Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

| N man Ill SIuWloJ, lcA., cldllhS JU
have the biggest hog ever raised in
this country. 1t weighs nine hundred
pounds.
in Boston, the advertiser states,
there have been fifty people killed and
eighteen injured by horse railways
within year.
"A silver shoe-buckle, supposed TO
have once belonged to General WASH
ington, was recently found among
some rubbish at Mount Vernon.
"A buried city, presumably Roman,
has been discovered near Nantes,
France. The theater had seating
capacity for four thousand persons.
Prohibition bar-room is the term
applied to q place lately opened in
Athens, Ca, for dispensing hot tea,
coffee and chocolate at five cents a
glass.
"A Georgia man has kept bale Of
cotton for twenty years, thinking that
each year would see the article at the
price which he thinks it is WORTH
Louisville C0urier-Journal.
Every one says better times are
coming on. Well, that is one way to
hasten them. A good receipt for the
making of hard times is for all hands
TO moan and howl about the hard times.
-Sacrdmento Union.
1t has been estimated that from
single pound of steel costing about
fifty cents there can be manufactured
one hundred thousand watch screws
worth eleven dollars. Some of these
machine-made screws are so small that
an uneducated eye requires the aid of
a magnifying glass to see what they
really are Chicago Journal.
"A young girl who likes to be giddy
writes to the New York Journal: 'lf
that Bordentown, N. j., professor
thinks he is going to stop young ladies
from flirting by suspending them for
month he is awfully mistaken. would
not give snap of my finger for girl
who did not enjoy little flirting. She
will make cast-iron, granite-souled
woman. flirt, and like it,
Years ago Vacaville, in Solano
County, CAL, was known as a cow
town. The name still retained signi-
ties as much. But 1t is curious fact,
says the San Francisco Bulletin, that
one may travel the length and breadth
of that valley and not see half dozen
cows or any other horned stock. The
cow town has become fruit vale.
"A swimming teacher in New York
City intends to swim from New York
to Albany next spring, to decide a
wager between several members of the
New York Athletic Club. The time
allowance is two weeks, the swimmer
entering the water only when favor
able tides are flowing. This means
eight hours labor per day.-M Y. Maa.
Careful experiment has disclosed
the fact that single square foot of leaf
surface in the case of soft, thin-leafed
plants will, during fair weather, exhale
aqueous vapor at the rate of one and
quarter ounces daily. At night the
rate is only about one-ffth as rapid as
during the day, and during rainy
weather there is absolutely no evapor-
alton Chicago Journal.
AT recent fair given at Skowhe-
Baiit Auc'i ny lHO W. ". L. ", tneIe
were exhibited piece of lace and a
pin ball made by the mother of Ralph
| Waldo Emerson more than one hun
dred years ago, Turkish inlaid table
over two hundred and fifty years old,
and squirrel made of about ten thou
sand dollars worth of condemned
greenbacks pressed. d.-BoSton Post.
Miss Emma X. Young, Of Monon-
| gahela City, Pa, has in her possession
a brass plate cabinet of novel shape
and elegant finish. The inside is made
of wood taken from gun carriage from
the flagship st. Lawrence, sunk in
Lake Erie in 1918 and raised in 1875.
The box is valued souvenir, and
handsome as well. 1t was presented
by friend at Erie.-PittSburgh Post.
The craze for family crests has
broken out in Philadelphia, where the
authorities, "Burke's Peerage" and the
rest, are being hunted up in order to
have crests perfectly accurate. The
crests, some of which are very elabor-
ate, are put on in colors, and the finest
work has to be done by regular artists,
though much Of it is done by skillful and
and trained girls. Even monograms
are again in style, and the decoration
incident to epistolary correspondence
is very elaborate indeed.-Philadelphia
| Press.
New York hair dealers have issued
circular relating to the different
styles of hair dressing, in which they
say: "The Puritan style of hair cut
ting, close all over the head and shaped
in saucer bang on the forehead, which
was quite a favorite with some foreign
ladies, has been eagerly adopted by
our pretty shop girls, perhaps because
it saves time. This style is not now
worn in Europe, and the sooner it is
discountenanced here the better for the
looks of our fair countrywomen. Front
coiiferes are worn in pompadour style"
IN. Y. Mail.
You can't destroy false set of
teeth in the retort Of crematory.
This ! deem one victory of art over ma
ture. Our own teeth we can reduce TO
ashes with the rest of the body, hut
false teeth and gold plate hold their
OWn' ollVcr pluUeS OF any otner SUD-
stance used by dentists will disappear,
but four thousand degrees of heat have
been turned on artificial teeth without
destroying them, and the gold rivets in
the teeth, after that heat has been ap-
piled, will also be found intact,-Cre.
naatory EGper.
1t will be remembered that tho
wife of Andrew Jubeck, Swede liv-
ing in the town of Hobart, in Chenan-
go County, N. Y, recently burned her.
self and child to death by setting fire
to the house. A few days ago Jubeck's
neighbors raised purse of money for
him and his three children, who found
temporary homes in the vicinity, AZ
ter receiving the money Jubeck disap-
peared. He was gone three days. He
came back and brought back with him
young wife, Swedish girl, having
gone to New York and selected her
from a lot of immigrants at Castle
en.-Bu6alo Express.
Evidence has been accumulated to
show that Brigham Young was as
avaIicious in the acquisition of land as
Of wives. In the Cache Valley On im-
manaa trant of land was token IN hv