Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
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hSio hiC many wal Hulco SSdOtCk-
cd throughout the country, but war
horses have most all died out.
"A large prairie wolf was captured
one day, recently, in Manatee County,
Florida; rare capturs in that part Of
country.
"A rat recently maze It's nest out of
bank notes ut Now York. Only thirty
dollars in fragments were subsequently
recovered.
To die is easy enough-but livinSi
There's the test. Any body can die, but,
all, the infinite difficulty Of living.
Chicago Journal.
Capitalists of Los Angeles, Cal,
nave established factory for the manu-
facturc Of rope from the yucca plant.
better known as the Spanish bayont-.
1t is rumorcd that there are over
fifty thousand square miles Of swampy
land east of the Mississippi river that
might, by draining, be made profitable
farming land.
Oscar Root, of Eric. Pa, In quar-
rel with Martin Stadt Miller. had one
OF his fingers bitten by the latter.
Blood-poisoning set in, and now Root is
n raving maniac.
-Theplanet Mars has more land than
the earth, aud the latest theory is that
Mars is inhabited by race Of beings
similar to our own, but longevity there
is far less than here.
Red hair is now fashionable in
Paris. The orthodox tint. according to
the London Graphic, is a deep blood
red, not auburn, produced by dccoo-
ton of hcnna leaves.
Five men have been convicted and
sent to prison at Olympia for attempting
TO eyict the Chinese from that place.
Their sentences were five hundred dol
lars and five and six months imprison-
ment
In Kentucky town stands statue
of George Washington, who is repre-
sented holding a hat IN his hand. A
pair OF woodpeckers discovered his hat
one day, and forthwith set about making
nest in its crown.
What every married man in this
country wants is trained, fierce looking
little mouse that will appear whenever
called. It will stampede o family quar-.
rel in less time than ii takes to provoke
one,-Mae0n Telegraph.
An Atlanta (Ga.) citizen recently
scratched the end Of needle out OF his
head. Twenty years ago his nurse
dropped him on the floor, and his head
struck the needle, which was broken of
in his skull.-itidatd Constitution.
A pair OF native sparrows marched
up TO the very cannon's mouth at Fort
Willott and built their little nest inside
of it. The gun was loaded, and the
bold inlruders might have Jared badly
lad not their presence been discov-
cred before the discharge of the gun
"A canyon or ravine by any other
name would form as picturesque a fca-
ture of the landscape, surely; and yet
an indignant reader writes to the Star
complaining Of its use of the word
gully" in describing the valley through
which Rock creek takes its romantic
name, - washington star.
Ina B..Mclane has secured the con-
tract for carrying the United States
mails between Eureka and Palisade,
New, on days when the train. which
leaves tri-wcekly, is laid oil. She is
having tricycle. constructed ut San
Francisco TO run over the Eureka and
Palisade track between those points.
The distance is ninety miles, and the
fair Ina expects to make tho run in six
hours, ,-M ego Times.
--Still-trolling for bluefsh is favor
ite method for angling with many fish
ermen. and there is a peculiar excite
ment and exhilaration about il, as one
stands waist deep in tho surf that surges
around him and feels the tug NJ his ling
that tells him his fish is hooked-an ex-
cltement that is heightened Is the big
fish is drawn shoreward, struggling
iiercely in the surf, and scattering tho
salt spray in showers along the path Of
bis enforced journey, ,-Bestop Herald.
The curious question has been asks
cd why oaks and clms are especially
liable to bo struck by lightning. 1t was
declared in 1857 that the elm, chestnut.
oak and the pine were the trees most
often struck in America, and in 1860 G.
j. Symonds stated that the elm, oak,
ash and poplar were the most frequent
ly struck in England, A Magdeburg
record, covering ten years, reports in
juries to 255 trees, l65 being oaks, 81
Scotch frs, 23 pines, and 20 beeches. 1t
has been suggested that the frequency
with which oaks are struck is due 10 the
presence of iron In the wood. Chicago
Times.