Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Sweet lemons are favorite Mexi-
can dainty. They are the shape, color
and size of the lemons of commerce,
but are sweetcr than bananas.
---0na-MA-Dul-Ha-Na, Mojave In
dian medicine man, was dubbed to
oeuh, beheaded and crcmated recently
for allowing too many of his patients to
die.
No, my son, they are not called
grass-widows because they are so green;
it's because they are so fresh. And
then, beside. she's not exactly in the
moved. Savvy, son?-Burdette.
Too many medical books in family
will keep nervous mother and all tho
children in anxiety and on the verge
of severe illness seven days in the
week.-Lynn Bee.
The acquantances of lady in
Philadelphia, who hurried to her house
with words of consolation on seeing
Grape on the door, were informed that
the "late lamented" was her pet dog.
~ Y. Post.
DIR. j. S. H. Fogg, OF South Bos'
ton, Mass, has a complete set of the
autographs of tho signers of the Dec.
laration of Independence. having. it
is said, paid sixty dollars for one
scrawling signature cut from the fly
leaf OF a book.
AS nearly as can be ascertaincd,
twenty-five years have elapsed since
the first modest beginnings of the uni
vcrsal craze for collecting cancelled
postage stamps. How large the bust
ness of the dealers in this article has
grown is evident from the fact that n
single house in Nuremberg disposed
last year Of 100000 stamps.-N. Y
Post.
When Judge Deming, Of New
Haven, sentenced Terence Butler to
jail for sixty days for wife beating, he
said: ~ have always advocated the
establishment of whipping-post for
the benefit OF such men as Butler. IL
he could be taken out on the green and
given twenty good sharp lashes, he
would go home and be man. "--Hart-
ford CoHrGnt.
John Dcnney, of Whitfelds Cross
ing, Ga, says that his brood of Guinea
chicks disappeared suddenly one day.
The hen acted quccrly, walking around
and continually clucking, as if coaxing
them to follow her. He investigated,
and found that the chicks had been
charmed by large chicken snake, and
were sitting unharmed in his coils.
The first African city lighted sJ
electricity was Kimberley, with forty
two lamps, each OF two thousand
candlc-power, The current is also
utilized there for the killing OF dogs, a
step suggesting the execution Of death
sentences by the same means, as pro.
posed in America and in France by NJ.
Charson, member of the French
| Senate,
-Theunicycle record has been beaten
and it is to be hoped that prosperity
will now reign supreme. A unicycle,
however, although vehicle with but a
single wheel, should not be COMPOUNDED
with the wheelbarrow. wheelbarrow
Is good enough for drudgery, but when
so important a matter rs the breaking
of record is concerned, one is forced
to resort to the unicycle. Boston Tran
script.
The use of thick glass instead o.
wood for floors. especially where 8
basement room underneath is occupied
for Offices, is on the increase in Paris
Although the first cost is considerably
more than that of wood, it is found K
be an economy in the long run, because
the room below can often dispense
with artificial light, there is far less fire
risk, and glass will many times outweal
wood.
1t is said that competition Is the
| life of trade. 1t sometimes makes re 2.
Citations. A few years ago We were
told here in Chicago that gas could moi
be- furnished for less than SO per thou
sand feet. 1t is now sold on the West
Side for $1.50, and a quarrel among
rival companies has recently extorted
the confession from one of them that
1t can be furnished at rs cents per thou.
sand and fair profit still be made
Chicago AdrocGte.
William Adams, boy of seven
teen, who was sent to the Detroit
House of Correction from Idaho in
1888. having been sentenced to prison
for life for mail robbery, has had his
sentence committed to Imprisonment
to seven years from the date of his
first commitment. The boy, who has
been model convict broke down
implicitly when told the good news.
II won't notice the time I've got to
serve" he said. 81 suppose | deserve
good big punishment for being
caught in such bad company."-De-
trOH Tribune. ....
The st. Paul Chamber of Com
mcrce has taken steps to stop The sale
of ice taken from the Mississippi river
or any of its lakes, sloughs or bayous,
an examination of the ice sold at st.
Paul showing that much of it was
frozen sewage, or, as western paper
expressesit, concentrated typhoid fever
The use of impure ice is no doubt IL
fruitful cause OF sickness, and it was in
this belief that the Massachusetts, Leg
islature at its last session passed an act
preventing its sale.
"A farmer in Crawford County never
wears hatin any sort of weather, even
during the coolest months of the year.
Some years ago he started on a visit to
relatives in Kentucky. His wife induced
him to purchase u hat to wear while
away from home. He carried the hat
in his hand until he had gone some dis
lance on his journey, then he got tired
of it and threw it away. He has never
owned a hat since that time. Chicago
NeWS. I|. E.tl
Polygamy in Turkey.