The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-01-21
CURRENT ropios.


or the 5000 school teachers in Nebraska
100o are women.
THB plumber looks on cold snar a
soft snap for him.
1'HrnE are sir murderers under sentence
OF death in New York.
MOODY and sankey are in Montreal hold.
Ing big revival meeting
TIE South sess twenty nre on, Of the
forty-eight chairmanships.
BisnAncK mnligns newspaper men by
calling thcm the "reptile press.
The Boston Cooking School has had six
men a. pupils during the year
TnE United States has three times as
many Telephones aa all Europe.
WOODEN telegraph poles in Canada arc
being replace by poles Of metal
TnERE are thirty-five journalists in the
new British House OF Parliament
BosToS erected eight million dollars
worth OF new buildings last year.
N. PLoorET has been reelected President
ofths French Chamber Of Deputies
Mn. GLADSTONE receives one hundred
lctteu day, Sunday not excepted
Il cost Mr., Pratt ti,oss,eas,ss TO found
iEnoch Pratt Free Library In Baltimore,
A DESslR man drives team Of elks
rapable Of going one hundred miles day.
TN guards AT the tomb Of the late Prcsi.
dent Garfield will be withdrawn al an early
day
A RonAS paper estimates the number Of
catholics In tho world at throe hundred
million.
TaEasent Of the Passaniaquodd Indians,
of Maine. reports their number al bSi. all
FARMERS
II IL announced that the Salvation Army
"a 70 make raid ON tho eolored people Of
'tbe Soath
~ is7s there wers 80 telephones in use
In this country, and last February there
wcre $4,000
wnEN the mercury In the thermometer
huga the bottom Il maketh the heart OF the
plumber glad
MAHBLE recently found ia Inyo County,
Cnl., ispronounccd BY experts 70 be equal 10
any found In Italy
II England the Salvation Army IL no
sarded 70 highly that they were donated
saso,oco last year.
HARAn BEnxnARpT IL coming over again,
aud expects % gather In $4,000 Of Amer
icA's good money this trip.
Mns. CaMrEoS, wife Of senator Cameron,
of Pennsylvania, while In California served
a. Judge at a beauty show
NopLE II. HILL, the boston theatrical
manager, who died few days ago, held an
insurance Of szAooo on his life
EScLASD has accepted proposal from
Russia that tho Powers insist upon dlsarm-
ament Of Greece, Scrvia aud Bulgaria.
ASrHokr n. KRtfrr has besn admitted
10 practice as an Attorney aud counsellor
at law In tho courts OF New yofs State
LADY HEsKErH is said TO have Inherited
very nearly five million dollars by the
death Of her father. Senator Sharon, Of San
Franclsco.
A hAx IN Newkirk, Pa, has died from
laughing. The happy theory Of hearty
laughter drawing nails from the coffin 10
shus exploded.
DAVID n ArcHiSsoS, Of Missouri, is the
latest ex.vice President who has been dis
covered. lie was elected President Of the
Senate IN 1858
CHICAGO now claims 4 population Of ib0,-
DO0 aud the 7imcs OF that city thinks she
viii outstrip London In 1910, II .he present
ratio is maintained
President RicnAnDs, OF the Metropolitan
Horse Railroad OF Boston, is quoted as say.
ing, after study Of electric motors, that
the day Of horses is past
ABour this time Of year many are re.
minded that the chief end OF man Is divid
end At least the subject among bond
holders Is one Of Interest
AM.ssAcnusrrTs man has invented a
machine which, he says, win tie square
knot, hitherto regarded by inventors as be-
yond tho power OF machinery.
THB Mormons evidently think they have
come TO stay. They have raised s5,0Oo,0Oo,
with which they have commenced building
a granite temple 20 cost s5,0Oo,0Oo.
OvKR 10000 worth OF feathers have been
sold from the twenty-one grown ostriches
a. the Anaheim ostrich farm, Los Angeles,
Cal, during the past soven months.
PirTsBuRon has cromatory which will
w u1htta ny uutuihi gus. No uouot ~
will consume all the SCOT and coal smoke
that has accumulated In the body during
life
The kind-hearted women Of England are
forming societies for the purpose Of dis
couraging the wearing Of plumes on their
hats, because birds have to be killed to fur
nish the plumes
MExIoo's crop Of Indian corn, univer,
sally used In mailing tortillaA amounts to
about one-ninth that Of the United States.
In some parts OF the country three crops
year may be made.
THE Empress OF China has no hesitation
in expressing her opinion that reforms in
social and religious matters are needed,
and that China can no longer keep up her
isolation from the rest Of tb world.
CONTAGIOUS diseases have excited the peo-
pie Of Fairhaven, Mass, TO such a degree
that the horse cars carry two bags OF cam
phor as dlsinfectants one at each end,
placed there by the Board OF Health
AS TiIr Cleveland (o.) man, who was
thrown out Of bed by "invisible hands" is
benedict, there might be sore truth In tho
story. But perhaps It was only the tail end
of the recent blizzard that struck him after
all.