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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
OSTRICH FARMING.
now the Eggs Are Hatch.d ArtIflclally
In Ordinary Incubators.


In Ordinary Incubators.
The ostrich egg is very delicate and
will not keep its vitality for moro than
thirty days Now, rs the laying lasts
couple of months 1t is evident that
ha,f of it becomes worthless for sitting
aud can serve no purpose. except rs
curiosities in bazars. 1t Is, therefore,
tho business of man to provide against
this improidcnt character of nature
and utilize what is wasted by that
force No occasion 10 go into detail
about incubators; tho principle Is well
known. Practically they arc padded
boxes. each holding ilfteen to twenty
eggs and heated by hot water, which
can have its temperatures readily
undora~ controls Tho eggs are
taken away rs laid. one always
being left In the nest Each one is
numbered and dated. and list made
out with its weight and description of
the parents. They are kept In dry
room till the necessary number Is OBJ
tained. whom they arc placed In the
box and The heat Is appliol Tho
temperature is 40 deg Contigrado at
first, 80 deg. at the end of IS days, and
then SO. 8 deg. TO tho finish. During
the whole process each egg must be
turned upside down every day at u
regular time This is absolutely necos-
sary. About the iifteenth day tho
eggs arc examined to SEQ which arc
inlpregnated and which not. This is
done with q box containing u lamp
and reflector IN front of which is an
opening which fits an egg supported
on the outside by little shelf If the
egg is clear it will not hatch; if
opaque, except at tho larger end.
where the air chamber is, it goes back
TO the incubator. Sometimes the
egg is rotten, in Which ease sho
gas formed within forces the
liquid through the shell and
turns it yellow After forty days the
greatest attention must be paid day
and night 10 listen for the noise Of the
chick. On tho forty third day small
hole should be made in.tho shell near
the air chamber. which has already
been marked with a pencil. Next day
this hole is enlarged SO as better to
notice any movement inside. When
this is seen the she'll must bo broken,
the membrane torn away, and the
chick freed. taking care to use the
greatest dciicacy in every movement.
The chicken is wrapped up and kept
warm for twenty-four hours. when 1t
has very small lot Of finely chopped
greenstuff with few broad crumbs.
On the third day it gots q little. milk;
on tho sixth Little grain with the
vegetables and alittlo water to drink.
All The Year Found. n..I ..r- |
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03

corner posts, inside of posts;
now cut lath eighteen inches long for
top of coop. When they arc on you
have the frame ready for covering.
Take muslin and tack on with six
ounce tacks, but before putting tho
muslin sow on a feed pocket about
four inches from bottom of coop. leave
pocket n little loose so IL will stay
lopen. II the bird is 10 go over ono
hundred miles always put in water
cup. Such q coop, il made of dry
lumber, will not weigh over five
pounds. Coops for tr;os and half
dozen fowls are made the same way.
except for half dozen they should bo
.uaced on the sides with lath, but put
braces on tho outside of muslin. Coops
made in This way, for tiios. weigh
about nine pounds, for half dozen
birds. about twclyo pounds. Bottom
of coop may be made of timer lum-
bcr il you have it. l have made a
coop for single bird that only
weighed three pounds Cor. Ameri-
can Poultry Journa.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
OLYMPiAN SPORTS.
Foot Racing the Earliest and Most Pol
ular of Public Anusements.

