The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-10-25
VOL. ~. NO. g..
CURRENT TOPICS

Europe.
CmcAao win have statue Of Garfield In
Garfield park.
They have real estate agent In Wichita
by the name OF Eucre.
BISMARCK has concocted a scheme for
''the reconstruction Of Europe"
or 150 persons naturaliEed In Boston
one day last week, i2o were British Ameri-
cans.
The National railroad In Mexico has been
completed and teated and will bo opened
November l.
The Cedar Falls, Ia, canning factory
has put up this season nine hundred thou
sand cans OF corn.
IT IL estimated that from 300 to 400
square miles Of Georgia timber land are
cleared every year.
The past summer was the wettest that
England has experienced since 1879, and
tho coolest since 1880.
The Emperor OF Austria Is very fond OF
channels shooting and uses an old fash
ioned Misunderstanding gun.
ohIzABA, Mex, has three papers, the
names OF which signify respectively the
rat, the cat and the beetle.
TnKRE promises TO be no lack OF informa-
tlon upon tho question Of the Emperor
FrederIck's life and death.
STEPs have been taken 10 provide special
voting booths for the women In the coming
municipal election In Boston.
joins d. coPPKn, OF Santa Rosa, has
raised Japanese cucamber that measures
three feet six inches IN length.
Az Iowa woman who has travelled far
and observed closely writes; "If marriage
Is failure then life is not worth liying.n
EPRoy. MITCHELL, n blind musician, OF
Eureka, Kan, has organized concert
company. every member OF which Is blind
AVTKR the recent hurricane cornlreef
fifty feet long, thirty feet wide and five
feet high appeared In the harbor OF Vera
Cruz.
GEoRoE wEsr, Of Roalyn, N. ", brought
up two CLANS at Sea Cllf recently that
weighed three and three-quarters pounds
apiece
A nKEfiK a. large as sparrow has
been received at tho State entomolo-
gizt OF New York. II came from Central
America.
A NEw HAMrsHIRR man has discovered
what he claims to be indlsputable evidence
that Shakespeare was n scholarly man and
n plaglarist
The Sultan Of Turkey has an ''electicn
dog.cert which runs ON ordinary roads at
ton miles nm hour. II carries four people,
and cost 5000
NJ. FLoouEr introduced In the French
Chamber Of Deputies bill 20 revise the
Constitution OF France, and Il was referred
20 committee.
The Third District OF Louisiana is likely
10 witness lively Congressional canvass
The Democratic candidate IL Gay and the
Republican Jolly.
AMKRicAss have been awarded fifteen
diplomas, twenty-six gold, six silver and
three bronze medals at tho international
exposition at Brussels.
GRANT ALLKN has expressed the belief
that green was the primitive color, that
yellow was then introduced, followed by
rcd and finally by blue
The supervisors Of San Francisco. In es-
cordance with petition Of tho Merchant
League are about 10 forbid tho distribu-
ton Of hand-bllls In the streets.
Ex.MINisrKR LoTImor who oresigned not
long since his post at St Petersburg aud
came hope with his daughter, has just
married her TO Russian baron.
The American Street Railway Assocla-
tlon composed OF more than ono hundred
aud ffty companies, and Its representa-
tives met in Washington a few days ago.
A sERIous outbreak Is reported among
the Allegheny Indians A corps Of physi-
clans armed with vaccine virus has been
dispatched to suppress IL II Is small pox.
The hog cholera scourge still continues
TO ravngo tho droyes OF swine belonging
to tho farmers Of Warren County. N. j.,
over 300 having been lost in one township
alone
The Sultan OF Morocco will send an En-
bassy TO the United States to complain,
among other things, OF tho conduct OF Mr..
Reed Lewis, the United States Consul at
Tangier.
BRrTIsH sportsman recommends that
tho bantam, which is particularly pugna-
cions and active, bc turned wild, in the
hopc OF having IL become an available bird
for sport
THE crying OF baby awakened by their
entrance scared burglars from q Canons.
burg tPa. hotel. Crusty bachelors viii
say that at last use for babies has been
discovered.
Two Of the Fox sisters, who were the or
iginal splritualIst rappers. II is said, have
determined TO expose the fraudulent prac-
tees which characterize all these alleged
.'manifcstations.n
ACCORDING 20 Johann Faber, the ia
nous manufacturer, OF Nurcmburg, tho
people Of tho United States use, in round
numbers about hundred million lead