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THE CARBON FlLAMEnT.


How II Is Placed and Secured In the Eioc-
tric Lamp.
The first step Is TO take two minute
pieces of platinum wire, ono end OF
each having been shaped into little
socket capable OF holding tho enlarged
end OF the carbon hlament, and, after
mounting them in small lathe chuck
TO wind melted glass from glass rod,
heated in glassblower's lamp, around
these platinum wires until they are for
some distance imbedded in glass and
formed into structure such as is seen
ut the lower part of the ordinary in
candescent lamps. Into these lamps
and platinum supports are then in
serted the large ends OF the carbon ala
ment.
In the meantime small glass TASKS,
made by the thousands at tho glass
works, are passed through a variety Of
manipulations by which small glass
tube is attached to what would DO the
bottom OF each flask, and Its neck
is shaped so as to receive the
glass socket carrying tho platinum
wires and carbon fllament. At tho
proper time this socket is dropped into
the prepared flask, and by manipulation
with the glassblower's lamp and n slight
of hand which is simply marvellous the
glass socket with its carbon filament
and connecting wires, is sealed by fusion
OF the glass itself into the neck OF tho
flask. The girl holds in her left hand
the glass flask oy the glass tube which
has been attached to 1t, and in her right
hand the shears with which she at
times holds and shapes the glass socket
and neck OF the flask.
The next thing to be done with the
lamps is to exhaust them. For this
purpose they are attached by the small
glass tubes before mentioned to radiat-
ing glass connectors, and these in turn
are attached to the pumps, while at the
same time electric connections arc made
SO that CUR rents can be sent through the
flaments OF the lamps while they are
being exhausted by the pumps.
ncr's Magazine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03
THE MARKETS.


Corrected Weekly by Charles Mckee & Co.,
The Grocers, IIopkinsville, Ky.
PROVISIONS.
Butter-2o to 25e.
Peaitry-sa.6o; chickens, $50 to s2.2s.
naSs-country, il to 49,; sugar cured, 10 to
Shouiders-sc.
Iard-Reaned, g.; extra choice leaf, 100.
fiour-Patent, A.sO; standard, $500.
Meal--60e per bushel.
Dried Beef-By piece, l5c; Clipped, 2os.
GROCERIES.
sugars-Granuiated ~; N. o., g.; dark
TcasI8isck, oos to 800; green, 500 to yl.oo.
CoiTecs-tsreen Rio, rs TO yUc; Golden Rio, w.
o. G. Java, 80 to $50; roasted, 70 to sosi ground'
BAKING Powders-2s to 800.
Nolasses--N. o., % to 'Se; heavy, 40 TO Oos.
CANNED GOODS.
Tomatocs-2ib cans, si.oo per doz; Slh cans,
si.l5 to 81 rs per doc.
Corn-aib cans, sl.Oo to sl.5o per doz
aOystcrslib cans, si.Oe to si.zo; 2ib cans, si.Is
PcSs-aib cans, sI.So to $500; French $500 per
doz.
less rs per doz; gold wax, I'D cans Jaw por
Biackberries-2ib cans, si.a5 per doz
Strnwberries--aib cans, t7.VO ~ 1910 per doz i,
Raspberries (lj)--2ib sl.i5 per dOz.
Sariincs--Amerlcan, ibf per dVzi frcnch, lo>s
to 2Uc per can; smoked, 1vc per can.
VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
Apples-sl.50 per bu.; dried, U TO Sc perpound /;
eyaporated, I2Isc per pnund.
Oranges--25 70 Soc per doz.
Potatoes--Irish, 5Oc for choice sound goods;
sweet 15c for choice r0unr goods.
OuIons-{i.25 per bu
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03

-Plttsburg (Kas, mines sell coal at
',rty cents ton. The Shelter says III
the only city on the American cont.
icnt in which coal can ne purchased In
IS amount tho buyers wish at forty
ats per ton
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03

Are active, effective and pure. For
sick headache, disordered stomach,
loss Of appetite, bad complexion and
biliousness, they have never been
equaled either in America or abroad
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03

Young Lady TO young man who has
kissed her)-"Thats very singular, SIR !"
Young Man-"Ahl Well, allow me to
make il plural. "-Boston Budget.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03

1t is estimated that 20 per cent. OF
the food consumed in the United States
is wasted because it is improperly
cooked.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03

There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory"
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits.
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine,
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
IT'S sold everywhere.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-03