Foot Racing the Earliest and Most Pop
uIar of Public Amuscmonts.
The number Of the different kinds
Of games. including those for boys,
amounted eventually to no less than
fourteen. At Olympia the foot race
or stadium-tho race in which Corb-
bus was the first victor. at the institu-
ton of the festival by King Iphitus-
appears to have been the earliest, and
for some years to have continued TO
be tho only contest From 1t and
from its victor was derived the Greek
computation of time. in quadriennial
periods called olympiads, and Omar
velous to saY) ii continued to
form the basis of tho National
Calendar till A. d. 1914, tho six.
toenth year of the Roman Emperor
Theodosius. that is for nearly ono
thousand two hundred years; and dur
ing all that length of time not only
were the games regularly kept up,
but the successful competitor contiD-
ued TO give his name to the quadrien-
nial. Moreover. the foot race sup
piled to Greece not only tho measure
of time. but the measure of space.
The course called stadium was equal
TO tho eighth of n mile. and all dis
tances among the Greeks were meas
used by stadia. as they are now meas
ured by miles. But if the foot race at
Olympia was the earliest of the sports
and in. one respect at least was attend
cd with the greatest fame. there can
be little doubt that the chariot race
was. upon the whole, the most at
itractivo and tho most exciting, aud,
on somo occasions, exciting TO
very painful degree. For
instance, we learn from the
Fifth Py THAN Ode, written In honor Of
the chariot victory Of Arcosilaus, King
of Cyreno in Africa, that not fewer
than forty charlots engaged in the
contest camo TO grief 1t appears.
also, from tho same and other odes
that the owner of the equipage, who
was very rarely his own charioteer,
carried off much of the glory of sue
cess. though his sole merit consisted,
like tho merit of our mobiles and lairds |
upon tho turf, in bearing all tho ex-
lponses connected with tho race, in the |
encouragement which he gave TO the
sport and in the honor which by his |
victory he won for his city or native
land. No builder of chariot is men-
toned by Pindar; no jockey; one sue
cessfM horse. and only one named |
Pherenicus co.. l. and Pyth. iii)-
National ReUiew.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
Removing Surplus Flesh.

One Of tho handsomest mon In town,
n prominent officer of. tho Louisville
& Nashville railroad, told n reporter
of n remedy for reducing flesh, which,
he says is really wonderful. 1t is tho
samo that Bismarck, the German
Chancellor. has subjected himself TO,
and from which lis avoirdupois was
decreased sixty pounds. Tho first
thing man must do upon rising in
tho morning. my friend says, is 10
drink goblctful Of cool, not cold
water In quarter of an hour re-
peat y it, and just before breal fast
drink tho third glass. When you first
try this you will feel rs if-a whole
watermelon has been disposed OF, but
after a morning or Two this ''swelledr
feeling will have disappeared. Con-
itinue this water course for several
weeks and your surplus flesh will be
gone, and the fear of bursting vest
buttons over. Fam suro 1t is a great
remedy and recommended it to my
friends who are afflicted with obesity
Tho effect that this stomach bath has
had upon my informant is surprising.
He is twenty pounds lighter than two
months ago. = Chattanooga Tones ~
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
Surprised by the Gar.


An amusing story comes from S..
Petersburg. A fow days ago the Car
went without previously announcing
his visit 10 q religious house. whore
His Majesty was received. but not re c.
ognized. Whom the Gar asked that
divine service should DO celebrated
the monk replied that it was ilnpossi-
bic, as the priests were all asleep
But some people outside who had seen
the Gar enter tho establishment hast
cnod TO warn the monk who their
visitor was. Tho monks accordingly
proceeded to ofliciate in the church.
Unfortunately several of them gave
unmistakablo signs of having refresh
cd themselves too copiously at
luncheon, which so incensod the Gar
that on returning 10 the palace he at
once sent tor tho chief of the holy
synod. The offJnding monks have
since been banished TO distant mon as
teries. -London Telegraph.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
BOWERS FOR GIRLS.
A Problem Discussed I'm England and
Likely TO he Raised Here.

A Problem Discussed I'm England and
Llkely TO BE Raised Here.
Mr.. Walter Besant has started a
very lively discussion in England. 1t
is on that exceedingly troublesome
and distressing phase of the woman
question-what to do for unmarried
women who were not brought up to
work, and who have no aptitude for
any particular work, and who yet
must support themselves We know
how serious this problem may be in
our older communities. but in England,
owing 10 various causes, chief among
which is the continuous agricultural
depression, it has now become of
really alarming importanco. There
has long been IN that country what
Mr.. Besant calls an "army of nccessi-
tous gentlewomen," of women "who
have known better days" and who
have sunk into what amounts TO gen.
teel pauperism; and since the agri-
cultural depression of late years tho
army has greatly increased.
Mr.. Besant urges that the plan which
prevails in France, of providing an
endowment for every daughter of a
family, should DO followed in En-
gland, so that whether married or
single, she should have something to
depend upon. no matter how small.
In France. as is we'll known, no girl
born of respect able parents is unpro-
"a 4 l..
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
SHIPPING POULTRY.
A Few Hints Concerning tho Construction
of Suitable CoOps.

