Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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I'm Havana cigar manufacturers
pay their hands three times day.
Some OF the most valuable antique
furniture on the continent is to ba
found, it is said. among the possessions
OF the old Creole families of Louisiana.
foolish are swarming in Shasta
River. California, where they were
never known before They bear re-
markable resemblance to salmon
San Francisco CdA.
1t is proposed to utilize the motive
power Of the Montmorenci Falls, neal
Quebec, to operate railroad to the
miraculous shrine of st. Anne which
yearly attracts eighty or one hundred
thousand visitors.
"A Texas editor complains of a
hook and ladder company recently
organized in his neighborhood. Tho
edltor intimatcs that the ladder is used
for getting into windows after dark.
after which the hooking Is doue.
Tho swiftest large river in the
world, according to a travelling CORES.
pondent. is the Sutlcj, in British India.
1t has n descent of twelve thousand
feet in one hundred and eighty miles,
an average of about sixty-scven per
mile.
While some colored hands were
packing cotton near Monticello, S. c..
an iron bolt weighing ainetcen pounds
fell distance OF nint feet and struck
one Of them on the head without caus-
ing any pcrceptible in1cry.-Atldnta
(Gd.) Chronicle.
The Jacksonville (Pls } Herald ro-
ports that most excellent lady says
that she has prsctccd tho following
rule for twenty years with never fail
ure: Trim your finger nails every
Friday, and you will never have the
toothache.n But perhaps the most
excellent lady had no teeth.
Horse cars in Brazil aro called
"bonds. from peculiar circumstance,
which illustrates how words can be
popularized. When started by some
Americans. the bonds of the company
were first offered on the market, and
everyone talked of them. When the
horse oars, or mule cars. arrived they
appropriated the name Of bonds.
The latest "propah capah" in Lon
don society (where there are initiative
dudes, as here) is to affect American
accents and infections. The Spring
field (Mass.) Union submits for the
benefit Of our English brethren two
specimens of the genuine thing, such as
oval, / swow," and "Ainter feelin'
right smart pcert terday; on'y toller-
ble."
la Mdcioal, a Buenos Ayres paper.
contained an announcement, signed by
eight physicians, that connection by
telephone will be made on application
by any patients requiring medical at
tendance at night. The fee for visit
after eleven p. IN. would seem some-
what large in our latitude-thirty dol
lars-but it is not thought to be exorbi-
tant there.
1t appears that in Philadelphia the
names Of applicants for marriage Ii
censes are not to be given out for publi-
cation, on the theory that, whatever
interest the community may have in
the marriage itself, the agreement to
marry Is private matter, which should
not be made public except with the
consent Of the parties Immediately con-
cerned. Philadelphia Press.
The industry of honey bee work
| ing a clover field is something wonder
full Each clover head has sixty sepa-
rate flower tubes, each containing about
the five hundredth part of grain Of
sugar. There are seven thousand
grains to pound, so that the bee must
have sucked the contents of three mill
ion five hundred thousand clover tubes
to have gathered one pound of honey.
| Chicago Herald.
The amended game law Of Colorado
says that insectivorous birds shall moi
be killed at all Except patridges.
pheasants. prairie chickens, prairie
hens, and grouse, and these only be-
tween October and November 10y.
mo person shall kill or wound, entrap
or snare any elk, deer, buffalo or bison,
fawn, or antelope, between the LIST day
Of January and the 10th day of Octo.
Der in each and every year" Noun.
tain sheep can not be killed for ten
years from April 7, 1885.
Il have peeped into quiet ''parlors, "
where the carpet is clean and not old,
and the furniture polished and bright;
into rooms where the chairs are neal
and the floor carpetless; into "kitch.
ems" where the family live and the meals
are cooked and eaten, and the boys and
girls are as blthe as the sparrows in
the thatch overhead, and sec that 1t Is
not so much wealth and learning, MOI
clothing, nor servants, nor toll, nor
idlcness, nor town, nor country, mol
stat on, as tone and temper that render
homes happy or wretched.-Dr. John
Hall.
Mr.. D. A. Coffin is the most truth
full il not the most facetious hotel keeper
in Maine. He advertises on his en-
velopcs: "The original and only third
class hotel-keeper in Mainc-wherc
everything falls to suit-tough beef
steak. dirty rooms, useless servants
debilitated coffee. This house. O.
worldwide bad reputation. is owned
occupied and presided over by tb,
LATEST man in the State. Satisfaction
not guaranteed; no money refunded