The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-02
VOL. III. NO. 40.
CURRENT TOPICS.

THRrEEN Chicago millionalres made
their means In drygoods.
Biz factories in this country now turn
cut web printing presses.
WALfor Il the suggestive name Of
California school teacher.
1An JoErs received 81 900 for preaching
week at Chillicothe, No.
AN electric light tower I25 feet high Is 10
Be erected 10 Allegheny City, Pa.
Tue Paris ccnsus shows 0,elB Americans,
n.70l English and 3b,70e Germans
A BnooKLYH woman supports a husband
and fifteen children by selling papers.
A NRw HAMPEmRE Court has declared
speculating on margins 70 be gambling.
Mns. MAooK VAN Corr, the woman re-
vlyalist Ia at work az Old Orchard, Nc.
THE estate Of tho late Hiram sIbley, Of
Rochesier, Il estimated 10 be $40, 900.
Electric lights In cakes Of Ice Is a novelty
for the illumination Of bathrooms abroad.
rHs Pittsburgh Law and Order League
has suppressed the sale Of "mllk shakes.
on Sunday.
The oldest working journalist In Europe
IL Sir Edward Balnea, now In his eighty
ninth year.
S.n FRANcfsco declares she has been
shaken n7 times by earthquakes in the
last eighty years.
OsnonNE couxrr (Kas.) has paid 500
bounty ON wolf scaips captured during the
past three months.
A CANAL across Italy Il being planned,
20 connect the Adriatic and Mediterranean.
II will begin Al Fano.
IT IL said that moro than two hundred
theatrical trunks arc held for charges In
Chicago express oiiice.
II i said that DR. Gatllng Is at work on
new gun which win cause great sensa-
tlon IN military circles.
A 100 Of solid redwood was struck itc
fest below gravel In sinking an arteslan
wsli al Wntsonyille. New.
The other day an Indiana judge decided
that a man who was being rotten -egged
was Justified In shooting 70 kill.
ITis the observation of Mrs. 0rundy that
n thcre Il any pig In mans nature II
win be developed when he Is travelling.
The destruction 20 apples In tho United
States from tho coddling moth alone
amounts annually 70 millions OF dollars.
NosourrT has developed into celebrated
seaside resort since General Sheridan
reached hin quaint cottage on tho sands.
0AMnrrTA,s recently dedicated monu-
ment was paid for wholly by popular SUBJ
scriptlon, aud the number Of subscribers
was $4,000
A FIRM Of Fort Gaines, Ga, shipped re-
Gently car Of melons which thcy claim
didn't contain a melon that would weigh
under hfty-flve pounds,
EnrKRon WfLLIAn IL has commissioned
the sculptor Relnhold Begas 10 execute
monument 20 tho late Emperor for the
Frledenskirche IN Potsdam.
The New Hampshire blrthplaes and
early homo Of Horace Greeley Il 10 Be
bought and presented 70 the State BY Still
son Hutchlnr, OF Washington.
Mas. WALLACE, living In BagdAd, near
Pensacola, Fla, was a mother at eighteen
years OF age, a grandmother at thirty
four and Krcat-grandmother at Atty.
faonrKIx0 darted Into house at Davis
City, Mob, few days since, melted the
wlre cord holding the motto, 'God Bless
Onr Home, and hurled Il upon tho floor
Mas. Polk, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Grant
nre the fortunate three women who don't
hsvet 10 buy postage stamps, tho Govcrn-
mcnt having given them the franking
privilege
NEw OnTKANB has discovered that there
Il money In the canning Of shrimps, and il
developing the industry rapidly. Il lie said
that fully 100000 cans day arc packed
during the season.
A NKw material called ''leathcrine" Is
an English manufacture. II can be sold
for ilvo or six cents per pound, Is said 70
be as tough as leather, and Is designed for
packing and bagging.
MRs. WILLIAM DRnSAN OF Honey Grove,
Tex, prIdes herself on the fact that Abe
Lincoln courted her and asked her 10 be
hiswife She refused the splice, as no was
then tho homeliest man In Illinois.
A TArpA (Fla-) orange grower expert
mented in small way with packing or
angcs In dry sand, and finds that some
thus treated tho first Of last December
have kept as fresh as II just picked.
BRITIsH vessel Is now surveying n
route between Australia and Canada, pre-
liminary to laying a telegraph cable. The
cable will be 1900 miles long, and the
work OF laying II will take three years.
TIm CEar Of Russia Is a great fisherman,
and no has just bought In Finland tract
Of river swarming with salmon. His i'm
perlal wife is also n fair iiy caster and can
manage a wicked fish with easo and grace.
THE Czar and tho Emperor have made
each other Honorary Admlrals OF their
respective navies. II Is TO be pre-
sumod that II Russia and Germany should
90 10 war their commissions would be re-
yoked.
SOMETHING very like peach trust is
talked Of In Delaware. II comes in the
guise Of central bureau, through which
the entire peach crop shall be placed upon
the various markets as the actual demand
dictates.
In front OF Chicago theater the other
evening a young woman broke parasol
over the hcad OF s'dudev who had inn
pertinently oggied her as she passed
With a companion. The young woman
finished up by requiring him to pay for thu
parasol.
1T Is alleged that recently In Nagpcre
India, boy OF sixteen was offered a sac
rifce 70 the gods, in accordance with the
superstition that human sacrifices caused
uVuntitui uulFobt- Aho houu was not
cred from the body and offered to god.
ess, while the body was rendered to god
AN excellent new use for the telephone
Is proposed In the infectious wards OF the
French hospitals, so as to enable the sicl
people isolated In their sufferings to have
the comfort OF hearing. their relatives
voices without any risk Of conveying ir'
fection by an interview,
TnrpK have been twenty-six sui,idei
from the Clifton Bridge, in England, II
the twenty -four years since Il was built
Tho jump Is $50 feet, and death Is presunl
ably easy, which accounts for tho popu'