ER-Passcnge- should purchase tickets via
this line, Il Is emphntically the Most Attractive
Route In the South to-day.
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MAGNIFICENT PULLMAN BUFFET
SLEEPING CARS Run nETwEEN
VIA MEMPHIS WITHOUT
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For Time Tables, Map Folders, and Price Of
, 1890-01-25
THE GRAND OLD MAN.
He Talks to DR.. Talmage on
Religion and Politics.
Ways and Means Committee
Hear the Canadian Question.
Naval Affairs Considered by
the Senate Committee.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 24.-To.day DR..
Talmage OF Brooklyn, took luncheon and
spent the afternoon with Gladstone at
Hawarden. They had a long talk on
religious and political questions. in the
course of which Gladstone said Talk
about questions of the day; there is but
one question and that is the gospel. 1t
can and will correct everything needing
correction. All men at the head of great
movements are Christian men. My only
hope for the world is bringing the human
mind Into contact with devine revelation. -
DR.. Talmage asked Gladstone if the
course OF Irish home rule would be vic
torious.
Gladstone frightened up and responded
emphatically: Yes, when the next cleo
ton COMES" He continued: 1T seems
to be a dispensation of God that | should
be engaged in the battle. AT my time of
life | should be resting. / never had
any opinion on these matters. l dislike
the contest. but when Ireland. once the
refuge of prosecuted EnRlishmen, showed
herself ready to adopt a righteous consti
tuition and do her full duty, l hesitate not
a moment to espouse her cause" When
the gentlemen were parting Gladstone
said: Give my highest regards to Presi,
dent Harrison. express to Mr.. Blaine nv
deepest sympathy with him on account Of
the loss of his beloved SON
, 1890-01-25

WASHINGTON. Jan. 24.-S. j. Richie,
Ohio. appeared before the ways and
means committee and argued in favor of
free importation of Canadian mineral ores
and in favor OF unrestricted reciprocity
with the Dominion. The chairman (hay-
ing ascertained that Mr.. Richie was con
versant with Canadian matters) inquired
what the sentiment was In Canada in re
gard to annexation. Mr.. Richie replied
that any sentiment could be found in
Canada which anybody wished to fish for.
There was a considerable sentiment in
favor OF reciprocity, and BY taking a
proper course the United States could in
crease the sentiment.
Mr.. Payne asked as to the feeling
toward the Butterworth reciprocity bill.
MIR. Richie replied that the opposition
in the Canadian parliament numbering
about one third of its membership had
adopted the Butterworth bill as its plat
form. 10 reply to a question by Carlisle
MIR. Richie stated American interests in
Canada were very large. Mr.. Carlisle
asked whether Canada would give the
United States free coal if the United
State gave her free iron. Mr.. Richie re-
Pile emphatically in the affirmative.
Hon. Benz. Butterworth of Ohio, ad
dressed the committee IN support of his
bill for reciprocity with Canada.
, 1890-01-25

The only proper way to kill canvas
back ducks Is to shoot them on the wing
as they fly over you. If you are a muff
you will have lots of sport, and will not
hurt the ducks. You will blaze away at
them as they fly toward you, which is
precisely what l, as a lover of the species,
would best like you to do, unless you are
generous and are disposed to divide your
bag. So long as you shoot them in this
way only a rare accident will enable 5yu
to do any harm to the beautiful crea-
lures. They wear a breastplate of feath-
ers which is practically impervious to
shot. If you are n sportsman you will
let them fly over, and shoot them as they
recede.
The fact that the ducks fly high and
are very swift Of wing renders it diff
cult to kill them on the wing at all, and
as very few men are really good shots,
resort is had by the majority to such
blind shooting as is permitted. Bat
teries are, Of course, forbidden, and so
are sneak boxes and the like. But it il
permitted to the half skilled sportsmen
to build blinds Of reeds along the shore
and to shoot from behind them when the
ducks approach within range. In this
sort of shooting very little harm would
be done but for the fact that the canvas
back is beset with a curiosity surprising
that Of women.
"lt he sees anything in motion on the
shore which he does understand, no
consideration OF prudence will restrain
him from padding at once towards it,
regardless of all danger, and the duck
shooters take advantage of this by train
ing little dogs to IL about in q frisky,
absurd fashion in trout of the blinds
when ducks are in sight. As soon as
the ducks see what is going on the whole
flock makes for the shore, and the sports
men can shoot at what range they will.
Philadelphia Record.
, 1890-01-25
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Natural Gas Plays Havoc at
Columbus, Ohio.
Five Persons Killed Outright
and Thirty Injured.
A Sensational Shooting Occurs
in San Francisco.

