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Saddle and’ Harness Horses a Specialty. CARRIAGE AND BUGGY RE- PAIRING ER SHOP Galt Ho se £5.00 per ) and upwards, A. R. COOPER Wall aper! first to show We're always the FALL STYLES In all tHe latest and colors, They'r§ in now inepection, Finest line Picture Moul In the City Have you seen the Jatest? A YARD OF FACES, nable for GOOD ings work, L, P, BALTHASAR, 425 B way Under Pataen House A. W. GREIF, MANUFACTURER OF Carriages and Buggies. "| ALL KINOS OF BLACKSMITHING DONE TO ORDER. Horse Shoeing a Specially, 4 Court Street, d Third, Between Secon TARRIS & GRICE, Attorneys - at - Law, 125 8, Fourth—Upstairs, A. L, HARPER, \ ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 115 Legal Row—Upstairs, in all the cou 2s promply Matil, Effinger & Co Undertakers and embaime: an me 130 S Third phone 10 Brinton B. Davis, AROHITECT ~ WRITTEN " AT -RANDA MM. |the property of the marine Ways Cuba ts atill oppreaed, and Gro- distance telephone and have Remenyi| ** wag hen spd Apres all ver vontinues to slay ducks, despite| play for him and his wife « couple of | “ht, but were caught this morning the + ot the eclty hall last) selections, So Canton and the home | might of the president-elect were calied ap,| A happy man is always a healthy bd if the reply came that Mrs. Me-| one, It is impossible to be happy or Young Percy Sullivan, the Bowl-| Kinley and the president elect would | cheerful or useful when one is suffer ing Green dude, who was recently |b delighted to hear Mr. Remenyi.| ing froma discomfurting cold or a fon| The great master placed himself in sentenced to the penitentiary 7 Vika peiabr RW, W counterfeiting.on last Christmas, sent |ffont of the receiver of the tele- ipfecen, RY supt Cine out handsomely engrayed cards to|Pbone and played two numbers; the society girls of Hopkinsville, Pa-|the reply came back from Canton ‘ 9) |ducah, Bowling Green and other | that they heard it perfectly, and timent, says the Murray Ledger |strains, and they thanked the great THREE GREAT TRAINS. Merry Christmas and a happy Sttist over and over again for the New Year. Pency B. Sunutvax novel musical treat furnished by him “Knickerboeker Speci 1.” This Christmas young Sultiv In writing to his manager, Mr Between St. Louis hd smpolis, | will send out something like the fol-| Thearle, about it, the great virtuoso} Cleveland, New York afd Boston, | lowing describes the event in his own inimit- . “Dear Governor:—Won't you! #ble manner as follows: “Southwestern Gifnited. please pardon me. I was railroaded |. ‘‘Played last night to Major Mo- Bet ween Cincinnati, Colpmbus, to the pen, and didn’t have fair show Kinley and to Mrs. McKinley two York, Cleveland and Boston nohow lease have rey on, tunes. How? Over the long-lis- 4 " bane Percy.’ |tance teleph at Mr. Kohisaat’s| “White City Special. : “- |house, where 2 was a guest,with Maj Between Cincinnati, Indianapolis and! ry, stetropolis. “Journal” gives ly. Maj. MeKinley thanked Cntoago the following account of the precipi-|™¢ over and over again, Isn't it wonderful ?”* fe retreat of an ege hie om Puaeetic Bit site ners fhe pome And, truly, it is wonderful, when of the preal you consider that the distance be feed Hoequeon, of Paducah, esd | tween Mr. Kohisaat’s home in Chi- Sin UE, tenitlon of Whom ‘wal and the McKinley home in Can- made in fy lay’s issue of the| 0”! 400 miles urnal”’ in connection with the °” stealing of a skiff, returnet tothel A certain honest housewife at city lastnight Hinkleville evidently has reached the They departed ov a freight train | conclusion that Paducah lawyers are Sunday night t were ditched h—lon eggs. Yesterday morning Simpson and the »iventurers return party of gentlemen who went to ed on a tie pass to the city, arriving| Ballard county to testify stopped in here at 9:50 last night They took | Hinkleville for breakfast a bed at the State Hotel, and t They had spare-ribs, pork sau- morning after breakfast, sented in| sage, eggs and black coffee, with the office they. picked up the daily | ple Riy of ilk. Ose Of the young ‘Journal vil read the article under} men stored the first plate of eggs the heading “Stole a Skiff way t his vest and while a They didn't read further, but| certain lawyer in the party had his promptly began making ready for|head turned left the empty plate their departure. They asked the | near him clerk to traue any old clothes and} The w came in and seeing the shoes for those they wore. Failing| plate empty refilled it, The newspa- to make a trade they told the clerk | per man, for it was he