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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
JAPANESE FOLKLORE.
A Fable with Moral for Greedy or I'm
grateful Children.

A Fable with = Moral for Greedy or I'M
grateful Children.
Once there was crab who found
crumb OF rice cake. just then
monkey met him, and offered to ex-
change persimmon seed for the cake,
to which the good-naturcd crab agreed.
The monkey ate up his portion, while
tho crab went to his hole in the hill
and planted his persimmon seed in the
garden, Soon a fine tree sappeared,> )
and the crab was happy enough over
his bargain. He used to sit on the
balcony of his house. and watch the
fruit grow and ripen with great de-
light. But one unlucky day the
monkey came to see him. and begged
for some fruit, offering to climb the
tree to get it. The crab, being q very
polite fellow. quietly consented, but
requested his visitor to throw down
some pcrsimmons to him also.
But the deccitful scamp filled his
pocket and ate the best fruit,
stoning the crab meanwhile with
the seeds, The crab inwardly raging,
determined to teach that monkey; but,
shrewdly pretending to regard this
treatment as II joke, challenged the
monkey to descend headforemost.
Vain of his abilities, he accepted the
challenge, and began his descent The
fruit, Of course, rolled out of his
pockets, and the crab was ready to
seize it, and then ran 20 his hole.
BY and by when the crab came out,
the monkey gave him a. thrashing.
Sore and smarting with his injuries.
the crab called in the aid of his friend,
q rice mortar, who was passing by,
with his apprentices, sea-weed, an
egg and wasp. After listening to his
pitiful tale, they agreed to punish the
impertinent monkey. Proceeding to
the house and finding him out, the sea-
weed hid behind the door, the egg in
the ashes and the wasp in the closet,
while the mortar stationed himself over
the door. When the monkey returned
and lighted his fire for toa. the egg
burst and spattered his face. binding
and burning him. Starting for the well
TO cool his pain, he slipped on the sea
weed, the wasp flew out and stung
him, and the rice mortar tumblod down
and crushed him. Wasn't that splen.
did'n is the usual finale: while the
moral to greedy or ungrateful children
Is pointed out in most approved fash
lon.-Helep N. S. Thompson, in OUer'
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
HUMOROUS.

THE equiue-ox is considered by
many to ho the greatest yagary of nat
uFe, but, after all, when you come to
think of it, it is not half so strange as
'burd- locks. st Pau! Herald.
Mrs. Hendricks -"Were you at tho
Louvre while in Paris, Mrs. De Hob,
son?" Mrs. De Hobson-''No; we
found every thing we wanted at the
Bon Marche, We got some wonderful
bargains there, Life,
A Competent Cook, New Cook.
"An' please, ma'am, how shall cook
the clamsp" Mistress" why, how
have you cooked them in other
places?" Sure l allus made iyster
soup wild en-. .''-Harper's Bdzar
"A Scotchman SAID to an inveterate
punster on names: "You can't make a
pun on my name, sirr' "What may
Your name bcP" dunlop, sir. "
"You have only to lop off the last syl-
liable and it is Dun" was the instant
answer.
--Estelle-"And are you gong to
leave me so soon, Augustus" Au-
gustus-"My love, would willingly
give ten years of my life if | could stay
longer, But if don't go l shall be
fined for being late at a card party, y
The Rambler.
Hotel Man-''Say, doctor, that pa
tient of yours has an awful appetite fol
o sick man, What's the trouble with
him" Doctor (oonfdentlally)-''Bad
case of tape.worm. Hotel Man
"Tape-worm! I'll bet it's sea-ser
pent. "-LoweH Citizen.
Mrs. De Wiggs-"What made Mr.
Homan's house burn down, JackP
Jack-"Spontaneous combustion, l be-
lieve." Mrs. De Wiggs-''Is that sol
l heard somebody say it took fire of it
self, but didn't believe any such non
sense. "-Iid-Bis.
"A pupil in school read the expires
sion farms of the sea-" In very yvagu'
fashion. "What do you mean--:ny
thing given in charityP" mo, nm.
"Fire-arms, perhapsp" "Yes, MN.
"Will you tell me (this rather impa
tlcilbIyD aily CAplosNco Aioih eho oO"'
"Shells." He went to the head.-Iolc
do Blade.
"A barrister. noticing that the cour
had gone to sleep, stopped short in tn
middle of his speech. The suddei
silence awoke the judges, and the law
/ yer gravely resumed: "As remarked
yesterday, my lords"-- The puz
zled judges stared at each other, a
though they half believed they ha'
been asleep since tho previous day.
N. i. Independent,
"A little girl who Is Just at the ag
when her table manners are beginning
to be looked after, called out at suppe
one night recently: "Give me som
cake" 'How do you askp" sal
mamma, correctively. please civ
me some cake" returned the littl
miss, aud added, unabashed: Il didn
forget, Twas saving it up. Spring
| field (Mass,) Republican.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
A GOOD ANEcooTE


