The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-01-12
VOL. III. NO. 90.
CURRENT TOPICS.

cauDhBc.
A SINGLE Puritan rose costs dollar in
New York.
TnE retail price OF coal At Pasadena,
Cal, Is SOS ton.
TnE Chinese alone hold tho secret OF
making India ink.
TnE seventeen. months.ol King OF Spain
gets si,ooo,OoO a year,
fLoklDA markets arc supplied with new
tomatoes oInative growth.
NoRrnEHS New York farmers propose
10 organize an Albany lobby.
Ngw loHK life Insurance agent has
opened an office In Jerusalem.
AlARb trust Is tho latest. IL ought 10 DO
n TAT thing for those who are In II,
TuE fund for tho New York Gran, Mon
ument amounts now In all 10 Sl2j0oo.
FoR the entire calendar year OF 1857, the
Government debt was reduced tllhUiG,c 900.
As A popular resort for suicides tho
Brooklyn bridge is an unqualified suc-
cess.
MAX namcd "Toogood" has boon ar
rested in Baltimore for disordcrly con-
duct.
TnMAoE dictates his sermons 10 his
hfcretary At tho rate OF 100 words .
minute.
IT hna been decided by tho postmaster
at 81 Louis that mincc pic Is not naiiable
matter
TnEnR are whole towns in Germany that
do little else but mako dolls for American
children.
Exoi.ANp has got another slice Of Africa.
This time Ills piece OF Zanzibar. near
Pert Manga
SOMEBODY 'pnpairioticaliyp compares
Mainc sarlincs TO plncpAhlons soaked In
bad whale OIL
TIE man who has tho contract OF clean
ing AWAY the garbage Ia New York Clty
clears S5O,oo0 year.
GnlVn defccia have been discovered In
tho steel bong used in the construction OF
cruisers in California.
1'nEn- isn't much doubt that Cape Cod
ie getfing eaton up by tho greedy aoa, aud
In time will disappear.
Bisnor WmrriE says that "as long as
tho Indian has an aims house TO go 10, so
icng will be be q paupcr"
TnK President has determined that he
will not appoint delegate 10 the medical
congress 20 be held at Lima, Peru.
HaNaixo Is not popular mode Of death
IN the Empire State. and change Is rec
emmcnded in the Govcrnor's message.
Sox.ix-lAw WILSON has decided 10 quit
France, and viii hereafter reside In Scot
land. whore he has purchased an estate.
TnE fastest locomotives in this country
nrc on tho pcnnsylvnuia railroad. Il Is
claimed they can so mile in if,y.two soc
ondS
A PETEnsnuno (va.l patriarch seventy
lvc years Of agr, Is married 10 his eighth
wifc and Is the happy father OF thlrty-six
children.
JonS wn1iAup, OF New Garden, Pa, has
n hnc sheep whose wool made nineteen
yards OF cloth n yard wide. IL makes a
good yarn.
TnE Daily hot Blast. OF Admission, Ala,
has been sold. Tho man who got this paper
viii have 10 handle IL With tongs, judging
from its name.
TmERE IL mountain Of Goa! IN Wild
Horse Vnlloy, Wyoming, which has bcen
burning Tor thirty years. ]. sends up dense
volumes Of smoke.
IIruooRarnic stone IL found In Dallas,
Tex, fully equal TO the stono imported
from Europe. IL costs from $40 TO SIS for
stone J0N1O luChca.
A coxrEsr over seat Ia tho Maryland
Legislaturs Is going on between two msu
who bear the striking names, respectively,
OF scaggs aud Sasscer
c. =. HUNTINGTON. the railway magnate
whose wealth il computed at S5OOOD,00D
oncc peddlod out butter by the ponnd u
tho miners in California
DoNYA JuANA PARiiAoA V. pE FuESzABIDJ
has just died in Rancagua, Chili,a The ag'
OF l2D years. She Lived to see her great
grcat-groat-grandcbidren.
Own five thousand acres OF timber lane
near Hawkinaville, Ca, sold at anction 70
Gently for t5S. Somo Of tho land went fo
less than hnlf n cent an acre.
TnERE seems 20 be no limit TO George w
Child's bencfactions. lie has just sub
scrlbed e,5OO for The erection OF a memor
ial window TO Milton in Westminster Alb
hey.
FoR tho first time since the construction
OF tho old cathedral at ST. Augustine, Fla.
200 yoars ago, the customary celebration
OF midnight mass on Christmas Eve wa
omitted this season. s
ANDERSON BuRRELI, planter livinI
near Montgomery, Ala, Ia tho father o
thirty-ono children aud the grandfather 0
sixty. He is scveniy-one years old and ha
been married four times.
THn new paper shirts are very popula
among the newspapcrmon at Grand RaT
Ids. Ono enthusiastic laborcr on tho Dali
Eagle declares tho shirts keep fellow s
warm he can soak his overcoat in the win
ter.
THE young ladies' OF Hastings, Neb., me
In council ono day last week and passe
resolutions declining to attend balls wit
the young men unless the latter should cor
sent 70 recognize them when there is q
opera.
PoPE LEo's appearance in the bnsilica {
st. Peters few days ago, was tho flri
appearance OF Pope thore since vlcto
Emmanuel entered Rome In 1870 wit
troops 10 overrule the temporal authovit
OF tho Pope.
An nnti-tithe agitation In Wales Is anon
the probabilities OF the immediate futur
with which the English Government wi
have to deal. This, with tho homo rul
question, will give the conservatives col
siderable work to do 10 kee the reins {
government we'll In hand.
run year 1855 opens auspiclously for tn
country, though Europe seems standin
faco 20 face with grcat war. Our mani
facturers arc prosperous and goneri
business isin tho iul tide OF hcalth. n
part Of the United states is suffering fro
famino or postilcnce oruny great calamit
SENATOR FAuLKSEn. OF West virglni
whom boy OF ten years, got Lost In Il
mountains while bunting aud wanders
inio den Of bears, whore he succeeded
killing four OF the animais with no oih'
weapon than a slnglo-bnrrcled shotgu
Tho Senator 10 regarded ~ he vrea'e
bear huntsr u sAs s'sse'