Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-16
ODDS AND ENDS.
Washington Gazette. |


"Liberty's" mouth is just yard
wide.
In Boston forty schoolhouses were
used as polling places.
A black marble quarry has been
opened at Bridgeport, Vt.
The knights in New Hampshire arc
moving for a ten>hOur law.
The London suburbs are crowded
with inlet houses and shops.
Thin plates of metals in the backs
of books are q new London motion.
As for the Susquehama these days
it is said TO be "bue with ducks"
An underground railway system
is being projected in Philadelphia.
OF eighty girls recently landed at
Castle Garden tifty-two were red
headed.
There are ninety-eight varieties CT
chrysanthemums cultivated this sea-
son.
Excursions are daily made on tri-
cycles around this city, it is said by
over 100 bellies.
A Minneapolis man 10 building a
$4,000 Lighthouse right in the heart
of the town.
From all accounts it would appear
that the steel industries arc in Il
| tlOurishinU condition
Seventeen out of the thirty-four
candidates for aldermen in New
York were liquor dealers.
The secretary and treasurer of the
Knight of Labors are each paid sal
airy of $4,000 year.
An American lady's idea of bal
let girl is "an open muslin umbrella
with two pink handles"
A woman in a Philadelphia dime
museum floats for twelve consecutive
hours in u tank Of water.
On the Dalrymple farm in Cass
county, Dakota, $50 acres of land are
being plowed over every day,
A fifteen-fo0t vein of pure white
chalk has been discovered in the hills
near Eagle Rock, Idaho.
A rich Norwegian lawyer left all
his money to be used in buying bicy-
Giles for the ChriStiana school chill
dren.
November 27 will be observed as
Arbor day in San Francisco, and the
school children will plant 10000 trees.
In race for the prize of being
called belle of the ball it is frequently
a neck-and-neck finnish with society
bellies.
A vessel was wagered against
small coal yard in game of dice at
Racine, Wis, The owner of the YES
sci won.
Miss Hester Clarke, of Marion, Ala.
says if she lives TO see Christmas she
will be one hundred and twenty three
years old.
1t is said there is but one building
in the city of Buffalo, N. Y, to-day
that conforms exactly with the build
ing regulations.
Fragrant red ripe raspberries grown
out of doors in November make
Wickliffe, o, gardeners palate feel
as it did in June.
The richest young man in Philadel-
phia is said to be Augustus Jesup,
twenty-four years old, with all in
come of over $4,000.
An amateur once asked List how
to play the piano with soul. The
genial master replied: "You must
first of all have a soul"
Menu cards representing Autumn
leaves with names written on them
in gold letters, are fashionable fancies
of the season.,
Notwithstanding the distress
caused in Charleston by the great
quake, Mr.. Barnum's show has Just
taken $4,000 away from there.
A New York clergyman in recent
sermon exhorted his congregation to
"vote as You pray" and later on he
advised them to pray often"
An Orient liner of $500 tons was
launched at Govan the other day.
She is the largest vessel that has
been built OH the Clyde this year.
A pupil in English grammar in ono
of the Boston schools the other day
announced that the word Emily was
an adverb because it ended in ly.
A candidate for a teachers posi-
ton in Macomb county Mich, wrote
at an examination that there were
two kinds of gender, "lady and gen.
tleman."
In 1864 there were eight daily pa
pers published in Atlanta, Ga. Now,
there are but three-one morning,
the Constitution, land two evening
papers.
There has just appeared in Vienna
the first number Of a new English
weekly newspaper, the Vienna Week
ly News, the first journal ever printed
there in English.
A steamer with stirring screw
has just cut the water that rolls
'twiXt Dover and Calias in fifty-eigbt
minutes. That is how far England
and France are apart.