A Few Hints Concerning tho Construction
of suitable Coops.
Never ship fowls in wooden box,
as the purchaser has 10 pay just tho
same per pounl for coop rs for the
fowls, and when we come TO pay
double first class ratos on an old wood
on box that is worthless only as
kindling wood 1t does not mako us
love tho shipper have had some ex-
perience in that line myself. A friend
of mine and l correspondod with q
breeder in regard TO fowls, wo both
wanting to purchase some good stock
for our own use. Answer camo back,
can furnish you good breeding stock.
We sent cash for four cockerels, and in
duo time we received by express four
little cockerels. tho four weighing
sixteen pounds, in a wooden box
weighing eighteon pounds. Another
time / purchased at good price a
cock of breeder ut quito
distance from me. When
he camo ho weighed six
pounds anu the coop WelSneu ten
pounds. 1t was canvass covered
COOP but not properly made; the corr
ner posts were in an inch from tho
canvass, thereby leaving an open
space behind tho posts, in which tho
birds wing and tail feathers had got
and were badly broken. Tho express
ON cock and coop was one dollar and
forty cents. being about nino cents
per pound. making ninety cents for
coop and fifty cents for cock.
Now / will give my mode of making
shipping coops: For coop for single
bird, take four pieces one inch square
and eighteen inches long. nail three
boards. one-half inch thick. and six
inches wide and eighteen inches long
to two of inch strips. setting strips in
threc-eighths of an inch from end of
bottom boards. Then cut lath two feet
long for corner posts. nail ono at each
corner outside of inch strips. then nail
tho other two-inch strips at top Of
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
BABES FED TO SNAKES.
Horrible Practices Observed by tho Pdol
l..a I.. NL.,r.l.l.,Ir,n. RnnllIna

Horrible Practices Observed by tho Pdob-
~1 los in worshiping Reptiles.
Tho Puo commonly called In
dians, but really descendants of THO
ancient Aztecs-have numerous su-
pcrstilions. The eagle is sacred
bird with them-the winged throne of
their emperor god. Montezuma for
whose promised second advent they
still patiently wait. In any of the
Pueblo cities you will find the great.
dark eagles, either tothered upon the
housotops or penned In little corrals
of cedar. and religiously tended.
The Pueblo hunter always has mar
volous luck If no carries with him q
tiny stone image of coyote with o
tiny arrowhead lashod to his side.
Though nominally converted to Ca
tholicism, the Pucblos are still secret
but ardent fire. worshipers. The snake,
too. is sacred TO them. and you will
find It's symbolic coils in their rock
sculptures and on their quaint silver
jcwelry. Some Pueblo towns used to
hOCD cuCh uu tiOil ilhOuo ohuhO III "
closed room, and fed 1t with children.
The Pueblos of LII Cia twenty-five
miles west of Bernalillo, was nearly
dcpopulatod thus. 1t had snake of
enormous size. kept in room whose
doors and windows were walled up.
In the roof was a small hole. sealed
with q heavy, fiat rock. Tho first day
of every month the people drew lots
TO see whose child should bo sacrificed
10 tho snake-god The chosen babe
was carefully bathed and anointed.
and then tossed. naked, down the hole
to tho hungry serpent 1t is only six
years since this hideous rito was
stopped by q priest who finally pre-
vailed upon the Pueblos to tear down
the walls and kill tho snake. Cor.
( Globe Democrat.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03

! An advocate Of pig pork declares
that Young pig will produce more
live weight from q given weight OF
food adapted to its uso than any other
domestic animal Skim milk and
meal. ho says, are the most effective
irations fed Middlings is the best
single food; cob-meal. fine ground. is
an efficient food, and equal to clear
corn-nleaL 1stN
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03

