The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-01-26
VOL. III. NO. %.
CURRENT TOPICS.

oyEHcoArs for dollar are advertised
In New York
The children In Bogota carry their owa
chairs TO school
The Cinnamon in New York are said 10
send home si5O0O0 year.
M. GREvr saw twelve cabinets, with 80
minister's, serve under him.
Two young ladies' have embarked in the
dairy business at New Orleans.
NEw YoRK boarding house madam has
seized baby for her board bill.
ABirRyiED buffalo OF mammoth sine ban
peen found In Republic County, Kan
TnE Canadian Government proposes 10
put on line OF trn nsatlantlc steamers
AN exclusive New York belle owns
bonnet made wholly ofostrich feathers.
TnERE were lynohod during the year 1887
In these United States, no fewer than las
persons.
kansas CRY has beon chosen as the
eighth member OF tho American Base Ball
Association.
AHiSDoo widow has raised $4,000 in
Bosion to provide an Institution for Hin.
do widows
The regular rate OF increase OF the As
tor estate Is said 10 be from so, 0O0, 900 TO
sa,0oo0OO year,
CnARIEs Lyon, OF Denver, has n colloc-
tlon OF over seven hundred pens, no two
OF which are alike.
TnE secretary OF the British legation at
Washington ID brother OF Rider Hag-
gard, the novelist.
warm furnished by meter ia now hvo
cents 900 gallons In Washington, In Bal.
timore eight cents
THE old Cathedral Cemetery In Baltimore
Is 10 be sold for building lots, and tho
bodies have been removed
TnE great Lick telescope In California
will bring tho reflection OF the moon with.
In thirty miles OF tho earth.
COLONEL T. W. A. RonIE, Of Plymouth,
N. H., has served continuously as a justice
oftho peace for forty.six years.
TuE London hremen arc 10 be equipped
In asbestos CLOTH which has already been
tried In Paris II does not burn.
JANUARY . was tho coolest day ever
known In California. Tho mercury In
many places fell to tho frceIing point
GOVERNOR GoRDoS, OF Georgia, will dc.
liver the address at the unvoiling OF tho
Jasper monument, at Savannah, February
~
II Is said that twenty.thrco members OF
the present Congress have been In somo
way connected with the newspaper busi-
ness.
Az immense hunting expedition is about
10 start for Masailand, the ground OF ri.
der Haggard'I last novel, "Allan Quarter.
mAinn
Apucks from Panama state tho coffee
crop OF Antigua will he small this year
and will not, IL is calculated exceed $500.
900 pounds.
SILVA PoRTo, Portuguese traveller and
slave trader who died at Bohe, In Africa,
recently, was the first white man TO cross
the Dark Continent
THg six.ycar-old son OF Jacob Wolf, OF
near Kansas, o., has an arm, his right,
growing out OF his back between the shoul.
der blade and spine.
NORM CAROLINA has decided 20 abolish
the pensions 70 ex-Contcdorate veterans,
thinking the money can be better used in
building soldiers home.
Sidney SAIrn Of near Lewfsburg, NY,
q few nights ago while asleep walked
from his window aud ,rampcd half mile
through the snow before he awoke.
A srorTKD dog that follows be delivery
wagon OF n carpet store, Philadelphia,
wears an oil-cloth cover on which Is
printed an advertisement OF his owners
wares.
AT Montgomery, Ala, the other day,
four colored men stood up and werc mar.
ried TO four colored women. The men
were all brothers and tho women were all
sisters.
SLAyEHoLDEKS In Brazil are opposing
the final extinction OF slavery on the
ground that II will be impossible 10 carry
on coffee planting on large scale II sla
very Is abolished.
THIS device OF colorod train robbers IN
Texas OF painting their faces white in or
der 10 disguise themselves was ono in
stance where 'fhe devil was blacler than
ho was painted
TnE fatalities OF the last blizzard In Da.
kota were as great Us those attending the
average car-stove accident. At present
heat and cold divide the honors in killing
OF human beings
The death OF W. H. Chippendale, the
veteran Eng.ish actor, recalls the fact that |
ho was the youth employed by Sir Walter
Scott 10 carry TO the printer tho manu-.
script OF Wavcrley
The thirteen gas companies that now
supply the Bostonians with light by night
are In process OF consolidation into ri. |
gantic trust organization covering proper. |
~ OF tho value Of $l4,000,000.
A TRAVELLER, recently returned from /
trip TO New Mexico, says that In little |
valley In tho south of the Territory he saw
ripe apples, green apples and apple bios
srms all growing in the same orchard.
HowARD DOUGLASS, Supreme Chancellor
of tho Knights OF Pythias, has suspended
the Pennsylvania Grand Lodge, number.
ing 5000 members, until they amend their
laws TO conform to those of the Supreme
Lodge,
AT Orlando, Fla, dog is owned by
much coveted belle, which, Whenever
tiresome visitor stays too long, will stand
up In front OF him and begin 10 yawn and
chow other signs OF being sleepy. II Is
said tho hint is readily taken.
A FARMER in Ingram's Township, North
Carolina has wife that he Is really proud
OF, and with reason; for she can split 200
fence rails day, and has done IL time and
again and he says 1t is common thing
for her TO dip seven barrels of turpentine
day.
The popularity Of the German Crown
Prince may be estimated from tho fact that
the other day 10, 900 inhabitants OF Aachen
formed procession and marched TO the
resort, Moresnet, where pray
ers were offered up in his behalf.
Miss DoTrI.E, Of Brooklyn, was pro-
nounccd TO be dead the other day and tho
body was prepared for burial. At the
funeral her mother screamed so loud when
they tried TO take her away from the coffin
that the supposed corpse rose up and
startled tho congregation. She had been
in trance, aud is now well and happv