Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-01
ODDS AND ENDS,
washington Gazette


| 1t is the Jove of that journalistic
thunderer the London Times, who
accuses the editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette of "garnishing his words
with the frouzy jargon of pimps."
The inhabitants of the Laos coun-
try, in Siam, are the LATEST people in
the world. They are so indolent that
they do little more that collect rice
enough to keep them alive.
The mortality in the City of Mexi-
co, which is without drainage, is so
per 1000 annually. In Guanajuato,
city of $4,000 inhabitants, also UNI
severed, the mortality is IA per ], 900.
Every few days the report reaches
London that Caroline Patti has fall
len down stairs and broken her leg.
English paragraphlsts are now be-
ginning to wonder how many legs
she has. te
A man in Derby Line, VT, has the
identical tomahawk which Hannah
Dustin, of Deerfield, took from an
Indian, and with which she killed
three of them while they slept, in
l749.
A clock that was removed for safe
ty from a house in Lexington at the
time of the battle there in ITS, has
just been purchased by Boston man
for Sis. 1t is in good running or
der.
One of the Atlanta Prohibitionists,
who was most active during the re-
cent campaign, has been turned over
to the police by his family. His head
has been turned by the excitement.
The women journalists of this coun-
try have National Press Associa-
ton, and a New England branch has
just been formed in Boston, of which
Mrs. Sally Joy, of the Herald, is
president.
In Amador county, California, re-
Gently, man found a miners unbur-
led bones, and, searching further,
came across all old boot containing
about 1000 worth of gold dust and
nuggets.
Paintings for which the late Mrs.
Mary j. Morgan paid close upon
81, 100000 will feel the touch OF the
crier's golden mallet at auction in
New York during the first week OF
the coming March.
Russian inspectors of provisions al
St. Petersburg not long ago found
packages of tea adulterated with 4C
per cent, Of pea shells, and also a fac
tory where exhausted tea leaves were
worked over.
Several strips of papyrus, original.
| ly taken from an Egyptian grave
and placed IN the Berlin Museum
have been found to contain portions
of lost..work of Aristotle on the
Greek constitution.
Five years ago two gold fish wert
placed in the pond of the Cohassett
Mass, common. When the ponC
was drained the other day it wa.
found that the single pair of fish hat
increased to thousands.
The entire adult population of Ste
Marthe village, Quebec, numbering
1900, voluntarily assembled in churcl
day or two ago, and pledged them
selves to abstain from alcoholic bev
erages for one year.
Manitoba is filling up with people
The number of schools there in 1871
was l6, in 1881 il was 12S, and il
1884 it reached 359. The school al
tendance was GIG in 1871, 1919 il
: 1881 and 1884 in 1884.
AT Russian railway stations pas
sengers now find grievance book,
in which complaints are entered
This record of wrongs reaches tn
central office once a month, when tn
complaints arc investigated. =
Scarlet fever was conveyed to
: little girl of Watertown, N. Y, by
, little friend who sent her a ''dyin
kiss" on a sheet of paper. The it'll
girl kissed the encircled spot am
soon followed her playmate.
A recent investigator into tn
cause of consumption says that tn
r disease is often inherited because tn
heir has taken for his personal us
the decedent's old mattresses, UP
holstered chairs and carpets.
! 1t is said that if a person bitten b
: a mad dog will go into Turks
bath and stay there for seven day
he will recover. The poison in tn
blood, it is said, will be eliminate
: by vigorous and steady perspiratiol
1 The army of artificial flower mai
ers in Paris is said to number nc
a less than 10000 souls. No countr
equals France in this art, and expei
artifcers-generally girls-can al
ways find work at good wages.
l A young couple were married by
justice In Lewistown, Me-, in a fee
t store, which the justice of the peaC
q owned. The bride was pretty, an
both principals were from the conr
, try and in wedding attire.
Amor" new ballet about to
put upon the spectacular stage
Milan, requires $50 danseuses an
q $500 costumes, besides an elephati
fourteen horses, twenty dogs an
quite a menagerie of monkeys an
s bears. 81