! The Memphis AcaIanche proposes
to offset tho State of Dakota with q
new one, to bo formed Of West Ton
nesscc and Kentucky, East Arkansas,
and North Mississippi and Alabama,
for which 1t compounds tho namo Of
"Tennarkalamissly."
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03

WANTBD.-LIvEAG AGENTs. Write Geo. A.
W Snnborn, Secretary Buffalo Mutual, Lifo,
Accident and Sick Benefit Association, Buf-
falo, N. Y.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03

THE annuallloss caused by insects
in the United States is estimated at
about $3.50 900, 600
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
The Base Ball Curver!
Patent Applied for,

IFhtoht Applied lori
Can you throw Base Ball9 fs1. fifteen min
utos'practice with the bhse Ball Curver will
enable you to pitch all the Ourvea as well as
ony Professional Pitcher. Sent postpaid
an receipt OF 75c. Send Postal Note. Express.
y. D. Order to j. II. BURNS
90 Carroll street. Cleveland, O.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-14
How Jail Birds Get Liquor.

The Chicago Neus says: ats note
worthy fact, said well-knOwn crimi-
nal lawyer, "that almost the first request
a lawyer will receive whcp he comes to
visit his client in the Jail will he in the
form OF demand for liquor. Crime and
the drinking habit are twin brothers, mad
1t Is, can assure you, very rare thing
in our experience to meet Jail bird who
Is not addicted to strong drink. But
what are You going to do2 Your man
Graves for his old stimulant, begs for it
with more earnestness than he does fO-
his freedom. He must have it, and as
rule he gets it, too. Ill tell you how.
When he becomes annoyingly persist
ent we say to him: Get your liquor, If
you must have it, in the regular way.
No lawyer will take it to you. That
isn't professional Then he cries: But
what is tho regular wayl 1t is not al
lowed in the Jail; how can 1 get iti' We
say to him: Haven't yOu some relative
or acquaintance of the other sex2 Let
her bring rum. She can carry it easily
under shawl or cloak, and while stand
ing up close to the wire talking to you
she can smuggle tho stuff in without
any trouble.
snow, to make myself understood,
will tell you that there is more than one
rubber tube in the Jail, carefully stored
away in cells occupied by TIE expert
enced bOarders, and that these tubes are
pretty regularly made to do syphon
duty from one whiskey flask to another.
The prisoner gets hold of an empty
flask that is easily done; hc is visited
by his female relative, who carries
under her shawl a flask full of liquor.
The tube is put out through the wire
netting and the other end is inserted in
the bottle. The other end the prisoner
takes in his mouth and proceeds at once
to establish n suction on it that causes
the whiskcy 10 leave the first bottle and
flow steadily into the other bottle. which
is conveniently hid under the fellows
coat. Well, that is one way of getting
in contraband goods"
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-14
A Peculiar Uncle.

