The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-09-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

SAVANNAH is now tho largest cotton port
n tho United States.
JOHNSON grass grows sovcn foot high
In Greeley County, Kan.
Amour 10000 acres Of sea land ncar Now
York arc devoted 20 oysters.
EpirH BRIsKBAM, OF Racine, Wis, lost
her life by falling out Of bod.
IT has been discovered that nearly every
v Colorado statesman has red hair.
It coSt man OF Pottstown, Pa, eight
dollars u evado toll Of one cont
THK number OF prisoners In the Joliet,
Ill, State prison now IL tho smallest in
years
AoLILE MA0uIRE appeared for the 9OOth
tis,e before New York police Judge rei
Gently.
Tux country will pray for an early fro,t
IN view OF tho spread OF tho Southern
Icourge
sKyKSrEEN thousand bills have been In.
troduecd In Congress since tho present
session began.
dhE original draft OF Burns "Anld Lang
syne" Is Ia possession Of Mrs John " L.
iIVyn, Of Albany.
Tue Sultan Of Turkey has eIilod eighty
of his cooks, who struck ON account Of their
wages not being paid.
hKARs are said 10 10 10 numerous about
Eau Claire, Wis, that one man bagged
three In ainglc hunt
LnuTKSANr in the German Army has
feen sent here 20 make an examination OF
uur pea-coast defonsss.
cARL ScnuRE Is detained In Germany by
she Illness OF his son. bu, hopes 70 leave for
home by tho end OF October.
o. r. MERsKnE, postmaster at jackson,
n H., was appointed during Fillmore's
administration, and served thirty eight
years
LAST July was one Of the coldest months
that the Australians ever experienced. In
fncr tho whole winter has bccn exception
ally severe.
NJ, Louis bookseller, who year ago
did thriving business in volapuk text.
booka, says their sale has now dropped of
70 almost nothing.
TEXAS will furnish this year the oldest
voter In tho United States. His name Is
Richard Kidd aud ho is one hundred and
fifteen years Of ago.
CHICAGO has an establishment that docs
good business In renting table china 10
hosiensoa who want TO make splurges for
particular occasions
HuBEHr HKRKonEn, tho artist Is about
20 marry again. His bride Is welsh lady,
n Miss Margaret Grini,hs Tho artist has
been married twice before.
fuK London police have organized a
brass band consisting OF forty pieces
They are determined 10 drive tho criminals
out OF the city In some way.
Nus. HENRY WARD BEKcnER has aged
very rapidly Of late She has made NO
plans for tho future, but is very anxious TO
have home Of her own again.
Tux largest railroad station in tho world
" sc. Pancras. London, seven hundred
foet long, one hundred and forty three
wide. one hundred high, covering ten
acres
TINE apple crop in New Jersey is un-
precodentedly large and the farmers are
now seeking n market FOR IL Local deal
cra arc Offering only twenty cents
bushol.
CATTLE arc so cheap In Nevada that
the present season will provo Improbable
for stock rnissrs. Beef commands there
only from lye 10 Ave and a half cents
pound.
Now Longfcllow Is charged with plagar-
izing 'Hiawntha" from tho "Kalevela,"
the grand poem OF Finland, written by
Topciius In the early part OF the present
century.
11m widow OF President Polk ia in her
eighty seventh year. She IA feeble and
rather forgetfui. but sho maintains her
cheerfulness and bor interest In tho WORLD
about her.
ApMIRAI. PoRrKn. IN nls seventy .seventh
wear. preserves bis boal,h bv eating sim.
plo food, rarely drinking tea and coffee.
smoking In moderation and keeping ple.s-
nntiy busy.
lis the custom In some sections Of Chi
cago for landlndies who hang out their an.
nounccments OF furnished rooms to rent
10 place their photographs beside II as an
inducement.
The bas-rolief mentioned lately as dis
covered at Eleusis, which reproduced n
reilef discovered by Lenormant after its
acquisition by the museum OF Athens, was
ionnu 70 DC forgery.
proposed IN England to provide
Judges az race-tracks with instantaneous
pno'ogrhpning apparatus by which to tell
peyonl posslonlty o. mistake what horse
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On. Many WALKrn wants Congress 20
provide an appropriation for the nurnose
Of compensating her for series on lac
tures on .self care as n preventive Of dis.
easop which she proposes to deliver in the