Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-12-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

Washington Gazette.
jamestown, ID. T., has advertised
for brass band.
The average price of milch cows in
Mexico is $40 head.
The silver in the Bland dollar is
u worth so cents just now.
| At Stockton, CAL, the curfew bell
rings at 0 20 o clock every night.
"IIard-timc parties are form Of
social diversion in Virginia City.
The London Times of October %
had seven yards Of political speeches.
The total value of the trade oil III
lia exceeds $250,0O0,0O0 annually.
There are l50,0Oa0OO tons ofcoal
waste piled up in the anthracite reg
ions.
The latest list of American beetles
describes $3.50 species on this CONT
nent alone.
A human life is lost for every 50,-
900 tons of coal mined in the antlra-
Ecite regions.
A second crop of ripe Strawberries
has just been exhausted in Grass
Valley, Ca'.
There have been nineteen deaths
from hydrophobia in London thus
for this year.
On Roberts Island, on the Pacific
coast. a 400-acrc tract ofpeat is burn
ing ilercely.
Native Daughters of the Golden
West is the name of secret society
in the Pacific states.
Mandalay, upon which the British
lion rests its persuasive paw, has
population of 100000.
There are 452 women editors in
England-morc than in all the rest
of Europe combined.
Two new planets, of the Ledse
family, hitherto unknown, have been
discovered IN Scotland.
A Cleveland paper says large
number of young men of that city
paint and powder their faces.
The next governor of New Jersey
will have the appointment of six SUI
| preme court judges.
Th.rc are 3.l0O saloons in San
Francisco, which yield yearly rev.
enue 10 the city of $20S,5l0.
| A Virginia girl who advertised in
a Dakota paper for husband has
received ll9 letters in reply.
| It ia said to be almost impossible
FOR Europeans 10 learn the language
of the natives of Congoland.
The price of coral has advanced in
consequence of the scanty harvest
obtained in the Mediterranean.
| A California man blasted huge
boulder short time ago, and recov-
cred $4,000 in gold from the debris.
| A dove recently flew into tie po-
lice headquarters at Stockton, Cal,
and is now a pet with the policemen.
A number of people in Ohio have
been poisoned by drinking cider
drawn from barrel through lead
pipe.
The man who raised The first
American flag on California soil is
now living in Ohio. Ills name is
Jacob z. Leese.
Professor DOremus says cOcoaint
, Is dangerous anHsihetic, and drug.
, gists should be careful to label it poi
sors
: A bill to prohibit newspapers from
t publishing details of suicides is nm
/ der Consideration in the Uruguayar
congress.
Dechinite, or vanadate of lead ant
Q zinc, has been discovered in Montana
r Ore of this nature is worth $4,000 ;
pound.
Fifteen swords worn by Garibald
= at various epochs during his cam
! paign are to be placed in the Capito
at Rome.
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