Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-08-14
PICKED PARAGRAPHS.
The season as they roll
Put up the price OF coal,
Then, rolling as before,
They put II up some more.


They put 1t up some more.
If you remark that the hot weather
always makes you ;ranspire profusely
the chances are that some one will
take you up for an incorrect use OF
the word "transpire." But as matter
of fact you will be using the word in
strict accord with Webster's definition
of it. Men who know this are win
ming wagers on their knowledge every
'day.
NJ. Nader de M1ntjou, French
politician, always rides for the bulk
of his journeying in a first class car
riage, but when he reaches the station
at the town next TO that at which he
is to alight, he skips into third class
carriage, and arriving at his desti-
nation steps out before and an admir-
ing constituency to pose as "robust
Radical"
The wife of Capt. Bates, or "Baby"
Bates, died at their heme at Wads-
worth, Sunday. They were the larg-
est married couple in the world. The
captain is s feet tall, and his wife was
7 feet 8 inches. They have exhibited
in almost every museum in this and
the Old World. Mrs. Bates gave birth
to child Weighing IS pounds, several
years ago, and has been 10 poor health
ever since.
A remarkable feat in locomotive
building was recently accomplished in
the Pennsylvania shops at Altoona.
The various parts of a passenger
engine, class A, anthracite, were
placed in shop one day last week
and in seventeen hours the engine
was completed. This time includes
two hours occupied in testing the
boiler. This beats the record of
twenty-three hours made by the
Baldwin locomotive works of Phila-
delphia.
The San Francisco Call says, re-
garding the effect of the Mills bill of
California industries Under the Mills
bill we should have an infnitelybetter
chance TO capture the trade of Aus
tralia than the treaty gives us to cap
ture that of Hawaii. The advantage
the removal of the taxes on materials
would give US in the general foreign
markets would be at least 20 or 30 per
cen while that the treaty gives US in
the Hawaiian market is at the outside
10 per cent. Our esteemed contem-
poraries may credit the Hawaiian
trade to protection as much as they
please, but the fact that the United
States sells as much of some articles
to that tiny kingdom as to all the rest
of the world put together, is a preg-
nant hint ofwhat 1t might do lift chose
to cultivate the worlds markets"
In a careful and able review of the
political situation the London Daily
News says: The republicans them
selves have now recognized the neces'
sity of some reform of ehe kind and
after vainly denouncing Mr.. Mills as
the author of a free trade measure
ruinous to the country, they are abou'
to initiate his example. = It'll
still far cry TO free trade in thu
United States. The Mills bill, jus
passed by one branch of the American
Legislature, contemplates no NOR
than lowering of the possible cos
of production by the removal of thu
duties upon raw materials, Will
leaving.the duties on manufacture
almost intact. 1t is the irreducibl
minimum of sound and healthy re
form, and it is hard to see how the re
publicans are either TO underbid o
overbid it with any PROJECT of part
success"