The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-04-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

German army.
TnE pipe line from Lima, o., to Chicago
will cost t9.5Do,O)o
WIonfrA, Kan, has turned lis opera
house into market house.
TnEnew Emprosa o. Germany has n nor
Souai income OF tSo, ,0c0 year.
QrEKS NIcroRiA's homo while In Italy
was onno tho home OF Boccaocio
THE highest recorded prics for s,radi
yarIus violin Is said TO be ts0O0
CosFEcrioNEns say Tho Easter trade
grows moro considerable yearly.
Miss BArAnD, OF baltimore; niece Of
Secretary Bayard, Ii six feet tall.
TnERE is agitation Ia Now England for
separate sleeplng-carA for women.
TnH lato Judge Waite was made Chioi
Justice by President Grant IN 1874.
Mas. GESEHAL ToN nnrnu is about 70
start place Of amusement at Bt. Joseph,
No.
IT win bc ffiy years next Fourth Of
July since Iowa was organized as a Terri
tory.
A Youso society lady OF Boston dropped
dead In ballroom Jus, after finishing q
waltz
A MAN aud his daughter have been
united at cAieago af,or any yoan' sepa.
ration,
Thar big storm In tho East cost the
railroads and telegraph lines fully tS
Oo0.Ol
STATISTICS show striking decrease in
thehumber Of marriages Ia Europe and
America.
THH Australian sAvaRos are passing out
OF existence fastor than any other aborig
inai race.
Il rrEL easier think I viii 70 70
sleep" wcro the last words OF Chief Jus.
iico Waite.
Mlhen has boon tho most disastrous
month tho railroad companies have ever
experienced.
TnEHr aro said 70 DO several Gypsics in
New York city who arc worth upward Of
eiO10l apiece
Look out for counterfeit sS silver ccrtin.
Gates 1hcy arc said TO 10 circulating
very extensively.
ONLY twelve Indians arc left Of tho tribe
OF i,ooo who lnhAbiicd tho Yosemite Val
10y . few years ago,
TuH English call an olovatorN olt,,"and
the Frcnch call Il ia 'hclp, while tho Scotch
refer " IL tasa 'Nrop.n
usrTrD sTArrs MISnrrR PnrLrs will
haii for America carly In April on two
months leave OF absence.
srrntihr -oRowISo opposition 10 the
study OF German ln tho public schools Is
manitosiing Itself In Chicago,
TIN cents an aero was all farm OF a5i
acros brought recently In Grcono County,
Ala, whom sold under mortgage.
SENaron REhdAs, Of Texas, is ono OF the
champion onieoholders, having drawn
salary from tho public purse siaco ISIS
TnRnn boys at Portland, Ne, stole 52i
pocket knives from tho various hard.
waro stores before thoy foil uldcr aus.
picion.
A rKrMTmD snake ton feet long, with
horns, has been dug mp At Granada, Col.
ltwili be sent 70 Tho Smithsonian Institute
at Washington.
TnE Frcnch aud English military author.
tiles have determined 10 prohibit all telc,
graphic correspondence from tho field dur
ing tho next campaigns
E. RAsunE IL tho namo Of tho latest COW.
boy evangelist, and notwithstanding his
name, no ono has yot boon able TO wipe him
out IN theological argument
sfNcE tho convention Of tho Irish Ma
tionai League OF America a yoar and q
half ago, Father oReilly, tho National
Treasurer, has forwarded 10 ireland over
lIe1ooa
PoRrLASn, Ore, is TO import q choice
selection OF Europcan singing birds TO en-.
'lyen their streets aud gardens with thoir
,otos. Tho expense Ia TO DO borno by sub
scriptloH.
Mn VIZ MASSEY, OF Philadelphia, has
donated 70 the trustees OF tho city house
OF refuge $1,000 70 DO used in purchasing
farm mar the city aud erecting proper
buildings.
TmE polar boar ut Madison Square Gar.
den, New York, had his claws cut tho
oihcr day. 1t took twenty four mon with
ropes TO hold him while tho operation was
performed.
MADAME PATTI contributed 1900 10 tho
hospital for children In Lisbon, and in ro-
turn received from the Queen OF Portugal
full.longth portrait accompanied by an
autograph note,
WHifR q 81 Louis family wore at sup
per, two thieves entered tho house by
rear door and carried OF tho stove, which
had fire in II, and a weeks hunt failed 10
recover tho property.
AMERICA has, during the past few years,
imported noarly 100000 bushels of pota-
toes u year, ut tax Of fifteen cents II
bushcl. In 1888 Scotland did not export
any potatoes 10 America, nor ireland In
lss2
pErRirtRp loaf Of bread was recently
dug up ut Acmctonln Station, near Pitts.
burgh, being found at n depth Of twelve
fcot beneath tho surface OF tho earth
and beneath an ancient forest OF locust
troos.
SoME CT the shepherds In tho mountains
OF Bulgaria lead an outdoor life, tending
TO their hocks for ten or fifteen years,
without knowing what II is to sleep In
house or 10 enjoy any Of the comforts OF
civilization.
TmE figure ilend taking the English
royal family together 1nds that tho pros.
ont sovereign, Queen Victoria, with hcr
numerous progeny has cost the Brit sh ma
ton f35, 900, ,OO0, or in tho neighborhood Of
SiI5, 100000.
TIm London Times says that bare knuclSlc
prize fighting Is thing OF disgust with
Englishmcn, and that tho last ring has
becn pitched in that country. The French,
too, wall tako the strictost measures TO pre-
vent another mill
IT is curious fact that while Queen
Victoria speaks German In her homo cir
Gle, her daughter, tho present German
Empress, disrogards 1t in hers and usos
English ms much as possible.
SENATOR 5rAsroRD's California ranch
contains $4,000 acros and is probably the
largost In tho country. Some $500 acres
prc planted In grape vines and he has q
wine cellar that holds 1000, 700 gallons.
A FEATURE OF the Working Girls Fair,
held in Now York, was tho salo OF three
hundred Of Mrs.. Cleveland's photographs,
uont BY herself, each Of which bore Ter
av,oaraphi and which sold aslarGe nsursa