Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-04-20
MlSCELLAN EOUS.

lin fierce gale OIL Cape Eatteraa q
schooner was saved by towing bags Of
O.. astern for two days.
An anti-plumage league has been
formed in London with the object Of
stopping the Slaughter of birds tor the
adornmcnt of hats and bonnets.
Massachusetts registered over siS
thousand insane persons in her asylums
and hospitals during lSS5-an increase
o. two hundred over the previous year.
The annual cost to the State of thi,
form of relief exceeds $1,000, ,000.-
Boston Journal. -
The London Lancet says that chill.
dren who are allowed to go bare.ooted
enjoy almost perfect immunity from the
danger of "cold" by accidental chill
ing of the feet, and they are altogether
healthier and happier thal those who,
in obedience to the usages of social
life, wear shoes and stockings.
The London Lancet hopes against
hope that boys who smoke will draw
lesson from the case of twelve year.
old lad in London, who died in conse-
quence of smoking pennyworth of
double twist. 1--WE may at least" sayc
the venerable editor, "advise every SEN
sible boy to regard tobacco US
poison"
Tidal observations on the eastern
coasts of America have acquired i'm
portance since the Coast Survey has
confirmed by recent observations the
older suggestion that there are tidal
tluxcs in the Gulf Stream, and variations
of its velocity due to half-monthly
changes in the relative soa levels OF the
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.-N v
San.
In New York last year there vere
1886 deaths, SO,OSO births and l1,7l6
marriages, as against, in the preceding
year, 30, O54 deaths, 30,527 births and
1885 marriages. Thus the death list
increased 662, and the number Of births
fell off 4O7, due possibly to the sudden
cessation of foreign immigration. N
Y. Tribune.
Mr.. Bran Stoker, who accom-
panied Henry Irving on his American
tour, is now lecturing in England,
giving his impressions of the Ameri-
cans, He says it seemed to him as if
the gentlemen in America, as their text
OF social law and attention to the ladies,
had taken the best page of an old work
of chivalry. Chicago Journal.
The dooument-room clerks at tho
House receive some queer requests
says Washington letter. A constitu-
ent of Western member asks for the
Congressional Record from the date OF
lis first publication. Another would
like to have revolver, while third
desires that call be made ut the GEN.
sus office to obtain the residence of a
certain party
An old autograph album in Wash
ington contains the following letter
from Gceeral Winfield Scott, dated
Washington, June Is, 1860, to the pro-
prietorS of the Girard House, Philadel-
phia: "Gentlemen: Expect me at the
Girard House tomorrow night at eleven
O'Clock, and please give me bod at
least six feet six inches in length, or
one without foot=board. IN Y. Post,
AN English sportsman, shooting on
the north shore of Long Island, was
invited to dinner at farmhouse, and
was so astonished that he writes to q
London newspaper about it. wonder
how often in merrie England, he says,
"a farmer, with his family and two
men servants, sits down to roast turkey,
chicken pie, with foul or five vegetables
and cranberry sauoea''-N Y. Herald
Writing from Mexico correspond
ent says; "No Mexican kennel is COM
plete without two or three pelons or
hairless dogs. They are of dirty blue
color, have sharp pointed ears, and do
nothing but loll in the sun or crouch
before fire shivering with cold. Pelon
is Mechanism meaning gift, and they
probably called these hairless creatures
pclon dogs because you have to give a
mar something to take one as pres
ent They are ill-natured, mean, ar
rant thieves, and with not single
good trait in their character. ."-Chic,-
90 Herald,
Five Mile Beach Island, near Cape
May, has unique and beautiful fea-
ture in Its holly groves, which stretch
for four miles along the island. Many
OF them arc very aged trees. Their
trunks arc more than foot in dame
ter at half their height. The light gray
bark, with tints of pale green and
patches of brown, bring together the
hoariness of age and the tenderness OF
youth. The moss hangs from the
branches as if the forest were Southern,
while the evergreen leaves and the
bright red berries keep up the illusion
of summer in the drearier days of frost.
Philadelphia Press.
The popular notion that the in.
habitants of Chinese cities are given "a
unwholesome habits does not seem tc
be we'll founded, Dr. Dudgeon, in q
recent work on the dict, dress and
dwellings of the Chinese, says that the
people have admirably adapted them
selves to their surroundings, and enjoy
maximum of comfort "They have
good many lessons yet to teach us in
respect of living and practical health. y
After an experience of over twenty
years with them, he says that "they arr
subject to fewer diseases, their diseases
are more amenable to treatment, ant
they possess greater freedom from
acute and inilammatory affections o
all kinds, if, indeed, these can be said
to exist at all, than obtains among
Western nations. IN, Y, Sun