The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-10-18
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Ito Williams In It's employ.
A REAL live princess keeps mill inery
store on Fifth avenue, New York.
SIXTY THOUSAND barrels OF sour krout
are made at Reading, Pa, every fall.
THE present session OF Congress Is the
longest in the history OF tho Republic.
II. 5rREcKKR, Of Reading. Pa, has coll
lected over eight hunderd boxes Of butter
flies.
FoRKsrs are springlng up on the aban.
doned mines and mining towns In Cali.
fornia-
An .cIght.footed horsop was billed as
an attraction at the Custer County, Dako.
IN. fair.
ITALIANS In Iowa are rebelling against
the payment Of tar levied on them by
the State.
own one-third tho entire population of
New Hampshire have deposits In the saw
ings banks.
TnE first directory Of the City OF New
York wal published In lTs6 and contained
but si8 names
CANADA will experiment with HOLSTERS
transplanied 10 the Pacific from the At
lantic next season.
ISAIAH V. WILLIAMS, OF Philadelphia,
at so, O0J 600, IL accounted the wealthlest
bachelor In America
The Etfurla came across the Atlantic on
her last trip Ia six days, one hour and atty
minutes, tho quickest time yet made.
Tue annual value OF the dairy product
of the State Of Illinois equals the value OF
the gold production Of the United States.
Nor all American society girl, marry
foreign counts. There are countless thou.
sands who marry plain American citizens.
GENERAL SHERMAN's son and Stonewall
JAekson'a nephew occupy desk to-
gether In the law Office Of Senator Evarts.
GLoucEsIKh MASS, schooner has
just brought in the largest fare ofVaali-
but ever landed there IL Ii valued at
Sia52o,
Iris estimated that one-half OF all the
drug, imported into the United States are
consumed In tho manufacture Of patent
medicine.
THE Weather Bureau says that the
month Of September just gone was the
coldeat September that has been known In
ten years
TnKRE arc eight mission ships now
cruising In the North sea, each a comblna.
tion Of church. chapel, Temperance hall
ana dlspennary.
TnE Duke Of Westminster has an income
Of fifty dollars n minuto That is 20 say,
II costs the country about ono dollar every
ime ho breathes.
Az Italian chemist has discovered that
the blood of cells elected under the skin ls
adoadly poison, Its effect being similar TO
that Of viper poison.
49, A.. ~. Ga A.. N. u.
pHeh, there are seventy-two millionairei
In Pittsburgh, Pa. any one Of whom can
sign n check for $2a, ,Oo0. 900.
MRS CAfTAfS Tun IL the name OF tho
ilchcat Indian woman In Alaska. She
j. worth about so 900 and lives royalty at
Sltka, surrounded by slaves.
THE grave OF Wendell Phillips, at Mi
ton, Mass, II still unmarked. But a mon
ument IL soon 10 bc erected by Mrs. Green,
the sister OF the dead orator.
ONE of the latest advances In electrical
illumination i the lighting OF the London
omnihuses with electricity, the battery 70
lie under the seat Of the driver.
THE tree from the milk Of which tho In
dla rubber Of commerce IL made grows
weil In Southern California, and extensive
preparations arc being made for plant
ing It.
LArE reports from sagua and cardenaa,
Cuba, say that there Is no exaggeration In
estimating the losaos caused by the recent
cyclone at over 90 200, 900 In those districts
alone
Tux bright boy in Burlington (vt)
sBHnnay school who said that Free win
Baptist was ono who went into the tank OF
his own accord was sent down to the foot
OF the class
CAPTAtN WARRKS TAYLOR. OF Saco, Me-,
+, distracted from the stomach OF a whale he
+, captured or Bryant's Rock few days
70, Ave pounds of ambergris, which Is
nth IS on ounce,
JAW BONE weighing 100 pounds and
turing o. inches around aud II inches
u, with two 9.inch molars still in their
was recently dug up in a bed OF
Nny at Aransas Pass, Tex.
i+.~t nrsicIAN who has studied the num-
brl yellow fever visits TO this country
has found that II has been here in eighty
eight different years. The first known
case OF the fever In America was In 1893.
THE justice Of the peace at cossville,
Mo-, IL Samuel Gilmore, who is 40 years of
a~t 0tlu OtlN Atot hhehof tsts AAN
weighs only 40 pounds. Mr.. Gilmore is q
successful farmer and prominent man in
the county.
THE diamond tiara, which the Duke of
Aosta pre- .ented TO his bride, cost $4,000.
II contains l,i5o stones, and Il is so ar
rnnged that It can be taken to pieces and
converted into necklace, bracelets, ear
rings and small diadem.
THKY are having good deal OF trouble
In California and Colorado over the alb
breviations Of tho names OF those States.
Cal. and Col. look so much alike when writ
ten hastily. that mail matter intended for
one Is continually going to the other.
MRs. JARRETT (colored), OF Cedartown,
Ca, thought the water from n new well on
her lot had n queer taste, and asked the
white folks about It. 1t is mineral water,
and Mrs Jarrett has under consideration
an offer of$1 500 cash for half interest.
b. T.. HUTCHINSON, the Chicago wheat
manipulator, is aversed to having his
photograph takon and has never allowed
a photographer TO point camera at him.
His son said few days ago that he would
give $1,000 to get a photograph OF his
father.
TuEy have Just taken n census in tha
Russian Capital OF St. Petersburg. There
are nearly million Of people there; but
above the age OF sixteen years there are
four males 10 every three females. It
ought to be good place to marry once
girls
A BRooKLyN electrician has discovered
n wav 10 stop the cat serenading business.
~ -. .ttaahad n yvire to tho hack fonce