The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-05-10
ouRRENT TOPICS.


The streets selling papers.
nrnDErTE win settle In Los Angeles
when no ls we'll enough on
MANI 0LAss was married recently In
Pittsburgh 10 Theodore Brittle.
PmSrE BIsnARoK was born In Schocn-
haasen seventy.throe years ago.
IL is said that New York modIste has
paid el50,0oo fora house ON Fifth avenue.
Tnn courts arc commencing 10 make life
a6urden 70 tho mon who 'dock" horses
tails.
TnERH arc ESQ licensed saloons in Mis-
souri. or this number ~ Louis supports
I,4O
TmH most densely populated islands on
tho globo are said 70 bo tho Barbadoes and
Malta.
AnEnlcAs capitalists arc said To have
ti2oooooo Invested in gold mines In Hon.
duras.
A wniaKxowx historian has mado Tho
discovery that George Washington never
danced
II Il estimated tina, there aro 100000
Protestants and 100000 Catholics in this
country.
QueRE NATALIE is earnestly pciltionIng
KinE Milan for permission 10 return 10
Bolgrade
TINS output Of 100 salmon cannorios on
the Pacific coast last season amounted %
10000 cases.
TnE new naval vessels, Yorktown and
Vesuvlua were successfully launched >
few days ago
cHisA i now furnlshing only onc.thlri
81 the lea consumed in England. India
furnishes tho raat
. colosHL MArlEsoS. tho oporAtlc mana.
ger has compromised his debts, aggregat
lag 10000 for sa.so0
IliE Queen Of England rccolvod quite an
ovation from the people Of Berlin during
hor recent atay therc..
THn heaviest locomotive Ia tho world
belongs 70 tho caIadlan Pacific railroad
weight i0e0oo pounds.
TINS season isvcry backward IN southern
California. Early fruits and vegetables
arc month bshind time
THn Emperor of China Il attended by
thirty physicians and surgeons He must
have wonderful constitution.
O0yEnsoh WATnnNAx, OF California, has
q gold mino In Ban Diego County that IL
now paying him net profit Of 800 n
day.
A rax who was begging Ia tho sircoia OF
Mobile tho other day Il said 20 have lost
and paid 81. 900 IN wagors on ridcns cleo
tlon.
Unosrs have become such popular
feature Of western lournallsmthnt no en-.
tnrprlsine paper can AFFORD 70 be without
fnon.
TnE New York Legislature has appro-
prihscd $50. 200 for the oycrhanling OF the
quarantine established at tho port OF New
York
vrxus, tho morning star. IL brighter than
Il ever appeared 70 any man now living.
aud nearer the earth than u viii be again
foraio years
TIM report Of the census OF 1850, takon
eight years ago now lacks four volumes OF
completion, yet two years hence now
ensua viii be taken
A NOVEL suit was entered NJ Columbus,
o. A mother sues for tho possession Of
her three.ycar-old child, who Is held as
postage for a toard bill
uEonnE X HuiDE, OF plnccniia, Cal, rc-
Gently burned his apIary, bees. wax, honey
aud al, because no thought tho bees were
annoying his neighborh
THn number OF immigrants who arrived
IN thls country IN 1880 was On. 48i; issa,
5BSpqs; 1888. Ool, aa2; 1854 b7S592; 1885, Sps-
90; 1885, sst, ,2os; n total Of 8 Sop, $40 for the
six ycarA
Tim Great Northern Railway Company
OF England insists that It's engineers shall
take AZ least nine hours rest between ono
days labor and another as procaution
against accident
TnE length OF milo isnot tho same In
any two countries on earth, but England
4 the most liberal OF ALL When man re-
plies, AOh, two or three miles. 1belicve,"
you win have 10 walk six or seven 10 got
there.
Mns. 4. A. HONEY, Of vlrglnia, keeps as
highly -pfIzcd relic q pair OF scissors
which hor father usod In cutting a suit OF
clothes for George Washington when he
was about 10 enter upon his first torn as
President
LErTrRs numbering i32, written by Car
dinai Richolicn, werc put up for sale at
tho Hotel Drouot, Paris, recently, but mo-
body would bid EsOo, which was the re-
eorve price. Thoy wore all in excellent
preservation.
Mns. ID. Il KrNo, the wife Of David Lci-
ccstcr King, attorney and counsel'or-at
law. at Akron, o., Is one OF tho few de-
scendants Of George Washington's only
sister. she being Bctty Washington's great
granddaughter
Is the post-oficc Of Concord, N. H., the
postmastor found a pouch tho other day
which had boon lost nInotccn years, and
which contained llS letters with money
in them, and their non.rcccipt had upset
half dozen Offices.
THE Chinese Minister Is afraid OF dogs.
Tho othor evening at reception, when
throo young ladies' onter the room, each
followed by dog, the minister arose in
eroat agitation and retired hastily bchi,d
the sofr on which he was sitting.
Tur drawinE-room in Potter Palmer's
f,a,te Shore castle Ia Chicago has Just
been furnished aud decorated At cost Of
sto.o0O. Tho decorations are In cream
cold and blue tints, and tho hangings are
6f dainask silk copied from brocades oil
the last century.
srArisrlos show that America raiscs
more statesmen 10 tho acre than any other
country, and soon ovory stump, barrel and
hcncoop In the land VIII hold up ono OF
them cagcrly explaining to tho Intelligent
voter how we'll all 60 TO the dickens u
tho other fellows got the ofiices,
rnnlato Prince Potter Superintendent
left TO Ms sister, tho Princess Hohenloho'
sshillInesfurst wife Of the 0overncrReni
ornl OF Elsass. Lothrugon, estates In Rus
sIa worth slb. ooo,ooo but tho Car hoe 10Y
biddon her 70 occupy thom on the grou9'
thai no foreisnor can hold property "
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