Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-04-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Texas wishes to change her name
from the Lone Star" to the "New
Empire State.
New York; directory contains 360,-
029 names, which indicates a popula-
ton of l,jO0,l45.
Statistics show that both in Europe
and America scarlet fever is more de-
structive of life than cholera.
Near Beerly, Mass, is parrot that
has been in one family for fifty years,
and is supposed to be seyenty-iiye years
old.
There are said to be lifty-two varie-
ties of sheep in the world-nOt count
ing Wall street lambs -LOWeH (NaSS.J
Courier
There will be three Quakers in the
next Congress. Although Friends are
not given to oflice-seeking their merits
have often pressed them into public SER
vice.
The New York Graphic says: "a
St. Louis man who was recently ac-
cused of swindling twelve of the lead
ing lawyers of Texas has framed the
charge and uses it as diploma. Heis
also lawyer"
Frank Brown, young man who
boards Boston and Maine trains at
North Berwick, Me-, to sell popped
corn, has saved money enough earned
in that way to pay off a mortgage on
his mothers house and partially sup
port her besides.-BoStOn Post.
-Philadelphia's Society for the Pro-
motion of Agriculture is justly proud
OF its early history. 1t was founded
one hundred years ago, and among the
honorary members were George Wash
ington, Timothy Pickering, Elias Boud-
mot, Charles Carroll and Reuben
Haines.
Her days have been numbered for
Queen Victoria by an alleged oracle,
who sets the date of her death Septem-
Der 10, 1889; she is, this seer says, to
die by or in consequence of fire. The
Russian Gar has till 1900 to settle his
earthly affairs; Bismarck till May 80,
1890, and the German Emperor the July
following.
Red tape i'll becomes charity, a fact
never more forcibly and sadly illus
trated than in London not long ago.
A girl having poisoned herself, the doc
tors sent to the MiddleseX Hospital to
borrow a stomach pump. The author.
tiles sent back word that the patient
should have been taken to the hospital
as they did not lend out stomach pumps
The girl died.
"A custom-house inspector, while
roaming over steamer at New York,
observed Il peculiar hump on the back
of one of the sailors. He made 8
diagnosis of the hump, and found that
it was formed by forty dozen pairs Of
spectacles, worth about one dollar and
Il half II pair. The duty on imported
spectacles is thirty-iive per cent. The
goods were seized.-M Y Sun.
The Palatka (Fla.) NeoOS says
eve know little black girl whose
name sounds like this: Harriet Anr
Cassia Ann Betsy Baldwin Hanover
Ann Berkeley. Another is called Mary
,lartha Maedalanc Paulina Ann Paul.
la Green. Still another is Arkansa,
Tennessee Louisiana Red River Thomp
son. And some years ago there wa.
an old Indian squaw in Dade County
who rejoiced in the name of Lily-walk
in-the-w ater-same-shape-all-the-way
Observation-Disclosures"
1t is proposed to inform The
farm Jrs of Vermont each morning
what the weather probabilities for thu
next seventeen hours are by system
of whistles blown from stationar,
steam whistles distributed in the rura
districts of the State. One blast, fo
instance, will signify fair weather, anC
so on. No such appliance is needed il
the West Whenever a farmer hear
the first blast of blizzard he cuts TO
home without waiting for further in
, formation. Troy Times.
, On the evening of the opening o
the Brooklyn Bridge Mr. Erastus Wi
, man, President OF the Staten IslanC