Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-13
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| -LlRntnlhg Stfuck Cnlnaman in
Montana and changed his complexion
from yellow to black. k.-DenUer Tribune
The Governor of Massachusetts
Igets salary of five thousand dollars a
year. and the Mayor of Boston ten
thousand dollars. Boston Post.
The cigar tester in the New York
Custom House says that simple way
to ease heartburn from smoking is to
touch some of the ashes to the tongue.
How many women know that in
the revised version, Psalm lviii. H.,
reads: The Lord givcth the word:
The women that publish the tidings are
a great host!n
The writer and the schoolmaster
might find it advantageous to go to
Abyssnia hand and hand, as the pres
ent literature of the country consists of
only one hundred volumes. = Current
When man offers to sell chickens
for ten cents each in Southwest GeOr-
gia he is suspected of theft. When a
man asks more than that in Northwest
Georgia be is suspected of lunacy.-
A"ynS'u kOh. CHTOHtCtC.
Over seven thousand cigars were
found by revenue officers aboard a
steamer which arrived in New York a
few days ago. The cigars were found
in the ice-bo1es, the water tanks, under
the coal and other out. Of the-Way
places.-N y Tribune.
"A philosophic farmer in New Jer-
sey says there amt no cause for d
deal of frottin' in the world. 1t always
evens up about so. When the grass is
thin, the winter is open, so that whom
the hay crop is poor we don't need
nigh so much tirewood."
"A lady living in Naugatuck, Mass.
while looking over the old family Bible
recently, found an old Colonial six.
pound note, dated 1853. The note was
good for seventeen ounces ten penny
weights of silver IN New Jersey. On
one side was printed; ITO counfeit
this is death. boston Journal
"A prominent Mexican says that
Mexico owes less per capita than any
other nation on the globe-only about
Sly per head" In this country Coy
ernment officials are paid monthly; in
Mexico, every fifteen days, and the
Treasury is behind now only one and
one-half payments, or three weeks.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution
says: "The first coffee ever produced
in the United States was grown BY
Madame Atzeroth, near Manatee, Fla,
in 1880. Madame is now seventy-eight
years old. She has twenty-five coffee
trees on her plantation, and has sue.
cessfully demonstrated the fact that
under proper culture coffee may be
made to flourish in the latitude Of
Florida"
"A Texas man, already aware that
his boy was dull of apprehension, OBJ
served during heavy shower that the
youngster actually did not know
enough to come in when it rained.
Much impressed with the result of this
proverbial test, he applied to the court
to have the little fellow adjudged idi-
otto and committed to an asylum. The
motion was denied. however. no other
evidence being presented to sustain it.
Chicago Times.
"A scientist states as net result oI
a number of observations that there il
an exhileration of the pulse rate and q
slight elevating Of temperature from
smoking. If the average temperature
of non-smokers were represented by
one thousand, that of moderate smok.
ers would be one thousand and eight
while the heart in the former case
was making one thousand pulsations
in the latter it would beat one thousand
one hundred and eighty times. Hence
the harm of tobacco smoking. -Rtila.
delphia Press. t. -l
Timber depredations on public do
main are still carried on, with littl,
effort on the part of the authorities tc
check them. Among others the Chinese
in Placer County, CAL, are said to bt
cutting immense quantities of sugar
pine on Government land. The tree:
are cut by them to be made. into
''shooks," and if their grain is not per.
fectly straight the trees are abandoned
and other trees cut down. By thii
method great quantities of trees are
felled and spoiled for any purpose :
San Francisco Chronicle. G" r-.''
An English Judge. so goes cur
rent story, was travelling in Germany
and entering his name in the visitors
book in certain city, he was particu
lar to append every titular DISTINCTION
he possessed. The next conner, motto
| sunr fhia ol1al 10 hn Athnr kttlna
"Toady and Tuft Hunter The re
porter of the local paper. who did no
understand English, called, as usual
for the list of visitors, and copied from
the book the full description of tn,
Judge, with the additional words
which duly appeared in the newspape
next day. ,n4 t.I IN.
Ambrose Chapman, Waterbur,
farmer, has discovered one way to xii
snakes which has heretofore been un
known. He has for many years beef
sheep raiser on the hills of Walcott
and he says that his sheep have a move
method of destroying their enemy, til,
rattlesnake. As soon as one of tn
reptiles approaches a flock of sheel
they quickly but quietly form in a lin
and walk round and round the snake
breathing upon it as they pass, until
becomes stupefied and finally dies. Mr.
Chapman insists that he has seen tn
operation performed by his sheep
number of times, and always with sue
cess. - Hartford Post, r
Ten years ago. when Clarence A
Posley, a West Point graduate, marrie'
the daughter Of DR.. Sterling, q NeN
York millionaire, his wedding presen
from his father-in-law was a packag
containing 100000 in United State
bonds. The young people went ava
on wedding journey and left th
money with the doner, where it ha
ever since remained, they drawing th
interest. DR.. Sterling died last Jan
uary, and his will leaves all his prop
erty to the daughter, but does no
mention the 800 600, given to the son
in-law, and at his wife's suggestio
, Mr. Posley began friendly suit to re
cover the money, which was decide
in his favor by a New York Judge. IN
y Herald.
2 -Pineapples, known in most cour
tries of Europe as ananas, are biennial
. with the habit of an aloe, and cam
|; originally from Brazil. In the cente
: of the foliage rises stem about tw
! | feet hiOh on the uuper mart of Whic