Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-12-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST

New York with a population OF
1, 400, 900 has n, 235 dwellings.
The Boston Globe decides that tho
expression grammatical error" is cor
rect English. .
The women Of America use four
times as much silk in proportion to
population as the women OF Europe.
"A London correspondent has made
the interesting discovery that the Royal
family seldom 60 to church more than
once on Sunday.
--Philadelphians have started q
scheme for supplying seeds and plants
to the families of laborers to cncour.
age taste for home decoration and the
love Of the beautiful.
Mr.. Ish, of Waco, Tex. wears as
watch-charm bit of ore dug two
thousand feet below the surface, and
that assays two thousand two hundred
dollars worth Of gold to the ton.
The London Medical Times thinks
that the treatment of snake bite by
putting gunpowder on the wound and
touching it Off with match may be
thought rough, but it is often success
full.
"A North Carolina farmer recently
bought tract Of land for two thou
sand two hundred dollars. and the very
next day sold from it towering wal
nut tree for one thousand eight hun
dred dollars.
The following notice appears in
late number OF the Blakely (Ga.)
NeDs: "We will allow thirty cents
apiece for grown hens to parties whose
paper has been stopped and are still
owing us for it,"
Great masses of shells are imported
for the mother-of-pearl wanted in the
button and fancy article branches. The
shells from the Celebes Islands are the
best, and beautiful specimens come
from the Philippine Islands, from Ia
hiti, and other islands in the Pacific
Ocean.
Hon. John A. Bingham, late United
States Minister to Japan, says tha
country is advancing in civilization
very rapidly. The telephone, electric
| light and railroads are being pushel
forward, while the postal system
organized within the last ten years
is as perfect as ours.
"A Boston genius is seriously con
| sidering the adoption OF patent in
tending to protect gold coin from
wear. 1t consists Of a ring of steel o.
hard metal, which is put on the coli
hot and tnen contracts round it whilt
cooling. 1t is said to perfectly supply
long-felt want. II Boston Journal.
The Truckee (Cal.) Republican says
that up in the fastness OF the Sierras i.
lake so surrounded by bold cliffs thai
it is impossible to reach its shores save
by one narrow cleft in the rocks. II
has circumference of at least m ,le.
and beautiful fiat surrounds it, and is
utilized for pasturage. 1t is probably
the mouth OF some extinct volcano,
and is exceedingly deep.
John Durham. wealthy farmer
who committed suicide near Corfu, N.
Y. left the following note: "My Dear
Wife-We have lived many years very
happily together, and it is terrible in.
deed to think Of leaving you. but car
not resist this inclination to take m,
own life, Try and get along with the
farm the best you can. Good-by
goodbye, and God bless YOU"
| Denver modestly asks that the obe
| lisk which is crumbling in Central Parl
should be sent out there. because th,
climate will be easier on it, II tn,
Qbelisk seeks q healthy, wholesome
high, dry, inv.gorating climate, W,
offer 1t the hospitalities Of California
Monumental check may flourish il
Colorado air, but we have the grea
and only obelisk climate ON the cont
nent. San francisco Alta.
"A firm in San Francisco does ,
thriving business in card memorials O
the dead. The decorations and verses
are printed on them by the thousand
while the name. age. date of death
ETC., are set In mortised space, Th,
papers so far East as New York an
searched for notices of deaths, ant
specimens Of the cards, printed or
paper are sent to the mourning family
and it rarely happens that at least ont
fifty cent card is not ordered. -Sas
Francisco CAronicle.
Sir Henry Thompson and Englst
physicians who understand the thins
say that all enteric ieyers, such a,
typhns. cholera and the Oriental plagu,
ITSELF are due to positive pollution II
the air and water. Historiographer
Of disease tell us that the cholera come
from the mouth Of the Ganges, tn,
yellow fever from the mouth Of tn,
Mississippi and the plague from tn
mouth Of the Nile. Now the Mediter
ranean Is an obvious focus and hot be,
Of ehteric poison, and has been s.
ever since the days Of the Aihenlal
plague, which Thucydides ohronicled
One of Portland's wealthy dr.
goods MERCHANTS Is said to have com
to Portland without dollar, and /
have commenced by doing the cartin,
for the firm in which he is now part
ner. 1t is related that to save IQht Il
built a small house, running in deb
for several hundred dollars worth o
the materials. and to save money I,
pay these debts he vowed that he an,
bis family should live ON Indian pud
ding and milk until their homo wa
cleared OF debt. He persevered in th,
determination. and within a year di,
not owe q dollar. -Leaofstea (Me,
J0aynal,
An American gentleman who ha
been spending the season in Londol
says that Mrs, Mackey, wife OF the Cal
itaFnia bonanza man, gave there |
series of dinner parties which wer,
noted as among the most elegant anc
tasteful entertainments Of the hour
Ono OF them was afterward designated
as the roJe dinner. The table wa,
transformed into bed OF roses, viii
Just margin enough left for the plate,
and glasses Of the guests 36e 'fiow
ers were All balf-hlawn and Of delioat,
pale pink, Hight was supplied by wa,
Candles placed In large silver oandela
bra, each candle rising out Of the hear