl in favor Of another, he
said that he had always supposed
that change of heart was something
10 congratulate person upon rather
than TO blame him for.-Boston Tran
script.
An Illinois lady is said to have col
Iectt d a string Of buttons "a feet long,
This accounts for so many men i'll the
State with their suspenders attached
10 their pants with single nail
Elizabethtown News.
A church bell at Saratoga recently
, rang one hundred and four times
one stroke for each year of its exist.
cnce. We imagine this to be the
only instance on record where the
, aye of a Saratoga belle has beer
toled.-Yonkers Statesman.
The cash value of a right hand il
fixed by New England court at 81,
300. In the wild west the value of 8
han d depends largely on the number
kind and arrangement of the spots
and the amount of money in the pot
Detroit journal.
Mist Lizzie Leonard, of Brooklyn
says she believes trousers are the
proper garments for women to wear
The young lady but voices the belize
ola great majority Of the married
, ladies of the country-if one is to ac
cept as true the stories told by numer
Gus misunderstanding Argus.
japanese women never use pins
We naturally conclude that Japanes,
young men never startle the dreamy
quiet of half-lit parlor Sunda!
evening with a subdued howl a
their hands so sneaking around tn
zodiac of their ribbon sash.-IIawk
eye.
Rev. DR.. Burchard said '.just bcfor
= the battle that the Democratic part
was made up of 'rum, Romanisr
and rebellion" and now comes Rev
DR.. Fulton, of New York who say
he equalifedly agrees with Dir. Bur
: chard. Now, if Balaam wants to re
q enter Jerusalem he can drive
: double team.--Memphis Scimitar.
GLOW was Indiana carried
shrieks an exchange that hasn't &C
over the election yet. We don
know how they got the rest of tn
: state home, but the delegate we sa'
Is at three a. IN. had his legs hangin
out of the back window, his hat hans
:, ing on his feet, no overcoat, and we
# singing az re morning by-hic-b
q light" and it took three pen TO hol
d him down. If the hacks held on
~ we can see no reason why there shoul
% have been any difficulty in carryin
n the state.-lIawkeye.
y "You can come in now," said IL
l. family physician to the head of Il
: house OH the north side. "What al
he the returns ?" "Three-two Cir
u and one boy" II want an offici
d count, doctor. don't want any
he business in this" "Don't be FOOLS
o. man." 81 tell you 1 shall suspe
re fraud until there is an official cal
le vass." Then he apologized to Il
es doctor, saying tina the had been so Ell
ID crossed in polotics that he had forgo
D. ten where he Was.-ChicaGo IIeral,