who made way to say they had not been here, snid| with the eggs, again devoured the they were bound for Brooklyn and | eggs, and again played a trick on his darted down the back way like they | legal comrade were pursued by the evil one | Again the good cook discovered They'll not return unless they | that plate was empty, and with a come as a special guest of an of-|look of astonishment at the unsus- ficer pecting attorney, filled it up again oe | The newspaper reporter had not yet hl gratified his insatiate appetite, eo he It does not seem to be generally | found a place for tt lace installment known that the {government of the | jy!" & Piaee P reagag wm United States | ched a hearty | vot the blame for it. ‘There were no penalty to the fentistinent of soldiers | 7, handy then, and the crowd They're busy now bat this alt of reply is largely the | Ashl | doe nd City Fowler Evansville | it a telephone number is connected |G”, Uy Cowling Mecreclis with some other when wanted, there | Grace Mortis ovis! mes is no one in particular to blame for it, A well known DUK. : gentlement remarked todsy anent| Will J, Cummins . Florence Cincinnati this: ‘There area great many places | State of Kansas where there are not enough tele- |New South . Cincinnati hones. For instance, take the| Lookout Riverton | ht depots, wharf boat and such Norks. 8, that are likely to be wanted) ‘Phe river rose one foot last night. 1 4 e day a zh! The . x all through the day and night, There) pie yauge showed this a. m. 15.0 is but one telephone in each, and it| 50° 8" is kept pretty busy. In some cities bd dozen tele- As it is they have from four phone in all such p! wharf this a, m, published in this column day before | : | fair trip. yeeterday in regard to the- gentleman| rie State of Kansas for New Ore who got down lute and found a placard leans is due to pass down today from ina joking manner, been charged |‘ pase down tomotrow, with being alluded to, The official, The U. 8, Lookout is due here this however, Was not a city official, but! afternoon from the government works a county official, Even Mayor Yei-| on the Tennessee river. ser experienced a twinge of con-| The towboat Grace Morris leaves science when he read it, and looked | this afternoon en route up the {Tenn- up his official record to see what) essee river after a tow of cross ties. time he had been getting down, "The City of Clarksville is due here | this eveniag from Elizabethtown and leaves for Goleonda aud other O | river points tomorrow at noon. The Will J. Cummins is due here jout of the Tennessee river this after- ° }toon and leaves on her return to . Edourd Remenyi Florenee Saturday at 4 p, w Paducah a few days The inevitable effect of grand juries is to make matters dull in po- lice cireles after the convocation of that august body who came to ago, had a very| The Joe Fowler was in from Ey- ‘lelightful experjence recently, says| aasville on fine time this morning the Lexington Leader.’ He was! connecting here with the Dick Fow- visiting at the home of Hon, H, HM, |ler for Cairo. She returned to Ey- Kohlsaat, of Chicago, proprietor of ansville at 10 the Chicago ‘*Times-Rerald’”’ and| Capt, Kline's fine excursion boat Chicago * Evening Post’’ when, after, Carrier which was en route south dinner, it was suggested that it would! with a fae cargo of apples and sunk be a pleasant thing to call upon Pres- near Hickman in the Mississippi Oftive Am,-Ger, Nat Baok Biig |ideot-len McKinley over the long river was brought here for repairs é aa Danville | waieh | River traflic quiet down about the | here you hardly ever can catch the} The Dick Fowler was away to} freight depots and other public) Cairo at 8 a, m, places.’” | Capt. Pete Johnson's barge was let “ | off the ways this morning, the ‘hleon) te ont se All the local packets were in and| out on schedule time and with fair cargoes this a. m, It is regretted very much that so The Ashland City, for Danville many officials thought the little joke) eft at 10 o'clock this morning with Two barges, one belonging to the towboat R. A. Speed and the other and were allright nasty little cough. that people will go on day suffering from these disorders when relief is so easily ob- | tained. Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey cures cory hs and colds of all deserip- tions. It is swift and sure, Sold by all druggists WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO BE. Gila Desire to Tear ‘Tools W Children in their ear strange ambiti From to the question, “What would you like | to do or be when you grow up?” it is re | corded in the annual report of the de partment of instruction in New York | that among the girls t. want- oys to Handle nm Grown Up. teens ed to be teachers, 24 per cent. millin- ers, 11 per cent. clerks and stenog- raphors, 3 per cent, housekeepers; | storekeepers, nurses and servants, each ® per cent.; artista, 1 per cent.; then fol low missionaries, musicians, factory hands, and those who hope to be wives and mothers, each about three-fourths of 1 per cent. It is indeed a poor show ing for the desire for motherhood | What is wrong with our scheoling ays- |tam that most young girls make up | their minds that they would like to be teachers, and that only three-fourths of | one per cent. of then terest in being « wife and mother? | Among the boys quee. tioned, the most popular occupations related to the Fourteen per cent. had this preference, Next in fre desire to be mer then clerks, 7 per farmers, 6 per cent.; doc 1 express any in. who were quency came U chants, 12 per cent tors, per cent.; lawyers, about 6 per cent; engineers, nearly 4 per cent.; teachers and roldiers, each 3 per cent.; railroad men and saflors ach per cent.; business, per rest named 35 different oc It was noticed that th that an plants or animal meant something that conferred power Only in boys about large pref erence for as that of policeman, fireman or railroad man, As he grows older the average boy mod ifes his desire for the perilous, until at oceupatior over one’s fe seven ye | 14 he wants to bea bank clerk, There 1s one interesting exception to this. | The ambition to be @ sailor appears at seven and increases’ slowly, culminat ing at 14 Here is the composition of a boy of againat a friendly nation. The pen-| iia have time to wait for the hens| !* Parente American, his father @ la tp is near a $1000 fine ft ly drink. | borer: “When I am a man I will go te and thr imprisonment, and |‘? '*Y them, so,atter cautiously Grn | ass and} vilor on the starmy ocean. so ag ei : . ing thelawyer's two glasses of milk | Then Tcan eee etran a tevek ee a ae : 4 es “ wi convincing him that he drank it} jands and pla n butt aa eee oat mance. with the | Himself, the newspaper man left with] saflor can go. go am gainst a nation at peace with the! a load that lasted him all day. | the icebergs of the antarctic region. United [States. If the belligerency es |1 can spend a nightly winter in som ever, all this would be obviated One of the preachers last night at] tole many joys for the sailor. He oe the Caban meeting said that he would] hunt and have advantages | withou : | zo to Cuba “if I didn’t have a wife| other cont than walking into them. Be Perhaps the first Cuban fag ever and didn't have children,” he ex-| cause T speak in such glowing terme of — i to the re cay floated from | Pi#ined, and then sent the house unto| the sailor does not say that I think h ern Kentucky yesterday floated from | | whoop by declaring, ‘But 1 want| 2&8 no discomforts, for what kind of the flagstaff on top ‘of B, Weille & Ferstand that if I didn't | life does not have their full share of th Sons hig building on Broadway, the | YOU % Saderstand that I GidB't) dangers and discomforts? The mil ; was made by Mr. Joe Voght, the] 28¥e # Wife I wouldn’t have any] jongire frets about the fact that some tailor, and is the same e used last children a bank . A adler Ps - ator night at the mass meeting e pears satsrersteis. Seaeae, toes, ee Dr. Albert Bernhein, who could] nd his family will starve, to death v4 not obtain a livense to practice) yee : sha For several ¢ 8 pas’ eo Orses rah for the sailor “Ns 0 ad © ville to attend a m school. It] tury old maid of ae mactah cod fire department They never| . ; ad : ye a | raw a arge| ™AY look strange to see a physician! American parentage, whose father Ka bots : lented having to go] staid minister of the Gospel: “I want rowd wherever they may be taken a. woe re F se, used. for] |to s hel to le: something he al-| to y aman t moke; be peels a. ig eg ly knows, but the invineible man-| %™ like t noke. “ait Late a feasie aiptt Histe of the State Board of Health ys t to teach echo they ¥ tious animals cannot run away with, | Uates Of the St t me spank the children. For Yesterday one of the horses was at- | ™ phe, n ren kn sciphn. I want to wear tached to a street car to get him ac | bloomers all the time +} ant customed to the electric wagons. TwOO0 Ja cutaway suit, Because It loc the horse pulled back the other and oo eave he had a different kind of jump and/GATHERED ON THE hard kick for each gong sound, The hoo! | MOR agcmerarepy ee s somewhat difficult, but it is undes M H ; been pure “ [Joe Fowler Evansville Been Won and Lost. | Geo. H. Cowling Metropolis] ‘The last six months have seen some ate City of Clarksville. . .E’town| cu bets won and lost To here is coi on all sides in DEPARTURES start hed Dob Ave eer terbe — regard to the t ne exchanges Dick Fowler i es .Cairo| ™* at Monte ( », Who ran @ race for a prize of 1,000 franes, the winner o . 