The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-09-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

TnE Princess OF Wales spends 5000 a
year for bouquets.
TuR Cutting edge OF this Mexican busi-
ness Is about wore of.
TnE grnpe-rot is playing havoc with
some VinlAnd vineyards.
A ToRoSTo woman proposes society for
the prevention OF kissing ~
Tnn Massachusetts convicts are TO have
their tobacco supply cut of.
whsniNoToS is one OF the best, II not the
best, paved city in the world.
TnKRE are three private mail-dellvery
companies operating In Berlin.
A Two-IEAW-otp hoy In Vermont was
drowned In a vessel OF sour milk some days
ago.
TnI story Of the discovery Of meer-
schaum In Oregon turns out 10 be n mere
sham.
Auyiors from Corca show that cholera
swept OF twonty thousand persons In one
province.
sEvES citizens ot Chicago win shortly
leave this world with a very poor opinion
ofrepublics,
Tnrnr is little doubt that anarchy In the
United States has had It's wings clipped
pretty olosely.
TnE Gar Of Russia is growing econom.
ical lie has cut the czarowits down TO
ti0ooO year.
MAcmSTs for reeling silk from unpierced
cocoonS are in operation in the Agricultur-
al Department in Washington
TnRoSrs are cheap in France, Two
made for the last Napoleon are now valued
at sIOo each. and find no takers.
TnE Niagara Falls crank who goes
through tho rapids begins TO assume the
proportions Of national nuisance.
Mus. CLNELASD, the Presidents wife,
has taken sixty ritilngs for pictures in
Washington photographers gallery
-. GHAY, pack with my box 1--WE dozen
quiIls" The peculiarity Of this sentence is
that it contains all the letters Of the alpha
bet.
SulcIprs caused no less than twenty four
Of the total number Of is6 deuths reported
officially FOR May as having occurred in the
German armies.
Tnr Sdrdnndh Noies says There is a
man In Athens forty three years old who
never fired gun In his litc,n Probably he
IL without arms.
PIITsBrRon now has seven Bcsscmcr steel
plants Steel is so generally taking tho
place OF iron that the puddler nre moving
west 10 obtain work.
TuE rations for the force that was 10 invade
Mexico, may now very properly be sent To
those counties in Texas whose inhabitants
are suffering Tor the necessities OF life
A crRnrSr paragraph is TO the effect that
the accomplished daughter OF Mr. Law
renee Barrett, obcdicnt TO her fathers
wishes, has never seen play or an opera.
PORTION of the Gulf Of Mcxico was
blown into the city OF Galveston, the other
day, thus making mariners OF numerous
citizens who had no sea.going tastes what
ever.
Tnn belle Of Long Branch isa beautiful
young Jcwcss named Stella lsancs, whose
face is said 10 be a perfect fac-simile oi
that Of Venus, seen on artisticaIly-cui
canoes.
TuE new election Rt Leith for member oi
parliament resulted In the triumph OF th,
t;lndstonoan candidate, Mr. Ferguson Hi
competitor, Mr. Jacks, lost 4. $50 votes sinc'
last fall.
STRONG argument for the economy o
cremation, is that the Vanderbilt tomb 1
10 be permanently guarded by detectives
and house is being constructed in its vi
cinity for their use,
A CURIOSITY OF engineering, in the form
OF tiny engine, has been made by an in
genious clockmaker, It weighs only abou
fifteen grains, and is entirely covered b.
an ordinary thimble.
ANEW umbrella device Is a patent wir
dow in ono OF the sections, through whic
the traveller can see who is ahead Of hir
and how toavoid punching him in the hac
with the sharp point.
A METEOR, brilliant with bluo and re
light, was seen from Eastport, Me, fc'
nights ago, II was seen for thirty seconds
and loft n red track across the sky after th
meteor had disappeared
AT Oneida, N. Y, the other day, has
ball umpire made wrong ruling When
was pointed out 10 him he fined himse
seventy five cents. At the close of the gam
his severity gave way, and he remitted I'll
fine.
President GREvY, now eighty years ol
and far from robust, is represented as sce
ing relief from cares which advancin
years, rather than declining patriotism
have rendered burdensome, and talks OF T
signing.
TnB engineer OF Rapid City, D. T.,
surveying for the water works located Il
reservoir several feet above the founta
head of the wntcr supply, and now q
water will not run into the tank, and ther
fore the city's 1000 water systemis OF
use.
Rgp CLOUD, a Sioux chief, believes tn
IL is better to get living out of the viii
people than to quarrel with them, "Wb
wc want, /" says he, sis white men to pla
our corn, hoo It, harvest 1t and put IL in
the barns which they will build for
Warriors don't work"
A BuFrALc paper says that just befc
the opening session of the savants in II
city, Bishop Cox remarked to reporte
~ should like TO correct the proof'sheet
nv prayer You newspaper men and :
printers arc so unfamiliar with prayer I'll
you're pretty certain 10 bungle it
badly" This win 60 on record aS the star
ing Joke OF the session,