Ole Bulls Advlcce to Number OF Dis
couraged Amateur vlollnists.
When Ole Bull, the renowned violin
tat, was staying in Paris in 1910 he re-
turned home late one evening from a
concert, and as the night was cold he
ordered his man to make a fire in his
room. The latter dragged towards the
fireplace a huge box, on which the
word " Fire-wood" was painted in
large letters. In answer to Ole Bulls
aston;shed inquiry the servant told him
that the box had been delivered that
day at noon by his masters orders, as
he thought. On being broken open the
box was found to contain twenty-five
violins and the following letter; "Great
Master: The undersigned, being men,
bcrs of various amateur philharmonic
societies, hereby declare that they will
henceforth cease to perform on the 40,
companying instruments. The same
wood from which Old Bull can draw
life, love, sorrow. passion and melody
IS only 10 DC regarueu as-Iuel lOr tne
flames in the hands of the undersigned,
who therefore request the maestro to
make an auto-da-fc of the Enclosures,
and to look upon the ascending smoke
as incense offered to his genius by pen
itent dabblcrs in the noble art. This
curious epistle bore the signatures Of
twenty-five young men. Three days
afterwards Ole Bull gave dinner, tc
which he invited all the senders of the
valuable "iire-wood.n Each guest had
lying before him on the table one OF the
violins referred to, and by its side a
gold ring with the inscription, "Soli
tude and Perseverance"Aa piece OF
seasonable advice to the faint-hearted
diletlante, and a symbolic indication
of the emeans by which the virtuoso him
self had attained to fame,--Iaglich'
| Rundshdl.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
SCENES IN IRELAND.
A Country Whore the st'rs and Strip
Are Oftener Seen Than the Union Jack

A Country Where the st,rs and Stripes
Arc Oftener Seen Than the Union Jack.
The country scenes all over Ireland
are far different from those of Ameri-
ca. The people have strong brogue,
and though those of the cities dress the
same as we do, out in the country dis
tricts you find some Of the quaint knee.
breeches peasants whom you see in the
old Irish prints, In the cities, at the
railroad stations and in the hotels there
ia q great display of brass buttons and
gaudy liveries. The railroad men all
wear bright colors, and the porters
have caps with scarlet bands about
them, while their usual suit is of a yell
low velveteen. The guards or the
conductors of the trains are dressed in
blue and many buttons, and the gov
ernment officials connected with the
post-office mail service have a striking
uniform. Imet one of them at sta.
ton between the lakes Of Killarney
and Dublin, He was a mail-dispatcher,
changing the mails at the depot to a
number Of trains. examining the seals
of the mail bags, and being responsible
for them during their stay at this sta
ton. He had been seventeen years in
the service, and had three gold bands
on his coat, each of which indicated
five years. term of good behavior, and
each OF which gave him twenty-five
cents a week extra pay.
The British soldiers are another set
of uniformed men whom you will find
everywhere in Ireland. They wear
guady red uniforms and the cavalry
gallop through the streets of the cities
amid the scowls and curses of the Irish.
South and Central Ireland has no love
for England. The American flag is
oftener seen than the union jack, or
the flag of Great Britain, and in the
many professions | have seen have
yet to see one British flag, while l lind
the stars and stripes everywhere.
In the professions in Dublin bidding
good-by to Lord Aberdeen, there were
over one hundred American flags oar
ried, and not one single British one,
I heard curses against England
frequently, and the Irish met outside
| of Belfast and the north made no bones
| of ofcxpressing their sentiments. Eng
land now keeps an army in Ireland as
largo as that Of the whole Un'tol Statos
1t numbers, l am told. about thirty
thousand. --GlasgoD Cor. CIeceIand (o.J
| Leader.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
Willy INDIANS.
The Astonishing Readlness with which
They Adopted Captain Boggs' Trick.

