Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

AN Australian naturalist mas us
covered the nervous system of the
sponges.
-Old-faShiOned mirrors over the man
tel are again in style, with the addition
Of bronze or gayly-paintcd frames
N y. Mail.
Small tobacco pipes are frequently
unearthed in Ireland, and are supposed
to ante-date the introduction of tobacco
in Europe by Raleigh.
Any woman is too tightly dressed
who can not raise her arms straight
above her head and clasp her hands;
who can not stOop to tie her shoe or
pick up pin without frightening color
Boston Transcript.
Cork, when carbonized produces
$3.50 per cent. pure charcoal, the
greatest per cent. of any known wood.
Willow, wheat straw and oak rank next
in the order named. while maple and
poplar are 1915 and 3l,12, or at the
very foot of the list. Chicago Times.
Forty years ago youngman bought
the hulk of an old whaling vessel in
Stonington, borrowing the ten dollars
with which to pay for it, Moving it TO
IN out-Of-the-way place he lived in it
for twenty-five years. To-day he is Il
large property owner and the heaviest
depositor in thu Stoningtol bank
Hartford CONrdW
Several months ago Cora B. ri,
quette, of Syracuse, n. Y, witnessed
an accident TO shOp-mate, whose long
hair became cntangled in shaft and
was entirely pulled out, Miss Piquette
has been made insane by the scene.
Standing on chair or sofa she butts heI
head against the wall and then seems
relieved. She has been sent to an
asylum. Bu6aiO ErpreSS
Rev. Charles G.. Ames. of Philadel-
phia, speaking at Springfield, Mass,
said that Il native of Connecticut
town once told him that on returning
there after II thirteen Years absence he
found that all the yodng men OF the
place he had known in his youth aS the
sons of wealthy parents had become
either sOts, pauperS or criminals. And
yet Connecticut is sometimes callel the
land of steady abils.-Springfcld Re
publican,
A singular coincidence happened al
Ingraham's case shop, Bristol. on Friday
last Frank Miller Slipped while slid ne
a box on the floor and fell, striking his
chin on the edge of the box. making {
bad cut. Soon his brother, JOSEPH
Miller was struck by piece of JOS
FLYING from Il circular saw and was quit,
severely injured in the arm and side
In less than two hours Lewis NJ Her
another brother, cut oil the end of hi
thumb in the joiner Hartford Times
"A planter in Summerville, GA, eX
perimented successfully with toblccC
last year. He cleared about ten acre
of dense oak forest and made such ;
good yield that it paid expenses o
clearing up the land and its culture, a1C
more than the amount Of net profit
realized from the production of cottoI
in middle or Southwestern Georgia.
is believed, says Southern paper, tina
tobacco culture in Southeastern GcOrgi;
will become universal in II few years
both because of the adaptation of tn
soil to its successful growth and tn
profits to be derived there rom.
A noise was heard in an empt,
drawer at Williams drug store ii
Thomaston by one of the clerks at
late hour one night last week. As
sounded like turbulent rats lighting n
notice was taken of it. The next morn
ing, on opening the drawer, the clerI
found fresh rat skin turned complete
ly inside out as neatly as could hav
been done by taxiderm st. The ski
was perfect, but all the other parts Q
the physical economy of the rat wer
gone except the tail 1t was eviden
that this was the WORK of weasel whic
had been seen proving about the prem
, ises of late. Waterburu Amcrican.