The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-11-02
cURReNr TOPICS.


Es7rIsn letter carrisys get s4.ao per
week.
CaEoznotFT has a goat that smokes
ciearGttcs.
CLEVELAND makes more candy than
any other city.
RicuAm CEoKER's stable won nearly
S75.tnO this season.
ATLANTA is to have electric cars
fitted With air brakes.
THE new English bicycle is to be
worked iy roth hands and feet.
TIE total number Of students in Cor
nell univars r. this year is /, 502.
THREE liens have Just been added to
New York Central park menagerie.
oNR-rnruof the land of England is
owned b. members of the house of
lords.
SOAR was an unknown article in
Corea NJ I'll introduced by the mission
aries
Two CoITA'rIEs have been formed to
build electric ines between Akron and
Cleveland
TnE stately residence of President
Polk, in Nashville, Tenn, is about to
be torn down
MISS FRANCES Z. WMLAnD is to
spend the winter attending temper
ance lectures.
The average age at which women
marry in civilized countries is said to
be 23}G years.
DApE county, Mo-, has produced an
ear Of corn with ten cohs and a calf
with five legs
DARWIN. asserted that there is insan-
ity among animals just as there is
among pc pie.
A LOUISVILLE dealer in antiquities
aGvertises for sale a revolver used by
Julius Cesar"
SOME OF the largest ocean steamers
can be converted into armed cruisers
in thirty hours.
ToHET soap in the form OF paper, but
slightly larger than visiting cards, is
used in France.
Or sixty women employed in banks
all except one are either widows or
married women,
ANALYSTS say that butter is the
most nutritious article of diet and that
bacon comes next
TnE United States has more physi-
cians, in proportion topopulation, than
any other country
A SnosuoNE Indian baby, born on
Smoke river reservation in September,
has four perfect ears. .
A SION over the door of Salt Lake
saloon reads: Private entrance for the
jug and hottie trade
A WHOLESALE dealer in watches says
that the orcn-fuced watch is constantly
gaining in popularity.
The storl has been known to perish
in the flames of a burning house rather
than to desert her young.
Our feet on the Asiatic station now
numbers five warships, and three others
are under orders to join it.
A GENEVA firm is manufacturing
photographic clocks which talk tho
hour instead of striking it.
ALTHorGu London's population in
cludcs 100000 Germans, there is not a
German theater in the city.
The Greek year originally began
with the winter solstice, as did the
year of most northern nations.
THEY say that a sculptor is carving
the sarcorhagus that is to receive the
body Of Pope Leo when he dies.
A WOMAN in Chicago has filed a plea
in divorce against her husband on the
broad ground that he Is fool
An undertaken from Shipley, Neb,
is moving his family and household
goods through Kansas in a hearsc
FIFTEEN women are bank cashiers in
western states but the women cashiers
never employ women under them.
Is Berlin women are to be found on
the police force, They are especially
useful in shutting up disordcrly houses
nn CuAEER EASTMAN, the Indian,
and his wife Elaine Goodale) are liv-
ing In st. Paul, and are well and pros
porous
TIM heart ordinarily beats about
seventy times minute, and throws
aoont two ounces OF blood at each con-
traction
AS English coin Of the reign OF
Charles II, once sold for g. 800, the
highest price a single coin ever
brought