The Ast0nlshlng Readlness with Whiuh
They Adopted Captain Boggs' Trick.
Captain Boggs, a Virginian who
held II captains liceL'e on the Mississ-
ippi river before he Was of age, and
who for fourteen years had the con-
tract to supply the military posts in
Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Ari-
zona with fuel, tells the following stosy:
II was down in the Ute reservation
in Colorado. and had strolled down to
the shores of n small lake, while my
mules and teamsters were eating din
ner, when came across party OF
about a dozen Indians. They were
armed with rifles, and were shooting
at snag which stuck out of the water
about two hundred yards distant The
stakes for which they were shooting
were composed of "a quarter of dollar
from each man. l stood watching
them for some time, and then decided
to enter the competition. Each man
had three shots, and the man who hit
the snag the most times won the pot.
The misses were told by the splash in
the water; the hits by the absence of
the splash.
AFTER some parley with the redskins
[ got them To allow me to enter the
match. though they compelled me to
deposit half q dollar, while they put in
but quarter. | hal Henry repeater
with me that. fortunately for my pur-
pose. was then unloaded. was ac-
counted one of the best shots in that
country, but knew that the Indians
were not by any means slow. slipped
three cartridges into my rifle, and as |
did so broke the ball off, thus leaving
blank cartridge. Of course no splash
followed any of my shots, and the
Indians thought / had hit the snag
every time. | won that pot, but the
next time l Intentionally lost by not
breaking the balls off and by taking
indifferent aim.
a then broke all the balls off until !
had won eighteen dollars. Then the
Indians, who began to look at me with
suspicion or awe. refused to shoot any
more. invited them upto the store
and spent the money on knick' knacks,
which divided among them. | ther
took them back to the lake and showed
them the trick. They were very mucl
surprised, but took it in good part.
"On returning that way few days
after | found the same Indians on thu
lake shore shooting big match will
q neighboring tribe, whom they wert
rapidly cleaning out of every thing.
learned that they had skinned ever!
Indian in ths country that they coult
get too shoot against them. | sai'
nothing, but mused on the readiness o
the savage to adopt the white man
tricks. ."-Boston Traveller.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr. George Jones, proprietor Of
the New York Times, Is seventy-fve
years old.
"A Canadian great-grandfather re-
Gently attended the christening of his
117th descendent
Mary Howett, the well-known En-
glish religious writer, has entered the
Roman Catholic Church.
"A Mrs. Sunderland, of Washington,
because Of the brilliancy Of the pre-
cious stones she wears, bears the title
of the Diamond Queen"
Miss Lucy Torrey, of Cambridge,
Mass, was last summer persuaded to
marry an Australian adventurer, who
has fled with $4,000 of her money
Boston Herald.
Nathan Robbins, the veteran Bos-
ton banker is eighty-three years old,
has occupied an office for sixty years,
and has been absent because of illness
only eight days Boston Journal
Miss Nellie Welch has full charge
of the telegraph office at Point Arena,
Cal. She is but eleven years old and
is probably the youngest telegraph OPP
orator in the business. Chicago Trtb-
u,le.
Mrs. William Astor, it is said, will
never again reign as leader of New
York society Her affliction has taken
such an unfavorable turn that she is
precluded from again appearing in
| nuhlic N Y Mail
Nine gentlemen who wete school
boys together in Granville. Mass.
over fifty years ago, had reunion in
that town recently according to an
agreement made years ago. The ages
of the company ranged from seventy
to seventy-nine and the average age
was seventy-three. Some of them
had not met for fifty years. Boston
Post.
Among the incidents of Parlia-
ment is the nightly arrival of William
Archibald Macdonald, the blind men,
ber for Queens County. Mr.. Macdon'
aid is led up the members stairs to the
door of the House by his wife and lit
tie son. They return for him when the
House adjourns, waiting sometimes
till two o'clock in the morning. Mr..
Macdonald is an effective platform ora
tor.
Society is astonished, says the Bos
ton Home Journal, to find that Mr. Ed
win Booth Is charming and delight
full man. For years he has been con
sidered morose and moody, never caring
to make the slightest effort to b
agreeable to any but his few intimate
friends. Within the last year he seem
to have turned new leaf, 80 that nov
it is very great pleasure to meet hin
in society.
The test OF good poetry, as o
good wine, an English critic says, i
not analysis, but taste; and he adds
IA collection Of really good poetr.
made by good critic-such as Pal
graves Golden Treasury'-helps NOR
to elevate the popular standard OF poet
ic excellence and to fix an absolute
standard than any quantity of ingen
ious analysis, in the details of whicl
probably no two critics agree"
Princess Bismarck is represente
by French correspondent as a womal
OF great worth and, though Of some
what vulger manner, possessing goo
heart and great amount Of pommo
sense. She has the most unbounde
love and admiration for her illustriou
husband. She is not in the least prou
of her position. She is greatly like
by every body around her, though sh
is always brusque toward them an
sometimes even bearish.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
He wilted ON the Spot.

