The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-09-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

UNCLE SAn has i52,557 names on his pen.
sion roll Of honor
Kansas claims 10 have discovered valu.
able nickel deposits.
srKKL fishing rods that telescope 70.
tother are novelty.
The London police now carry their clubs
In pocket instead OF belt.
JonN @. WHITTIER will bo eighty .ono
on tho 18th OF December OF tho present
year
DovEs are NO plentiful In and around
Los Angeles that they havo become nul.
saDee
KIso MILAN refuses to allow Queen Ma.
taiie TO enter bcryia TO appear at con.
slstory.
OARS grow TO height OF seven foot,
eight inches at Glenbrook, Douglass, coun.
THE Frcneh Government IL about to issue
decree ordering all the Sowns in France
TO adopt Paris time.
RALru KISo, Of kansas, aged Ten, Is in
Jail for stealing somo iifty horses in tho
course Of the past year.
IL ls said that tho South Florida railroad
has paid out I'll, 900 in damages during tho
pas, two years for cattls killed.
fEhALE "spottors" arc now employed
on some OF the surface car lines, in Now
York, 70 detect dishonest conductors.
QuEES NATALIE has gone to Bucharest.
49, A sesn NplIlou 20 ihueh a,oly
' '' anu u '''' Mon'u 20 s'h'olui 20
NVHAi. ,HAi. nAs ls't the whlm ol IaNuloh' ehp
'loi'a.oh mas ihieh OH IN the iast
,nree years as rapidly as that OF amber
"as 'ieeR'
ihh s'At" sehool fpnh ~ Kansas gives
torty,n'he eenh 70 every person ~ tho
ota'e pe'Neeh 'ile agos ot nNe aha 'wehsy-
'ne years
IhVTLt IN Alaska ~ ths utne o. the
year can 500 20 read without arthc'al
i,ght from O'Clock In the morning until
"a ~ night
~ the youngest grnniparent' contest
chapel hiii' ~ C., lends with a negro wo-
man who had granddaughter ut the age
VI twenty-cight.
Tux Boston Common dates back 10 lCi0.
SIX years before that time, nearly tho
whole territory comprised In u was Bought
~ Tho town Tor EN
TnE dressed bcof interest Of Chicago do
mands tho exclusive use Of ut least 5000
cars built for that especial purpose and
used for nothing elso.
A NEBRAsKA tornado blew cows tall
bald without injuring tho animal THIS
tale Is entirely too bald for belief II
should be slightly decorated.
EN0LAND's system OF twelve cents for a
telegraph message shows gratifying re-
turns, Last year $4,000 messages were
sent, nm increase OF li,OOO,Ooo
TiIE scheme 20 remove Libby Prison from
Richmond TO Chicago has fallen through,
and tho genius who conceived tho plan Is
six thousand dollars out OF pocket
AccoRnIso 10 an exchange the New
York Herald charges S26,2g3 for Its lowest
priced column, aud sisI, 900 for the highest
priced advertising columns per year.
GLASS eyes false teeth and cork legs are
among the curious things sent 70 thu New
YORK pawnshop ny ther woaIers, WING
"einon iail 10 tourom tn'tn On oa'uruaS
night
NEWS comes from tho yellowstone Ma
tional Park that there arc stun Tow nun
dred bunnloes ana several thonsanu e,k
noer ana mountain sheep 'ett III 'he HoeAs
Mountains'
WoN0 ClrEE, San Francisco Chlnamnn
purchased n drawing-ro room tieket toCnl'
cnHo recently. Ito Is the hrst one OF M
ha lonnlity VINO evor committeu suoh III
eN{fayagance.
FIVE brothers and thrco sisters met nn
expectcdiy nt Deer Island, Me-, recently
An impromptu reunion was held, II belnt
the ilrst time the family had boon togothel
for forty years
Two citizens OF Harris County, Ga.
have each become tho others faiher-in
law. They lost their first wives by death
and for second wife each married th'
others daughter.
CHAs DILLON, OF Stony Brook, l., l., ha
been sucd for breach OF promise becaus
bc fell asleep before the ceremony on TIL
night he was 20 have been married an'
spoiled the wedding.
ACCORDING to the report OF the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, the present averag
rate OF monthly wages for farm labor il
the United States is S1s.2i without board
and sl?.35 with board.
LATE Cairo adyicos ridlcule the state
ment that there is any white Pashn" Ii
the Bahr- OIL Gazol province, and attribut
The story TO Mecca pilgrims, who arc in
delicatcly characterized as ''notoriou
linrs.n
THE MOSQUITOES have been so trouble
some In Hennipen County, Mimi, atel
that farmers havo been compelled to wea