Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


in the anthracite regions.
"A human life is lost for every fifty
thousand tons of Goa, mined in the
anthracite regions. Pittsburgh Post.
"A statistician AYERS that the aver.
age man spends ten dollars q year
more for dress than the average
woman.
"A patch of land known as House
Point Island, off West End light, Prov
incetown, Mass, was swept away in a
recent storm.
"A new mothod of illumination was
spoken of in story published recently.
The author depicted ''long, low
room, made cheerful by a widow at
each end. ."-Ph,ladelphia Press.
The estimated loss in Douglas
County from hog cholera Is forty-five
thousand dollars. This is the worst
visitation to farmers in. Kansas since
the grasshoppers in lS74-5.-Cticagc
Times,
in New York when the elevated
roads were built horse car stock fell in
value. Now, however, the elevated
roads are worked to the limit of safety,
yet the horse cars were never so
crowded. Y Times.
1t would seem that Nutfield, in
Surrey County, Eng, is the most
healthy spot in the world, as the rector
has announced that, with a population
of one thousand two hundred, only one
male died last year, and he was eighty
eight years old.
The much-abused drug clerk is not
the only person liable to accidents with
poisons. A recent case is cited at
Jeanette, La, in which a father OF
two sick children gave the medicine
prescribed for each Of them to the
other, thus killing both children. .
AN elevator boy is authority for
the statement that ladies never thor
oughly become accustomed to the ele-
vator. No matter how often they ride
up and down they invariably catch
their breath when the elevator starts
on its downward journey. Chicago
Times.
1t gives a notion of the cost of
royal travelling in the last century that
the bill of George w. at the Hotel
d'Harscamp, Namur, for one day was
three thousand francs (six hundrs3 and
one dollars and eighty cents). The
charge at the table d'hote at that time
was two francs.
While Sothern was in. New York he
hired an attenuated livery horse for
drive up the road. He stopped at
wayside tavern, and while his servant
was blanketing the animal Mccullough
came up and asked: "What do you put
that blanket over your horse for, Nedp
He 'looksto weak to bear up under it. "
"Oh," was Sothern's reply, "that is
to keep the wind from blowing the hay
out of him"
"A reverend gentleman of Morris
town recently had occasion to visit
Brockville on business, and the health
officer on his return insisted that he
should be vaccinated. To this he SUBJ
mitted quietly. On his arrival home
his friends asked him why in the world
he did not tell the officer that he had
had the smallpox. II DECLARE. said
he, II forgot to state that fact to him."
Watertolcn (N. ~ Times.
The newest parlor diversion OF
wealth and fashion is not intellectual,
but 1t has the good quality OF perfect
innocence. 1t consists in throwing
cards into hat. A silk tile is set on
the floor. The player takes>a pack OF
fifty-two playing cards, stands eight
feet distant, and endeavors to cast them
one by one into the receptacle. The
feat Is not SO easy as it seems, and
there is room for much expertness.
Twenty out of pack is ahigh average.
--Chicdgo Tribune.
The following sentence, written by
Alfonso, the late King of Spain, in the
autograph album of Miss Foster, the
daughter of our last Minister to that
country, will be read with special in
terest since his death; "a 10 Senorita
Foster: FL gefe del pals de Ia tradicion
y los remerdos, que es un etusiasta ad-
mirador de las gigantescas creaciones
de la libre America, del pals del par
venir. Alfonao, Mario, 1884" The
translation Of this Is: 1.-THE chief OF
the country Of tradition and memories
who is an enthusiastic admirer Of the
gigantic accomplishments Of free
America, the country Of the future"
"A few days ago heated lamp
chimney in a New York elevated rail.
way car snapped into twenty pieces OF
more which fell upon the seats below.
Fortunately there was bat one passen.
ger within range Of them, and no dam
age was done. Not many months ago,
at the Union League Clubs ladies' re.
ception, piece OF carbon, heated to a
white heat and about as large as pea,
fell upon the white silk dress of lady |
guest who was walking beneath the
electric light. Had 1t fallen q second
sooner 1t W ould have burned her shoul.
ders frightfully. Electricity has its
dangers as well as advantages.-M y
Herald.
-Forty-three years ago Marcus Hope |
was suspected of stealing thirty dollars |
from HIS employer, farmer named !
Groner, of Honesdale, Pa. The young
lady Hope was engaged to Tilted him,
and he left and was never heard of af-
ter. The girl married Groner's son.
Horace Cable, an orphan, lived with |
Groner, but he was never suspected.
One day last week letter was received |
by Farmer Groner's son. 1t was ad.
dressed to his father, who died some |
years ago. 1t was signed by Horace
Cable, and contained check on o
bank in town in Illinois for s105.60. |
The writer said he had stolen Groner's |
thirty dollars forty-two years ago, and
had never been able to repay it. The
check was for the missing money with
rest.-Philadelphia CAL.
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