Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-02
MISCELLANEOUS

crop OF celery thls year.
--"What Is the interior of Africa
principally used for? asked teacher of
pupil in geography. "For purposes
of exploration" was the reply.-M T.
Ledger. f.
"A contemporary states that 15o,-
100000 corkscrews are turned out
every year in Newark, N. j. We were
always under the impression that cork
screws were turned in. - YonkerS States
man.
Visitor (noticing an active autumn
industry)-"I should think that Chi
cago would be an excellent place for
comic papers" Citizen-"Why sop
Visitor--"It is such good chestnut
market"
The man who absconded with n
red-hot stove has been eclipsed by
Denver individual who jumped
cemetery. The citizens are talking OF
compromising with him by giving him
burial plat and planting him in it
San Francisco Alta.
, According to DIR. Douthwaite, n
medical missionary attached to the hos
pital at Chofoo in China, the Chinese
attribute all classes of disease to anger.
They do not regard themselves as
blameworthy, however, for getting
angry. but consider themselves simply
as necessary victims of the passion of
anger.-M Y. Ledger.
The coolest known point on the
earth, says DIR. II. Koppen, of the Rus
sian meteorological Service, is Wer-
choiansk. in Eastern Siberia, where the
mean temperature for the year is two
degrees and nine-tenths below the zero
OF the Fahrenheit thermometer. This
place is on the Yana River, just north
of the Arctic circle. m y Ledger.
Travellers through the Hoosac tun-
mel recently experienced a curious
change in weather. On entering the
C,aftsrn end of the tunnel the travellers
ing and was dovofd'6ahJ Jcain was pour
snow. On leaving the tunnel, the
traveller saw with astonishment
driving snow-storm and a snow-covcred
ground. .
AT Milton, Pa, the other evening,
a lady upon coming out of meat-shop
was accosted by a masher, Quick as .
flash she put her hand into the baskeA
and pulled out piece of bologna
sausage, which she pointed at the fell
low, crying out: 'Leaye me, you
scoundrel, or l will shoot YOU" The
masher saw what he thought to be
pistol and quickly made his escape.
-On account of its embarrassing
qualities, there would seem to be no
good reason why cypress should not
make headway as material for
siding, in competition with whito pine.
IL is being used to small extent for
house finish is some northern cities. 1t
has pleasing appearance. = Wood
Worker.
"A novel type Of floating saw mill
has been built at Creston City, Fla,
consisting of II large lighter or barge,
with two floors, and covered with iron
roofing, so that it resembles house
ahoat. 1t is forty feet wide, eighty
feet long, six feet deep, draws eleven
feet of water, and required 100, 900 feet
of lumber in its construction. Its saw
mill equipment is quite complete.
The oldest canal in America is for
sale. 1t is called the Union canal and
extends from the Schuylkill river near
Reading, Penn, to the Susquehanna at
Middletown. The route was first sur
voyed in 1862. but the canal was not
completed until 1927. 1t is eighty-nine
miles in length and cost 5000. 900.
No doubt 1t can be bought at much
lower figure. 1t is not stated whether
tile property has to be removed or not.
Last winter family in Monroe
township, Bedford County, Penn, suf-
fered severely with diphtheria. The
heavier coverings used on the patients
beds were not washed or fumigated
after the disappearance of the disease.
In the spring these covers were packed
away, and a few weeks ago were taken
out and put on the beds. There arc
now three cases of diphtheria in the
family, and no other cases in the neigh
borhood.
"A young man had his girl out car
riage riding the other evening. and the
horse took fright and ran away. In
turning n corner tho vehicle overturned
and the young lady was pinned to the
earth, the body of the carriage lying
heavily across her waist. She was rem
dered unconscious. When she was re-
leased from her perilous situation she
slowly opened her eyes as conscious
ness returned, and family gasped:
'Don't-squoeze-me-quite--so-hard
-next-time-John."
In country court in Engl and re-
Gently there was trial to determine
the ownership of dog. The Judge
couldn't make out from the evidence
which claimant was the real owner, so
he made one stand on each side while
an officer held the dog in the middle of
the room. Then he told them both to
whistle and the officer to release the
dog ut the same moment When this
was done the dog bolted through tine
open door. "Call the next case" was
all tho comment the judge made, al
though the litigants stormed.
AN English physician who has In
vcstigated the characteristics and sur
roundings of centenarians says that he
finds that the average qualities were
good family history, well-made frame
of average stature, spare rather than
stout, robust, with good health, appe-
tite and digestion, capable of exertion,
good sleepers, of placid temperament
and good intelligence, very little need
for and little consumption Of alchohol
and animal food. The man who aspires
to be centenarian should therefore fit
himself out with these qualifications.
The chances of life are thus set