Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
They have duck farm in the Jail
yard at Pittslurgh, Pa.

They have a duck farm in the jail
gard at Pittsburgh, Pa.
The following tcrse note was re-
Gently left behind by an eloping
couple in one of Hampshire's
hill towns: "Wc'vc cloped. Forgive
us if you can, and if you can't, what
will you do about itP'
-Eight-ycar-old Bert Chaffee, Of
Plum creek, Neb., perched on the
fence of a slaughter-pen to watch Jim
Wilson shoot Texas COW. Wilson
fired, the bullet struck the COW on the
forehead, and glancing, hit the boy in
the left side aud killed him.
The mandolin is now fashionable
instrument in society. 1t the chronicles
are to be trusted, it was in vogue cen
tury ago, and Mozart is said to have
written the accompaniment of "Deh
Vicni'' for it; but of late years q
pizzicato on the violin does duty for the
mandolin. .-BOStOH Budget.
Winner of the cup
She gidcs in beauty like queen
Upon the bosom Of the deep
Her brccLe.k ssed sails now fondly lean
Toward the wave and seem to sleep,
But mark her durtlng through the wave,
Fair MarilOwer, daughtcrof race
That per led all its land to save.
What Gal at tea could her d.splace?
N. Y. Journal.
The dancing masters have officially
given notice that the american gav-
otte.m the "Columbian and the "OctO-
gon' are to be the proper capers this
winter. This decision was reached at
meeting of thirty members of the
American Society Of Professors of
Dancing held in New York, ~ T.
Mail
George Miller, serving out q ton.
year sentence In an Indiana prison,
heard OF tho prison trick of eating soap
In order to appear to bo wasting away,
and thus gain q pardon. The schema
worked too woll. Millers throat is
liberated, he can not take even liquid
nourishment, and is more than likely
to die. Indianapolis Journal.
An eyewitness to the hanging OF
thirty-cight Sioux Indians at MankatC
says the coppcr-colored murderers
came from their prison, danced across
the street and capered up the stairway
of the platform like a herd OF wild aG
imals, Each man bore between hl'
bronze lips u cIgar, at which he puifct
ns tho rope was placed around hi
neck and the knot adjusted under hI
ear. ~
"A North Adams Mass lineman
repairing telephone wires near black
smith shop was in danger of falling
and caught hold of an electric ligh
wire. The current was powerful
enough to keep him from letting gu
and would probably have killed hin
had he not yelled to the blacksmith
who ran out with his pincerS, clippe
the wire and rescued the scverel
shocked man.
After nearly two thousand miles {
, the fatigues and exposures of inhosp
: table travel over Eastern, Western an
, Southern Texas for ten long months
. am more than ever impressed wit
the truth VI TINT blunt and homcl
4 Rpothegm uttered by our America
bran-hread philosopher on his retr
n from Europe; "Wise men stay {
:. home; 1t Is mainly fools who travel. "
TeritaS, IN AbeUlCen Mss Weekly.
n "A New York lawyer, who is an cr
l. thusiastic tennis player, carried til
n wrong handbag into court the otht
J. day, and, after the preliminary remar
that be would read from an cmlnci
Y authority to show that his learnc
le brother on the other side was a
ID wrong, opened the receptacle and pr
duoed, not Blackstone or Coke, but
le pair Of bright blue knickerbocker
to His learned brother grinned, and ord,
}, and decorum in the court room we
1t maintained with dilliculty.-M
III IribuHG.
rs How do you do?' That's RNgli'
&c and American, WHpW dQ you car
IS yoppsplfP" That's French, GLOW
y YOU standP" That's Italian. "How
10 YOU find YOURSELF" That's Germa
ol "How do YOU fare?' That's Dutc
h, GLOW can youP" That's Swedis
III "How do you pcrspire?" That's Egy
tian. GLOW is your stomachP Ha
YOU eaten your rice?" That's Chine,
"How do y0U have yourself2" Tha
he l'olish, "Ilow do you live on9" Tha
Russian. "May thy shadow never
no lcss?" That's Perslan-and all me
10 the same thing. - Chicago LiUing Uhur
MT DR.. Henry Vile, of Atlanta, G
w. has been trying for 4 time to oule
scalp wound 0f nine-year-old 9
no who, when q baby, fell in tM fire n
ny received burns that never healed.
X decided to give the girl anew scalp, a
'ly that he would have to take the skin s.
IS, from some ones arm. The gil
rly cousin, brave boy of twelve, at Ol
m barred his arm, and the dootpr remoN
ye twenty-five small pieces of cuticle {
ter placed them on the head of the g
'se Both children went home well pleas
TO but the boys father was very ang
nd and sued the doctor for assault |
rt- battery ON his son. .-Atlgnta Const
Is iFon.
.he, Thomas L, Lavinc, Of Pittshur
IRA went to tho theater recently and
rst through one act of very emotio
OBJ character, with legs crossed and loc
by in the rungs of chair. When the {
NJ tain fell he drew breath of relief,
ST. tempted to rise, and found that
ga right side was paralyzed, He was
Icr ried home, and Is very slowly reco'
iay Ing, Doctors suppose the paralysis
CIR have been caused either by an unu'
the tension brought to bear on his brail
nen temporary excitement while follow
Inc the drama, Qr by y violent check to
my. circulation of blood caused by the 7
sell ton in which he had been sittin
hS Pittsburgh Post,
- "A gentleman who was deeply
~" volved in the pursuits Of the turf
.a n,' quiring u considerable sum of mt
i ..oi to pay his debts of honor, stole
ss''I soII wife's jewels in order to pawn I'll
uad rn 10 his CONSERVATION the pawnbr
l'o,, o. refused TO look at them. "Why?"
u 1,aT az fevcrishly asked because they
"' paste" pastel My wifc's je