Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-07-11

spent their time reading newspapers
and talking politics. demanded
Michigan preacher from his pulpit
No indeed, they do not, dear brother
Nor do they spend their time preach
ing such foolish sermons as people
have to hear occasionally in this colni-
try.
All the other generals having al
ready published, or announced that
they will publish their "reminiscences
of the war; we may as well confess
that we are going 10 do the same
thing. Our book will deal entirely
with the relation Of the war to the
Chicago conventions of 1854, and will
have no pictures of any battle inst.
Whenever battle accurS, it will be
spelled with So
Rev. DR.. Wild, of Toronto, an
nounccs that the millennium will
take the road with it's great moral
shows in 1898, after which date men
will live to be ninety years old with
out an effort. We'll, the millennium
will have a hard struggle TO get along
with some men we know even for
fifty years. We can't stand them
longer than twenty minutes.
Paul llaync, the poet calls cy-
clone 'thc untl'anslatcd blasphemes
L. Of he'll 1t is true, there is some
thing about cyclone that no living
man can understand, but then Paul
ought TO remember that the cyclone
usually drops out Of the skies; il
doesn't come up from the ground,
That's volcano or an earthquake.
The wise men tell us that the
whale lives about four hundred years
Since the day Of the patrlachs, how.
ever, no man has ever taken a whale
from the breast and raised it to old
g. A whale would be good
thing for man To buy who hated to
part with Il pet after he became at
tached TO ii.
Brother Solcmnun having told
several OF the brethren that hc was
having Il ball room built in his new
house, the church sent q committee tO
wrcSllc with him on the subject, as
the Bnptists don't allow anything OF
that kind. The brethren were Justly
indignant when he said, "Ccrtainly
he was going to have Il bawl room il
he left of the Kitchen" and then
showed them the nursery.
"Rcmcmber the poor" says an OK
change. We will. We do. w,
can't forget him. lie charged us $:
Il cord for saving wood and cut every
last stick oft four inches too Ions
/, for any stove in the house. We re
member him. And he'll remember
us, if we can ever find him, and hire
a man to hold.hi whilc.wc starve
him TO death.
A bold man.reported Il case of chol
ora at number blank hundred ant
ought Center street, and when tn,
health officer gottherc with load o
medicines and disinfcctants, hc foun,
it was harness shop and the cas-
, was horse cOllary. He was glad ; bu
he didn't act like it, However, Ian
, glIage is given us to conceal OH
thoughts.
Last week Il flock of muskrats at
/ tackled five men near Charlotte, Nortl
5 Carolina, and wounded them so bad
Z ly the men had to run for their lives
. a muskrat will cat anything. Ii h
b. cant catch frog, or swo0p down o.
a lizard, all right he'll eat Il Mort
: Carolinian, and be thankful it's IL
+ worse. Let us all, dear children
!; learn lesson from the humble musk
rat, and cat what is set before us, i
Il thankful, contented spirit.
The United States government ha
just cast monster gun, that will fir
4 Il solid shot six mills. 1t the govern
I mcnt is going TO do any target prac
I ticc with it, we will be glad TO ful
nish Secretary Lincoln with the ma
. who came in the sanCtum last nigl
: and stuck the paste brush into the in
stand. We would prefer that til
government would run him into I'll
t gun and fire him at the target, but
q the department sees fit rather to stan
- him up for mark, we think abor
: foot aud half would he the be-
4 distance, for him. That's for us.
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