The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-03-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

NJ.
and "a In his 5sth year.
TnE old Slave Marh building in Nash.
vile Is being torn down
THs estate Of the lcio Samuel J. TiIdon
now amounts 20 sbOO1,OoO
LouisA NJ ALcorrdrects In her viii that
AL her manuscripts be hurnod.
hlaoN CAMERON celebrated his eighty.
ninth birthday few days ago.
FltANoE put $4,000 600 into tho Panama
canal before sha got discouraged.
MANH has fourteen ciiies, aud Water.
VILE VIII soon be added TO tho list.
A Nav YoRE company has refused TO in
sure the life Of President Cleveland.
Tnn disciples OF the faith cure In Jersey
City have built themselves u church.
Iowa lies ns noar as may bo at tho geo.
graphical cenier OF tho United States.
OSrH more Manitoba Expresses a desire
TO socedo from tho Dcminlon Of Canada.
BnHor srlLDISo thinks that celibacy
threatens this country more than polyg.
amy
TINS frat State election Of tho Presldcn.
tial year viii 10 that In Rhode Island
April 4
DuHiSo The last sixteen years 1900 sail.
orh on British ships aro said 10 have been
ost at soa
Han stones as large Rs billiard balls arc
reported 10 have failon az He'd Lick, Miss,
the other day,
Tue average Mexican salorer supports
his family on lou cents pcr diem, Invested
In corn aud besns
ANornrR large raft Il being built Ia Nova
kcptia gruator In bulk than that which was
rccontly Lost al soa
MaA 0AaRtrr ANDERSON, tho leading
woman phy.ieian OF England, makes an
income Of t50OOo year.
AnTnpR HenLEakS, OF Sanford, Fla,
killed ra,tlesnaka tho other day aud
found in Il large rabbit
II Is said that ihnre arc moro crimes
committed In New York stato alone than
IN tho cntlro Empire of China.
CItilyarioN seems 10 10 making strides
In Mexico Tho papers arc clamorinF for
Legislation against buil-hghtlng
hAnt KiSd ALFONSO XIII is suffering
from epilepsy, an hereditary disease In his
mothers family, the hapsburgs.
TnE entire police force Of Kansas city
church mombers. Two arc elders aud
my number oi them are deacons
A nAs In Maryland lately colipscd the
one who stole aud carried away n hot
siove He actually stole a saw.mlll
fnr Danish Government has forbidden
the importation Of American bacon, steam
lard or other undrcsscd pork products
MaHIos HARIAxp says the coming won.
an will have her own bank account
This WIN 10 good news for tho coming
man.
CknnIxaL GIHnoSs - 30 constantly
travelling tha, some prominent Catholics
talk of making hlm present Of a travel
ing car.
DEFrSITioxs handed 10 at Boston high
schools Tarmol-a kind OF oil Bandit
lawyer. Barrlstcr-a man who sings 10
tho choir.
Bunxos ArRrs, ia tho Argentine Rcpub-
lie ia now tho largest city in South Amer
lea, the ccnsus Of 1857 giving II popula-
iion OF gsi.0Ol
PRixcf FnnnEnIcK WILLIAM. holr 70 tho
throne Of Germany, ls in the a0th year OF
his age. His wife Princess Augusta, is
ono year younger.
AvIooRors young lady in Georgia is in.
the blncksmlthing business and Is able TO
shoe horse with tho skin and dispatch OF
amasculino workman.
TnE sca serpent that appears issr!cdic
ally on the Maine coast 10 apparently no
spring chickcn. He was seen there In lsii
and by minister, too.
Mn. HJoKxsrlEnSg BIoRSsoN has boon
organizing IN Norway popular crusade
against tho Mormon cmisarics who arc
sooking their prcy there
A GOLDEN Cupid, amid pearl and dia'
mond leaves, holding q crciet OF brilliants
above his Wicked little head, is very Ecw
and costly hair ornament
THE average timo OF thrco thousand Now
York business men at their downtown
luncheon il eight minutes, This Is a mat
ter OF record In leading restaurant
AT eighty years old Hon. Hugh McCul-
Tough retains his brown hair aud whisls-
ers, only slightly touched with gray, and
does not use eye glasses moro than half tho
time.
A cngcK for So,0oO,0OO drawn on Ma.
tlonaI bank at Sbciilcld, Ala, recently
passed between two merchants OF that
place. II was probably tho largest check
ever drawn In tho State
NEWSPAPERS advertising comcs high In
Paris Tho Poh Journal OF that city
charges two dollnis limo for the ordinary
Kind and twenty dollars a line for road
ing mattor'i advertisements.
ALABAMA is seriously aroused to the i'm
portance Of securing immigration from
tho North and Wost Especially is this
true as TO tho land owners OF the great
central and agricultural region
WuEx Paris shop-keeper advertises
,svoods at cost Government official In
spects his prices and secs that he is carry.
ing out whit no adyertiscs. Any fraud In
this respect IL vigorously punished.
TnE deepest we'll drilled in the United
statos is that OF George Westinghouse, ct
fIomewood, noer the city OF Pittsburgh,
which, on December 1, 1887, had reached
tho depth OF 4 GlS feet when the tools were
lost and tho drilling ceased.
Mn. Il. HExpRIcKs Of Applegate, Orc,
cut down large pinc tree and within thc
wood found small cavity which was on.
cIrclei by forty-fivo rings OF yearly
growth. In this cavity was foreign COP
., r coin boarlng tho dato l7vO.
In Milwaukee physicians demand per'
centage from tho druggists to whom they
send their prescriptions, and the drug
gis,s pay II and collect just that much
moro from the customer. Tho dis
covery has aroused considerable indigna'
tlon.
Alprnr Fn,znn, convict in the Micht
gnn penitentnry, escaped, and reward
wns offored for hIs capture lie commuul
Gated with his wife, who was having
hard strugglc with poverty, and induced
her to deliver him up and get the reward
50 sho did and Frazer . happm than BE
hes besu for year''