The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-09-23
VOL. III. NO. 5.
CURRENT TOPICS

English wheat crop
TiIE colleges were never so full, as rule,
as they will be this year.
A COLONEL man OF Mount Pulaski, H., Is
turning white by degrees
AGroRoIA orator compared bis candidate
70 "a cyclone with spurs ON
THE war with Geronimo is over, and that
cutthroat Is ON bis way 70 Florida
IT is proposed TO sink an arteslan vol Ia
each township In Bruce County, Oak.
TnE Mississippi river has not been lower
in years than II has been this summer.
MRs. MARK Hornss' house in Great Bar
ington, Mass, will cost nearly $4,000
cRArER LAKE, in Southern Oregon, Is
over 1000 feet deep, the deepest in America.
4, H. II. Norton, candidate for sheriff Of
Blne Earth County, MINI, is eighty years
old
TnE crowd at the large watering places
has vanished as II by tho touch OF magic
wand.
FHiIASrHorfsr coacoRAN, OF Wash
ingion, has sent 5000 10 the Charleston
sufferers
MiLIIoSAiRr Walters, Of Baltimore, paid
$500 for an orchid in New York few
days ago.
a Sian Of marble with fitting record has
been put on Christopher columbuh' house
atSavona.
TIsr violins, onAmcled In perfect imith,
ton OF their prototype, are passing fancy
for lace pins
Tnr Philadelphia ministers are discussng
tho problem OF "how 10 keep tho qongrega.
ton awake
MMH pE LEssErs, they say, battles In
room which cost something over forty
Thousand francs
Tnn snow insodeep among the mountains
In Eastern Oregon that teams can noI
travel with safety.
Az old lady in Brookland, n. ", predicts
war because there are so many boy ba.
bles In tho country
NJ DoILE swan fifteen miles inr two
hours aud forty4seven minutes at Now
York the other day.
A NsTioSsL marriage and divorce law
has been suggested as the best weapon 60
use against polygamy.
SoumnELs aud quail arc plentiful IN
Western Pennsylvania this fall, and there
are quito number OF partrldgcs.
Az Indian runner recently Travelled from
the Clip mine TO Yuma. CAL n distance Of
seventy Ave miles, in seven hours.
NEw corn OF good quality is being hauled
into Des Moines, Ia, in wagon.lots, and
solll at twcnty-nve cents per bushel.
TnE White House, during the absence OF
the President in the Adirondacks, has been
renovated and put In complete repair,
s SEcRErARr BArARp takes solitary horse
back rides after his release from Office
duties, in theearly part of the evening.
Tue Winchester Mass Leader predicts
an early winter because migratory birds
arc going South month earlier than
usual
THERE are sol 500 pensioners now on tho
rolls, and the Government has paid on that
account near ti, coo, 10000 sluce tho close
OF the war.
A 0RtAT scarcity OF small bills is re.
ported Ones aud twos have become a
rarity, aud the demand for avos is greater
than the supply.
TnR settlers on the Wonatchie river,
Washington Territory, have been raising
sugar cane this season, and mill has been
secured 10 grind H.
TnE chcstnutbell Is despised by the min.
strel end-man When he hears IL tinkle he
becomes as funny as a funeral in snow
storm. Ting a-ling
Mns A. I. STEWART carries a unique ar.
ticle ut Saratoga this summer in tbe shape
OF n card case, with small watch In the
center Of the outside.
HrRAM SOUTHWARK, OF Fairfax, VT, has
a curiosity in a chicken with twelve toes,
and he has a squash which measures six
feet In circumference.
IT is 80 dry IN the prairic-chicken coun-
try In New Mexico that hunters carry
water out in jugs for the dogs and pans for
the dogs TO drink out OF.
IT has frequently becn stated, and never
denied that domestic service is poorer and
more expensive In the United States than
in any country in tho world,
THE Comptroller ofthe Currency has i'm.
posed naes OF 800 each upon Eve national
banks which have regularly been slow in
forwarding monthly reports.
A RuIsEpEcK man Is engaged in dos-
perate effort TO provo that the sea serpent
seen In the Hudson by large and excited
crowds was nothing but n big log.
SAY Francisco papers arc advertising
rat and squirrel poison that is said TO have
the excellent qualities Of killing the ami
NAL, drying up its insides and tanning the
skin.
The Smith family of New Jersey, held
their annual reunion at the headwaters OF
the Raritan river recently There were
1900 Smths-including 01p plain John
Bmiths-present
KEY WEST, Fla, has candidate for
mayor who stands only twenty inches
high and weighs twenty-eight and half
pounds He is Generable Abe Sawyer not
much more than half as large as the famous
Tom Thumb.
THERE died at St. Mary's hospital, De-
troit, recently, from injuries. Isadore
Myers man who has hreathed through
tracheotomy tube for the past seven years.
The tube was placed just below his adams