Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1893-06-27
PERSONAL AND iMpERsoNA,.


"A western man whose wealth con
sisted largely In mining interests, In
sisted that his only child, daughter,
should acquire q complete mastery Of
mining affairs and all forms of business
connected with 1t and sent her TO cob
lege for that purpose.
some OF our present day children
are startling occasionally. A little
girl OF five years recently used the ex.
preston 'post.mortem judgment
Upon her brothers questioning her aud
insisting that she should define il, she
said: swell, il you do thing and then
afterward wish you had done another
thing. that's post-mortem Judgment ="
Mrs. Abby Hutchinson Patton, the
abby Hutchinson" OF the famous
family ~ singers, recently died and was
buried at the old home in Milford, ~
II. The only surviving member of the
family Of sixteen children is John. who
lives OF High Rock, Lynn, Mass, and
is in his seventy-hrst year Three OF
Mrs Patton's best-known compositions
are "NIrs Lofty and /" kind words
Can Never Die and "If | We're a
Voice"
-Chauncey NJ Depew remarks;
"When | attend u dinner of my German
fellow-citizens ! am German When
sit down TO u banquet of the Sons OF
New England / am a descendant OF
the Pilgrim fathers. am also an
Irishman at Irish dinners, u French.
man at French dinners, etc have,
on pinch, changed my nationality
three tunes inside of twenty.four hours
and never suffered anything worse than
little Indigestion for it."
Two reverend and eloquent divines
Ct the Church OF Il lgiand. at Glouces.
Ter, were, on recent Sunday, the vie
Tins OF either shocking bAsencss at the
hands of the se' mon factory which
has been told about, or of deplora BILE
slip-up in the distribution of the p ate
matter discourses The same sermon,
word for word, was preached in the
morning by the vicar at one OF the city
churches, and In the evening at the
cathedral by one " the minor canons
"A well known Washington woman
has a habit of writing postal cards to
herself one day as reminders OF special
duties 10 which she needs to give at
tention on the next Which is like q
bit of provision among those notorious
ly-improyident folk-stage people. IL Is
a common thing for actors and actresses
on the road to send money orders to
themselves at coming places on their
route list which Is often the only care
for the future many OF them will take.
M. Worth aud his son manage their
entire establishment and delegate re.
sponsibility TO no one The whole
place breathes Of comfort luxury and
cheer.ness, says visitor Beautiful
girls are sitting or walking about In
the parlars, each elegantly dressed In
an elaborate costume Over five hum
dred people are employed by NJ Worth,
in each of whom he takes an interest,
treating the whole staff more like a
family than like a company OF EN-
ployes
Charles I. Russell, of Allegheny,
Pa, announces that the millennium
will surely arrive in October of 1914.
We are now in the Tapping time" be-
tween the hay of the gospel and the
grass of the millennium era This
"lapping time" began in October Of
1874, and will last forty years During
this period the kingdoms of the world
will be overthrown by the anarchists
nihilists, socialists and nationalists
At the same time the Hebrews will all
be in Palestine.
Reviewing the post-ofilcial career
of the presidents of the United States,
a Washington writer notes that six
men-Washington, jefferson, Madison,
jackson, johnson and Hayes-became
planters or farmers upon retiring from
public life; that five-Van Buren,, FIJI
more, Tyler, Grant and Cleveland
openly tried TO get another term; that
five-Van Buren,, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce
and Grant-traveled extensively at the
close Of their official career, and that
four Adams, Pierce, Buchanan and
Hayes-soonero or later became reclusea