The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-09-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
Iowa has several hundred artesian wells.
DErRoIr is TO have toboggan slide this
winter.


NEARLY all the New York banks are max,
ing loans at four per cent
THE steamers ON the Nile are driving tho
crocodiles from that river
MASSACHUSETTS boasts OF having 90 art
schools and 1000 art students.
oSs haul OF a seine near bridgeport, CT,
yielded 5000 pounds OF bluensh.
A NEW form of iron street paving has
been tried In Chicago ON Madison street
PHIrlpELPHIA claims that one-ffth OF its
population is enrolled in Its Sunday schoolA
A BABY was seized M security for rent
In little Pennsylvania town the other
day.
SHoErnASp has bcen introduced in the
Reading (Pa) higbschools as an optional
study.
RoRrr.Two new chemical elements are
reported as discovered In the past ten
years.
Tue unveiling Of the Statue OF Liberty
Enlightening the World Is iixed for oeto.
ber 2S
The present popularity Of the chestnut
bello ought 10 give the rcd-headed girl
chance
The house in which General Hancock was
born, near LonSdale, Pa, was burned fow
days ago.
THE production Of quicksilver In CAT.
fornia has dropped 20 the lowest point for
many years
A PnILApEiPmA child, on seeing a negro
baby for the first time, asked, eIs that
spoiled childi''
JERAr RusK, who has just been renomi
mated for Governor Of Wisconsin, used TO
be stage driver.
IT Ia said that watercress destroys tho
toxic principle Of tobacco without injuring
IL other properties.
MoSrAouE, MIcn., boy fell head fore.
most in barrel containing eight inches Of
water and was drowned.
lS Charleston, \. C., the scene OF the re
cent earthquake, there live $3.50 colored
persons and 27,eo5 whites
Tar conscience fund In the Treasury ut
Washington Is approaching the round sum
OF quarter Of million OF dollars.
EL cororE appears 20 have been the
Jesse James OF Mexico, and met very much
the same fate as his Missouri prototype.
AN Egyptian mummy ON exhibition at
The Iowa State Fair was seized by a land.
lord Ia payment OF the owners board bill.
NEw IoRK policeman has been robbed
OF 800 diamond pin Preserving the
peace mnst be paying business in Gotham.
THREg Fall River, Mass, policemen have
bsen suspended for blowing beans across |
the street into tho Salvation Army bar
racks
THE new issue Of two dollar silver ccrtif. |
Gates bears n portrait OF the late Major.
General w $. Hancock in full dress uni |
form.
SENATOR DAWES says there are to-day |
20, go Indians who, 20 all intontu and pur |
poses, are as unciyiliEed "a they were $50 |
years ago.
TIM Gar Of Russia adds an nOnormaI |
fear OF hydrophoba 10 all the dangers,
real and imaginary, which surround his
royal path.
The Chinese notion Of England is said 10
be that OF IN tribute-bearing nation OF men
without pigtails, governed by lady with
large feet"
A roncE Of dltchers In Council Bluffs,
Ia, recently cxhumed a well-preseryed
wagon that had been buried since tho old
Mormon days.
PRKAcuERs have much 10 be thankful for.
No man will be allowed 10 ring chestnut
gong In n church, no matter how old the
sermon may be.
1T cost n fashionable lady who was So
journing at Saratoga this summer $500 for
doctors bills for attendance on pet dog
which was taken sick
TnE Boston advertiser thinks that voices
In Boston are running too much TO tenor
and ascribes tho fact to the use Of the
telephone and high collars.
SINGLE block in the vicinity Of Castle
Garden, and which Is about l25 by 500 feet,
contains no less than thirty five saloons, or
houses where liquors can be obtained
THE greatest balloon In the world has
been constructed at San Francisco by a MIR.
Van Tassel. II win hold 10000 cubic feet
Of gas and has been made for the purpose
OF traversiug the American continent from
ocean TO ocean.
HkRRY WRIGnT, the veteran base bali
player, is said TO have invented the chest
nut gong, and his firm in Philadelphia TO
ba- e made $4,000 out OF the little nuisance
In tess than two months.
INDIAN BBLLEs OF Alaska wear thick
9oating OF oil and SCOT on their faces when
not in full toilet. This Is said to preserve
tho complexion. which, after thorough
scrubbing, looks as fair and smooth as a
good article OF soft-soap.
Sin JonN SLOAN, of England, died in 1887.
In accordance with his will, twenty-five
rooms in Lincoln Inn Fields have been
sealed and unopened since death. They
will be examined on November %, as the
will provides. Their contents are mys-
terry.
THE King of Portugars marriage has
finally been settled with the Princess Hen
riette, younger daughter Of the Comte de
Princess Henrietta will receive
ap immense dowry. She Is the favorite Of
her father. who is among the richest princes
IN Europe.
GEo. L. PERKINs, OF Norwich, Conn., IL
the Oldest railroad man In
active service In the country. He began
bis ninety-ninth year In August and Is the
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