Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-01
ODDS AND EMS,
Washington Gazette.

A "IIome for Weary Women" is a
New York idea.
One of the Farce Islands has been
swallowed up by the sea.
A live owl was an oddly in an
opera in London recently.
Miss Munfree's new novel is to
bear the title ain the Clouds"
Shad have of late years nearly
abandoned the Potomac river.
Five female lawyers make life a
burden for the juries Of Iowa.
A Chico Digger Indian in Cali
fornia amuses himself on roller
skates.
Hold-the- Fort is the name of a
postoffice in Kingman county, Kan
sas.
A theatre with seating capacity
Of $4,000 is to be built in New Or
leans.
Steinltz and Zuketort are abont to
play game of chess for stake of
300.
Mr., Gladstone's autograph sells in
Paris for 20 francs, Bismarck's for 30
francs.
The young ladies of the Missouri
State University drill with old army
muskets.
Some spiders have as many as thir-
teen eyes, but the majority only have
two.
Mr.. Laboucherc has it in mind to
swing around the American circle
next year. t.
A fruit-grower at Citra Fla, has
sold his crop of oranges on the trees
for $4,000.
Bears are said to be more numer-
Gus in the Rocky Mountains this year
than ever before.
The italian poet, Senator Mattel,
has had stroke of paralysis, and
his life is despaired of.
Since the siege of Paris in 1870, the
consumption ofhorsehesh has grad
ually increased there.
Many Asburry Park fishermen,
finding that Goldfish does not pay,
have gone into other business.
Red lamps in the Scotch cities in
dictate at night that drop-letter boxes
are attached TO the posts.
Tiffany, ofNew York, recently pur-
chased vase twenty-five inches high
that took three years to complete.
A raid was made on a Chinese
Kuklux Khan in Honolulu early this
month, and twenty three offenders
captured.
1t is said that the Emperor of Bra
I'll has chronic complaint in the
matter of disregard of etiquette and
court rules.
The craze of Coppee, the French
academician, is for cats, of which
species of velvet-footed beast he has
house full.
A nine-pound tooth of a mastodon
was picked up near ex-senator David
Davis home, Bloomington, ILL.,, the
other day.
In Sonoma county, California, the
heavy early rains and mild weather
have Matched out immense numbers
of grasshoppers.
The Japanese cats'-eyes, which are
now fashionable ornaments are the
polished hinge, or thick knob at the
hinge, of the pearl oysters.
African travellers agree that ele-
plant steaks are very tough. 1t took
Faulkner half an hour to eat a square
inch of elephant meat.
The first steamer to navigate the
Pacific ocean was sold at Victoria,
B. c., short time ago. She was
quilt in 1887, and called the Beaver,
! At Mcpherson, Kan, the other
| day, biscuits were made from flour
ground from wheat that was stand
ing in the field ninety minutes before,
A Georgia man has kept bale OF
cotton for twenty years, thinking
each year would see the article at the
price which he thinks it is worth.
Craigellachie, which means "stand
fast" is the name Of the new railway
town that has sprung up around the
! golden spike of the Canadian Pacific
Road.
Every French woman has tire,
wedding dresses. The first is for thu
civil marriage, the second for the con
tract signing and the third for the re