The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-06-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

BEER Is now sold In New York City by
the pound.
QUEEN vIcroRiA has Just passed her
seventIoth birthday.
Tm International Salt Trust has boon
substantially completed.
AGkoRoiA man has a red bat which he
captured few days ago.
ALBANY, Ca, rejoIccs In tho possession
Of a three-iegged alligator
THERE are iO0 applicants for ono Consul
lar place In South America.
coLosEL ixoKRsoLL's law practice Is said
. bring him $50 Oeo year
MoRE than 22,ool0 900 acres Of American
hoIl belongs 70 cnon-rosident aliens.
of0UnioLDKRs Of the suez Canal win
receive this year dividend Of 80 per
cent
HonE rule for India promises to give
England as much trouble as homo rulo FOR
Ireland.
ESonnoUs Icobergs have boon reported
70 be floating around in the North Atlantic
this spring.
CHARLEs WkBER a Cincinnati plumber,
ls the father Of i've pairs Of twins. All are
alive and healthy.
JonN G. wmrITER tho poet. says that
he expects 20 live to be hundred. though
ho u not anxious 10.
Two friends mot on tho streets OF Water.
bury, Conn, few days ago for tho first
tims In seventy years
A SHADE Of pink scarf very much af-
fecisd BY Harvard boys is commercially
known a. raw veal"
The Chinese Government refuses 10
agree to tho treaty restricting Chinese
Immigration TO Australia.
JANIS GoRDos BENNETT paid Paris
doctor 5000 for three minutes work in
cnttlng wArt of his neck.
Mss JULIA HUI, OF Franklin, Pa, dis
covered a mlnnow two inches long In n
plate Of restaurant ice -crcam.
The editor OF Fort Ogden CHA paper
asserts that a bamboo sprout near his woll
grew Ave inches M one night.
NH0Ur one hundred aud dtty colors are
obtained from coal tar, which has almost
entirely suppiantod vegetable and animal
dysL
AT tho Troy polytechnic tho students
hare crase They paper their ceilings
with envelopes OF letters from their best
glrls.
The Kansas State Historical Society /,
negotiating for Tho purchase OF tho rifl,
which John Brown used al Ilarper's
Ferry.
A LAW OF tho Now York State Log Isla-
inre forbIddinx tho heating OF railway
cars by stoves, has been declared consiitu-
tlonal
Is Roostoen, Holland, there Isa giant
rose tree belonging 70 Nine. Regnen. which
= afew years ago held GOO roses at tho
same tima
PAFEn clothing Is being mado by q
Minnesota inventor. u Is as soft as cloth
and u Is claimsd that tho cold can not
penetrate L.
AMERICANS are expected to spend this
Tear. for ono purpose or another, aside
from purely bu lness, the snug sum OF
500 00o, 900 In Europe.
"A DYNAMITE cartridge one foot Ia
longth takes only i-AOoths OF second to
explode, scientists say" wo are will
Ing 10 take their word for IL
The Countess Crosby, OF the old nobility
Of Austria, has gone on the road with her
clrcus troupe Sho will take II TO Paris
before The Exposition closes
A swAnu Of bees, httracked by comb
Of honey Ia the window, took possession OF
agrocery storo In Plainfield, N j., and put
Giftnd TO business for the day.
WHrTELAw REID minister TO Paris, has
rented the house OF Comtesso de Gram
mont In that city, at an annual rental Of
$4,000 His salary as Minister Is ST. 800.
GKo A. wEsrERKiLI, Chicago young
man, fell In love with Lydia Thompson,
the burlesque actress, aud growing des-
pondent after she left the city. killed him
self.
LKvr CLowDIs, Of Livingston, No., used
10 boast that he had not road a newspaper
for fifty years Ths othor day two stran-
gers played tho bunko game on him for
Si,5ol
THn Navy Department has decided TO
send the remains OF Captain John Erics.
son 10 Sweden, his native land, for burial
They will be taken ON the new cruiser
Chicago
BETWEEN fifteen and sixteen thousand
chlldron are lost in London every ycnr,
almost all OF whom are found and restored
10 their parents by the aid OF tho Metro
politan police,
WM II. CAMrBkLI. an old fsshlonc
Democrat who has boon postmaster in a
Vermont town for four years. has just
stepped out and his wife, ''staunch Re.
publican" has been given the commits
sion.
OF ton English business mon seyon dio un-
der the age of4T OF ten French business
men eight die under that age In the
United States the ratio Is less than six,
How about that old howl that we are living
too fastf
JonN d. DAVIS. a farmer, residing al
New Diggins. H.. put his milk cans on the
wood-pile to dry, and the reflection OF the
SUMS rays from them set the wood on Ore,
doing considerable damage to his house
and barn.
TEN leading coal firms OF Pittsburgh
engaged In shipping coal South hav'
combined, II Is said. to buy out all th'
small operators and secure monopoly, by
which thoy can dictate prices to consumer
from Wheeling 10 New Orleans.
In "a theater at Ashton, England, during
the performance OF molodrama, an ex
cited woman threw her bonnet and um
hrolla at tho ''villainv on the stage wher
ho was strangling one OF the characters
She brought down the house
The Japanese Government has engaged
two German lawyers In Berlin to procee'
10 Toxic and reframe the Japanese pena
code to conform to the German instead o
the French code, as now.
TINS Mormon Church has bought larg'
amount OF land In Manitoba and many o
the saints with their flocks their herds
their wives children, man servants an'
maid servants, are leaving Utah and Idah
and going 70 the new promised land.
Iris proposed to erect monument /
tho late r. p Roo by placing natura
boulder at some suitable spot near hi
homo at CORNWALL on Hudson. N. ", an,
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