COLUMBUS. O., Jan. 24.-Six people
were killed and thirty injured, more or
less seriously. by an explosion of natural
gas in this city early this evening. Some
of the injured are in a critical condition
and may die. A few minutes after 5
O'Clock the fire department was called to
the corner of High and Main streets.
where it was said the explosion had oc-
Cured in a one-storY dwelling. corner OF
Wall and Noble alleys. An excited
crowd OF onlookers rushed into a narrow
alley with the hremen and pushed up to
a house. from which cries were heard
coming.
immediately afterwards it was reported
an explosion rent the air, a sheet of flame
burst from a building on the northwest
corner of Noble and Wall alleys. and in
an instant a mass OF bricks, beams and
stone that constituted two story building
were flying through the air. The scene
was terrible People fled shrieking in all
directions. while the alley was instantly
covered with a mass of debris, from which
came cries and moans OF the injured, but
everything was confusion. Quick as pos
sible the police and fremen organized and
began the work of searching through the
mass of bricks and timbers for the unfor
tn Iate victims. Five we're taken out
dead, Charles Becht. john Seymour, a
co'ored boy; Mrs P. Merrott, an un-
known man and an unknown babe.
Thirty people, men, women and chill
dren were injured by burns, cuts or
bruises, and it is possible other bodies
may be found iD the ruins of the buildiup
to morrow. The explosion, as near as
can be ascertainet resulted from the as
cumulation of natural gas in the cellar OF
Merrott's house, it having leaked in from
a street main. Besides destroying the
house and block next to it, a house on
the other side of the alley was completely
wrackad
, 1890-01-25
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

A WINCHESTER, Va, dispatch saws ex-
Senator R~iddleberger died at 2:3O yestec-
day morning
Francis G. Harmon has been appointed
~storekeeper and gauger in the first dis
trict of California.
A London dispatch says the Belaeoa
Bay railway has been completed 70 the
frontier Of Transvaal.
Nellie BLY, arrived in Chicago at 8 a. M.
yesterday and left for New York over the
Pennsylvanla at 10 o'clock.
A Quebec dispatch says: The Roman
Catholic church at BEAUFORT, valued at
$3O0,000, burned yesterday.
Advices from Mentone say there has
been a further Development OF govt In
the case of Mr.. Spurgeou and that he is
now unable to leave that place.
News from Rio Janeiro states the de-
falcation of &c, pisos has been discov-
cred in the telegraph department, for
which Baron DeCapanema, chief baron.
has been arrested.
Judge Mauesl, of the queens bench
division of the high court of Justice, was
stricken with paralysis while sitting on
the bench at London yesterday. His
condition is serious.
, 1890-01-25

learned the other day that the big
milk supply con- panies of the city found
1t necessary t. exercise a surveillance
over their drivers, but it has peer al
ready reduced to an elaborate system.
An experienced and dishonest driver can
start out with fifty gallons of milk in
spected pure at the depot, and from the
supply deliver sixty-fve gallons, the
fifteen gallons accruing to his own profit,
and being secured by judicious watering
at various points on the route. Before the
discovery of this practice some of the
drivers had a regular run of customers
of whom their employers knew nothing.
The companies inspectors now go about
the city at random, and, following q de-
livery of milk, ds soon as the driver is
gone subject it to an inspection with the
lactometer, If it has been watered that
driver is discharged, and, by an agree
ment with the other dairy companies, he
cannot enter the employ of any of them.
Interview in st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat,
, 1890-01-25

CHICAGO. Jan. 24.-The Nail says it
is reported on the board of trade that the
settling clerks Of B. p. Hutchinson, BY a
series of cross trades made to a certain
broker, have swindled him out of a very
large sum of money. The amount taken
was reported to have been as much as
800. 200.
The evening Journal says Hutchinson,
while admitting the embezzlement, denies
that they loot up more than a few thou
sand dollars. The jrsariqf saws. however,
t-Is ~ Uut q CO-uauu-.,y., LIT -l = Eys-
TEN Of robbery, whereby "Old Hutch
has been victimized for nearly two years.
His trades on the board are said to be
very loosely managed, and this accounts
for the ease with which the stealing was
done. The Journal asserts that the Job
was put up by Thomas Stoner, one OF
Hutchlnson's most trusted clerks, and
Bert King, a trusted clerk OF Broker p.
Dickinson.
Stoner would mark up an amount he
considered safe, from 500 to S., 900,
against Hutchinson and to the credit of
w. p. Dickinson. King would make no
corresponding entry on D~ickinson's sheet,
the amount to be duly paid into the
clearing house. but of course not collected
by Dickinson. 1t would be returned to
Hutchinson as uncollected, when Stoner
would go to Hutchinson's cashier, point
out a debit on the sheet and have a check
drawn for Dickinson. King would divert
this into cash and divide with his partner
in .Orimar
, 1890-01-25

