The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1902-01-21

THE BOURBON NEWS. |
entered at the Post-office at Paris,
KY, as second-class mail matter.)
TELEPHONE NO. 124.
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PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
GEO. D. MITCHELL, EDITOR.
SENATOR O. DEBoE can inow spend
the remainder of his days in figuring
out ''who done it."
P1ERPONT MORGAN is said to be the
leading spirit III 100000 900 electrical
deal IN England.
Gov. LESLIE NJ. SHAW, of Iowa, par
doned 473 prisoners within two years.
breaking the record.
MCCREARY and Blackburn in the
Senate. Seems like old Kentucky is
coming back to her own again.
Elk CORN King Phillips former VIC
tins did a plenty to him when they
met him coming thro' the rye.
A CINCINNATI man has invented a
new drink by mixing beer and cham
paigne. Why risk spelling the beer?
ONE of the saddest features that is to
mark the close of this Congress will be
the stopping of Deboe's per diem
PER day"
PRINCE HENRY of Germany will
spend about two weeks in America, and
will be entertained at WashingtonIsa nd
IN New York.
A REGULAR army soldier at Fort Can
by was sentenced to ten years imprisOn-
mont for threatening to assassinate
President Roosevelt.
THE officers Of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition practically conceded at
the White House that the great fair will
not be held before 1904
THEIR twin sisters are to join bob"
and "Alf'' Taylor on thei public center
tainmant platform. If that means
''four of a kind it will be hard hand
TO beat.
THERE are twelve teachers, nine doc
tors and four editors in the Kentucky
legislature. Lawyers and farmers pre-
dominate in the makeup of the General
Assembly.
IT doesn't matter materially how
many bills are presented to the Legisla-
'tnre, it is those drawn by the Legisla-
ture on the State Treasury that make
the real trouble.
THE hair pin is still weapon of de-
tense and offense. A Texas woman
stabbed would-be masher with such
an implement recently, but the real
tragedy was shown when the local
paper referred to the affair as a serious
hair pinning
WONDER if any of those dear, good
women of the U. D. G. who spoke in
condemnation of the play, ever saw
@'Uncle Toms Cabin" with two Topsys,
two Lawyer Markses, playful blood
hounds and Little Eva ascending the
golden stairs?
IT will be of great interest to the out
side photographers, who are in the habit
of picturing kentucky as land where
everybody drinks ardent spirits, to
earn that the mistress of the Gov
ernor's house at Frankfort bars the
punch bowl at all social affairs.
A CHICAGO policeman poured alcohol
on sleeping mans foot and then ap-
piled a match a few days ago. The
said policeman claimed he wanted to
wake up his victim. The result is not
recorded, but it is extremely probable
That in his immediate plans he was
quite successful.
BY the death of Mckinley and the
accession Of Roosevelt the noses of two
members of the formers Kitchen Cabi.
net were knocked out of joint-those OF
Mark Hanna, plutocrat of Cleveland
and of Editor Kohlsaat, of the Chicago
Record Herald. The latter has wisely
followed his nose out of practical poll
tics, and the former, if he is wise, will
go and do likewise 1t is with both q
case of istic lff-"take it off before I
knock it off,
No sooner is it announced by Presi-
dent Roosevelt that the negro will be
invited to receptions at the White
House than Mrs. Roosevelt issues 8
statement that hereafter the tempera-