Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-03


The new paper bottles are said to
withstand the action of water, wine
and alcohol 1t is thought that drug.
gists will be able to furnish them free
of charge, just as they provide wrapping
paper for dry drugs. The cementing
material of the bottles is mixture OF
blood, albumcn, alum and lime.-M Y.
Sun.
There are about q dozen, more OF
less, breweries in and around Boston.
and the number of barrels of beer manu-.
featured may be counted by the hun
dreds of thousands. In 1888 there were
drunk in Boston 756, 40 barrels, and in
1884, 1882 barrels, an increase OF
1924 barrels. Besides this, there are
large importations of ale and porter
from Europe. Boston Globe.
What children want. within the
bounds of right, they should, if possible.
have. Their wishes should be respected.
The small desires of child are, to him,
as important as the great desires of .
man, and should as carefully be con.
sidered. The wet blanket, you can't
have that, often causes keener pain tc
boy than the loss of thousands OF
dollars in after fe.-SchOOL journal.
Dan Rice, the circus clown, is run
ming a ten cent circus in the French
quarter of New Orleans. He talks sadly OF
the good old days when his Floating Pal
ace was the sensation OH the Father OF
Waters, and thousands upon thousand,
of people swarmed from far and near tc
see him. He gave an entertainment
few nights ago when not 800 person,
were present, and about one-third OF
those were professional and other dead
heads"
Those people who argue that Grant
is a great smoker, Grant is afflicted with
cancer, therefore all smokers are af
tlicted with cancer, are very much like
the English tourist who rode upon the
box of an American omnibus. He no.
ticed that the driver carried his whip in
his left hand. Asking the reason, the
driver replied: II am left-handed.
Straightway into the notebook went
this astounding bit of information:
"Stage drivers in America are left
handed.
"A safety paper manufactured by o
Massachusetts mill will make it difficult
for anyone to tamper with bank notes OF
checks printed upon it. The coloring
matter of the paper is so prepared that
the application of any chemical to re-
move the ink will permanently change
the color of the paper, and an ingenious
device is added which betrays at once
any attempt to make an erasure. Be.
tween the two the enterprising forger
will be sure to come to grief. Boston
Journal.
Pete Osterhout is one of the most
rascally negroes in Galveston. He was
caught stealing poultry and brought be-
fore the Justice. The evidence" said
the Judge, "shows that you stole the
chickens from Colonel Jones' hen-coop,
and the fine should be five dollars: but
lllletyou off this time" "Who wants to
be let OFF," exclaimed the prisoner; 81
steals my chickens and 1 pays my fine,
and don't ask muffin oh nobody. Dis
heah mixing up sentiment and bizness
am what's ruinin' de kentry. Teras
Sytings.
DR. Heber Newton says: Taking
the average human life, he would be a
bold man who, rightly weighing the
manifold daily blessings which come
like the sunshine and the dew, would
to pronounce the lot of man
rather of pain than of pleasure. Much
Of the pain of man is, moreover, to be
subtracted from the charges against
Providence and to be credited to our
human responsibility. The thriftless-
ness of the poor, the greed of the rich, |
and the common ignorance of social |
laws cause most of our poverty"
Successful experiments have been
recently made at Cincinnati with the
new electric railway brake. The trial
was made with heavy coal train of ten |
cars, each car weighing empty about
eleven tons and having tonnage ca !
oacity of 10000 pounds. The loaded
rain, with full steam on, was put to a |
'peed of forty-eight miles per hour on !,
down grade of sixty-eight feet to the |
nile, and brought to dead stop in 374
seconds after putting on the brake, the |
distance run in that time being AS |
ards, exact measurement. Cincinnati |
Times.
DIR. Dallinger, the eminent micro
copist, holds that the development of
wing organisms in piece of fish
MUSCLE, previously subjected to a tenn
,erature OF boiling water, does not in
iicate spontaneous generation, despite
he belief that such temperature is
absolutely destructive of life. He hopes
he microscope may yet reveal more
bout the details of the life of minute
reatures, but, in the meantime, he
avs, philosophy must take it for
granted that the principle of life is
wholly distinct from the
natter with which it is clothed. Cur
eRt.
How many persons have even q
ough idea of tho average sum upon
which by faE the larger part of the
itizens of 4 fe United States are fed,
lothed and housedP A recent statisti-
ian estimates that eighty per cent. of
he population of this country is sup
orted by from forty to fifty cents per
apita a day. At the latter figure this
makes Sl64.25 as the average annual
ost of living; but, as by average we
1ean the balance between extremes,
here must be many persons who have
ot even this sum to live upon. That
NY cents a day is generous estimate
vii be admitted when it is remembered
hat many mill operatives earn only
rom five to seven dollars week, and
hat the wages of farm hands run from
wenty to thirty dollars month, and
hat on these sums several persons are
ften supported Chicago Times. !