The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-11-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

A GIRL In Kalamazoo paper mill found
500 while sorting rags.
Social leaders In New York arc using
cinnamon as a perfume.
JoAQurx MILLER thinks that men who
write poetry should die early.
HonsEnAcK exercise is %itra-fasbIonabls
for New York ladies this season.
Fnrxcn army officers ara experimenting
with the bicycle as an adjunct ofwar,
Two young ladies, students OF the State
college, Me-, have been suspended for haE-
ing.
TnH United States Fish Commission dis.
tributed ninety million shad fry during
1888.
MRs. NELLIE GRASf-SARroRIs will soon
come over from Europe on visit to her
mother.
LAKB TEMiscoSArA, In the province OF
Quebec, is the deepest fresh water lake in
America
SEVEN thousand miles Of railroad tracks
have been laid in the United States since
January I,
REy. DR. SronRs has been pastor OF tho
Church OF the Pilgrims, In Brooklyn, for
forty years.
GERMASr has forbidden the employment
OF railway workers for more than eight
hours day.
THE Philadelp' 10 Press says that some OF
the School-houSes OF that city are a dis
grace 10 humanity.
THE new oieomargarine tax Is said to
have started DO m in the manufacture OF
the imitation butter.
"KAscH pade for olde KnuIe papers, is
tho announcement at the door ofa Water
street. New York, junk shop.
BARONESS BuRpETr.c couTrs Is 10 accom-
pahy her husband on his tour TO this coun-
try, planned for next spring
LinKhrr docs not enlighton the world 40
much As they thought she would. So far
erlight has been rather dim.
A DRIVER OF the Lacrosse twis) street
railway has received notice from Germany
that be has fallen heir TO $4,000.
DIAMONDS are nov found in South Africa
at the rate Of ton a month, and the Lon
don market is glutted with them
TnE tai est boy In Lancaster, Pa, Is
George Kerscy. son OF Dr. Kersey Ho Ia
thirteen years old and seven feet high.
THEODORE RoosEvELr was not elected
mayor of New York, but be ia going 70
marry one OF the incest girls in England.
oscGR WILDE was sinking into obscurity
SO fast that he has again taken TO wearing
his hair long, that he may attract atten-
ton.
MEN will argue sometimes that they have
no time 10 be polite, forgetting that IL takes
the same amount OF time 10 be uncivil and
diaagreeable.
FREpERioK DOUGLASS, now visiting Lon.
don, is mentioned in the London Neics as
"A man who has been marshal of the
United States"
Tue o her day the remains OF General
Israel Putnam were removed 10 tho sito for
the monument at Brooklyn, Conn, and
buried there in metallic casket
WILD geese are being slaughtered by tho
thousand at Beaver Lake, in Northwestern
Canada. Two men recently killed 1000
and dried the meat for winter use.
osE million eggs OF the white ash, with
@,00O eggs OF our lake trout, havo been
sent TO Switzerland. When hntched,
the young fry will be placed in the Swiss
lakes.
A rEssELATEp pavement made In white,
black, rod, yellow and pale blue pieces has
been found In Colchester, England, and
transferred bodily TO the museum Of the
town.
The newest buttons are large balls OF
wood highly polished and showing the
grain. Beans and seeds are employed as
battons Etched ivory buttons show fine
designs.
Archer, the English jockey, who killed
himself, is reported 10 have left fortune
Of over 81, ,000, 900. His hobby wa, a winning
horse, and on that he galloped on the road
10 wealth.
THH Oldest old maid In the world, n wo-
man named Benoite, has been discovered
at Auch, n France. She is l09 years old,
born tho year before our declaration of in
dependence.
A CHINAMAs has purchased for Si6, 900 the
exclusive privilege Of selling opium in
Panama. The money is devoted partly to
hospitals and partly TO reducing the Gov
ernment debt
WHEN Minnie Hauk sang at Tin Cup,
AriE., twelve Apache chiefs retired behind
the theater after the entertainment and
drew lots TO see who should marry her.
Minnie escaped.
IT is estimated by internal revenue off,
cials at Washington that the income 10 tho
Government for the fiscal year from the
tax on uleomargarine will amount to more
than si0o0O0,00O.
THE records in the Bell Telephone cases,
now before the Supreme Court at Washing
ton, comprises 5000 octave pages, and
copies enough for the judges occupy fifty
cubic feet OF space.
NEW use for the tobacco plant is said TO
have been discovered. It's stems and waste
tits claimed, are equal to linen rags in the
manufacture Of paper. Tobacco waste
costs less than $40 ton, linen rags SO to
so.
MEDICAL students don't seem to be wild
over torchlight PROFESSIONS. A company of
O ty could not be raised out of 200 students
in attendance at the Harvard Medical
School TO march in tho procession the other
night.
EIoHTrsEvEs pc cent of the population
OF London do not go to church. 1t is esti-
mated ahat the iion-church-goers in Amer