The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-19
CURRENT TOPICS.


State for insects.
FLoRIDA is shipping large quantities OF
peaches 10 market.
A LIQUOR license In Telfair County,
Georgia, costs 5000.
DAVE opER, Of White Oak, Pa, has had
u lead pencil forty years.
1T Is estimated that the floods In Mexico
Involve loss OF sa,0OO.O0o.
A GENEROUS Now Yorker has given away
about 1900 campaign buttons.
THE Prince OF Naples, son OF King Hum-
bert, Is superior photographer.
NEI.IlK GRANT's husband IL very rich
now through his brothers death.
NEw YoRK's population isnow estimated
at 1,0760O0 from directory statistics.
TnE negroes OF Georgia are taid 20
own more than Si2, 2,OOO,OOO worth OF prop
erty.
Ex .GovKREoR Wn. sfRAoUE, Of Rhode
Island, Is chief Of police at Naragnnsett
PIER
TnE Commissioner Of Agriculture has
ordered 10000 copies Of his Annual Report
printed
Az attempt has been made 10 have the
historic gAllown tree on Hampstead Heath
cut down.
MANY Of tho interior towns OF Oregon
are raising money to import song birds
from Germany.
TnK pin factories Of England, France
Holland and Germany are said TO turn on
100000 pins daily.
A FLomDA planter has contracted 10 fur
nish New York dealer with 1000, 900 cab
bagca during the season.
IT IL predicted that cypross wood from
the South viii be largely used In Northern
buildings In fow years.
BURLINGTON, N. j., proudly claims more
widows 10 the square yard than any other
city Ia tho United States.
J. II. BoLciI, aged twenty two years, has
Just died at Fairfield, T. g., Of hydropho-
bla, caused by n cat scratch.
Cnickoo is the fifth Scandinavian city
In the world, and Minneapolis, with a pop
nlation OF x, 900, the sixth.
FARMERs Of Oregon are moving 10 secure
Legislation In State and national councils
90 promote the Interests OF farmers.
THE Dowager Empress Victoria, Of Ger
many, viii reside for some months In Eng-
land with her mother, Queen Victoria.
a CLAN digger at stonlngton, CT, has
just found pearl worth seventy 1--WE dol
lars in one OF the CLANS Of late haul.
A GLASGOW firm has Just finished brass
wire for tho Glasgow exhibition sixty fvo
miles long and copper wire III miles
long.
SyLvAEIA, Ga, has a stalk of corn ten
feet high, and which contains seven well
developed shoots, six OF which have put
out silks.
AZ insect known ns tho wire worm Is
playing ead havoc with the corn At Mexico,
Mo. One farmer has lost forty acres by
this pest
TIE whole value Of fences In the United
States may be set down al $4,000, ,OOO,0o
aud Il costs 800. 100000 annually TO keep
them in repair.
THE widow of President Tyler is IN
Washington. Sho has n son, DR.. I.achlan
Tyler, who il one OF the rising young doc
tors OF that city.
GRANn RAPIDS, Mich, is the great furni.
iure making center Of the United States.
II has forty two furniture factories, which
employ i9,0o0 men.
DR. Gill; French astronomer, has fur
nlshed names for 1000 stars He has been
twenty years about IL but he was deter
mined not 10 let ono escape.
SINCE tho opening. Of the new artesian
wells in the Desert OF Sahara, a large In.
crease In the number OF palm and othe.
fruit trees mas taken place.
AN official report on the cholera cpidcmi,
which rngcd In Japan two years ago states
that there wero l5o, ,57i cases Of the disease
OF which l10,0s6 were fatal.
A FEATuRE Of General Harrison :
countcnance which does not appear in his
photograph Is a large mole on his right
right check, at tho side, just under the eye,
SEVEN Presidential candidates this year
are not enough, II appears, to satisfy
every body. The American party is get
ting ready 10 hold n National Convention
TmE dead letter office received i,sos,
COO letters last year, for about third OF
which owners were discovered. Money ;,
tho value OF 81, 70o, ,7io was found in 1903:
letters.
THE increase OF population In Australia
last year was only So per cent, which is
by no means as large as England would
like to SEQ It. The total population is
3,5i0,725.
OFFICIAL reports OF Russian crops are
favorable, and indicate a yield above the
average. Crop reports from India nnko
an unfavorablc showing, owing TO severe
droughts.
SMALL amounts OF the old postal cur
rcncy continue 10 be offered for rcdcmp-
ton at the New York Sub-Treasury. The
amount still unrcdeemed is Si5,00o00o, but
most Of It Is doubtless worn out or destroy
I'd.
SHIP building Is In state OF great ac-
tivity In England II is said that 3Oa
British steamers are now being built, with
total Of $4,000 tons, and that last
year 2i7 boats of $4,000 tons were con-
structed.
RETURNS now show total Of 2,Si5,00t
hogs packed in the West since March /,
against 2,s2o,000 year ago. The quality
Of hogs handled by packers Is well main
tained, and compares well with other
ycfrs.
The Egyptian petroleum explorations on
the Red Sea coast have some time age
been given up. II is said the Government
spent in the neighborhood OF $4,000 IN
these explorations, and has nothing t
show in return for this very considerable
outlay except worn machinery.
A CHECK fourteen years old was cash.
ed the other day at an Allentown, Pa.
bank. The holder said that 1t had been al
that time In the forgotten pocket Of an un.
used vest
ABOUT 100000 sponges per year ar,
taken from the sea around the Bahamas
Their valuo is $25O,O0O Twenty foot pole,
with hooks on the end are used to pull th,
sponges from the rocks.
Mrs. 4. J. lany, Of Mahantango, Juniati
County, Pa, tho other day found lnrg,
blacksnake In the baby coach, whore II het
spent tho night with Mrh Rby's thirty,
twe.months'eld child,