Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1884-10-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The aqueduct OF washington, "
c., furnishes the city twenty-five mil.
lion gallons of water every twenty-four
hours.
AT a late fashionable wedding in
England the brides bouquet, composed
of white lilies, was large enough to fill
a big wheelbarrow.
Rural Congressman will be allowed
two million bushels of seeds to dis
tribute among their constituents this
year. Chicago Times.
"A patient in the Nevada Insane
Asylum grasped his windpipe so fiercely,
under the impression that frog was in
his throat, the other day, that it re-
quired some hours to resuscitate him.
--Cryolte, mineral which is of great
value in the potash manufacture, has
been discovered in the Yellowstone
Park. Heretofore it has been obtained
only in Greenland. San Francisco Call.
-Parrot-dealers Of the East are max.
ing money by teaching their parrots to
croak kiss me, darling" Ladies are
very fond of the feathered tribe when
they can speak so lovingly Chicago
Times.
In an English criminal trial there
are no exceptions, after a verdict OF
guilty, no matter how erroneous the
law has been laid down or how illegal
the conviction, there follows no appeal
except for mercy at the Home Office,
which is rarely granted.
Out of the twenty-five Boston ladies
counted on the piazza of an Isle OF
Shoals hotel, eighteen wore eyeglasses
or spectacles, and ten had scientific
books in their hands. The intellectual
ity Of the place is consequently most
pronounced. N y Mail.
The first corn crop of Mexico has
proved a disastrous failure, and as the
weather has been too dry to plant the
second the farmers have given up hope
of corn harvest until next June. This
will necessitatc great demand for corn
raised in the United States. Chicago
NeUS.
Curious wedding cards appeared at
Guadalajara, Mexico, recently. They
read: "The rector of the Catholic Sa-
grario, Rev. DR.. Barbosa, acting under
authority of the Archbishop, has refused
to marry me to Irene Moreno. | have
married her according to the civil code,
and now have the honor to offer you an
J invitation to our house on Gale Car.
men, No. 81. Gregorio Saavedra. "
Writing to a German newspaper, a
victim of Daltonianism, or color blind
ness, protests against the tendency tC
the exclusion of the so-called color
blind from lives of activity in which tht
; recognition of color is an element. HI
|, declares that, although the sensations
are different, persons afflicted with Dal
; tonianism possess distinct recognition
of the different bands of the spectrum
|, and are consequently as capable of dis
tinguishing color signals from eac
, other as persons with normal vision.
While Washington was Presideu
!, the Congress Springs, at Saratoga, wa
!, discovered by a member of Congress
: from New York, who was cunning o
y the site. There are now fifteen /
= thirty springs in the vicinity, not yer
different in character. The Congress
Q Spring is still the most celebrated. Th
9 Hathorn Spring, discovered about thil
3 teen years ago, has become its prime
9 pal competitor. For nearly hundre
a years Saratoga has been celebrated, an
u continues to be the most remarkable co
: lection of mineral springs in the Unite
J, States.--N, y Tribune.
u The principal feature about Chin
:. mans costume is the fact that nothir
~ ~ ever fits but his stockings. His clothir
. . consists really of three or four shirts (
70 garments made after the fashion of
:. - shirt, each opening in front and -havir
70 five buttons, a sacred number. The!
=, :. buttons are never in straight row, b
y in sort of semi-circle half round Il
~ body. The outer garments have sleev
" " foot longer than the arm, fact whi'
.t 81 affords abundant opportunities for thei
%. .. A Chinaman's jackets are his thermor
y eter. He will say: "To-day is thr
u jackets cold, and if it increases at tt
y rate tomorrow will be four or five JAG
II II cts cold. Chicago Herald,
he We think of Wyoming Territory
as desert and of Cheyenne as 'front.'
its camp, but New Yorker lately !
IT, turned from that Rocky Mountain S,
of tlement says that he found there &c
lie tlemen's club as complete as any
liz New York. The members are prin
ch pally rich cattle owners, many of the
,h- Englishmen. The club house is i'll
nix minated by the .incandescent elect
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