The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-16
VOL. III. NO. 81.
CURRENT TOPICS.


sSAm.s, frogs legs and geeso llvers are
splcurean dishes in France
France lost half million francs by the
recent rains through ruined crops.
CALIFORNIA has the largest general fruit
crop ever grown by the Golden state.
ONE Battle Creek tMich.) factory ships
machinery TO thIrty-six foreign countries.
sIxrY-EfvK dollars was paid FOR Queen
Anne farthlng ct recent sale In London.
PuGrr SOUND FIR is taking the place OF
walnut ash and mahogany for fine car
work.
WISCONSIN parties have commenced the
raising OF buiialoes for the sake Of their
hldos.
THE largest cotton mill In tho world is In
Russia IL gives employment to 1000
hands.
THE citrus belt Of Southern California
IhIp?ed this year g,sea carloads Of
oranges.
The Empress EugcnIc has given In
structions TO have her body erenated when
she dies.
JUSTICE GRAY, OF the United States su-
prone Court 10 hunting and fishing In
Canada
IT is said that barely half n dozen watcr.
ing-piacc hotels thus far have met their
expenses.
IT took 1000 barrels Of oil TO Hl tho
Lima Chicago pipe line distance Of four
teen miles.
ria reported that i0,ooo, 900 cottonwood
trees have been planted In Southwest Kan
sas this fall.
MOSQUITOES have become 80 troublesome
In Worcester County, Md, as 10 ehdanger
tho lives OF cattle.
The French Government has sent OK.
perts 10 instruct farmers how 10 save their
half'ruincd crops
Ina Chicago pawn -shop Is the revolver
with which Jesse James, the bandit, killed
most OF his Victims.
NEVADA is a very dry State. Its average
annual rainfall Is o.a inches, while New
Hampshire scores sSAJ
Tue New York board OF health is order
Ing a reduction In the number OF tenants
in the tenement houses.
Tim King Of Italy is described as an
anxious, grave man, looking more lIke0o
years OF age, than his n.
A HISposrANKK merchant has come to
New York with flvo clerks TO open a shop
for the sale Of lIindostance goods.
The Sultan Of Turkey has sauted tho
young Emperor OF Germany with an auto
graph letter and n valuable present
Mn GLADSTONE, In speech yesterday,
aatH haN spk ha r.l ,...la far
ireland, his political work would be fin.
ishcd.
IT IL estimated In literary circles that Il
will thke ten years 10 complete all the
many posthumous publications Of Victor
Hugo.
BENCHES arc 20 be plnced along the
Brooklyn bridge promenade, In order
that wearicd pedestrians may rcst them
selves.
The Chinese OF San Francisco arc about
70 erect hospital IN that city, free 10
tho poor Chinese throughout the United
States.
THE lemon crop Is ripening In Florida
earlier thnn usual. and small shipments
have already been made. Tho yield win
be largo.
BARON REUTER-, the telegraph king OF
Europe, keeps a secretary whose sole busi-
ness Il is TO investigate and relieve cases
OF distress
ArELIcAs shot near Fort Mason, Fla,
measured eight feet four inches from tip
70 tip, and had bill that measured four
teen inches.
Mn. BnEEsE, OF the New York Stock Ex-
change, Is suing Mr.. W. X. Vanderbilt for
100000. Breeso Is evidently determined
10 raise tho wind.
JosEpH fiMoN, OF Temple, Ala, found
rock about twenty miles from that place in
1903 that would cut iron, and hc says there
Is great deal OF Il.
COLONEL TurTr, Of Georgin, has not seen
the bottom OF his corncrib for more than
twenty years. and Is now selling sound
grain grown In 1870.
PAo, n relative OF the Chinese General OF
the same name, has just beon dccapitated
for trading In forged decorations. Theen-
Rravcr who did the work received ono hum
dred lnshes and was banished for three
years.
THERE are two sunhower stalks Of nat
. ural growth at Rochelle, Fla, .,one of which
has 1000 and the other 1,130 blooms and
buds. The stalks are about ten feet high,
with branches reaching out about six feet.
(. Mrs. LELAND STANFoRD's jewels are
valued at round million. Her diamond
necklace is the finest In the United States
and possibly In the world. It cost S74,-
600 and consists OF large .'blue tint" soli-
taircs.
BALLARD SMITH, managing editor Of the
New York World, says there are in New
York siat least 100 lawyers Of the shyster
class who read the papers every morning
TO find something on which they might base
q suit for libel"
A NEW YoRK Chinaman named Gan
Pack, who has saved $4,000, is going to
China to get wife. He says when he has
saved $4,000 more he will go home and get
another. Gan, who is seventy-fou years
Of age, is something of an Oriental daisy.
ACCORDING to a recently published
Italian pamphlet there are now on Mount
Athos twenty different monasteries, seven-
teen Greek, one Russian, one Servian and
one Bulgarian.
BARTLEy CAMPBELL was failure as
Newspaper reporter, II is said, because he
would lethls imagination run away with
his facts, and frequently libel suits were
the consequence
Jusr because Mrs. Moore, OF Texas, had
not 500 In hand with which TO pay a dis
charged laborer, he went into her aeld and
shot ueven muies and horse that were
plos lps thsry end easily worth SilaQA