The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-08-08

crop mas uttu ruincu py ncafy rains
Dn. NAssRN, the explorer. says that
lho Ice In Greenland is G.0O0 feet thick.
JoHs AsroR Of New Wordsworth
q. .o0o. 900 gets - week cigar-IsAkinf.
Tns British Government has decided
70 Increase The military force in Egyptl
sonEnQDy proposes putting Jno. L. Sui
ilvan's picture on the backof the postage
stamps as the only way OF getting him
licked
AxD now comes tho serious announce
mcnt that tho Florida csango crop Is =
failure.
NKw YonK is getting up tremendous
bead Of steam on the worlds fair
project
A DISPUTE over the payment OF twcn-
iy-two cents has led 20 law suit in
Pittsburgh.
TnE New York Custom House has an
efficient clerk. wm. o. Fitzgerald, who
d adeaf mute.
TnK King OF Senegal. ono OF the npta-
blcs now in Paris. talks OF making visit
- this country.
TmKnK are ste, 900 miles Of railroad in
|rention N tho Nosl,s-cf which .isi, 900
~. - killtiit.I
TnE Panama canal will positively be
done IN four years more That il what
Dc Iesseps says
KANSAS cur Is talking Of employing
no ono on city work who has not SIX
months residence.
Earl DuDLEY, Of England, Is an In
vcteratc gambler. lie recently iostsS0.-
Qo0 AZ cards In Paris.
Tim wedding presents At the marriage
Of Princess Louise and the Earl Of Fifo
arc yalhcd az 81. ooO. 900.
TnE Indications now arc that there
will bc tremendous corn crop In tho
United States this year.
WHOLESALE fruit dealers In New York
are PREPARING 70 form an orange trust TO
osntrol ihsrrioridA crop.
,AC1iIfoRsrA letter tells OF widow
IN Scathcrn California who has Just sold
her orange crop for $4,000
JArAN covers an area Of $4,000
sqn6ro miie=: no, quite As largo as
California. IL has . population Of ss,-
900. 600.
DnooKLrN can boast OF having the
iiirFcst bread bakery In tho world. 10
turns out 70. 900 loavcs Of bread day on
an average.
1,TnE English monopoly that now con-
irols tho paper product Of the world has
threatened. it Is said. 70 raise the price
Of that article.
JonS CURrrs. alias John Thompson, \
convict In tho Oregon penitcntiary.
chonpoi-hi left hand on with hatchot
-.f31foid work.
BUrFAfo BILL has written 10 friend
In Colorado that he has received pro-
posals of marriage from twenty-seven
wealthy Parisicnnes.
TnE hottest weather ever known in
tho United States was lelt at Phoenix,
ARK. In juno. 1883. when the thcrmom-
Atcr marked lio degrees
HpsnE savings bank for coiorcd poo
pic is 70 be opened at Atchison, Kan.
This Is looked upon as direct blow at
the crap shooting and watermelon In
dnstry.
TnE widow Of John c. Little. drum
mer Of Pittsburgh. who lost his life in
the flood az Johnstown. has sued the
south Fork Fishing Club for $4,000
damages
TisE widow Of John Morrissey. onco
Immensely wealthy. Is now ''hcmming
collars and cuifs for Troy manufac-
tory and running desperate race with
poverty"
IScirnixG tho accession Of the Bee
Line and Big Four's I. lo6 milo4of road.
- M chesapeake and Ohio's i.0Ss
f ''''|1. the Vanderbilts now control 49,
I,s miles OF track.
cIlIckGo Is anxious 10 got the Colum-
bus Centennial there In 1Soa Thereare
Ia square miles within Chicago's gen.
orous limits and only forty-three within
those Of New York.
The Chattanooga City Railroad Com
! pany has sold franchises and lines, In
cIniina fucntr-onn milcs Of road. 10 tho
now Electric Street Railroad Company
consideration, si5o,ooo-
InE line OF perpetual snow on the An
1os Is 1f.700 feet above sea level In
y Mexico the line Is is. $50 and on the Ten
.85 II. 400 fook Although snow IS al
WAYS visible on some Of the highest
n..Is Of tho Siorfas e7no Of thcm are
'oitr enough to DO rated as regions al
perpetual snow.
Tur problem Of the safety OF passen-
.ors In an electric car during ? thundor-
Storm has been satisfactorily and very
.rrooablv solved by tho experience oil
.ho Lynn lMassl people the other day
A nraetIcal tost was then offered by the
li1hinins. and not q passenger was ''-
nrod or even shocked.
rIrctncIrv nom = broken wire killed
aIelher mulo IN the streets At ST. Louis
10 other day, and yet the New York
oxncrls fear elcc,rIcity won't ''remov~'
their mdratrors To certainty.
rne largest shlpin tho British navy
m, r..ikirar. launched two years ago
IA. nt last tried her engines, with sue
s,.. sho l. sis feet long, % feet boam
and is,sls horzr power drove h'' '''s'
knots !,
INN heat N Russia and other parts o.
N6rthorn Europe has boon in'en.e o q
late Tho Contlni observatory ot ~
I.t.l.hurr has not recorded snon
hI.h temperature a. Nv name h'se q
N, ,'a, since '''h