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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
The Harlequin Snake.

One of the most curious snakes in
the large collection at the geological
gardens in this city is the harlequin.
There are several of them there, and
the funny-colored rings are the won
der of all who have seen them. This
snake is also known as the coral
snake, and the snake experts are
busy figuring out whether or not his
bite is poisonous.
AS the Smithsonian institution is
the great intelligence bureau of the
United States. letters are constant
from Florida asking whether the
coral snake or harlequin snake found
there is poisonous or not?" Some
times the question is difficult to an
swer, because there are innocent
snakes, which, through imitation or
mimiGry, assume the color of Flaps.
There are many of these coral snakes
which do not seem to want to bite,
even under provocation. Though
unquestionably the Brazilian mem
bers of the genus have poisonous
fangs, these South American snakes
have been frequently carried about
as pets in peoples pockets, and they
never have tried to bite. -Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
This Is Another Story.

All sorts of stories have been circu-
lated over the alleged "nearness" of
John Jacob Aston. 1t has been fire.
quently said he is the thriftiest Astor of
the line. These stories may or may not
be true, but Assemblyman John B.
Stanchfeld, of New York, tells quite a
different story about Mr.. Aston. 1t oc-
CURED on the recent trip of Gov. Nor
ton and his staff to the Atlanta exposi-
ton. A number of democratic legis-
lators, including Mr.. Stanchfeld and
Senator Jacob A. Cantor, went along.
AS the train swung along towards At
lanta the republicans aboard the train
thought it would be fine thing for
them to give the governor send-of in
Atlanta. They wanted funds for fire.
works and bands and refreshments.
Mr.. Stanchfield spoke to Mr.. Astor, and
without a murmur he pulled out his
pocketbook and in a second Mr.. Stanch-
field had check for $4,000.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
THE CHEWING GUM FACE.

Certthed-Check Face Seems to Be the
Best Artificial Countenance.
The chewing gum face is the latest
scientific discovery, and it is argued by
the discoverer that no one who chews
gum can possibly be beautiful. This
will not have any influence upon the
homely, but to actresses and others
who imagine they have good looks that
should not be wantonly chewed away
it should prove deterrent. Per-
chance the ceaseless chewing habit of
the droneaary, who -chews as fastid-
iously and industriously upon a pea
nut as upon a squash, is the real cause
of that useful quadruped's haggard,
quaint and infinite LONELINESS. We
should think that smoking cheap CT
gars, through the incessant hard puff
ing devolved on the smoker, would alb
normally develop his masseter muscles
and give him tobacco face thatshould
prove instrumental in securing for him
the position of cigar store Indian.
We will not allude to the cigarette
face, says Truth, or any other face
that, like the chewing gum face, is
false face, inasmuch as it is not a
natural face. A happy, well-fed, con-
tented-looking man, who is the picture
of health, is the man with certified
check face. From the constant hand
ling of certified checks drawn in his
favor his face becomes a sort of paipi-
tant rose garden. This is so much bet
ter than the chewing gum face that we
wear it more from preference than
from force of circumstances
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
An Unpopular Match.

The betrothal of Princess Maud to
her Danish first cousin, who is three
years her junior and not in the line of
succession, is extremely unpopular
everywhere in England She is the
one member Of the Marlborough house
family who is reputed to be above
mediocrity mentally. and the public
had the idea that she would do some
thing worth while in the marriage
market. Her choice is SO disappoint-
ing from every point of view that some
excuse seems TO be necessary. The
story has been started that her be-
trothed is Russia's secret choice for the
Bulgarian throne, and that Ferdinand
is to be frozen out to make room for
MIN this winter.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
TOOK HIM LITERALLY.
Unfortunate Mistake Made by a Green
Reporter Causes Trouble.

Unfortunate Mistake Made by Green
Reporter Causes Trouble.
The polite stranger who called to
see the city editor rose to his feet in
alarm as he heard some man who was
Just leaving the room complaining st
a terrible rate. He was roasting the
paper, says the Houston (Tex) Post,
from editor to devil, and calling down
all sorts of maledictions upon the heads
of everybody connected with the office.
Don't be alarmed" said The city
editor, as he drew a match from his
pocket and asked the stranger for q
cigar That's one of the most promi-
nent and well-l1nown citizens Of Hous
ton. You see. we had man try to in
terview him yesterday and get his views
on certain subject. and he made the
reporter solemnly promise he would not
print what he said in the paper"
Il see" said the polite stranger
And it got in owing to some mistake,
and was published, and made him mad"
NO" said the city editor. at was
accidentally left out"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
Could Bear Her Gross.