Speaking of uncles," said the one
eyed man, right in the face of the fact
ia he last remark made by any one
was about pointer dogs. eyes, men-
! t:uning llucles. reminds me that / used
q have the all-tiredis, most peculiar
crittcr for an uncle you ever heard tell
Of"
Nobody said word, and the big man
with II bad reputation groaned. But
nothing could stop the One-eyed man.
"Greatest hand to try experiments
that ever lived, my uncle was; always
experimenting.
"Scicntistl" asked the little man,
mcckly.
"Naw-iust an ordinary man. Run
n theatre ut one time. Took it into his
head to try an experiment Oh the folks
that always come late. Advertised per-
Torrance will begin ut II o'clock mid
night sharp. Eight men came in from
L. 80 to 12:4j, and mt 1:25 woman
walked down the middle aisle with two
children, and seven persons had to get
mp to allow her to get to her seat"
"That's funny" said the little man.
Nothing funny about it," said the
big man; ''just what the tarnal fool
might have expected"
"Thcn another time my Uncle was
superintendent of railroad. The pas
senger train had always left at l p. m,
but one day for an experiment he adj
vcrtised all over that to accommodate
the patrons of the Great Disaster route,
the o'clock train would not leave till 7.
As the train pulled out past the water
tank that evening, six women who want
eel TO so on it stood on the platform
kissing their friends good by, and man
from the First Ward went whOoping
down the track jerking uncovered
trunk behind him and reaching out for
the rear platform. At 8:15 a man and
his wife and four children and canary
bird and cat in basket came into tho
depot and wanted to know how long be.
fore the train would start"
'Strange circumstance" murmured
tho little man.
'Nothing strange except that man
will sit and tell such Internal lies, 4"
growled the big man.
'But the biggest experiment my uncle
ever tried was when he was in the Legis'
lature. He drew up a bill and got it
through, and it became a law, extend.
ing the time when taxes became delin-
qucnt from the LIST of February to the
LIST of June. He wanted to see if as
many people would still get left"
"Well, did therel" asked the little
man.
"My uncle was too mad ever to tell.
You see he was SO busy watching the re-
suits OF his experiment that he never
thought about his own taxes till June
20, and when he went in to pay he found
costs and interest and treas,lrers' fees
and sheriff's fees and clerks fees count
cd up SO they were raising the roof right
off the court house, and he finally lost
all his property on a. tax title" Then
the one-eycd man glared ut the big man
and went out before he could say word.
E. II. Carruth en- Chicago Tribune.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-14
Ohm Wanted His Grub.

They arc telling joke up tho valley
on t. ID. Hickey which is too good to
keep out OF print. About two weeks ago
ChinamAn passing along tho county
called at Rickey's ranch and wanted to
grub sagebrusl. for his dinner. Hickey
told him he could cat. but there was no
s7gcbrush to grub near the house.
Tho Chlnaman had II small sack on his
hack. After dinner the sack upset
somehow and n lot Of wheat rolled on
tho floor. hickey happened to he in at
the time and saw tho wheat. 1t made
his eyes bulge. He picked mp some of
the kernels and was astOnishcd to find
them about four times rs largo NJ any
wheat he had over seen. He asked tho
Chinaman to give him some, but he re-
fused, saying that the wheat came from
China, and it had cost him cheap mon
ey" to get the wheat. The more Rick
ey saw OF the wheat the more he wanted
it, and finally offered the Chinaman $50
for the sack, which hal about thirty
pounds in it. The Chinaman turned
up his nose Mt the offer and said tho
wheat cost more than that to get it from
China. Hickey studied the proposition
q while and decided that ne was bound
to he tho first man to troducc that
mammoth wheat into tho United
States. He calculated that few stalks
Of such wheat would make loaf of
bread. He finally spread ont five TWEEN
ties under the Chinaman's nose and Of
fered him place to work on the ranch
for one year. Well, John finally let go
tho wheat and took his money. Ho
was then installed IN a ranch hand and
told to go to work in the morning. In
the morning he was gone, but Hickey
didn't mind that rs he had the wheat.
He showed it to tho ranch hands, and
his foreman, whose curiosity was cXcit-
cd, bit one of the kernels. 1t was not
grain at all, but -four moulded into tho
shape of wheat kernel almost as big
rs a hazel nut. Some yellow satin
had been put on, and the heather had
made such nico imitation that an old
rancher Was fOoled.-Carson Tribune.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-01-14
The Argan1 Lamp.

Argand, poor Swiss, Invented a
lamp with wick fitted into n hollow
cylinder, up which current of air was
allowed to pass, this giving supply of
Oxygen to the interior rs we'll as t. the
exterior of tho circular frame. At first
Argand used the lamp without glass
chimney. One day he was busy in his
worlroon,, and sitting before tie burn
ing lamp. His little brother was anus
ing himself by placing bottomlrss oil
flask over different articles. Suddenly
he placed it upon the flame of the lamp,
which instantly slio. nip the long, circu-
lar neck of tha flask with increased bril-
liancy. 1t did more: for IL flashed into
ArSands mini tn. idea of the lamp
chimuey: by which the invention was
perfected. =. .-'.. :