The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-10-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

feathers are out.
THiRTY million trees have beoa planted
lp Kansas this year.
IT isnow about time TO feed your straw
hats 10 tho family COW.
soMK OF the buttons for elegant cloaks
come 10 dollar apiece.
Palms do no. grow on palm trees. The
Whole world Is paradox.
WILD geese ard othor migratory birds
have begun their flight southwark.
ASovELrY in queen chain pendants Is .
miniature tomato made Of fine coral.
SAN IEK, a Kalamazoo laundrymau has
= iine garden OF Chinese vegetables
''PHEsENr" on the outside OF a lctter il
verb In she imperative mood, not an adj
verb
UNiouE umbrella handles OF heavy OK.
ldlIed silver initiate swords in scab-
bards.
RMrERoR WILLIAM has presented marble
busts OF himself 70 bismarck and Won
Moltke
A NEBRAsEA CRY noodle has wagsred
his wife against Jersey COW ON an cleo
tlon bet
Az American company has leased Abou-
tir Bay from the Egyptian Government &c
grow oysters
Miss NELLIE fArARD. tho fifth daughter
Of tho Secretary. is 10 enter society for
mAlly this season.
TANAGSo, the tenor, is said 20 have do.
cllned an offer Of <isa,oo0 for six monthA'
tour In America
SESAroRs SAWYER Of Wisconsin. and
Stanford, of California, arc tho portlicst
men In the Senate.
THERE are i,s6G convIcis in tho Georgls
pcnitentiary, Of which number 2ol are un.
der sentence for life.
THK Secretary OF tho Treasury has pur.
chased $500 900 worth Of bonds under the
circular OF April II last
LAR0ucmERG says that ''the American
girl has almost entirely cut out tho Eng
lish girl Ia public favor"
Mas. MARY Il. TYIEis, the original Mary
who had the little lamb IL now 81, and
lives at Somcrylllc, Mass
MISS EbrrH BRASDos, the actress. has
Just become Countess by the elevation OF
her husband to the poeragc.
Mas CLEvELAsp, IN IL said, is getting
tired Of answering notes from people who
name their babies after her.
A. oil having the odor Of refined pctro-
leum ls reported 10 have been found at .
depth Of to2a feet In Erie, Pa
THE Kitchen and dining room Of Kan.
sas City hotel are located on tho eighth
Moor, and reached by six elevators. T..
STEWART, Of Texas, ia the tAiiest man
Barnes, OF tseorHia, IL the heaviest, whil,
Ingalls, Is the thinest man in the House
Don LOWS I. King Of Portugal, con.
versesfrcciy In English, French, Italian
Spanish, Portuguese, German and swed
ish.
AN arteslAn we'll sunk under the sal
waters Of New York bay. on the Jersey
side, produces pure fresh water In abund
Rnce.
bAhroS County, Kan, Is named in homo
Of Miss Clara Barton. whom so many Kan
sas Veterans rcmembor with undying graf
itude.
BYhoS SAiEsnERRY, the Delaware peacl
grower, recently made prodt Of two cent
on carload Of peaches that sold for 81,
i2aa0.
a HORSE drawing an occupied carriag
stepped on an electric light wire nt Peeks
Kill, \. ", and was instantly killed by tn
shock.
THE best paid drummers travelling 70
Chicago houses are 1--WE men In tho grocer,
trade, who receive salaries Of from So
To $4,000 year
". A LANcAsrKR, Pa, wag created no it'll
excitement by writing mythical nam
upon hotel register with the addres.
Jacksonville, Fln.p
A MRS WILSON has sued the city o
Wichita for 500 for needlessly exposing
her husband 10 the small -pox by sondinl
him TO the pcst-house.
WE shall soon be having cocoanuts o
american manufacture IL the governmen
grove on the Island OF La COST, of th
Florida coast turns out a success.
SR JonS LuHBocK, speaking of bees be
fore the British Association, said thA
there seems strong evidence that th
mother can control the sex OF the egg"
Tue reflection Of the setting sun on tn
'''tNtff' ~ th' 0Atth 1ttuuAain AAoNtNf AAl
Desert. Me-, can be distinctly seen a
Belfast and Montville, nfty to sixty mile
away.
SAN ANTONIO, CAL, boasts OF the small
est baby. 1t is the son Of Alfred Maguirs
a railroad brakeman, and wheu born
weighed only sixteen ounces. A pint Gu
covered Il.
The richest and most influential China
man in Chicago is Hip Lung, the mayor Q
the Celestial colony there and the iaundr-
king OF the city. He is little man physi
cally. His fortune amounts 70 $4,000.
GENERAL WHEELER, OF Alabama, is tn
smallest as wen as the shortest man ply
pically In the House Of Representative
Wheeler was a Lieutenant General in til
Confederate army when only twenty fou
years old.
ABOUT million tons OF the ice harveste
from the Hudson last winter remains un
touched In the storchouses-- s--considerabl
more than half the crop. A succession q
cold waves during tho summer chilled tn
Ice business.
THE ravenous starfish which have bee
preylng upon the big oyster beds In Nara
Ransett bay are reported as thick Just no,
rs cranbcrries in Cape Cod bog. The
have cleared out more oysters this yes
than evcr before. ~
THERE was a very old trunk at CAST
Garden recently. Il arrived with wilisi
Behrens on the Fulda and had tho da,
1857 carved on 1t The trunk is OF .-blac
oak. Mr. Behrens was bound for Mont
colo, Iowa. He said the trunk had bee
IN his family for 22o years.
TINS death OF Prof. Richard A. Proct,
has brought great many rcmarks ane,
him and his profession, which sugge,
what great influence the dead astronon
er had during life, In spreading among IL
masses q comprehension Of At least u