''My dear, think that bonnet you
have on is becoming" said Mr.. Jones,
as his wife came into the parlor, dressed
up for church.
"Yes," was the reply. II should
say it is becoming-becoming very
aged, ] was just going to tell you that
/ would have to have new one"
Jones wilted and staid that way.
until he had given his wife hearty
well preserved bank-note. Merchant
Traveller.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21
THE SEA MONSTER.


mprchensivc History OF the Best Advcr-
tlsed Saurian on Record.
More than one hundred yeats ago,
Rev. Paul Egede, who read three hour
sermons in 1884, went on mission to
Greenland, and while thele saw the sea-
serpent. The parson said that it had a
"long sharp snout, uneven wrinkled
skin, formed like a snake and turned its
tail up above the surface" This was
rather mild sea-serpent, and as it was
seen on the 9th of July, we may reason
ably conclude that the parson had been
celebrating the 4th and was just getting
over it. Ii is true, the 4th OF July was
not invented until forty-two years after
this, but 1t is a common thing, even in
this day. for some men to begin cele-
brating several days in advance.
Captain Laurence de Ferry, probably
the ancestor of Fulton Ferry, next saw
the S. S. in 1746. The captain was Il
sailor and saw the serpent through nine
or ten glasses darkly. His sea-serpent
had feet, 'two of which it held above
the water;" it had "a head like a horse, ="
and the folds of the snake which showed
above water were "fathom apart.
No mention is made of the head which
the gallant captain had on himself the
next morning, but it is likely that he
would have been glad to give one hun
dred dollars to boot and trade heads
with the sea-serpent.
Bishop Pontoppidan, a member of the
Copenhagen Academy of Sciences, and
inventor of the game of that name SO
dear to rustic belle and~beau, tinted the
village himself one night and at a late
hour the following morning had a dis
solving view of sea-serpent that
claimed the cake. 1t had bright eyes
"likc q couple of pewter plates" its
body was 'as big around as two hogs
heads and didn't taper off at the tail
but terminated abruptly like a club OF
water main. From the description ol
his sea serpent, it is easy to regard the
Bishop as an authority on the evils o.
stopping too abruptly, like the sea-ser-
pent,s tail, and the great advantage o
tapering off gradually, like the cock
tail.
From that date the dismal stream O
intomperance flowed on in widening
channels, until everybody that wen
near creek got a glimpse of the sea
serpent. 1t assumed its most hideou,
form and aspect, however, when re
Gently it revealed its awful visage toi
| marty of scientific gentlemen from Bos
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21

Mrs. limerick, a we'll Unknown flower.
seller of Philadelphia. thinks that she
has good proof that she is direct de-
scendant Of John Nicholas limerick. an
East Indian trader, who del years ago
leaving millions of dollars; but, like b
sensible woman, she prefers selling
flowers to investing any of her money
in an effort to secure this mythical
fortune. A society has been rinid by
the other heirs. and ex-Governor
Curtin's law partner is to be a,k,d ia
take charge Of their interests. -PliIa.
delphiG Press.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21

English milliners have discovered
q way of making bonnets of tissue
paper. They cost about as much as il
they were covered with bank notes. -
Chtcaqo Inter Ocean.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-21

The principal land Office in Van
couver, British Columbia, is situated in
hollow tree forty-four feet in circum-
ference. In one section there is table
twenty-seven feet long and four feet
wide, made out of q solid board taken
from the tree.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
Scotch Shipping.
VESSELS KVSTING AND E0TrING AT THE
WIIARN Is.