When Princess Clotilde, the daugh-
ter of Victor Emmanuel, came to
Paris as the bride of Prince Ma
poleon, Eugene, herself parvenu,
felt some constraint in her dealings
with the daughter of raceof kings,
but did all that she could to conceal
her feelings. Clotilde was very
good, very pious, very quiet, but as
proud as Lucifer. At one of the
splendid fetes that were arranged to
celebrate her arrival in Paris, the
remarked to her, with an
air of one who has been accustomed
to that sort of thing always: 81 am
awfully bored, aren't you?" yes"
lClotilde, quietly; "but L
am used to it." Eugene never for
gave her for this remark.
-Rashness and haste make all
things insecure. -Denham.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
FoRoor coLoRs.


Experience OF Man w'ha wAs Nihc
hfonthsdn . Darss Room.
The human eye. though erainefs to
distinguish cologs, mag by want Of laSi,
forget how to distinguish them. The
unique experience of DIR, B. Harley. r.
r. 8. related in the London Spectator
establishes the fact that color can be
forgottep. as well as learned. by human
sight.
Dr.. Harley. in order TO save the sight
of one, perhaps Of both eyes, when one
was injured. voluntarily injured him
self in room made totally dark for
nine months.
The fortitude which enabled him to
adopt this course and the ingenuity by
which he preserved his health and fac
ulties in this, the most mentally and
physically depressing of oil forms Of
imprisonment, are sufficiently remark
able; but DIR. Harvey also kept an ac
curate record of his impressions when
he at last looked again upon the light.
after the supreme moment at which
he satisfied himself that he was not
blind, but could see.
He found that in the nine r'onths
darkness his eyes had lost all sense
of color. The world was black, white
and gray. They had also lost the sense
of distance. His brain interpreted the
picture wrongly. His hand lid not
touch the object meant to be grasped.
Practice soon remedied the last induced
defect of sight. Experiment with
skeins of various-colored wool. in the
presence of one who had normal color
vision restored the first
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13

When young couple runs away to get
married half the world says: How
Romantic |" the other half says: "How
silly But you can't tell either way
until the honeymoon " is over When
this young couple get settled down to the
regular hum-drum of life, they'll manage
all right and find solid happiness in any
case, If they have good hearts and sound
health. All depends on that.
t'swonderful how much health has to
do with married happiness. Sickness af-
fects the temper. You can't be happy
nor make others happy if you're ailing.
When you find yourself irritable, easily
worried, beginning to rundown it's
because your blood is getting poor. You
need richer blood and more Of it. Your
blood-making organs need to be vitalized
by DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. 1t imparts new power to produce
an abundance of the healthy, red corpus
cles, and gives you a fresh supply of
pure, rich blood. It's blood-creator
It is for everyone whose blood is impure
or in a poor rundown " condition. It
prevents the germs of disease from get
ting. a hold on your system. Even after
disease Is settled on you, it Is driven out
by the blood-creating properties OF the
Discovery" 1t is a perfect cure for
general and nervous debility, catarrh,
malaria, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula and
every form of blood disease. It isn't
called consumption-cure but even con-
sumption, = which has its roots in the
blood-is driven out by the "Golden
Medical Discovery" if taken in time.
The Discovery is the prescription
of one of the most eminent physicians
and medical writers in this country.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
GATHEREp ABROAD,

"A post cart was attacked in the
most central part Of Belgrade one
/ morning recently and 200, 700 francs
that were in. it carried off Part Of
the booty was a 20-pound box con-
tanning 10000 francs in gold napole-
ons. No trace of the thieves.
"A Southsea, England, gentleman
who undertook to drive a horseless
carriage, the other day, on the high
way,was fined one shilling and fifteen
shillings seven pence costs for not
sending man with a flag 20 yards
ahead of his locomotive, when it was
in motion
-Four Birmingham druggists have
just been fined for a queer form of
adulteration of drugs. They sold ar
ticles of greater strength than the
standard of the British pharma-
cop9ia. In some cases there was 40
per cent. more iodine, ETC., in their
tinctures than there should have
been.
I'm Germany in 1894, 446,
persons were convicted OF otfenses
against the law, to 43O, 4O3 in 1893,
an increase of 1867. OF the increase
10, 600 cases were of crimes against
the person, 500 against morality, and
3, 400 against the state, public order
and religion. The last class of cases
is l, 45O greater than in 1891.
Belgium proposes to facilitate
marriage by reducing the legal age
of both sexes to q years, instead of
% for the man and q for the woman,
as the law is now, and by making the
consent of the father alone necessary,
instead of that of both parents.
Golf in England has had the eff
feet of reviving some old towns that
were dying out, among them Sand
witch and New Romney, in Kent.
The old Cirque Port towns fell into
decay on account of the sand filing
in their harbors, and it is the long
stretches of sand and grass that now
attract golf clubs to them.
Very few people among the gen
eral public know that a certain class
of small brokers and stick and
umbrella sellers of London who have
not got regular shops of their own
make quite living out of the sales
of articles left in railway carriages
and waiting rooms and subsequently
disposed of at auction.
Stirred by the news that a
Japanese newspaper is being pub
lished in Yokohama to advertise
British manufacturers, the German
government has determined to print
Japanese newspaper of it's own;
only it will be printed at Berlin and
the articles will be written and
edited by members of the Academy
of Oriental Languages. 1t is likely
that Japanese of Berlin is not iden-
tical with Japanese Of Toxic. Ct
French bookmakers we're recent |
ly violently attacked in the assembly
by Able Lemire, a Catholic socialist
deputy, who spoke of the demoraliz-
ing effect of the paris mutuels" on
the working classes, and asked to
have them put an end to, or at least
that the government should not pro-
fit by them. AS the government
receives 1,80O,0OO a year from the
tax on mutual pools, and charitable
institutions draw II, 200, 900 from the
same source, the assembly, while adj
miring the abbe's reasons, voted him
down.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-13
Satisfaction Either WAY.

