Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-30
ODDS AND ENDS.
Washington Gazette.l

| five-dollar gold pieces in the sugar
box, and in the hurry and worry of
canning fruit forget about them. She
afterward found them all in her pre-
serves.
A singular fact in the vote of Con-
nectcut is that the total vote fell
off l46l2 when compared with that
of two years ago, and that this de-
crease is divided almost exactly be-
tween the two parties.
Henry Raynor, siave dealer, whose
camp was near Double Lake, Mo
with twelve of his men, made raid
on a rattlesnake den and killed thir-
ty-eight, ranging from Is inches to
g., feet in length.
The 5-year-old son Of Elias r.
Hampton, of Bridgeport, Pa, was
drowned in the Schuylkill Canal on
account of negligently guarded ST.
The town paid Hampton $3.50 for the
loss of his boy.
The old story of the faithful dog
comes anew from North Sydney, N.
S., where pet dog followed the re-
mains ofits dead mistress to the grave |
and stayed there until it starved to
death.
Dante's "Divine Comedy" has been
interdicted in Turkey, because, in the
opinion of the sapient authorities, it
is work switch tends to cast ridi-
Guile aud contempt upon the different
existing religions"
A Minnesota man says that Indians
don't get drunk because they like
liquor, but because they think 1t All
honor. If this is true, the average
red man takes great pains to disguise
his dislike for fire-water.
The Canadian Indians at Whitefish
Lake and Lac la Biche are dying in
large numbers from an epidemic of
measles. So virulentis the disease
that the agents have not dared to pay
the annual treaty money.
Levi Cline of Greensburg, an Indi-
: ana pioneer aged So years, was mar
ried on Wednesday to Mary L. Smith,
!. his young and sprightly housekeepcr.
Levi is wealthy, and hasn't the re-
i hottest idea that he is an old man,
Miss Mary Anderson's gift of $4,000
to Charleston may be better under
< stood by those who think it quite a
S sum when it is recalled that her faith
a or, a Confederate officer, is buried in
s Magnolia Cemetery, in that city.
5 co., Iou, o,,n No n ,,,o -,
the South Florida Railroad car shops
at Sanford was making some repairs
y on his engine, he was confronted by
- ground rattler which had crawled
:, into long-bolt hole 10 keep out of
: the wet.
II The nurse of the baby Alphonso
q XIII, of Spain is famous girl now.
q When the royal youngster received
a his three decorations from the King
of Portugal she exclaimed, "Now ]
/, trust his little Majesty will keep his
a. nose clean"
h. In 1870 the village of Durham, N
c., contained 800 inhabitants. Now
l. it has $500, and two or three thous-
|. and just outside the boundaries. The
k, valuation has risen from $4,000 tC
$3,500,000. Tobacco, cotton and wool
n, en- factories account for this.
S. Wild geese are being slaughtered
by the thousand at Beaver Lake, il
TX Northwestern Canada. Two men re
to Gently killed 1000 aud dried the mea
for winter use, andit is not unusua
b, for the local gunners to bag so ant
U. 100 in days shooting.
There are millions of wild pigeon
10 in roost in the Indian Territory
80 and they are being trapped, nettet
ie and killed for shipment by thousand
a daily. Bird men say there are onl,
Gu two droves of wild pigeons now il
North America. This is the large
one.
They are laughing in Lewiston, Me
N. at the boy who, when the teache
3 asked if any one could tell what tn
ID word "gender" meant, snapped hi
!. fingers, and 10 the question, "Well
If what is ii John ?" answered "Please
x mum, it's what goes with geese"
ID Thomas Freeman, an old man, ar
he rived in Pittsburg recently on hi
IN way to Paris, III. On his coat was ;
s. tag asking conductors to help hin
Y. along OH his way. He got off the carr
at and wandered away. He cannot bC
T. found, and even the tag does not lead
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