The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-02-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

EDoEPiELp, Tenn, has belle named
Lady Love.
BARroS McGuoKES, the opera tenor, gets
$50 week.
The King OF siam, thirty years old, has
thirty children
DANA ask, five million dollars for his
Now York SuH
RRurr, the gun, maker, is pressing Tur-
key for cash due
oyERnnAD wires IN Berlin are all TO be
placed underground. -
SSow shoyeling bees are nm ingenious
recreation In Nebraska.
JKFrERsoS's will is on lle In the old dis
trict building at Washington.
patients Healed by Divine Aidn is the
sign of faith doctor in Boston.
A KANSAS CRY bank cashier can tell a
bad bill by tho sound Of the paper.
GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON, now seventy.
i've, Is well preserved and as straight as
an arrow.
A GOOD many have been cut up and bull,
over but there aro still ~ burying
grounds In London.
EIouTf million dollars will DO paid this
year in pensions Ten years ago s91 900 900
was paid In pensions.
IT is said that during the last century
about two thousand species of insects have
been discovered yearly
THE farmers OF the Northwest are loud.
ly complaining Of the great blockade en-
the Canadian Pacific road.
An Arknnsaw court has sentenced a
man 10 three years Imprisonment for
stealing a twodollnr Bible.
MAYOR RooHE, OF Chicago, win not allow
children 70 buy cigarettes II he can helpit
Aud ho thinks he can holp il.
A BLIND cat at Oswego, N. ", prowls
about all over town, but always finds its
way home without assistance.
soMs Of the Nashville minister's arc
moving against tho publication OF their
church notices in the Sunday morning pa.
pers.
NEw IoHk correspondent asserts that
there arc Any widows In that city with
fortunes ranging from Si,00O,0oO to SIS.
10000
Az unfortunate Maine baby that hap
pened TO be born on tho day OF her grand
parents golden wedding was named Anna
versary,
PorE Lro is very fond OF the classical
languages, OF which he has wide and
critical knowledge. He knows Horace and
Virgil by heart
Benny, the English hangman, has exc
cuted ii3 persons up 10 the present timc,
sixteen OF them having boen in Ireland aud
two In Scotland
As result OF John l.. Suilvanis British
career, dealer has sold three hundred
aets OF boxing gloves, as against about
dozen the year before.
An Liz SiS tho richest Chnaman In San
Francisco, is a millionaire, and there is a
Chinaman In Laporic, Cal, whose fortune |
Is rcckoned at Es000,OO0
Bon TooNns' monument il having a hard |
time. The nrat one was sunk at sea. Tho |
second proves 70 bo OF defective marble, |
and now third is being made
HKRD OF almost 1000 Angora goats, |
''nbout which nobody knows any thing, y IL |
IL reported, are running nj large along the |
banks OF Little Wood River, !. T.
TmE Vienna correspondent OF the London |
Tfnes says the Hungarian press records |
with regret an alarming increase IN emil /
grafton from Hungary 10 America,
TnE wife OF Mr.. John u. Shclton, OF Pat
ton, Mo, recently gave birth to three fine
boys, weighing 22lS pounds Thcy have
been named Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
A PoRr HuRoS man has won the ever
lasting gratitude OF near.sighted mon by |
inveniing n htchingpost which drops out |
OF sight whonevcr no horse is attached |
10 II.
IT has been decided in tho Pennsylvania
Supreme Court that person may fry |
onions regardless Of the Inconvenience
The odor OF the cooking gives to the neigh
bors.
EyERrrnISa Is lovely In Europe, aecord-
ing 70 Bismarck, but II Is necessary to In
crease the German reserve force 10000 In
order that this state Of things may con.
tlnue.
PRoY. ST. ANDREWS OF the Central Ex-
perimcntal Farm OF Canada, proposes try
ing somo experiments with hardy varie
ty OF tea grown III Japan, and which, II Is
hoped, may prove successful in the Domin-
ion.
OLD "BucKsKIS,r the horse rode by Lieu
tenant Baker, OF Lansing, Mich, Iii tho
capture OF ]. Wilkes Booth, died In that
city few days ago. His skin win be
mounted and placed on exhibition In the
State museum.
IT Is wondered why the vice.president OF
the Metropolitan Bank, Cincinnati, when
ho discovered that tho crash was newt
able did not Dc Camp. Probably he
could not leave without Means. This Is
not copyrighted.
MEMBERs from Arkansas in tho House
.efuse torecognise any other pronuncia-
iion OF the name OF thcir State than Ar
kansaw, tho Legislature having declared
that 10 DO the only legal designation OF
that Commonwealth.
FLoRIDA promises TO become largo pro-
ducer OF opium. The poppy grows there
very readily and larger than anywhere
olse in the United States. Sixteen plants
will produce an ounce of opium and an acre
should give profit OF $1,000.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN, Of the Agricul-
tural Bureau, receives many queer letters
A recent one requested "a remedy for
spawn In hosses, and addressing him as
"Government Farmer" suggested that he
ought 10 look after such matters.
Mn. AND MRs JAMES o. RoBINsoN are
solid citizens OF Charleston, Mass. They
have boon married fifty years; Mr.. Robin
son weighs 27S pounds Mrs. Robinson
weighs 225, and OF their seven living chill
dren none weighs less than 200 pounds.
PmNcEss BEATRICE is so offended with
the treatment OF her husband Prince Henry
of Battcnburg, that sho hardly speaks to
any OF her brothers or sisters. She has pc
titioned the Queen to make her husband
Duke, and is desirous Of abdicating her
royal rank.
WIN. J. DRAKE and Miss Lou Wasson
were married at the home OF the bride
near Paola, Kas. This IS one of tho small
est fif not the smallest) couples in that
State, the groom being forty inches high
md weighing 30 pounds, and tho bride
''irty-eisht Inches high and weighing ~
pounds.