A famous advocate confessed HIM
self: Il am never so happy as when
am defending prisoner / know to be
guilty; for if he is convicted he will
get his deserts, and if get him off it
will be tribute to NV skill"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-24
PERSONAL.

The Rev. Samuel r. Pearson. of Port
land. Ne, was a witness in divorce case
the other day. Mr.. Pearson asked the
judge, were you on this bench in my
place and acquainted with all the circum-
stances of this case would you grant this
divorce 2" Most certainly, your honor"
replied the minister. But how do you re-
What God hath, Joined together let no man
put asunder? "Your honor, am satisfied
that the Lord never joined this couple, "
replied the clergyman.
I'm his younger years. says the New
York World, Verlaine was engaged to be
married to a very beautiful girl to whose
house he went one night in a state of in
toxication. The young lady was Mortified
by the sight, and the match at once brok-
en- off. She is now the wife of one of the
most prominent authors in France, and
trast to the barren garrett where Nerlaine
passed his last days. The London Book
man says that the most Verlaine ever re-
ceived for a poem i'm France was five
francs.
One popularity of Max Nordau's man
uscript. says the New York Times, is its
exceeding fineness; sometimes ii is almost
microscopal. He sends all his manuscript
as II is written Oft to the printers, and has
II sent back as soon as the work Is COM
posed. He then has the complete manu-
script bound into a volume, joining the
takes into which the original pages have
been cut with pieces of stamp edging. He
can tell by the look of his writing what de-
gree of concentration of spirit he had
reached while writing such or such pas
sage. The Paradoxes,' which he wrote
The manuscript is contained in sixty-ive
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-24
Nailed With Nails.

There is nothing better 10 nail a false
hood with than nails. The Dingiey tariff
bill is alleged 10 be an emergency bill
TO provide for the raising OF revenues
Among other things It provides that there
shall be a horizontal increase in the tariff
on wire nails and cut nails.
The bulletin OF The statistical bureau
of the treasury department corrected to
Feb 2 shows that during 1885 there were
no nails imported. Evidently. therefore,
no duties on nails were collected, TO help
the revenues along. 1t is preposterous TO
suppose that under an increased rate OF
duties nails would be imported. II might
be patriotic TO import nails under a
higher rate OF duty But II would not be
business. And patriotism isn't in it,
with business, in so far as nails are con-
cerned.
While no nails were imported. the nail
making infant industries" were able TO
export 10000 pounds Of nails. in COM
petition with nails made by the pauper
labor OF Europe. These expectations
were not made for the purpose OF demon
strating that America can make nails,
or for fun. They were sent away to mar
ket for profit
A year or so ago wire nails were quoted
at s. cents a keg and cut nails at 70
cents Notice has been given that begin
ming on March next the prices of nails
will be 1925 and 50 respectively. Whether
this great advance in price is due to the
working of the democratic tariff, or from
any other cause, does not matter SO
much. Tho point is that the Dingley bill
is a fraud when it alleges that its pur-
pose is to raise the rates on nails in or
der that the revenues may be increased
The idea is. simply, to give the nail
makers the privilege of squeezing the
home-market-the people who use nails
for stil more profit. 1t is a projections
list scheme; nothing more and nothing
less.
The Dingley bill Is one of the "emer-
gency'' measures that congress remain
ed in session during Christmas week tc
prepare and present as a means of relief
to the treasury. 1t illustrates pretty
clearly what kind of statesmen the repub-
leans of the present congress are. They
would take advantage of the govern
ments predicament to put profits into
the pockets of their partisans and favor