The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-23
CURRENT TOPICS,
QuEEslNArALE Isln Paris.
BurrElpuLK pie Is new sort.
A NEW ,ar.rins is tiny gold barrel.

A NOVELTY In scarf-pins 10 model Of 9
. windmill.
AsnALL town in Michigan has seven
brass bands.
The philadelphia mint coined 9,OOO,O
cents In July.
"sIIcKH ltmonp is the newest millinery
TINT In Lrhdon.
TIM PATS census records tho namos Of
Golb AmoIieanN
Mrs. sIrIgDAS is stIll young, being bu,
fhlrty-nyo add beautiful.
THE PrincSof Wales continues to gain in
fcsh, much b his ehagrin.
A uoRsEItsnake, Ave fcet long, has been
killed in Eifnuol County, Ga
A MIcmoAtpER has patented concern
that catches Apig In an open field.
TEsrs at thcchlcago stock yards show
that Texas cat,c fcver is contagious
THKRK are abSt 1000 more mon in Chi.
easo than WON'T, aecotilng to recen,
.snsus.
IT took chicap firm ayear to find on,
that their book-kSper had stolen $4,000
from thom. I
THERE is a prob9lliiy Of a strike which
will involve S0,0l wooltn mill oper-
ntives In England
woMEs delegajs arc admitted to tho
Baptist conycntigs In Tennessee, Missis.
slppi aud ArkanS
Tnr ''bango vgoIng out OF fashion in
London, and hlh intellectual forehcads
nre r.gain the milo.
A lIBEKrY clxrY, Georgia, man IL at
tending school iih his two children. He
b. AZ tho head dhe class.
A TORNADO yfch stripped tho feathers
from chickens ld blew away tombstones
Is the latest prtict Of Kansas.
TnK scarcity young men at tho aver
age summer rcft Is said 10 b. more pain
fully apparcntlls year than ever before.
THE dcmandbr ribbon is now SO great
that ono Stathlone, New Jersey, turns
out aG,015, 900 yIls year, not quite p, I3i
miles.
a WOMAN hntist died IN San Francisco
who Imagined rself tho north star, aud
wore on her bhat a huge star cut from
. rcd cloth.
TmK Belfast e.) woman who had hcr
steel hustle strk by lightning said Il fclt
as n some one d poured hot water down
hor hack.
Tux Navy Dhrtmcnt il Informed that
tho cruiser Baliorc, building Mt Cramps'
yard, phIlAdelia. will probably DO ready
for launching CHE esth.
GrvE the boytadeA Only eiehty-nlne
Of the 800 rcccig Inst year into the East
ern Pentcntin OF Pennsylvania had
trades whom bright there.
A MAN in Junh County, Pa. has been
confined 70 hIulm with rheumatism for
forty.four yeapnd has snbsistod wholly
upon liquid foduring that time.
A NEGRo farf In Doughcrty County,
Ga, has SUCCEED In making excellent
syrup from warnolons, and thus now
use IL devised the surplus crop.
TnK present look appears lobe for
crop Of nl,ouA p,DO0,0o0 bushels OF corn,
on contInnand favorable conditions, In
the opinion OH Cincinnati Price Cur
rent
TuT hottest hoe IN the United Stntes
during tho mt heated period was the
Qnltotojon Diet, New Mexico. The
thermometer lstcred 100 degrees in tho
shade.
THE only tcd Catholic priest in this
country IL RA. Tolton, pastor OF st.
Joaeph's Chl. in Quincy, III. lie was
slave before war andis full.b!ooded
African.
TnrRE il 4to be nothing 20 mark the
spot where leral Mcclellan lies in Riy-
eEviow Comfy, Trenton, N. j., except
two or three III flags, which wore placed
there on Melal Day.
Tux EnRlrourtof Appeal has decided
that reiativif dead person have no
right 10 piifiowcrs or other tokens ON
the grave dot with the permission OF
the ccmetchthorltIos.
CHAs. A.lnuRNER, chief OF the Penn
syivania Gglcal Survey, has been ap-
pointed by Shah Of Persia 10 the same
position int potcntate's dominlons at
salary Of 30 per annum.
A GEon man has baptized his own
wife. Thi snid 10 be unprecedented.
The wifelally mandates tho husband
when he at an unusual hour, to open
the door button- hook.
TnR Petsurvivors OF the Chatsworth
wreck, ot Toledo, Peoria g. Western
iailrond, organized an association of
chatswoimvivors, and meetings will
be held ally.
MRs. ERALS HANCOCK, Logan and
Blair notelve pensions OF s., 900 year
MS the WIS of Major Generals, Mrs.
Tyler, M.incoln, Mrs. Grant and Mrs.
Garneldi receive pension Of 5000.
THE mr. OF tho present German En-
press ihflned In mad house. She
wantodhcome tho wife Of Louis Napo-
loon, whe was President, aud would
have dso but for tho opposition OF
Queen brin.
A DEADo namod Charles Perkins, OF
Dc Kafx., started out the other cven-
Ing toe somo innocent amusement.
Durinacourse of the evening he killed
three ifeven mules and horse, and
thnn dboared.
MAIh may be a great risk, but a
BerlinIcnant who advertised for a
wife, feceived III answers. There Is
no tel now many candidates would
havo beveloped IL the 'ad" had been
kept iiforbld.
INBl tho trndcsmen look askance at
the Ann habit of going to Europe for
n ''resfho lurching Of vessel is not
cxactlhucive TO the quietcst repose,
aid thp much good American money
goes 9th the tourirts.
A 81 envelope has been invented
which ted In such manner as to turn
black, and red II an attempt Is made
10 opet wetting or exposing to steam,
while lot affected by moist air or fog.
Rushew military law will increase
her ary four hundred thousand men.
TnEailies are becoming more per-
eoual hver. The Now York World Is
sbowib tho mashers in Central park,
and ping their names with acircum-
stantRount OF their conduct The
chIeaInes 10 giving tho names Of thu
men Wy their girls starvation wnsss