Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-15
ODDS AND ENDS,


The present population of Rome by |
new census is $4,000
M. Pasteur has seventy three cases |
of hydrophobia in hand.
Nine. Patti is to be paid $4,000
for six appearances in Madrid.
Baltimore saloon keepers are NOV
ing against cheap beer and large
glasses.
Snake poison, it is stated, kills at
least 1900 people per annum in In
dia.
DR.. Schliemann discovers that the
women of prehistoric Greece wore
stays.
al paint and talk Ruskinesque,"
advertises young man in London
journal.
An Indian high school is to be es-
tablished in San Bernardine county,
California.
A young colored man has been
elected justice of the peace in Knox
vile, Tenn.
The Missouri Cremation Society
has 400 members, twenty-five of
whom are women.
Silver coin is so very scarce in some
parts of Mexico that business is Sc
riously interfered with.
indianapolis is to have new union
passenger depot, built by combina-
ton of railroads.
The wife of a man who disappeared
from Dallas, Tex, offers reward for
him "dead or alive"
Mrs. Trinidad Solorzanoy Anguia-
no died a few days since in Colima,
Mexico, at the age of lob years.
A full-rigged merchant vessel is en-
route to Portsmouth, N. H., the first
in twenty-five or thirty years.
A check drawn by Vanderbilt
passed through the Lincoln bank a
few days ago for 100000.
A wagon load of pumpkins was
sold on the street at jug Tavern, Fla,
a day or two ago for sixty cents.
A Mormon who was accidentally
killed in Utah the other day left six
ty-seven children to mourn his loss,
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,45S16
pounds troy, or l 200 pounds in avoir-
dupois. It's worth 1851, Sl9.46.
A rice pudding was received
among the third-class mail matter
at the Brooklyn postoffice the other
day.
Russia has 33,400 doctors of whom
$50 are women. The dentists num-
Der but 5000, and the pharmacists
1900.
A watch that is claimed to have
been Benjamin Franklin's is in pos
session of a farmer of Lancaster coun'
ty, Pa.
Guano has been discovered on thu
Island off Southern California, ant
800 tons were recently shipped tt
Europe.
A church (Congregationalist) a
: Willingford, Conn, has had but fiv'
pastors in continuous period of 2O'
years.
A couple, each over seventy year
old, who separated about two year
) ago, were remarked last week il
Rutland, VT
a The eight-year-old author of tn
! famous "Box and Cox" has brougf
out in London another play Gale
"Going It."
d A real Japanese baby, five montl
l. old, is the qaint dot that catches Il
il feminine eye at the japanese villal
l. in London.
II Los Angeles-theC California realiz
c ton of the Jersey ideal, Vineland-
c is now at the height of brillial
y winter season.
y In 400 wives were sold in Englar
l. and according to the records of man
e divorce cases, the habit has not alt
II gether died out.
" American oysters are shipped
- express from New York to all pal
no of Europe. Blue points and sadd
= rocks are the favorites.
e. They tell of Chicago woman
ic wealth who would not buy copy
d. the Apollo Belvidere because she pl
10 ferred "stouter statues"
e. A rustic visitor to Burlington Y
lie spent Thanksgiving day on the hol
s. railway, making the trip of TO
of miles twenty-five times.
ay From Reustcr Height, 1000 fl
re above the level of the Baltic, in
IN duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, eight d
II ferent countries are discernible.
" u A Stonington, Conn, man, W
20, has been chewing tobacco for fo
~ years, has suddenly conceived an
~ ~ accountable aversion Of the weed.
en- At the next session of the legis
he ture at Victoria, B. c., measure
ar withhold miners certificates from
ess Cinnamon will be introduced.
nd A Bridgeport, Conn, lad picked
ip- a $4,000 diamond brooch in N
SEES York the other day. He return
ore it to the owner and received 500
ward.
ais Explorer Forbes Is going to after
The to reach the summit of Mount Oy
re- Stanley, 13,205 feet high and hithe
per untrodden by the foot Of man.
~, ~ The assayer at Deadwood has {
soli President Cleveland paper wei
'lG ; that weighs about two and one-l
ISL ISL pounds of the Tin ore discovere,
~. the hills.
,av- Charles L. Loew says: at may
uch be generally known, but it is
pre. nevertheless, that Mr.. Vanderbilt
per a Democrat, and one Of the old SCI
ali at that"
lere In course of lectures on 70
Professor Stirling, of Aberd
uor Scotland, showed "a beautiful CO.
the ton of compressed vegetables ant
into excellect solid pea soup"
an at is absolutely impossible"
heir Lord Rosebery in recent addres
lage Scotland, "that in the future
lred could ever take place between
i'd a United States and England.