The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-07-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
Tnr countorfeiters cost the Government
eco, 900 year. A tr..

GENERAL GRANTS book has been trans
lated into japanese.
CARpiSAL MASSIS0 denies that no Is an
opponent Of home rule.
REroRrs OF accidents from the use OF the
toy pistol are coming In.
IT is a rose OF clear green that the Par.
isian florists now talk about.
JAR GouLD's income Is said TO be ten
cents every time tho clock ticks.
CoRN eight inches high is reported from
the northern counties OF Kansas.
AoooRpINo to General Rosecrans the war
OF tho rebellion cost 20, is9, ,021ooa
fHoToGRAPHs OF tho President and his
bride have appeared in great floods.
TnERE are 6o.Oco volumes in tho Boston
State Library, and not one novel among
them.
TnE supreme Court OF the United States
-has decided that the Indians are a foreign
nation. EkfA 4
ARcnhIsnof GInnoSs will be very effemi.
nate in bis new cardinal hat II will cost
him $4,000
MRs GAaSI will soon be paid another
$4,000 instnllment OF profits from her
husbands book
Tnr number OF women lawyers In Chi.
cago is placed at fifty, tho physicians al
three hundred ai Ell
IT is announced that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland will become editor OF literary
publication In Chicago.
A Man shook hands with Ida Baker al
Decatur, H., and shook 40 hard that he
dislocated her shoulder
ACCORDING 70 the AlmanAch dc Gotha for
the present year, the total population OF the
empire Of Russia IL l0i,00l. 500
A MGssEcnusErrs woman has just given
birth to her second insiallment OF triplets,
both within fourteen months.
TnE most violent enemies Of King Lud.
wig are obliged 10 admit that. with all his
faults, he never wrote a book.
HESBf GronOE, after investigation, re
ports that tho miners are tho worst paid
workinRmen In the United States
II Is claimed that the actual prayer-book
used by Mary Queen Of Scots on the scaffold
was lately sold In London for el27
CANADA would DO wiser 10 establish a
three mile limit for American defaulters
rather than for American fisheries.
vEar warn, light blankets and feather
cloth are now made from the waste fcnth-
err Of domestic fowl and game birds.
IT Is said that the lady physicians Of
Philadelphia will soon be numerous enough
TO form medical society Of their own.
FuRInrh honors for DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes The University Of Edinburgh has
conferred upon him the degree Of LII. d.
'Ar John picnic In Pennsylvania,
every son OF man named John was given
a plate Of cake aud dish OF ioc cream, scot
free.
MACkERIL are scarce on the Eastern
coast Orders for the fish continues 10
come In, but the dealers are unable 10 fiu
them.
A MoxuNKsr d TO be erected TO tho mem
ory OF General Israel Putnam, Of Revolu.
tionary fame, in Brooklyn, windham coun.
ty, CT
tx Guatemala, under a recent enactment,
biscuit pass as currency. All cnterpris-
ing merchants advertise that they take
the cake.
, TnE accumulation OF books In the Public
Library at Bos on has Increased so much
that the city has appropriated $4,000 for
anew building.
BuFFALo, N. ", sont Parncll 1900 re.
Gently, with message saying Gan Buf
falo throbs for the triumph OF Gladstone
and home rule"
A WOMAN In North Adams, Mass, has dug
cellar this spring for nnow house without
any help whatever. Shc quarried the
stone like man.
a BosroS boy who has played trunni
eight times has been committed 10 reform
school, whore he viii DO compelled TO at
tend TO his duties.
BES BuTLLR is said TO bank annually
from seyenty-five TO hundred and twenty.
five thousand dollars as the net proceeds
OF his law practice.
MEASLES have closed all the schools in
Brnttlcborough, VT, where about half the
pupils and some.of the teachers have been
down with the complaint
The biggest log jam ever heard OF has
formed at Taylor's Falls, ON the st, Croix
in Minnesota IL is two miles long, and
has about iio,0oo,o00 feet of lumber In IT.
: GLADSTONE is seventy.six; Oliver Wen
dell Holmes is scventy,slx; Barnum, tn,
genial Snowman, who officially announces
that he is not dead, win be seventy six next
month
THE expelled French Princes are remind
ed that we have few desirable acres II