The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-30
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alum water twice day.
GENERAL SHERIDAN left n pald-up life
insurance policy Of $4,000.
TnE wallpaper manufacturers are
thinking OF forming n trust
CONTINUED wet weather In England has
nearly ruined tho hay crop.
You can now go from Paris to Constan.
tinople by rail In three days.
NINE cARNoT, wife OF tho French Prcsi.
dent parts her hair on ono Sldo.
IT is proposed 10 hold a mineral exposI-
tlon In Nashville, Tenn, In 1890.
BEARs arc unusually numerous in tho
mountains about Lake Tahoe, Nov.
DR TALMAgE received $1,000 for two
talks at the Piedmont, ChautauquR.
THE present outlook Is very encourage
Ing for full sugar crop In Louisiana.
The total amount carried on the lives Of
Massachusetts, policy -holdcrs is SIG, so2,
us
DEK owners In Arizona report that this
IL tho best year for honey ever known
thpro.
a COMPANY has been organized To cstab.
liah grhphophonc service In Western
cities. ~
GENERAL Fisk, tho Prohibition candidate
Tor President Is an spleuro In sea food
dishes.
Nv tho aid Of n camera saloon keeper
at Dos Moines, la, was detected in selling
liquor.
A NEw "fad" In Paris. tho English pa.
pcrs toll usi is tho wearing Of gloves that
10 not match.
I,ottr~tn.fs .ty,,ck m .tract .car' In Afrora
IN, the other day. Two persons were se-
Ynrely shocked.
TmE population Of Rome grows at tho
rate of 1900 20 5000 year. At the close
OF 1881 Il was 3s2,gTa.
MRs. DEIrHNK BAKER, an American
lady, ~ about 20 establish Christian
newspaper in Jerusalem.
MEhPHIs is tho greatest inland cotton
market In the world, receiving from 70O,.
900 20 1000, 900 balc, yearly.
A AnurrE, Cal, man who began farming
on rented land ton years ago has this year
sol, 900 worth OF wheat 90 sell.
THKRE were 100, ,i2i malcs aud 81, 793 70.
makes who bathcd In the public baths Of
Boston during the month OF July.
AT tho election In issi. the total number
Of votes cast was a little over 10 O0o, 900, or
about one-siKth Of tho population.
STATISTICS show that France employs
over i've thousand women In her civil SER
vice telephone and telegraph Offices.
TorKKk, KaS., has moro churches than
any city OF is si1p In the country, and has
not single saloon or drinking place.
snERiVP GRKKNEwALT, Of Grecn Ridge.
York County, Pa, has q fruit-bearing
pear treo which Is ono hundred years old
An Italian paper states than nm English
ameteur recently secured In Milan
magnificent Stradlyarius, dated 1916 for
rsO0.
RAILWAY time tables nro made OF con-
vcnient siEc aud shape 10 be inserted inside
the cover Of watch for cony enieht refer
cnce
Investigations into the cause Of the
swine plague shows that, Of all farm Lni-
mails, swine should have pure water to
drink.
SENATOR CnAcE, Of Rhode Island, has
nevcr had his picture taken, although pho
tographora have often tried 10 entrap him
into sitting.
CHARLES CRocKRR, the Pacific Coast rail-
iNfAA hiuEs ithNNa ~ tFNiinaNNA Nv
$G0,0O0000 for the hclrs and lawyers 10
wrangie over.
TnE Canadian flsh catch has fallen OF
Si0,0Oo,oo0 during the past year, and tho
= total export TO the United States Is far loss
than formerly.
THE oldest rose In the world Is at Hclder-
shcim, Germany. Its history can be
traced back to 1919, and Il wns good deal
OF bush then.
NANCY EDaERLY, OF Wolfboro, N. H., IL
i0o years old and never had n physician
but once In her life, and thon threw the
medicine away.
A KANSAS rnnchman predicts that the
cheap beef and mutton OF the future will
come from tho immense grassy plains OF
Brazil and the Argentine Republic.
A NEWSPAPER published In Florence,
Italy, says that during President Blalne's
European trip Congressman Cleveland has
been In charge Of the White House.
THE officers OF tho new ocean steamer,
City Of New York, say that when the ma
chinery gets into good working order she
VIII cross the Atlantic In FIVE days.
A NEwBuRyPoRr woman has sent one
dollar 20 the restaurant at the Boston and
Albany station TO pay for On orange she
stole In 1915, when little girl with hcr
mother.
REEFS OF coral, which probably marked
the boundaries OF an ancient inland sea,
are visible on the sides of deep canyon
leading from Wndsworth, Nov, to Pyra-
mid lake.
THE oldest arm chair in the world Is said
10 be tho throne OF Queen Hatafu, who
hourished In Egypt 1000 years before
ChPlst. II is made OF ebony, and Is beau
tifully carved.
THERE are now three journals in New
York City which have "the greatest cir
culation In America" and the publishers
find men TO swear to 1t. A fourth contents
itsolf with thigh water mark circula-
tion."
The King Of the Belgnns hates tobacco,
never wears gloves, and goes bareheaded
as much as possible. He is handsome
man, slightly built but muscular, with blue
eyes, and big brown beard touched with
gray.
THIS has been q good season for bears
In Mpine. A Lewiston furrier says that
\ he has already bought fifty-flve skins, and
thinks the crop will beat last years which
was 34i pelts.
THE weather in the Alps is so bad this sea-
son that the hotel keepers look in vain with
dismal faces for the usual stream Of for
. eign guests. A continuous rain has beor a
calamity TO the region.
4 A SIMPLE remedy for neuralgia is to ap-
ply grated horseradish, prepared the same
% for table use, to the temple when the
face or head 10 affected, or 10 the wrist
when the pain IL In the arm ,r shoulder.