The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-09
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Pennsylvania. 80
SUNDAY marriages win not legally holt
In Pennsylvania.
A LARGE majority Of the herolnos o
novels are blondes.
A NEw YoRK sign reads: "womer
treated for uglIness."
IN Pittsburgh buttormllk saloons are do,
Anga hourishlng business.
fHERE are 10000 mothers in Tennessee
who can not read or write
IL lSsa, Vancouver, u. c., hal 1900 In.
habitants Now II has 10000
LONDON cxponds more than Si5, 900, ,O0C
every year In caring for the poor.
IT Is estimated that about 10000 people
havo gone 20 Europe this summer.
THE Prince Of Naples Is said 20 be the
best amateur photographer In Italy
ArRicor trees sixteen months old are
producing fruit in Tularc County, Cal.
CHOLERA Is making fearful havoc among
the European residents Of Hong Kong.
JArAs is about 10 establish system Of
torpedo coast defense at cost Of 1900. :
O0O
IT Is claimed that Washington Territory
mas gained 2O,0C0 by immigration the past
year
TnERE are pl7 men engaged in collecting
City.
IT cost the Emperor OF Austria ;oOo, 900
TO entertain the Car OF Russia for three
days
ls cour d'Alene, Idaho, they have
curiosity In tho shape, OF snow.whItc
robin.
GiuIirrrA DIoNEsi, girl vloliniSt aged
ten years, Is tho musical sensation In
Italy.
Az Atlantic City paper has an advcr.
tiscment Tor deaf and dumb house,
keeper.
AwRurn In the New York san figures
that national campaign costs about 80,
NEW YonK Snowman has contracted
Tor 1900 cats 70 bc S.yon away as matinee
souvenirs.
TnE Ohio girl who refused 10 marry
Russian nObleman Is tho latest greatest
sensation.
NrwBuRyronr man who has bocn
married twenty-five years has moved
thirty -nlno times.
Pooh carlot,a, OF. Empress Of Mexico. Is
IN good physical health, but her mind is
hop2lessly diseased.
fgALrmoHE expects 20 pack enough
peaches 20 provide n can for every family
In the United States
CONGRESSMAN Cox figures up our popu-
lation In 1870 al %, 10000 while Mr.. Atkin-
son sets II at % 5000
OsE of the richest men In ST. Paul, who
owns block after block OF real estate, lives
on loss than 500 year.
fouR or five Of tho head portors in the
leading Chicago hotels are worth, col.
ieetive, over half million.
CHcA0o woman announces that she Is
bo,oo years old. II goes without saying
that she Is hopplessly insane.
AcAsAL across Italy is being planned 10
connect tho Adriatic aud tho Mediiera-
mean. twill begin at Fnno.
RUSSIAN wheat will DO an excellent crop
thisycar; rye far above the average, and
Tho Yield Of oats and barley fair.
CANADA and New York State have equal
populations, hut while Now YOrk'a debt is
100000 canada's is over SeO0,o0O,0o0
a PHYSICIANS trust has been formed in
Hudson County, n. J. Bad.paying pa
tients viii have % go hungry for mcdi.
cine.
TuERK are 100000 children OF school
age In the United statcs who are not
reached by the influences OF the Sunday
school.
TIM buttcrmilk craze Is marching on.
Charged with carbonic ac:d gas, butter
milk is about as good as koumlss and much
cheaper.
THKRE Is a movement ON foot in New
York to provide the poor with flowers
Thisis all very well, but how about work
and brcady
PArmcK AGAIN. OF Pawlet, Vt, Is eighty
five years old. Hc just took his first ride
on the cars to so 10 visit his son at Cam
bridge, n. ",
II w. DIAL, Philadelphia man, who
for twenty years has slept In coffin, is
dead. The death Of his sweetheart unset
tied his reason.
ONE OF the recent candidates for Paria-
ment Is named Knatchbul- Hugessen.
This looks ms II 1t would stagger even a
campaign poet.
AN onion weighing seventeen pounds
has Just been raised in Phoenix, Ariz.
When the rival towns think OF IL they feel
like shedding tears.
rllLADkLPhiA hotel mon calculate they
give away so'Voo worth OF stationery a
year 70 ie.'er-writing friends who don't
pay the no'els cent
Ihk unprecedented number OF 10, 40 bills
nave 50 iar oeen introduced IN tne house
tnis session, against ll,2oo Tor the two ses-
slons Oh 'ue las. Congress.
WHEN tne fniladelphia letter carriers
start Out on their trips, each man carries,
on the average thirty-cight pounds and
'yrs ~. az ,w.s...'. sas ~ 10 ie.uin'
..ii..,as So - ..,Sp pSp'.s ,s savoea'e ,he rem
'..o,sar,s oYn .,,nnors % :. 'u ''asn'osea ~ sraas