The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-10-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
BLIND Toms last nanois wiggins,


10000 dwelling in San Francisco
The PAsteur Institute fund, Paris, has
reached the sum Of ,44s,9 francs.
A FARMER near Albany, N. ", has raised
potato weighing ilfty-hve ounces.
By next spring the French army will
have new rifles. II viii cost teo,ooo,ooo
SECRET SOCIETY OF servauts for robbing
employers has been uneartbed in New
York
Or eighty girls who landed at Castle Gar.
den the other day ffty-two were rcd
headed.
KATIE PurSAM the actress, has an In
come Of $4,000 from her fruit farm in
Michigan
A nARnEL OF cider exploded near Green.
willie, Mich, tho other day, aud broke a
voman's jaw
joins RoAciI Is said 10 have cancerods
trouble IN his throat similar TO that Of
General Grant
1HE Juice Of half lemon in a glass Of
water without sugar, viii Frequently cure
n ,lrk headache
kinds OF vengeance ON the prosecution in
the recent trial
A PniLApELrmIA burglar recently print
ed an indignant denial that be was ever
Now York alderman.
suLLrvAS is going 10 England and thus
We are nearly even with England for send.
ing Lonsdalc over hero.
THrHE has been discovered on lands near
Williamsport, Pa, largo deposits OF yellow
ochrc--a four. foot vein.
THE Bartholdl Statue OF Liberty is 20 keep
her 6,0oocandle power electric light burn
ii.g all day and all night
Snaox CAMERON Is the only survivor Of
the Senate Of Polk,s administration now
that DavidI., Yulec Ia dead
A rArSpRoNE In actual existence Is tho
sign of abaker In Yroka, Siskiyou County,
Cal. This is IL; "Yreka Bakery
SoPAH no II told you so' has risen 20 as
scrt that he predicted, several months ago,
the storm which destroyed Sabine Pass
a TnRIviSo business is done in some
American cities In letting out dress suits.
The charge for On evening is three dollars
A woMSS working In a coopcr-shop at
Kalamazoo, Mich, can mako as many
barrels day as any OF the male employees.
HESnr GgoR0E was once the private sec
rotary Of Abram s. Hewitt Now they
arc rival candidates for Mayor OF New
York.
IT Is reported that daughter OF General
Buckncr is about to go on tho stage She
will conceal bcr identity under stage
name.
The feeling In Franco against every thing
German is so intense that the sale OF toys
manufactured In tho fathcrlaRd has been
interdicted.
TisRE are twenty seven women In Eng
lish prisons, undergoing penal servitude for
intanticide, all OF whom were originally
sentenced 10 die.
A DAKOTA man won the esteem OF his
townspeople by walking seventy -flve miles
In order that be might pay a note exactly
when II was due
Two,iotters written by Benedict Arnold,
dated SIX. mouths apart and proposing
marriage to'two4d lterent. women, are said
90 be Identical IN terms.
PHILADELPHIA has more daily papers
than New York and Boston combined,
while New York has moro theators than
Philadelphia and Boston combined.
THERE are now twelve Hlndoo mission
aries In this country who have come all the
way TO the United States TO convert US poor
heathens to the right way oflivng.
THERE arc now 5000 miles OF overhead
wires In London. The local authorities
have control over tho wires only whore
there is an Interference with the roadway
AN effort is being made TO have the pay
of the teachers of tho Philadelphia public
schools increased twenty five per cont 10
appears that they have been miserably YIN.
derpaid.
The Bulgarian question In its present
state is getting TO DO a chestnut II the
Gar does not make move one Of these
days hc will lose his prestige as the Euro
pean bulldozer.
THE old bridge OF Ayr, In Scotland, made
memorable in Burns The Two Brfgs,r is
70 be demolished. 1t is 81 years old, and
was built, like the pyramid OF Rhodopis, at,
she sole expense of a $ nglc lady
ONE OF the pecuiarities of 2S0pound
pumpkin grown at Newburg, N. ", is that
II wis fed on milk. A root was sent out
from the vine to basin full OF milk, and
II consumed pint of fluid each day.
A BACHELOR OF East Grand Forks, d. T.,
gave dance. Among the guests were
twenty unmarried young women. Dur