The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-04-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

Moopts meetings IN Colorado are worry
nlccossful
IT is going TO be hot summer, say the
weatberwiso.
MArrnnw ARSoLD, tho English poet and
critic, "a dead.
LorrA, the actress, says hor net receIpts
this season arc $4,000
WooD carving IL 10 be taught In tho Min.
nosota State University,
JuDoH BKvEHEKs, Of Kalamazoo. viii
plant nfty aores Of onions.
SrMMER and winter Pope Loo rlses Al
six O'clock IN the morning.
THE catch Of shad In tho capo Foar river
ibis year has been unprecedented.
Nnw YoRK advertisement wantod-
100 society ladies for mob In a play.
TnE watermelon average at Qultman,
Ca, Ia nfiy per cent. above last year.
FnEpEmc LArrox's gift 70 Milwaukee. a
$4,000 art gallery, IL now open 10 the pub
lie.
oxYx. hitherto a Mexican monopoly,
has been discovered abundantly In Kon.
lucky.
GnrrS NOOK. Toast jackson and Sui
phnr Bowen arc registered voters 10 IA
yannah.
1'wESTr membors o. tho Chicago board
Of trade have been suspended for trading
after hours.
SASKHT goes 10 Eagiand thla spring for
revival work Ho will also visit Scotland
and ireland.
TnE late Emperor William never ap.
poarod In tho presenoo Of his troops with
his coat unbutsoned
A RHrEGriSo cannon has been trlod nj
brsssehArt, la Belgium, which can throw
t~cnty-soyon shots a minute
ONE Of tho mest interesting OF the many
nses 70 which papnr has beca put Is the
manufacture Of paper boitles.
a CASE was argued in ono Of the Now
York courts the other day which has been
IN the courts thero ever since 1914
A Tux Of ropos made from the hair OF tho
women Of Japan Is used IN building the
1900 600 Buddhist temple IN Kioto.
A cHArKL fashioned out Of tho solid rock
has boon found In M old silver mino In
Northern chihauhAu, near Casa Grande
river
srnAKEn camlslE paid tIS0D for tho
Swedish miniater's house In Washington,
not tis,opo a. soms correspondents have
sveFfod.
Tnn rlchest child In Aiucrica is May
hharplcas. aged nine years Bho Is esti.
mated 20 bc worth ta.0oo0OO Ia her own
namo and right
AMrnicG has lo,i ITO market for canned
fruits IN South America by putiing up In.
foriof goods, and canned monis can't hold
on much longer.
A rAsnioS papor aays soAiskln sacks arc
rapidly going out Of style. II Is probable
that by July not sealskln sack will be
seen on our streets.
THn only woman lawyer Ia Georgia Is
Mrs. Hamilton Douglas. of Atlanta. Sho
IL graduate Of the Law Schoollof tho. .uni-
vcrslty Of Michigan
TifH chances are that i've or ten years
moro % our tshcrmen's present practices
will virtually extorminaio the lobster In
New England waters.
Tnr p7ryiaia Lasorf. Of Petersburg, Va,
ls said 10 be the only paper In this coun-
try conducted BY q colorcd woman. Hcr
name Il Carrie Bragg.
JAcop fnAHr left bis widow an estate cs.
tlmaio1 10 be worth 0,0D,Oja Chicf.Jur-
tice Waite left his family tho richer dowry
OF an unstained name.
TnEaH aro lcas than 1000 Qnakers In
Phliadolphia. but they arc worth $500
coo The richest man Of all, estimated
sl5,OO1 900. lives on ~ 30 n year.
JosKPIi d. MELics, seventeen years OF
age, dlo1 &C bridgeport, CT, from cigar.
ette smoking. flo used an average Of fiYa
packs per day. inhailng the smoke.
II would bs hard 70 determine whether
Canada iA a greater boon 10 America
than Mexico. but both resorts assist mate.
rally In preventing oyercrowding IN our
jaiia
A Bnlrisn shipmaster at New Orleans
reports that whilc on the coast Of Pata-
gonin, butterflies were blown aboard his
vessel q, a distance OF $50 miles from the
land.
NoRTotK, Va, claims the distinction Of
being tho worlds great peanut market II
disposss every year OF 100000 bushels OF
peanuts, most Of which are grown in Vir-
glnin.
A nicH Philadelphia woman, noted for
her wealth and ecrcntricity, having OK
hausted her finger space In displaying her
jewels, wears striking ring gon one oil her
thumbs.
MERCHANTS arc generous In Montreal
They pay messenger girls nothing the hrs'
year, twenty -iiyo and fifty cents per week
the ancond. aud whole dollar per wceA
tho third.
Isaac PITnAS, tho "father Of shorthand
writlnR.r Is now sevonty-slx years old.
Ho ia almost an ascetic, using no W. ne,
becr, spirits, tobacco nor animal food oil
any kind
A ST. LOUIS hotel clerk claims to have
made tho discovery that tall men sleep
later In the morning than short men, and
that pcrsons OF dark complexion invaria'
bly roaulro moro rest than blondes.
Wurx Queen Victoria travels she takos
,he little OF Countess OF Balmoral, but IN
order 10 protect her trunks from the ruth
less hand Of tho baggagc-s she has
"a -een Of England" marked ON them IA
largo letters.
TIE wealthicst man In the Northwcsti Is
James J. Hill, OF ST. Paul, president Of thu
Manitoba railroad. His fortune OF $40,
OOlOOO has nearly al been made during
the past ton yenrs In railroad speculation
asd real estate.
Miss OLcorr, the nctress, who died re
Gently, was like Mr.. Conkling, directly
victim OF tho great blizzard, aud II Is
singular coincidence that she was on ne
way 10 visit him on tho day on which sh
took her fatal cold.
AN astronomer has figured out that tn
sun will furnish heat for only loOOooO
years moro Prudent people will therefor
takc tIme by the forclock and purchas
heir supply OF coal at once.
SPARKS from passing engine ignited
hundred kegs OF powder In a froght-ca
1t Montgomery, Ala. The explosion snoo
the whole city, and killed negro s'an'
ny near the car
mAnnLr slab has boon put In blaco
mnrk tho spot near fredericksburg whe,
tho Confederate General Thomas II
Cobb. OF Georgia. fell mortalIy wounds
December ~ i1oa