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The senate
committee on naval affairs held an i'm
portant meeting to-day at which, after
considerable discussion, the committee
decided upon a policy which will govern
it during this congress in the work Of
building up the navy. This is in brief
that a great line OF battle ships like the
English Ben Bow should be constructed
at once. Senators Chandler and McPher.
son, however, are not in accord with the
decision reached and majority and minor
lty reports will be submitted to the senate.
Senator Stanford is not wholly committed
to the decision reached. The naval board
which Secretary Tracy appointed recon
mended tie constr uction of 227 war yes
sells OF various kinds to cost S349, $4,000,
with a total capacity of 6l0, OBS tons.
This total includes S67. 965, 900 already
expended, and authorizes the expendi.
ture of S2Sl $50, 900. When the com
mlttee proceeded to the consideration of
recon nendations. the issue was raised
whether it was advisable at this time to
begin with the construction OF the i'm
mense line of battle ships proposed, in.
GLIDING harbor defense monitors. There
are torty-four of these vessels, and they
would cost S202, 400, 900, while the other
vessels together would cost only Sl47,-
OPS ,00Oi
Chandler and Mcpherson urged the
United States should continue the pres
ent policy of building fast cruisers, and
defer the building OF a high line of battle
ships until we had a larger number Of
cruisers, or there was some exiVency call
ing for their construction. On this issue
the committee divided. the majority
agreeing with the policy board, and Hale
was instructed to report tavoraby the bill
introduced By him several days ago, EN-
bodyIng the recommendations of Secre-
tnrp Tranr
, 1890-01-25

The old oak at Mamre in Syria. or, az
it is known everywhere. "Abraham's
Oak. is one of the most famous and ven
cradle trees in the world. 1t is rever-
enccd alike by Jew, Christian and Ma
hometan, for it is supposed to mark the
spot where the patriarch pitched his tent
in the desert. There is n superstition in
Jerusalem, and in all the country about,
that whoever shall cut or injure this tree
will lose his first born son. So for cen
turtles it has been allowed to toss its
gn1rlcd and contorted limbs in the gales
which sweep from the Mediterranean
ovcr the Syrian plains.
This tree was visited by Sir Joseph
Hooker in tire autumn of 1850, and in his
paper upon Syrian oaks, read the follow
ing year before the Linnaean society
Transactions, xiii, he gave a descrip-
ton Of it and II portrait drawn by his
own hand
Abrahan's Oak was found to belong
to Quercus pseudo-coccifera which, to
quote from Sir Joseph's paper, sis by far
The most abundant tree throughout Sy-
ria, covering the rocky hills, of Palestine
especially, with a dense brushwood of
trees eight to twelve feet high, branch
ing from the base, thlckly covered with
small evergreen rigid leaves, and bear
ing acorns copiously. On Mount Carmel
it forms nine-tenths of the shrubbery
vegetation, and it is almost equally
abundant on the west TANKS of the An
tilebanon and many slopes and valleys of
Lebanon. Owing to the indiscriminate
destruction of the forests in Syria, this
oak rarely attains its full size" The CIR
conference of the trunk of "Abraham's
Oak" is given as go feet, and the diameter
of the spread of the branches as 80 feet.
Quercus pseu~do-coccifera is an ever
green species, with the general appear
ance of the LEX, of southern Europe, and
closely related, botanically, to Qusrcus
coccifera, a common and widely distrib-
uted scrub oak of southern Europe and
Of Algeria; indeed, Hooker was of the
opinion that the two plants we're merely
geographical varieties of the same spe-
cies. Garden and Forest.
, 1890-01-25

