Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-23
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At Lowell Institute this winter
there is course of lectures on the
civil war.
The census officials estimate the
of the country at present
to be $60,000,0OO.
John 7. Malone, leading man in
Booths company, was formerly a
lawyer at San Jose, Col.
Paris eats far fewer eggs now than
formerly, but egg eating has increas-
ed in London.
A Fairburn, Ga, lady, seventy years
old, has never eaten mouthful of
meat of any kind.
Three moose were shot recently
within two miles of the Mount Kinco
House, on Moosehead Lake.
The people of this county paid last
year more than 100000 for import
cd precious stones.
1ronyh, the chemist whose expert
ments led to the discovery of the
modern match, has just died at Pesth.
An alligator, measuring two feet
six inches in length, has been cap
tured in a swamp at Long Island
City. -.-.---
Those men who avoid healthful
exercise IN the open air arc now said
TO have a disease called cosmophobia.
A woman in Oakland, CAL, whose
daughter eloped with her son-in-law,
offers a reward of 500 for her cap
ture.
The Danes are making their Sec
ond invasion of Ireland. This time
they are selling in Cork butter made
in Denmark.
Ida Socks, of Easton, Pa, who is
twenty-four years of age, has had
four husbands in a married life of ten
years.
The Philadelphia Academy of
Sciences has just received a bequest
of over SOL 900, yielding a present in
come of 81, 800.
About sixty patents year, it is
stated, go TO women inventors. Last
year the total number of patents is
sued was $4,000.
DR.. Quinlan, a well-known Irish
physician, advocates the use of chic
ride of zinc in the composition of ball
dresses as a preventive of fire.
They have a woman at the Paris
circus who jumps from one horse to
another while the horses are going
around the ring in opposite direc-
lions.
DR.. Semmelina says that cholera
has existed in Asia from prehistoric
times, but it never turned loose on
the rest of the world until 1877.
The deposits in the City Savings
Fund at Berlin amounted at the close
of last year to $l5,9O6, 1880, an in
crease during 1885 of $2,O66, 1877.
Harvard College has now $4,922,-
1893, of which 81 ,903, ITO is in real es-
tate, $l.779,S55, in railroad bonds and
SS4O,9S7 in notes and mortgages.
A party of travellers recently made
the journey from San Francisco to
London, via New York and Liver
pool, in a trifle less than fourteen
days.
1t is said that out of 5000 cigar
makers in New York city only 300
are skilled hand workers; the rest
use molds. The nodded cigar is in
ferior.
Miss Jane Bancroft, Phi. D., has re-
signed professorship in the Wo-
mans College of Eyanstown, ILL.,, to
accept the chair of history in Bryn
Mawr College.
A burglar in Weld, Maine, was de-
tected by SNOWFALL from the heel of
his boot, which corresponded pre-
cisely with similar SNOWFALL found
in the store after the robbery.
Billy Cook, who is ninety years
old and lives at Spottsylvania, Va,
has taken for his third wife Nellie
Jackson, colored woman, twenty
five years old. Mr.. Cook IS also COL
ored.
Two brothers, of a mechanical turn
OF mind, in Sparta, Ca, have each
constructed a steam engine capable
of running sewing machine at good
speed. The lads are young in their
teens.
Ouray, COL, has just invested ST.
600 in novel hearse. 1t is said to
be a very gorgeous affair, but its
principal feature is speaking tube
leading from the drivers seat to the
interior.
Irish Presbyterians numbering
33S,OOO have protested against home
rule. Lever has poor opinion of
Irish Presbyterians, whom lie harshly
called "sniveling, hard-bargaining
rogues."
Twelve thousand heads of families
have filled upon homesteads in the
Garden City land district, in Kansas,
that will have to be on their land
within six weeks or it will be open
for contest.
An enthusiastic indorser of white
wash in Green Cove Spring, Ca, has
offered two dollars to each colored
resident of the town who will sue
cessfully apply coat of the wash to
premises.
In the Episcopal Church in the
East a lay order has been started call
ed "The Holy Name Society" to
break up profane swearing. There
is All ancient society like it in the
Roman Catholic church. -