Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-16
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNIA.

George Barnes, once famous rs tha
Mountain Evangelist Of Kentucky, 10
now missionary in India for the
Church Of England.
John Henry Grimes, = native OF
Nova Scotia, resident at San Francisco,
has four perfectly developed and SER
viceable ears. %! r N 4i
jacques Fcrot, one of the three
mon who saved Napoleon from being
killed in the Orsini assassination plot,
10 rag-pickor in Now York.-M y
San.
King Humbert. OF Italy, is thirty
eight years old. His fnce habitually
wears sad and sober expression. The
rare smile which lights it is one of
marked sweetness aand character. His
manners are courteous. He takes
great interest in the education Of his
only son, boy of ten years.
ALI Morris, the Omaha pugilist, is
Knocked out for all time. While at
tempting to shoot somebody who had
offended him, he pulled tho trigger Of
the revolver u little too quick and shot
himself through tho baud, making a
wound that necessitated the amputa-
tlon Of the large finger OF his left
hand.
Mr.. Gladstone is the owner Of the
champion pencil VI tho world. A
manufacturer at Kcswiok has sent him
a walking-stick thirty inches long,
n,a,In of onJor .nI forn,;u,. N lor,,a
pencil, with a load nearly half an inch
square running through it. This curl
Gus pencil has 4 solid silver band bear
ing an inscription in verse. sH8T H..
Andrew B. McCreary, a California
millionaire, has purchased Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll's residence. in
Washington, together with the house
hold furniture. The price paid for the
house was thirly-eight thousand dol
lars, and the furniture brought seven
thousand dollars. Colonel Ingersoll is
going to New York TO live. He has
oeen employed as counsel for railroad
corporation. Chicago Journal.
w. j. Daley, OF L0thair, Ga, 10
Principal OF tho Miller Institute, post
master, Captain of military com.
pany, Superintendent of Sunday
school, Justice Of the Peace, Secretary
Of the Board of Trustees Of Miller In.
stitutc, President OF debating society,
dancing master, leader Of the church
choir, correspondent OF the Eastman
Times, captain OF baseball club, and,
beside, is descrbed as zone Of the
clevcrest fellows in the whole. coun.
try.n-Phiiddeiphia Press. tt..i
-Ex-Govornor Horatio Seymour
said recently to a correspondent Of the
Now York Star; "I anu feeling my
seventy-tive years; canSpot walk now.
All! | used TO be great walker. While
u cadet in a military school in Con-
necticut, l visited Washington with
one Of my chums. John Quincy Adj
ans was President at the time. My
friend and | went over to Baltimore,
and, missing the last train in the even.
ing, walked back to Washington, ac-
complishing the feat by daylight Of the
following morning" Sc
Conductor Murphy, who runs one
of the short line trains on the Milwau'
keo road, passed through remarkable
experience some years ago. At thai
time Murphy was running train or
the River Division, and in an accident
he had both legs badly crushed by the
cars, The doctor informed him thai
he did not think he could recover, ant
his only chance was TO have both leg'
amputated, Murphy would not con
sent to the loss Of his limbs and hi
relatives were sent for to be with hin
when he died. Instead of dying tn,
pluoky Irishman began to recover
Now he does not show any lamcness
and he suffers nothing from the acci
dent beyond an occasional twinge o
rheumatism, 81. Pad Pioneer Re@.