Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-19

song and habits-everything but
plumage.
Daylight is to be let into the patent
medicine bottle in Darmstadt. The
city chemist is TO analyze every drug
of the sort and print statement SO
that he who drinks may read.
"Tomato SOUP" said a dinner at
restaurant the other day. "Tomayto
SOUP" said the waiter, who passed
the word along. "Tomatto SOUP"
shouted the man atthe speaking tube.
Four generations live in the house
of j. V. Turcotte, of Lowell, Mass
his daughter, aged six; her mother,
aged thirty; his mother, aged fifty
three, and her mother, aged eighty
one years.
Southern women take kindly TO
journalism. Over fifty are connected
with the newspapers of the South,
and on the third Of next month they
propose organizing Southern Wo-
mems Press Association.
OF the 100000 working women in
New York the highest average earn
ing is 81 a week. Numbers earn but
IS a week. Thousands are unable,
with sixteen hours work every day,
to reach the lower amount.
A deer, described as a beautiful
specimen of its kind, Joined herd Of
cows that were being driven home
| by a Mrs. Moore, of Ashland, N. H.,
and permitted her 10 secure him after
he had walked into the barn.
A Vienna writingmaster has writ
len forty French words on a grain of
wheat that are said to be easily legi-
BILE for good eyes. 1t has been placed
in glass case and presented TO the
French Academy Of Sciences.
The proprietor of a celebrated res
taurant out West is described by a
local journal as being, in appearance
and dress, combination of an English
lord, a United States Senator, an
American poet and French painter.
Divers are examining the bottom
of Lake Quinsigamond for relics OF
the ancient owners of the soil whose
camping ground was on the shores
The divers are employed by the Wor
chester National Historical Society.
The Musical Union and WelchmeI
of this country have been asked t
help get Harvey Morgan, the oil
Welsh harpiSt, out of the Pittsburs
poorhouse. Forty years ago he wa
famous harpist, but he lost it all af
ter the war.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Burlington, N. j., hal
raised $500 and offered it as a pre-
MUM TO the saloonkeeper who will
exhibit the best specimen of a con
, firmed drunkard at the coming coun
) ty fair at Mt. Holly.
AT the present moment, so says al
} English paper, fortune-telling is on,
, of the most flourshing systems o
imposture in that country, and Their
, is scarcely town or village withou
its resident or visiting cheat of thi
r description.
The extremity to which a newspa
! pers devotion to the interest of tn,
! town in which it is published will
; carry 1t is shown by an article in tn,
D Oswego Palladium, headed "Home
. made Coflins," and welcoming tn,
: introduction of this new industry.
A negro called on the chief of pc
lice at Norfolk, Va, and asked hin
it he would be allowed to pay tn,
fines of any one of the men who wer,
confined in Jail, provided they woult
agree to 60 oystering with him. Tn,
: city will probably accept the offer.
During the past eight months TIN
aggregate value of eggs shipped from
Canadian points, via st. Adams, VT
was $259,76S. This, reckoning tn,
eggs at twelve cents per dozen, repre-
! sents an aggregate shipment during
, the eight months of 25,676,S00 eggs
A chestnut tree on the farm of
man in Spring township, Crawford
county, Pa, has blossomed out agail
, while yet loaded with well-fille(
burrs. Another farmer in the sam,
neightorhood has number of rasp
berry bushes containing blossoms ant
fully ripened berries.
II One Of the best crops of raisins anC
currantsevercured has been produced
this year, it is reported, in the Medi
terranean country. And the prices
of these fruits, it is thought, will be
lower during the holiday season than
for several years while the quality
will be better.
| 1t is predicted that a new and very
handsomely appointed saloon In New
York will be failure simply because
there is no bar on which drinkers
can lean, nor chairs in which they
can sit. The drinks are served by a
dignified, butler-looking man from
an elegant sideboard.
Alfred Smith, neat-looking and
quiet, hired out as waiter at a hotel
at Lake Elmo, near ST. Paul, MINI.
Soon he was made second steward,
and was doing well, when his room
mate reported that he was a woman.
1t proved to be Matte Carpenter, a
Rhode Island girl. She disappeared
at once.
A citizen ofAlbany recently receiv-
ed a letter from his brother-in-law
telling of an arrival in his family in
this way: 81 will answer your last
question first. Julia is doing SPLEEN
didly to-day. She was somewhat
used up Yesterday, and last NIGHT es-