The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-01-07
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SENATOR STANFORD has subscribed tS,oOo
10 the Zion Wesleyan College Of North Caro-
lima.
SENATOR HsiE, II is said submits drafts
Of all speeches TO his wife before delivering
them.
Tng Sultan Of Turkey, owing to hard
times, has reduced the number Of his wives
10 80.
THE eldest daughter Of Mrs Kate Chase
formerly Mrs spraguei, Is preparing for
the stage.
Tar total amount Of mileage paid TO
senators and Representatives In Congress
10 tia1,0oo.
gnRrIn REvIs, westmoreland County
Pa, girl sent President Cleveland Christ
mas turkey,
Tnr fruit trees In Santa Barbara are be
ing dug up aud English walnuts planted In
their stead,
No fewer than 10000 cattle chew the cud
en ex-senator Dorscy's ranch In colfax
County, N NJ
A NEVADA man has raised three kittens
thai he obtained from The nest Of a Wild eat
that he had killed
A MonHnN who was accidentally killedin
utsh the other day ief, Sixty-seven child.
ren 10 nourn his lons.
Rrcrxr discoveries prove that the art Of
wood cnsravinga originated with the Arabs
about the ninth century.
FnoN C00oO 70 eS,Oo0 people cross the
Brooklyn Bridge every day In the cars,
white about II 900 walk over,
rnH late John Landon sibley, Librarian
OF Harvard, courted hie sweetheart for
twenty years before he married her
EDiroa cHl.Ds Of the Philadelphia Led.
ger, Il estimated 10 be worth t50OooO0. And
he isas generous and noble as he Is wealthy.
II has been decided TO admit the new
words .bulldoElngn "boycottr aud dude
into the new edition OF webster's Diction-
AIRY.
PLAqrEson which Ia q snow scene, includ-
Ing church with a real clock in the tower,
were among the newcstexhIbits Of the holi-
days
A nrsfic visitor 10 Burlington, VT, spent
Thanksgiving Day on the horse railway,
making the trip OF four miles twenty-five
times.
TnE Illinois militia will be consolidated
into six regiments OF infantry, one bat
TALON Of cavalry and two batteries Of ar
tillery
FnAsK v. ADAMS an Omaha clerk, in.
surcd his life for $1,000, the other day, In
behalf OF his friends, and then committed
suicide.
T,i1. ladies who don't like their height
NAV console themselves with the fact that
the handsomcst woman In Italy stands
nearly seven feet high.
FEnDIxAxp WAND has changed his local
ity ana not bis business He is still en-
gagged in keeping the books-this time for
the Sing Sing contractors.
connopoRE vkSDERnnr's sound advice
10 hts son William was "Don't you ever
sell anything you haven't got nor buy
anything you can'tpay for"
TnK dcmaud for copies Of the Presidents
message exceeds that for any former Presi-
DENTAL mcesage. A fourth edition has been
printed, aud n fifth Is contemplated.
Tnr value Of the pig iron produced In
this country during the past year was over
ts3,OooOo0, or nearly the value OF the out
put Of both the gold and the silver mines.
1T Is a acommon thing among the people
OF Dutch Guiana TO inocculate themselves
with snake poison TO guard against the
bites OF poisonous serpents that infest that
country.
CREMATION will soon be practiced In tho
Pcre La Chaise Cemetery, Paris. The city
has lust given contract for the erection
of a building with apparatus for the in
cincration ofbodies.
II Is stated In consequences Of the net
Treasury balance increasing by above 81
100000 in December, Secretary Manning
contemplatcs making call for three pei
cent. bonds In January.
Lonp CHARMS THYME, uncle Of the
Marquis OF Bath, was priest and canon o.
Canterbury Cathedral. He resigned his
prefeiment IN 1852 and now, In his 7Sd year
has entered tho Catholic priesthood,
NINETY cigars In two hours was the test Of
a record by an Orlando tCal.) man who en-
deayored 70 smoke himself into fame and
some cash. Il Is said that he lost only
on the ninetieth cigar, which sickened him
Ir Il understood TO be Queen victoria'l
pleasure that the jubilee OF her reiep should
not be celebrated until the completion o.
fifty years from her ascension. Tha'
period win be accomplished on June 20
1897.
II is believed that in ten years Yankton
u. T., will be an inland town. In front O.
the city, where the river ran twenty fee'
deep five years ago, there are now one hun
dred acres Of land six feet above high watel
mark.
Ex.SrSAToB DAVID DAVIS is reported q
have prepared volume OF memoirs, to b'
published after his death, In which NJ
makes some interesting revelations regard
ing various public personages in and out o
Congress.
PRESIDENT SEKLyE, OF Amherst Coiiege
saws that II girls would run every day the.
would never die OF consumption.
Mn. JAMES II. sHELps, formerly con
nected with the Ford Platc-glass Company
Of Jeffeisonvillo, Ind, has organised
company to start plate-glass works a
Butler, Pa. Th,se viii be the eighth IN th
United stessA