The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1885-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

trustees trustyf
SENATOR VAN wYcK draws consolation
from corn.eob pipe.
A FLoRrpAN is buying crackers Tor par
rot that is ninety two years old.
.Is China aud Japan, silver ia the only
coinage, and nobody cares for gold.
THERE are 02,0Oo organized miners aud
laborers In the anthracite coal regions.
GENERAL Mills will go as far as the
NEXT one 10 bring the redskins 10 terms.
AT an auction, tho other day, Blucher's
Waterloo sword brought only twenty dol
lars. s~
THE COW catehers on Canadian railroads
should be taken OF and replaced with ele-
phant catchers.
AAronPANy Of masked men drove Chinese
miners from their houses near Seattle, w.
T., and set them on Gre.
own 81 800 900 in drafts and cash were
found In the $4,000 letters sent 70 the
dead letter ofiico last year,
1T ls estimated that tho farm fences In
this country, u placed In a straight line,
would circle the earth 800 times.
RECENT statistics demonstrate thai Eng.
land has sixty Ave square miles OF colony
TO the square mile OF her own area.
THE owlsof New Zealand arc as sagneious
as dogs. They are said 20 come down at
nigh, and XIII great numbers OF sheep.
The only daughter OF ex- Banker Fish is
90 devoted 10 him that she prefers prison
life with her father TO freedom without
him.
JuMno, the great elephant, had three OBJ
jects Of fear, mouse, a cat and rat. He
would howl at the sight OF cat and shiver
at arat -se-
A DETROIT girl drew door mat with
crayon on the front door step, and Il was
90 natural that several callers tried to give
u wipe.
THH ccnstitutlonAiity OF Pennsylyania's
law prohibiting tho manufacture and sale
Of oleomargarine Is now the subject OF a
tes, case In court
TnE Philadelphia aud Reading and
PephsylvAnia Railroad Companies have
entered upon peace negotiations, The war
has lasted ;~sa.y years,
EARLY snow ls predicted this fall. Heavy
overcoats and rubber booss, tho meteoroio'
gists say, viii come In good play during
the early part OF October.
NEW YoRK Is excited over an outbreak
Of smallpox in a Grand street tenement,
and the health authorities arc using great
precautions 10 prevent It's spreading.
Ara wedding in bridgeport, Conn, re,
Gently, the groom, young man, who ap-
peared nervous from inc start oroke iu'o
hysterieAi soos before the ceremony was
over
FATHER JANIS MoOAprhhf'o. ss LOUIS,
has snnonneed .na' ne,esi'er :" SA'n,,'o
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80 nsnv roasrn dwelling houses have
basn .r.c,sa
.,,, ia. :, A,..k. h.. climate.
,,,,a :. ws,,nsnv ,.hIIa ,bs north side ba.
climate I. cold and rugged a, that found
in the Arctic Ocean, Is 20 50s below zero for
thgse long months. s9
A oLAsa bodntead has been made AZ
Blrmlnaham tEng.) factory for Calcut.
"a mIllIonair., n isof solid glass, the legs,
rails, etc, being richly cut The King Of
Burmah also has one.
THE number OF registered female voters
in Boston has Increased from 300 two years
aroto 24Oo this year, with eight or ten
thousand more stiil entitled 10 register aud
vote on school questions
THr Courier. Journal says very few Chi.
cago man have been given Federal Offices,
Ths President wishes 20 spare the Am,ri.
can people from being talked 70 death on
the greatness Of Chicago.
r.v n.n..,a and the American yacht
n.a.,,... h.r.n : aoo. niie race ON the eIst
90 s,,var cen ,slusd A. sabOo. The event
ss...,an.d ~ ~ .-cI,amant whatever. but
ss,~ n,r.o,. ot.srylng the start.
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The present wear has been very u"-
astrous ono 90 th- great st. Louis estates
and the losses sustained by leading iami-
lios Of the city by reason OF the shriuksgs