The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-02-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

sorry inGculntion OF all dogs
WHAT is the difference between money
anda monkeyi The letter k, of course i.
TnERE is "A movement among the Cincin-
pati BARRIERS TO close their shops ON Sunday.
LIEUTENANT GRKELr's book, Three Years
Of Arctic Travel, will be published this
month.
TnE New York Journal calls for poetry
match, the prize 10 bo silver waste
basket
TnK fnvorito music OF President Glove
land is Aud Lang Synon and the Mock.
ing Bird
FivK hundred million dollars worth OF
eggs and poultry are eaten annually in tho
United State
Tnr amount Of cutlery and edged tools
produced in this country is about tlb,0O0,-
oOo per annum.
A CINCINNATI woman died few days
ago who had for months drank five pints
OF bad whisky daily.
TnE Episcopal clergymen Of New York
consider cremation a "barbnrous way OF
disposing Of the dead.
fRASK JANIS stAtes that he does not be-
lieve that Governor Critlenden was priyy
10 the killing OF Jesse.
" Ia said that English spnrrows make
the best of eating and arc dhinties OF the
first order when made into pie,
GKNERAL smERsAS thinks that every girl
In 81 Louis should attend the meeting of
the National Sugar Association.
TuE Prussian Government has submitted
10 tho BundcrHth bill to prolong the
AntiSocialist law for five years,
Tifr National encampmcnt of the Grand
Army Of the Republic will be held in San
Francisco, Tuesday, August ,, lss6,
IT is said that two hundred patents have
been granted for machines 10 polish low
grade coffee and make IL look like the best.
Tur old Notifications on the hill on Fort
street, Los Angeles, Cal, historical land
marks, arr. being torn up by the street
gTRdenL ~
SnouLD tho Morinons decide 10 enigrate
" tho Sandwich Islands sandwich jokes
will then be In order by the press OF this
country.
TnRKE vico Presidents OF the United
States, Gerry, Wilson and Hendricks, have
died in office, all dying in the month OF
November
TnE Medical Record estimates that one
half tho men above the age Of thirty years
ofAmcrican birth living In our cities are
bald hoAded.
TnE London Lancet says that III a man
can keep his teeth until after middle age he
may generally count on keeping thcm to
the end OF his lifc.n
PgouhnIr the oldest minister in the world
Is Thomas Tenant OF Vineyard Township,
Arkansas He was born In Ill. He Is an
itincrant Methodist minister
SENATOR Jous A. LoosS has son-in.lnw
named Tucker and Congressman Tucker
has a sonIn-law named Logan, and they
are always getting mixedup.
Tmn Department OF State has directed
nm Investigation 10 bc ilade OF the circum-
stances attending the killing OF Captain
Crawford by Mexican troops
YALE CcIir0E has officially declared
that II wants no women students In the
law departments and will issue no diplomas
to them under any circumstances
BELoIuN. one OF tho smallest powers in
Europe, is the most densely populated
country in the world, more than sixty por
cent OF the whole being under the most OK
haustive cultivation.
THIs winter Is a discouraging one for the
Ice men The heavy crop that Is being
piled in the ice-houses on top OF that left
i. rt,aa
during next summer
MIss MANY J HANRAILlN has been APP
pointed by Judge Wilson, OF Clarion
County, Pa, as permanent court tipstan
She is said 10 be the first and only female
tipstaff in Pennsylvania.
TnE Mormons are reported to have pro
ioct 10 buy land and settle in the Sandwich
Islands. II would bc matter OF economy
for the United States to encourage them by
bearing part OF the expense.
A YouSG lady named Love visited the
Presidents mansion n few DAYS ago, and
some one made tho remark, Love in the
White House;n hence the rumor that the
President is about to be married.
FnASoE, with an available territory of
only qs. .iC0 square miles, realizes more than
soO0, 1000 annually from her poultry,
shipping large quantities to England, where
the demand is far less thanthe supply.
Tue suggestion is made that bottles con-
taining citrate OF silver be slowed awayin
ships boats Seven ounces of the citrate
will il is said, turn enough sea water into
drinking water to supply man for week
Tng Philadelphia Herald says there is
out one way TO keep the girls away from
the skating rinks. Just start the story
that skating makes the feet grow big, and
not a solitary female will ever be seen at
rink.
"UxoLE REMusn (Joel Chandler Harris)
who writes funny articles in the negro
iiaicct, is himself OF African BIRTH having
been born in the northeast of Africa while
his parents we're engaged in Missionary
work there.
TUX President has presented gold watches
70 Captain r. NJ. Hughes and Second Off
cor Edward v. Roberts, of the British
steamship Lord Cough, for rescung the
crew OF the American schooner Chaptra in
December last
TpE smallest firearm in the world is
gold watch charm In the form OF arevolver
about an inch long. Cartridges are made
-. .nd IL 10 ola; a;,nad IL conld do serious