Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-04
ODDS AND ENDS.
Washington Gazette.

Fowlervillc, Mich, has fifty wild
ows and three widowers.
A fox hunt at Onargo, Ill.,, resulted
in the killing of twelve foxes.
The Man Who alls-Flat is in pris-
on for murder on Bad River, d. L.
One of London's swell clubs, the
Empire, has collapsed, with $4,000
in debts.
In price list of autographs APP
pears the entry: "Hayes, Rutherford
B., &c."
Icebergs have been seen off the Lab
rador coast two miles long and 300
feet high.
Every room in the agricultural col
lege at Lansing, Mich, is occupied by
student.
Weston, Wood county, claims TO
make more sourkraut than any other
town in Ohio.
Springfield, Mass, proposes TO turn
one of Its effete roller skating Kinks
ANU oh ain
An American church for Christian
worshipers of all denomination is to
be built at Nice.
The territory now owned by the
German East African Society meas
urse about 10000 German square
miles.
The gross receipts of the San Fran
cisco post-ofllce for the year ending
Mar q, 1886, amount to $50l, 093l6.
The death rate of Cairo has been
frightful this year. In January it
was 60 per 1000. Bad water is be-
lieved to be the cause.
Stone quarries on the estate of Mr..
Parnel have been opened, and ma
terial is being taken from them for
paving streets in Dublin.
Bleeding Kansas may bleed again.
There is movement to cut the state
in two so that state may be made
out of the western end.
A Boston paper says: can enter
tainment and hop, under the auspices
of the Congregation "Gates of Pray
er," was given last night.
II is estimated that there are more
than one hundred clubs in New York
city, and that their total member
ship comprises from 10000 to $4,000.
The Hudson, N. Y, Gazette is l02
years old, and claims to have never
swerved from Democratic principles
since that party was founded.
The French ministry of war has
ended the beard controversy by is.
suing peremptory order for all SOL
diers and officers to raise boards inn
mediately.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
city, rents for $lS5,000 year. The
lessees get back about 100000 of this
from storekeepers who haye leases
on the premises.
The 1921 names on the registry
lists out Of a possible $4,000 showed
the interest the voters minneapolis
Mimi, took in the recent municipal
eleCIioH Vi lndI CITY.
A Philadelphia preacher wen
down into well to recover the church
Bible, and was so overcome by the
foul air at the bottom that he was
resuscitated with difficulty.
The scarcity of able seamen along
the Sound is such that captains now
offer twenty-three dollars a month
while the ruling rate heretofore has
been only eighteen dollars.
1t has been discovered by Joseph
Knight that women's parts OIL the
stage ceased to be played by men al
time anterior to that which is il
general assumed to have been the
case.
The "Maine Law" is still supposed
to be in force in Maine, vet of 1885,
arrests reported for last year by the
city marshal of Portland, 81, 230 were
Tor crimes directly resulting from
liquor"
Canvasback ducks have been hard
to secure on Chesapeake Bay the past
winter, owing to the legal prohibi.
ton against big, long guns, and have
been steady at four dollars per pail
in the market.
Over 1000 women are compositors
in Paris, and are giving the male
printers a good deal of trouble be.
cause of low-priced labor. Book.
work is going to Paris from the
provinces on this account.