The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-04-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

JOE 9tItthsoN ~ reported 70 have for
tune Of t550O00
KNOXVILLE Tenn, IL going 10 build n
81, coo city hall
AnAS In New York is paid $4,000 year
forsampllng tcs.
sTuARr honsoN has boen on tho stage for
lhirty.1yo years
IT Is so easy 70 mako a failure Of ilfo that
eny fool can do II.
lrisnow pcnal offcnae In Alabama TO
participate In a rafiie
THH National Republican Convention
will consist Of so delegates.
Ma PowpERLT has become fully con.
vinced that strikes don't pay.
hrrvENsos, author OF "Dr. Jekyl,r has
not entered a thcator in ten years
A GENTLEMAN OF Orlando, Fla, has q
parrot that spoakn thrce languages
TnK now directory OF Nashville places
tho population Of that city at 10000
MANr Of Don Carlos adherenls In spain
have rejected him for his liberal views.
LoRD AND Lapr LLSsDowSE will icnye
tanada for England In tho las; week OF
May
Trx,s has ovor ., ,ooaOoo acres Of public
land that can be bad for four dollars an
acre
THrRn arc soyonty-oHc ,'champions of
England" in games aud sports Of all
s0rtA
IT IL said that tho foundation for senator
Bewen's fortune was laid with tloo won a;
poker.
Tnr prospects Ia California point TO the
largest grain and fruit crop this year over
known.
TINS ehaplAins Of tho Union army now
living In New York have formed thom.
selves ihlo a society.
MAncn violated is usual and old.rcputod
custom this year by both coming In aud
going out like lamb.
or tho a oa5 policemen IN Now York {, ,iea
arr irishmoa This Ia a larger proportion
than IN any other city.
a MINIATURE indi-a arrow head Of flint
bound 10 gold shank by silver cord, Is
nm oddity Ia scarf.pinA
MANI soriallais were arrested for clrcu-
lailug pamphlet IN response 70 Emperor
Frcdorlek's proclamation,
Tnn Egyptian authorities have put re.
sirinilona upon tho search for and sale OF
antiquities in that country
a mass clock 10 years old Is owned At
York, Pa. IL has not stopped for Nifty
years, and Il keeps good time.
TnE centennial buildlngs nt Cincinnati
cover nearly seventy acres and machinery
hall is over quarter Of milo long,
USftL fow years ago Kaiser William
exchanged photographs with evory pretty
woman whose acquaintance ho made
Tns French crisis 10 over, aud France Is
safe. she stlll livos, thrivcs and moves
along "a II nothing unusual had happonod.
AZ Illinois woman attempted suicide 10.
cause her husband sold calf for s9 less
thnn what ehe thought tho animal worth
KTSG KAt.KAua Is going TO settle down
To hard work aud become coffco planter
Ito nnds thoro ls moro Ia u than being a
king.
Tnn curious phenomenon OF a rainsiorm
with sunshine and a clcas sky was wit
messed at Richmond, Va, tho other after.
noon.
TnR New York papers toll Of man
In that city who attempted suicide rbe-
cause bis wife refused longer 10 support
him.n
Miss oltyE oRrES aud Mr. Ivory White
were welded In an Iowa town recently
the Rcv. Mr.. Black performing the core.
mony.
DB J. BEssEt. the Arctic explorer, who
acted a. physician on tho American ship
Polaria In 1871, Is dead At Stuttgart OF apo
plcky
PRoY BnowS .SEouAnp has been making
experiments which prove that tho human
breath is capable OF producing poisonous
effocts.
TmE Kansas Methodist Conference
passed. resolution that progressive GU
chrc Is but guided passage TO tho realms
OF wo.p
A NEw YoHK pollccman's wife presented
him with trlplcts the other day--a boy aud
two girls, The trio weighed thirty-six
pounds.
A DAKorA hog has been buried In hay
atack, covered with snow, Tor ninety
three days, and comes out as clipper as o
.ay.bisd.
SOMEBODY recently decorated In tho
night tho great door Of Sing Sing, IN. W
nrIson with the legend, "flair cut while
you waitn
A pARfr OF ak gentlemen, who propose
10 mako tour OF Europe on BICYCLES,
sailed from Now York for tho Old World
the othor day.
VnE photographs given away with
cigarettes as premiums tend 10 undo all
that mothors and fathers teach their boys
personal purity.
Tun Tlchborno claimant has gone back
to England to try his luck again. Ho stiil
insists that no Ia the man, and he war tr
the titles and estates
TnE facctious pnragrapher OF the Clarks.
willie Cronn.) Democrdi says: "Spcakingof
trusts, what is most needed Is a place
whore thcy trust poor editors
WIrn the opening Of tho baseball sea
son Congress can reasonably expect To
occupy n place of secondary Importance
Ip tho mind OF tho average American cltI'
zen.
An order was recently issued by tho
postma,ter General which will expedite
mail from New York TO tho CITY OF Mexico
from "a TO 30 hours. Tho time will now be
from Now York to the City OF Mcxico o'S
days
Fx.MAyoR HESRY q. LEWIS, Of New Ha-
veo. Conn, has taken an insurance oil
sa0o 900 on tho life OF Wilson waddng.
ham. This Is said 10 bo the largest life In .
surancc policy over placed in New Eag-
land.
HIS friends say Of VIM Shirley, Of On
tario, that he fought under Wellington ut
waterloo, that no walks two miles 10
church each Sunday, and that he IN lOa
years old.
JUSTICE whrE's Judgments" say the
London Times, "were always marked by
good sense, and he worthily succeeded q
|. lino Of judges Of whom America may well
bo proud.n
\ Orfo HroxER, anow boy wonder In piano
blaylng, Is training for tho American mar
Nj. He is eleven years old, and is dcscrih
LAS "brIght-soking and IL a nervous
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