Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-09-11

VI the operative rale green, which 1t
takes wears to change. Hartford Post.
Tho Cuban cigarmakcrs in New
York employ reader" usually Gu
ban patriot and refugee, who visits the
shops every day and spends from three
to four hours translating from Ameri-
can papers. The men pay twenty-five
tcats II week each to support him.-M
Y. Times.
The Tactic Medical Journal, refer
ring to u recent writer who asserts that
Maine lumbcrmen are free from dys-
pcpia because they are in the habit OF
using chewing gum, says that IF he
would add to his suggestion of chewing
gum that of becoming lumbcrmau
the remedy would be very effective"
I'm an article on "Inebriety Among
Railroad Engineers" in the Philadel-
phia Medical aud Surgical Reporter it
is stated that these men are exception
ally temperate. The nerve and lS'ain
exhaustion attendant upon their occu-
patton is so great, however, that line
briefly among them is very prccipitate
and fatal"
Since Mrs. Partington mistook the
brakeman's call of "Mattaposctt" us II
reflection upon the inhabitants aS Il
mity-poor set, the name of the town has
been spelled thirty-one different ways on
mail matter set thither, some OF the
methods showing great deal of in
geniousness in misspelling.-OM Col
ony Mom1ridL
A French statistician has discov,
cred that up to the present, 2,jl0 En-.
perors and Kings have governed GA ma
tons. Out of this number 800 have
been driven from their thrones, CT have
abdicatcd, "a have committed suicide,
II have become insane, 100 fell in bat
tie, 1913 were captured, 25 died martyrs
151 have been assassinated and 1903 have
been condemned to death and executed
according to law.
"A solution of eighty grammos OF
chloride of lime, eighty of bicarbonatc
of soda and twenty of common salt in
three liters of distilled water is excel
lent for cleaning dull gold. The solu-
ton must be kept in wcll-closcd bottles.
The article to be cleaned is allowed to
remain a short time in the solution.
which should be heated only when the
dirt is very obstinate. 1t is then taken
out and washed thoroughly and finally
dried in sawdust CHICAGO Journal.
1T Is salu that the transposltlon OF
ono word was the foundation of Dan
lei Clark's great fortune. He had
bought 1920 square toises Of land in
chat part Of New Orleans that after
ward became its commercial center.
In the engrossing of the deed the H.
920 square toises" was carelessly made
10 read 1920 toiscs square," and in
creased the value of $4,000 to $50,
100000. Mr.. Clark took advantage of
the error, and the law OF New Orleans
was powerless to prevent him.,-M. Y.
Mail.
The divorce business Is leading
one in Dakota courts. At Judge uud.
sons court, in Ransom County, last
week, the case was up of a man who
came out from New Jersey to secnre Il
divorce a few months ago, and the
court took occasion to express its mind
pretty freely on the subject The Judge
doesn't believe in easy divorces, and
Doesn't like the impression that they
are especially cheap and easy to be had
in Dakota. He, however, divorced
Mrs. Caroline Adams, OF Britton. as
she wanted to marry man she brought
to court with her. and did, even before
the Judge had signed the decree. So.
Paul (Minn.) Globe.
Out on the Burlington & Missouri
River Railroad, Nebraska, they i'm
ported passenger brakeman from
Boston. There is heap of Boston tai
Dnt on the B. & NJ. but this young
man was refined until about one
hundred and twenty proof. lie
ran on the Beatrice branch, which ev-
erybody in Nebraska knows is called
to rhyme with "the mattress" And
when this new man looked in at the car
door and shouted: "Day-ah-treet-
chez! Bay-ah-treet-chee!" the entire
community rose up as one man and
piled on him by thousands. Thanks
70 the severity of the weather, his re-
mains reached fremont street in a
state of excellent preservation.-Brook-
Ign EAGLE.