Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-23
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The total amount OF press tele-
grams sent over the Western Union
lines reaches a thousand million words
year.-N. y Tribune.
"A dog belonging to Cincinnati
shoe dealer chews tobacco, using up
about quarter of a ten-cent plug ev-
cry Cincinnati Times.
"A New York paper gravely de-
clares that ait is now the aim and am
bition of the girl Of the period to make
herself as conspicuous as possible"
"A Southington Conn farmer un-
able to sell load of apples at the
cider mill dumped them into the mill
stream ito float away to Long Island
Sound"
"A Philadelphia doctor" is doing
lively business among the colored
people OF that city by selling liquid
for the hair that takes the curl and the
kink out.
"A Boston man has written an elab-
crate article TO prove that before the
close Of the next century all Of North
America, including the British possess
sions, Mexico and Central America will
belong to the United States.
The spectacle of a little man un.
der hat too big for him is only lu-
dicrous, but the sight OF young coun-
try like Canada laboring under debt
Of nearly $500, 10000 is too serious to
be amusing. - Toronto Truth.
Nova Scotia has known coal area
Of nearly seven hundred square miles,
or nearly twice the area of the Penn
sylvania anthracite fields, and some Of
the Nova Scotia fields have a greater
thickness Of workable coal than prob
able exists anywhere else in the world.
The Supreme Court of Massachu-
sets has decided that the word guest"
as defined by the public statutes under
the license law, is limited to persons
who resort to an inn for food and lodg-
ing, and clearly excludes those who
resort there for the purpose of procur-
ing and drinking intoxicating liquor.
Tho doctors have found that bicycle
riding and tennis playing, when carried
TO excess, produce peculiar muscular
diseases. It is TO be hoped their dis
covcries will not tend to lessen the
popularity of these sports. There Is no
kind of athletic exercise which is not
injurious when indulged in immOder-
ately. Breathing can be carried TO any
unhealthy extreme. e.-Chicdgo Current.
Bread is luxury among the peas
antry in parts of Southern Austria,
Italy and in ROumania. In village
not far from Vienna the staple food OF
the people is sterz, a kind of porridge
made Of ground beech nuts. A por.
ridge made of boiled maize, called po-
lenta, forms the chief article of food in
Northern Italy. The same thing, some
what differently prepared, under the
name of mamaliga. is the common arti-
Gle Of food in Roumania.
The Shut-in Society is the title of
new organization in New York for the
mutual benefit Of the suffering. 1t al
ready numbers fifteen hundred MEM
bers. To be ''shut in" from the outer
world bysuilering is the only condition
Of membership. 1t is not charitable
organization in the ordinary sense, but
aims at the inter-communion and
friendship Of invalids who become
known to each other by letter. Con-
ccrts of prayer in which invalids pray
for each others consolation and faith
are feature Of II, 1t publishes month
ly the Open Window.
Miss Anna Ripley, of Buxton, Me-,
has, unaided, secured the necessary
papers and a pension for George W.
Edgcrly, an old broken down soldier
Of her town, While engaged in this
work sh0 took the affidavit of every
man in his company, from Maine to
California, every physician who had
treated him, and personally supplied
his wants as long as she was able
rather than allow him to go to the poor
farm. When the pension was granted,
one thousand and seventy dollars was
allowed as arrearage. She asked and
received no compensation for her
efforts. .--BoStOn journal.
--Smith-'I never was more sur
prised in my life than was last night"
''Indeedl What was the causep"
S.-"As was passing along tho street
two ladies came to the door OF q house
--one evidently the hostess, as she had
only.a shawl wrapped around her head
The other visitor. AS they reached
the bottom Of the steps the visitor said:
Well, I've had very pleasant time.
Goodnight, Mary and the other said,
Goodnight, Mehitable, and they
parted" J.-"What, without another
wordp" S.-"Without another word. !"
J.-"H'm! l guess they were men in
women's clothes. "-BoStoR Courier.
The water-boy who goes through
the passenger trains in Connecticut,
with his pail of water and tray of tum-
blers, offering free drinks to all the
passengers, is survival of the war
period. During the rebellion thou
sands Of sick and wounded soldiers
passed through the State on their way
home to be nursed, and many of them,
their canteens being empty, longed in
vain for draught OF cool water. The
late John F. Trumbull, of Stonington,
who was in the Legislature at the time,
having ridden on train in which
were home-returning soldiers, and no.
ticing their distress on account of their
inability to get water, at once pushed
o law through the Legislature provid-
ing that all railroads in the State must
carry water-boys on their passenger
trains. The statute still remains in
forge, Hartford Courant,
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