80 the conditic had to immediately stake the red at the tables, Oft ttended the ventur h the favor dinner w |.afterward d even vermil lights, decorations, the wuiters’ shirt-fronts were 1 hue, much has been written al ready A few weeks ago a butcher of Ber wick wagered that he would empty a quart bottle of whisky ix gulps The man, who was 50 years of age, ac | complished his task, but was it taken queer, and after a | lied imme: hort but is ps, the such g off steep and has three turning broken in several places by s ifficulty of taking @ unicycl a course without the rider fu will be appreciated. nother peculiar wager came off at rdon, # town famous for nuts and on his door admonishing him to get! Gincinnati fles, in the southwestern depart down earlier, had reference to them. pas : . | ment of the lot, when 65 women had Yester quite a number threateved | The big sidewheeler N w South] nutcracking race. There were 2 to commit murder because they had | fom Cincinnati for Memphis is due} prizes, of which 12 francs and a sack ¢ consolation of nuts was the best, TI prize was pot what you might call valu able, and consisted of the debris of the pen debate—was that of Mr. Gibson | Lowlesg whe offered to sir W Bhuttlegorth that his ( Bowles’) memoryawas better than that of the worthy Baronet, Had bet been taken, Which Mr, Gibson | Bowles w 1 to deplore the huss of one guine sum he wished to weger on him as be had to ac | knowledge the following day—Londem | | ®pare Moments Made @ Mistake. 4 kleptomantag™ “Why, you certainly did say so.” Ye-ea, 1 did, but it was a mistake, 1 find that I overrated Ith and se cla} position, and I Tena polled out on the marine ways It is wonderful from day to distressing 't have used | llinois ST.- LOUIS their thousands COLORED DEPARTMENT. CHURCHES. Husband Street Church day school9am. Preaching la m and m. Rev C. M. Palmer, pastor. Burks Chapel, 7th & Ohio, (Methodista.) Sun. Jay school, am. Preaching I'am and 8 p m. Rev. E 8 furks, pastor. Washington Street Baptist Church —Sunday gchool@am. Preaching § pm. Rev. Geo. Methodist)—Sea W. Dupee, pastor Seventh street Baptist Prea Church Sunday Ham and’ pm. Sunday school 9 a. Dp. m., Rev, J. G. | Re | loth and Trimp James A. M. B. church ‘ h preaching 3 p. eos, Sunday Khoo! 2 Pty | COLORED LODGES. Masonic Hall 4 Bi Mt McGregor Lodge Thursday evening in Mt Zion 1 odge Wetn ay evening in each month gnah Court No 2, Ladies—Meets every fourth Mondey in exch tnonth *tone Square Lodge No gond Monday in each month INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FRLLOWS. ws’ Hal 7th and Adams Jot Ruth, No 4%—-Meets first and evening in each month at Colored iL way, third floor. 20 Meets every first h month > Meets every first jeots every se Paducat Lodge No 155—Meets every first and third MonJay {o each month at Colored Odd Fellows’ Ball Paducah Patriarchs Meets avery nd month at Colored Odd Fellows’ Halll st Grand Master's Council No 70—Meets y fourth Friday evening in each month at Oda Fellows’ Hall at fe evening cach month at ball over No 22 Broadway UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP. St Paul Lodge No (5-Meets every second and fourth Monday eveniog in each month at 131 Baoadway isters of the Mysterious Ten, St m'Miecisthe fret Tucoday im each month “st 131 Broadway Golden Rule Temple—Meets second Thurs: ath wt 131 Bi c t Tabernacle, No. 6, meets id aud fourte Thursday higuis tn each Pr ' sh Tent, No. meet first Sat Ay sch month. s sh Tent meets second Satur dey P.M. in each Month, Lily of the West Tent meets third Saturday: GOLD IN TEETH. Quantities of the Yellow Metal Hamme od Lato Jaws. I cannot form a very eccurate idea of the amount of gold used in gold leat 4 1 foil in this country,” said a r turer of this material, “but it tity. Prob a dentist co! you a better idea than I can, r 1 is used almost entirely by de n filling teeth; gold leaf is used in gilding, book binding and oper ns of that sort, besides the show nd acres of gilded 1 before the publie in one other. antity of gold used in gold le least twice aa ¢ tas thot u 1, in spite of the fact that the leaf is so much thinner than the foil A skilled man can hammer out 20 nees of gold foil in