CLEVELAND, o Jan. "a Once more
the new ladies temperance organization
has changed its name. The first agreed
was the American Woman's Temperance
League This was changed yesterday
afternoon to the National Crusaders"
After cogitating the matter over last night
some of the ladies decided that they
didn't like the latter name, so this morn
ing action was reconsidered, and after
some discussion the name of Nom
Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was decided upon, despite the
objection OF the minority, who thought
the name too long, aud besides wanted
something distinctive from the old organ
iZation.
Election Of officers was her proceede d
with. with the following result: Miss +.
Jennie Doty of Cleveland, general secre-
tary; Mrs. Florence Miller of Des Moines.
Iowa, recording secretary; Miss Z. j.
Shortledge OF Pennsylvania, financial
secretary; Mrs. c. Cornelia Afford of
Brooklyn. n. Y, treasurer. The heads
of the five departments Tor work " ere sc.
lected as follows:
Evansellstic secretary, Mrs. Mary j.
Aldrich of Iowa; educational secretary.
Mrs, Joseph D. Weeks of Pennsylvania;
legislat We secretary, Mrs. Lydia H. Til
on of the District of Column bia; literary
work, Mrs. Florence Porter of Oldtown.
Maine; young women's work, Mrs. j. r.
Webster of Illinois. At the request of
Mrs. Aldrich of Iowa, and Mrs. Core Of
Pennsylvania, circulars will be issued
showing the difference between the old
and new organizations.
, 1890-01-25
A Sensational Shooting.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. "a louis
Bromwell. president of the California In
surance company, was shot and badly
wounded this morning by George G..
Pratt, agent Of the company. The shoot
ing has caused a great sensation. In ex-
PLANTATION of the shooting, he said he had
recently been sent to Japan by Cromwell
and upon returning a week ago received
from his wife a confession that she had
been seduced by Bromwell.
After obtaining evidence confirming
this, Pratt went to Bromwell's office and
charged him with crime, and then shot
him. Both men are widely known in
business and social circles. Pratt was
married twenty years age and is from
Chicago. He has two sons. Bromwell
is married and has family. Cromwell
declined to make any statement. Pratt
said his principal reasan for shooting
grew out OF the fact that his wife, by
reason of her betrayal, has becomeiu
sane,
, 1890-01-25

CHARLESTON, W. Va. Jan. 24.-Gen.
Nathan Golf spoke to-day for the general
assembly Of he two houses OF the legis.
lature in behalf Of himself Ne contcsree in
the gubernatorlal contest. He repud,-
ated the charges that frauds were COM
mitted, and contended he did n OF appear
for himself, bnt for the people who he
said had elected him governor. He
made an eloquent appeal tor justice; jus,
tice to the voters of the state and de-
clsred his intention to abide by the de-
cision of the legislative court. This
closed the for Golf. Col. St.
Clair will to morrow close for Fleming.
, 1890-01-25

LONDON, Jan. 2.-The British steam
or Sandman, Capt. Richardson, from
Portland, Jan, 9, arrived at Liverpool
last night. She reports very heavy
weather. On Jan. l6 an alarm of fire
was caused by the bursting OF a steam
guage. In the meantime the funnel was
smashed and the fires were s~mothered by
water pouring In on them. Two men
we're killed and a third was 80 badly in
lured that he subsequently died. 1t was
impossible to replace the funnel for
tw~enty-four hours, and in the meantime
the steamer drifted and the storm at tn.
same time increased in severity. The
three men were buried at sea when the
storm abated. all the S~ardinian's life
boats, except one, were smashed by the
heavy Seas.
, 1890-01-25

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 24.-The two
great miners organizations to-day adopt
ed a constitution, section by section, but
not without much discussion aud feeling.
Although the constitution has not been
adopted as a whole, there is no doubt
but such action will be taken when the
Joint convention convenes again tO-mor-
row. The constitution provides hat the
new organization be known as the
United Mine Workers and National
Trades Assembly No. 135, Knights of
Labor and National Progressive Union"
The objects are to unite mine employees.
and ameliorate their condition by methods
OF Cancellation, and arbitration OF strikes.
, 1890-01-25

San Francisco, Jan. 24-Great
storms continue on the mountains and
difficulties on the Central Pacific are in.
creased in consequence. The road has
now been blocked for ten days, which Is
the longest period it has ever been
blocked. The storm, however, is un.
doubtedly the most severe experienced
since the first overland road was built into
California. Many streams in Northern
California have been rising rapidly again
to-day, and fears of another overflow are
entertained. A snowstorm is still pre-,
vailing in the Siskyon mountains, and
several landslIdes have occurred.