VESSELS RtSrING AND E0TrNG AT THE
WHARNE~.
The prospects of English Shipowncrs are but
little Improved and the outlook for scotch ship
ping is ~ had ever. \ tremendous amount
OF capital i tied p to Scotch WharVes IN The
shape Of steamships which ire rtl,tin4 and rot
ting for lack of tnplol nent III The Lcith
docks alone fifteen steamers are lying idle.
Some Of them have not been in commission for
many months. All Of them have been laid OH
because they could not earn enough for their
own maintenance OUT of the low rates to which
trri-hs have been forced hl keen competition.
These fifteen vessel, have ali aggregate ra,aci-
Y "t 1862 tons and they are worth 81 5U0,000.
lhis is only one example Of Tie condition OF
the ocaan-carrlin4 trade in scotland. The tig-
ut~ would have ID I've multiplied many times 10
represent The tota tonnage and value of the
steamers lying idt IN a the scotch ports. The
oNcr-production Of steam freighter> is general
~ assigned as the cause of this state Of affairs.
but tlut is not it, only rau~e. Close COMPETE
ton in the past has stimulated ingenuity in the
construction of vessels and engines with view
Of economizing fuel and labor Great strides
have been made i'll this direction by the inyen-
tive mechanics Of the Clyde. The result is
that vessels which We're considered almost per-
feet few years ago cannot now compete with
tho ucW crafts.
There i, but one hopeful indication for the
ShlpoWner~. The returns from the Clyde ship
building district prove that there has been less
building this year than last by thirtv-iive per
cent. If this rate of decrease is maintained
the greatest cause of the depression in freightS
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
Seiniing.

MANY Of the people in the United States have
never seen a fresh machcrcl, 50 of course have
never seen them caught. They are caught in
nets, or seines, which 10 the eye Of one who is
unacquainted with them, seem to he Il ponder
Gus mass Of tWine, when in pile ready for
use. They are about 27j fathonle tong, when
hung or taken up IN the ropes, which process
shorens their length about one third, and from
Is to p fathoma deep. They require boat 40
feet long to carry them; rowed by a crew OF Ii
men, including scine-heaver and captain
When the fish are seen they row for them
with all the energy available, for the fish are
likely TO sink at any moment, and after reach
ing the school, the seine is set i'll such a way is
to allow the fish to strike one Of the arms Of
the seine, which they will follow around until
they come to the middle, when they will swim
about for a while BY this time the men in
the boat have roWel the seine ont in Il circle,
and commenced to gather the bottom Of the
net up by means of a rope Wove through rings,
which are attached to the net, and called
PURGE line.
After the bottom of the seine has been hauled
loStllCl Wy oIllN Way VI IN'hI't loi lit nSil =
to burst the twne or sink the net and 90 out
over the corks, which support the seine in
the water.
Ilauls are made in this way are large as 700
barrels; although where 50 many get into
seine they almost always burst the twine and
effect their escape.
During the past year there We're no less than
700 sail of vessels engaged in this business,
each carrying crew of 10 or IS men, and
some as many as 20.
1t is plain tha these men have an industry
that must have protection, as we'll as other in
drstries which find protection in Congress.
Canadian fish must not be allowed to come
into our States rec Of entry; if so the Ameri-
can fishing interests must suffer, and that to
great extent.
Movements are being made to prohibit the
catching of macl,erel from the 1st of Dec. to
June, which is al other important question, for
it is evident that the catching of these fish in
the Spring il injurious to the business in the
end. SPRIG.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
The Business Outlook.

In the business record of Boston for 1885,
printed by the Boston Globe, figures are given
which show a decided improvement in all
trades During the year no. 1879 ,662 pounds of
wool were sold against 1913 531 ,793 in 1884. The
number of cases of boots and shoes sold aggre-
gate 2,663,075, against 2,4S7, 1872 in 1884, the
figures for 1885 being the largest since the be-
ginning of the industry in New England. The
steam railroads centering i'll Boston have in
creased their traffic, earning SCAT ,905 over 1884
increased their total income $756,399, and their
net income increased 81 ,23l 1864. Horse rail-
roads show a large increase Of the gross income
and number of passengers carried. The col
lections for the port of Boston since July 1st
exceed the same period of last year by half a
million dollars. Manufacturing business is in
much better shape than one year ago. In dry
goods and clothing trades, the volume of trans
actions has been unusually large though the
prices have been low and the profits small. The
aggregate of deposits of Boston banks today is
$10,000,000 greater than the amount one year
ago and the loans of the banks are IS, 1924 900 in
excess of one years ago. Boston merchants and
manufacturers think the outlook for 1886 is
promising. The Globe also prints interviews
with several leading New York financiers who
regard the business signs for 1886 as most hope
full.