Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-08-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


The BARRIERS are almost alone
among the tradesmen in the United
States in having no union.
-Citron raising is receiving attention
in Florida. The fruit picked in brine
is worth hundred and fifty dollars a
ton in the London market.
Josephine County, Oregon, pos
sesses natural curiosity in the shape
OF subterranean cavern. 1t is situated
in the mountains, south of Grants
Pass, and has never been thoroughly
explored.
AT the annual strengthening in
Vermont the heaviest rams fleece
weighed twenty-eight pounds thirteen
ounces, and the heaviest ewes fleece
weighed twenty-one pounds nine
ounces. This, it is claimed, exceeds
the record ut any public shcaring.
There are one hundred and eighty
two genuine collectors and dealers in
autographs in the United States who
prey upon the long-suiIcrng states
man, actor, soldier, or man of letters,
exclusive of the thousands of youths
in training as album iiends.-M. y.
SHR.
Tho sale of copies of the Vienna
AHJemcine ZcituRg, one of the best
conducted and widely known news
papers in Austria, has been for two
years interdictcd throughout the Ger
man Empire. Tie decree has now cx.
pircd, and the sale OF the paper in Ger
many is enormously large
An Atlanta man claims to have
discovered Il new principle in hydrau-
| cS which upsets the old theory that
water will not rise in vacuum more
than thirty three feet. He says he can
pump water any distance rcQu red, and
Dut'ally proves his assertion by pump
ne it 600 feet without Il valve and on n
iircct vertical rise.
The most easily photographed ami
mails are cats. They are easily kept
Iuic', and their eyes are not so restless
rs those of dog. When their atten-
ton is concentrated their gaze is mort
.lirect and absolutely molionlesS than
hat of n human being. A fixed eye,
not II CLASSY stare, is the thing to lie
'ttained in photograph. - Chicago
FimeS.
Something new in leather is the
AIMED and stamped buckskin fo,
mcn's riding suits. 1t is beautiful
marked, and will not fade. Over =
hundred STYLES of this article are shown
Tie New Orleans Expos ton. They
're worn for riding panlaloons ans
acfct' in some parts of Mexico, and
re worth two dollars and fifty cents
. three dollars cach.-N. o. Times.
A farmer loaned his dog to man
o whom lie Ind sold II flock of sheep
Al drive home, d,Stlnce Of thrt,
n les. The droycr found the dog so
lseiul that, Instead of sending him
Iome, he locked HIN mp The dog es
':apd. ard. concluding tAc drovcr had
10 more right TO keep the sheep than
20 lock b IN up, lie collcctedall that had
belonged to his master and drove them
acme again. -ChicaqO Ncrdi0.
u resident of State borough, Ga.
card Il noise out in his barn the other
lght, and he took his gun and Slipped
at. lie saw Il man stan! ling at III.
Ioor OF the barn, and, rs the moon
vas shining. he took good aim ana
red. hut the object never moved. Sc
20 ired the other barrel and called for
as wife, AMI when she c.mc they wcul
I'D found he had -hOt twice ut his owl
'hadow.-Lo'eiStflie CoUsrcr-JOuI1pd.
A very profitable business in the,
hard tines might be done by lcAsin.
ragged chldrcn to people seeking par
Ions for pcuitentary birds. One woman
Western State is said to hay
worked pardon out OF Governo
by going to him with eight childrer
whom she had temporarily adopted
from charitable Institutions. After tl
pardon was got, she returned them o.
The ground that they didn't quit,
suit. " Detroit Free Press
1t is said that the seas on tho Aus
tralian coast are heavier than, any
where else in the world. For hun.
,ireds of miles black. bHelling ellis.
rom 'our nuhured 10 siN hundred feet
Kind into which a distressed ship might
run for safety. Round the base OF
these CLIFFS the crested hills OF angry
waves surge and roar. swept along
with terrible force by winds born al
tho Southern Pole. and which, career
Jug over thousands OF m'ies OF sea-
!aye encountered ianuS mere ior the
ifs' ume.
"A noteworthy incident is reported
20 US in connection with the preva-
Icnce Of scarlet fever here. In n house
in which ono child had died of this dis
'.ase the little ones clothes were put in
% bnck she'd to await further alton
about and played with by pet