aday, while it will take him a week to make two ounces f gold leaf, because it is so much thin: ner, This work has always been done ni, probably always will be. A thickness of gold foil such as A foolhardy eycling feat ur pe * | dentists use—to the ordinary observer by @ young Englishman namex vrec that seems thin enough, In all con. waa recently accomplished at Monaco cnee—will make an entire book of for a bet of $500, The object to be ac } leaf.” omplished was the descent from|” «jew much gold foil do the dentists | Monaco proper to the Condamine quar- | ter on a unicyele, When the reader is | 1, “I she think nformed that not only is the path very average about 50 1 per gger, some are 1 he held up P thetr gold lollats' worth of ld make about eight cavity, as holds some nd that wo f tho average size It the average cavity bored ont by the industrious American dentist with such extreme discomfort to the suffer: z patient contains $0 cents* worth of gold, how mueh gold do all the millions of cavities so constructed employ? In one way and another, it is probable shells enly, Ten kilogta nuts] that something like 25,000,000 of the had to be cracked and prepared ready | preat American peopl eare running to be put in cakes, and ip 124% miuutes | ground on their usual business with the race ended in adead heat $100,000,000 worth af gold stowed away , One of: the mam ceaateng wapare of | im 200,000,000 jagged little eaves mined the half year—startling because it was | Moe, Eig: are Age made te the house of commons Hiei! ip |Panreny, Inte thelr eapactive teeth with hooks and buzz saws and jaggere of one sort and another, worked by foot |Jatge and by hand—pounded tn with | little triphammers, rubbed off with sandpaper, and* gleaming bright | through the stubble of unshaven !ips and chin or from parted lips of amiling beauty, This is a big quantity of gold. It | would make between 15 and 20 wagon 4, Te would melt |up into four cubes two feet in width, | depth and height. Or, tf molded into one gigantic tooth, one of the three- | pronged fellows that grow! eo when re- | moved from thelr accustomed places, that tooth would be ten fect high. A slenderer front tooth 12 or 13 feet high uid be built from the same gold,— }loads, at @ ton @ | If you want the best coal in the city you can get it of Illinois Coal Company, w':o handles the celebrated No clinkers, no dirt; but pure, clean co Coal far excels all other coal for grates or stoves. Washed Pea Coal beats the world for furnace or cooking. We only charge one price the year around. get their load of coal as use no other. Lump, 10c.; Egg, 9c.; Washed Pea, 6c. Washed Coal, AND - BIG - MUDDY - COAL. Our Ege Our The poor heap per bushel as the rich of bushels. Try our coal and you will BARNES & ELLIOTT, Proprietors Llinois Coal Company. HAS REMOVED TO 132 S. THIRD STREET —-Where you can find a complete line of—— WALL PAPER, i , WINDOW SHADES, Picture Frames and Mouldings COME AND SKE’ ME, Jas.A.Glauber’s Livery, Feed and Boarding Stables, Fi A ELEGANT, CARRIAGES, FIRST-CLASS DRIVERS, BEST ATTENTION TO BOARDERS Stable---Corner Third and Washington Streets w. s&. Greif, NO. ——This is the week to buy your—— Fine Pictures and Easles ! FOR XMAS PRESENTS. Your Girl Is Expecting One. \ \ Zee Go and see all of-the Latest NOVELTIES and LOWEST PRICES in PICTURES at F. J. BERGDOLI . . 4 di, PROPRIETOR. Paducah i aducah - Bottling - Co. AGENT CELEBRATED , . . LOUIS O’BERTS BEER, Of St. Louis. In kegs bottles, Also various temperance drinks—-Soda Pop, Seltzer Water, Orange Cider, Ginger Ale, etc. Telephone orders filled until,11/o’clock /atfnight during week and 12,0'clock aenrtay nights, > Telephone 101. 10th on Madison Streets, PADUCAH, KY, = = —— z f ___ _] ¢ < Paducah Electric C aduca ectric Co. INCORPORATED. Le M. Broom, Pres. R. Rowtanp, Treas. F. M. Fisner, See, - STATION 217 N. SECOND 8S’ rae You can turn your lights on any time—whenever you need them. fe give continuous service day and night. We don’t use trolley wire curyénts ‘ for lighting. It’s dangerc Our rates: > Over 10 lights to 25 lights, 36c per light per month. — Over 25 lights to 50 lights, 35¢ per tight per month. ‘These low retes fer 24 hours’ service apply when Dill is paid before 5th of succeeding month, A. 0, EINSTEIN, Vice Prest, and Mgr. f MB, JONES~ 4 DEALER IN € Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, Cutler Carpenters’: Tools, Ete. COKNER COURT AND SECOND STREETS, ” KY PADUCAH, - . ‘ ESTABLISHED 1864,——-o Miss, Mary B. E, Greif & Co, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS......,. Telephone 174. PADUCAH