Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

sand words.
Jasper Lawman, the artist, sug-
gests that the proper name for natural
gas should be "terragen;" /. e., born
Of the earth.
The lunacy committee of Pennsyl-
vania has discovered q case where a
wealthy farmer has eight imbecile chill
dren.. The man and wife were blood
cousins.-Phtladetphia Press.
"A German prima donna now in this
country remarks that in the fatherland
the ladies believe exercise is good for
the health and do great deal of walk
ing, while American ladies seem to be
afraid Of hurting themselves by walk
ing. Chicago Mail.
Pug dogs are no longer the fashion,
and the poor, discarded creatures 20
about with an injured innocence cast of
conntenance, as if realizing the truth
of the remark that zone might as well
be out of the world as out of the fash
ion. Chicago Journal
To obtain perfect rest 90 to bed az
soon after sunset as possible, for it is
laid down as a universal law that the
hours of darkness are the only ones
during which healthy sleep is possible.
All worry and anxiety should, as far as
possible, be habitually excluded from
the mind for considerable time before
retiring.-Boston Globe.
Lightning cut up a curious caper re.
Gently at Lawrenceville, Ga. The cleo
trio fluid struck small tree in the grave
yard at that place and circled around
it until it reached the ground, when it
scooped the earth from a grave down
to the collin and promiscuously scat
tered the bones on top of the ground
-Pensacola, Fla, is great fishing
mart, being exceptionally well 81 tuated
for the trade. As many as $500 fish.
ermcn make it their market. By means
OF refrigerator cars their catches are
sent to all parts of the country. The
trade at present is worth S50O,OOO
and is increasing at the rate of fifty
per cent annually.
An amusing incident happened
when the band of the Seventh New
York regiment was serenading General
Sheridan lately. In one of the pauses
of music a d voice said; SHERIDAN
twenty miles away Immediately
the whole two hundred of the Sew
enth's boys who were in front of the
house shouted in chorus; "But-he-got- |
there-all-the-same." y Washington Post. |
"A new kind of beggar is loose ON
the streets of New York. He sat ON n
dirt pile and repeated with great unc-
tom: Sirius, Orion, Jupiter, the
Great Bear, Venus, Mars, Gemini,"
etc, until he had gone through the list
of stars, planets and consultations.
Then he began in scripture, and ran
along: "Moses. Ezekiel, Solomon, Ben
jamin, Peter, Elijah, Noah, Aaron"
and so on indcinitely.-N Y Sun.
During the season of 1885 there
were packoain New York State factor
les 2,464, 800 cans of tomatoes, an in
sicase over 1884 of over twenty-six per
cent This places New York third in
she list of tomato-picking States, New
Jersey being first and Maryland sec
ond. The total pack of tho United
States for the season of 1885 wa,
S4,4l6,O0O cans.-Troy Times
AT recent meeting OF the Paris
Academy of Sciences some remarks on
the danger of fire arising from the use
of nitric acid in the manufacture of
certain industrial objects, and espe-
cially of explosive substances, such as
gun-cotton and dynamite, were made
by NJ. G. Lechartier. Several instances
are mentioned of straw and other Or
ganic substances when heated, and
even at low temperature, taking fire
by accidental contact with this acid.
"A curious suit has recently been
settled in Wilkes County, Georgia. The
ease was that Of Mr.. Barksdale against
Mr.. Anderson. Mr.. Barksdale claimed
that the backwater. from Anderson's
had greatly injured his bot
tom land above, and suit was instituted
for the recovery of damages. A ver-
diet of $500 was given in the Superior
Court and the case was carried to the
Supreme Court, which sustained the
verdict.
"A new arrival at Castle Garden re-
fused employment as a coachman, be-
cause he had not come three thousand
miles to be servant. When asked
what he wanted he said he had come
out, sure, to be plumber, for, in
,oorse, he didn't know anything abou.
"but they write home to saw
TO send out all the men they can, as the
plumbers in New York make fortunes"
In few months he will probably ad-
gertise to do sanitary plumbing. NJ Y.
ave submit" says the New Haven
NetoS, "that dead bird is not good
decoration for hat 1t is not in good
5aste, to say the least, and, save that
.he present fashion blinds the eyes of
many, no one would think for an in
'tant that it was in any way seemly to
,ut stuffed songster on bonnet. It
'ught to make any decently sensitive
,erson ashamed of his race to consider
his illustration of how far the vanity
If fashion canmake respectable people
orget their own primitive instincts of
"A California paper relates that on
farm near Smelling, in Merced Coun-
y, there is a well 168 feet deep in solid
ock, which constantly sends up large
'olume of air. When rain-storm or
strong wind is impending the volume |
# escaping air increases so as to roar S
udibly. The well cover is furnished {
With vent. BY closing this for few ,
moments the confined air RECEIVERS suf-
Icient force, when liberated, to make /
!Oise like the escaninp steam of a loco