Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-12-12
SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY.


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 "husl-
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 2" asked the ten
dcrfoot. 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.
er back and put in "a Few Years in
Kentucky.-Frankfort Capital.
Shot silks are very fashionable
The garment should be hung ovel
the back fence and pcppcred with
about four charges of BIB shot. Any,
thing smaller is liable to produce the
same effect as moth holes.-Burling.
ton Free Press.
IIa, ha Surprising now a drug.
gist was to mislay his watch-key
why would that key then become
like unto himself? Well, because il
would be a key missed. Chemist
Aha D-London Serio- Comic-Journ
al.
is your chum a close student p
wrote fathor to his son in college
You bet he is father, was the lie
ply. "You cOuld't borrow V, o.
him if YOU were in the last stages u
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
When Bass was cousurei for jilt'
ing one girl in favor of another, ht
said that he had always supposed
that change of heart was something
20 congratulate person upon rather
than TO blame him for.-Boston Tran
script.
An Illinois lady is said to have col
iect, d a string Of buttons "A feet long
This accounts for so many men i'll tht
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 TIL,
only instance on record where the
age of Saratoga belle has beer
tolled.-Yonkers Statesman.
The cash value of right hand il
fixed by New England conrt 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 belief
ola great majority of the married
ladies of the country-if one is to &C.
cept as true the stories told by numer.
Gus MISUNDERSTANDING Argus.
japanese women never use pins
We naturally conclude that japanese
young men never startle the dreamy
quiet of a half-lit parlor Sunday
evening with a subdued howl a.
their hands SO sneaking around thu
zodiac of their ribbon sash.-IIawk
eye.
Rev. DR.. Burchard said 'just befor
the battle that the Democratic part,
was made up of "rum, Romanisn
and rebellion" and now comes Rev
Dir. Fulton, of New York who say
he equalifiedly agrees with DR.. Bur
chard. Now, if Balaam wants to re
enter Jerusalem he can drive
double team.-Memphis Scimitar.
GLOW was Indiana carried |?
shrieks all exchange that hasn't 90
over the election yet. We don
know how they got the rest of tn
state home, but the delegate we say
at three a. m. had his legs hangin;
out of the back window, his hat hang
ing on his feet, no overcoat, and wa
singing az re morning by-hic-br
light" and it took three men to hol,
him down. If the hacks held out
we can see no reason why there shout,
have been any difficulty in carryin
the State.-Hawkeye.
"You can come in now" said th
family physician to the head of til
house Oh the north side. "What ar
the returns?" "Three--two girl
and one boy" 81 want an officia
count, doctor. l don't want any
business in this" "Don't be FOOLS
man." 81 tell you l shall suspec
fraud until there is an official can
vass." Then he apologized to tn
doctor, saying tina the had been so ell
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