The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-04-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
iAu JoNra has qult using tobacco

TiiE man who wahts the earth eventually
gets IL when he leaves il.
SHOOTING aud manning cat cost a
Bestonian atty sad dollars.
TnE Bralilans are said 10 be the most
bospitable people ON the globe
SoNr Dlas Greek, y j., planters report
half their oysters winter.klled
Iowa proudly calls attention to the fac,
that she has citizen named Sbeol
Ia X is the way lazy man wrote La
crosse Wis, In the address Of a letter,
BrNKs CouNTr, Pa, Is 40 have silk fac
tory employing ilvo hundred operatives.
AS iron. jawed museum professor lifts a
barrel Of water with his tocth, Ia Reading
Pa
in tho Now York market a. i've dollars q
quart
SPmSOflrLp Mass, proposes 10 turn ons
OF is efreto rGiler.skating rinks into an
armory
4 NuGorr Of gold weighing forty-seven
ounces wa tasen out Of inine at Forest
ciy, Cal
" Mrs Morgan. peach blow vase ma,
not be worth tls,opO as vase IL may be as
m example.
SrNNrU plnns and projects are already
discussed ia places whore fashionable peo,
pie eongrcedtc.
a wEl.lKSowN resdcntof lambcrtvills,
y J afilrns that he has drank no water for
twelve years past
IuF Lieutenant Governor OF Connecticut
rrreives ihe cNtrnvngant - salary Of five
hundred dollars per year
a PENNsIL,&Nn preacher left in bis will
sum af money 90 encourage the use Of
goat meat instead sf pork
"wnAt struck tue steamer orogoni g.
getting TO he as pcrpleSing an-en,gna ns
who struck Rily Pnttcnonff
lANb In Connecticut upoa which pipt
trees we're planted a fcW years ago Is now
worth tlco an acre FOR IL timber
1nE personal lhouseboldofQ Queen Victoria
IL composed Of over a Thousand persons,
costing yearly a sun offs l,RIj0O
OS oil important public occasions Primo,
Bismarck prominently wears The ordeG OF
Christ recently bestowed upon him by tho
Pope,
sESA1oH JoNrs, It is said is toronirn 60
Washington, Miss Palm, The object OF he
undyiug affection, left Detroit secretly some
time ago.
THr Missouri National Grcenback Labor
Committee has issued call for tho State
nominating convention at Scdnlin, wodncs.
day, June q
TuE Maine experiment station shows by
analysis OF patent egg and cattle foods
that tholr intrinsic value bears no relation
20 thoir cost
MINISTER Human, now In Japan, is ont
ofthe funniest story tellers In Texas, and
plSyfnlly calls his wifc Mother Hubbard
behind her back
on has been discovered in Upper Egyp,
in paying quantities England now, more
than ever, will regret tho failure of the
sSoudRn campaign.
Srw YoRK CRY has only forty seven
dwelling houses which It, fire department
considers FIRE proof; seven are apartment
and twenty private houses.
NEARLY sa,ooo,ooo,cOo would be due were
NIL insured Americans TO die at once
Nearly slWD,OCO,000 have already been
paid on death losses IN America.
Tue Central ParkBoayd, New York. ba.
decided TO buy up antiquatod horses and
slaughter them 10 feed 10 the animals in
the Central Park, instead OF using beef
Mns. CLARA d. RAYMoxD, of Wilton,
Conn, is said 10 6e the oldest woman in the
state, She is remarkably well preserved,
and expects 70 celebrate her 104th birthday
April %
SENATOR JoSEs, OF Florida, loses his sal
ery while sojourning In Detroit, and also
forfeits the mileage which would have been
allowed for the distance between Pensacola
and Washington.
A Pr tree cut down on ranch near
SANTA Rosa, Cal, contained inside OF the
trunk eleven gallons Of pure balsam Of fir,
That was the amount saved, aud II is
thought that as much wSsylost.
Az enormous Indian elephant, almost n
match for the late Jumbo, was recently put
90 death in Hamburg, He had become vi,
cious and dangerous. He was strangled
with chains being placed around his neck
THE statement OF the President OF the
British Board OF Trade 10 the effect that no
ocean vessel carries sufficient lifeboat nc.
commodatlons will not tend to increase
ocean travel either now or In the near
future
a RUSSIAN convict is said TO have sur
vivcd punishment OF 9,0O0 lashes. As
high a number as 1900 lashes Is said 10
lave been imposed in some cases. but no
convict ever survived the infiiction OF the
punishment,
A CoLroN (Cal) citizen tied one end of a
rope around his waist the other day, while
he lassoed Texas steer with the other.
He thought he had the animal. but dt the
end Of the first 100 yard heat he found that
the steer had him.
A rEDDLER Of Derby, Conn, fell into the
water the other day and would have
drowned but for the timely assistance OF
two young men, Glowing with gratitude,
the peddler opened his pack and gave to
each a lead-pencil.
Two youths got into a fight In the Knox
College campus, Galesburg, Ill, While they
were beating each other with shinny sticks
a fat old woman appeared, knocked down
the larger boy, spanked the smaller Que,
and then went calmly on,