The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-09-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

cent interest
lrALY's debt is over two aud half
billion dollars
ftoRnA expects 10 raise ie,00oOoO
lemons this year
A Norm cARoiiNA dog has been
taught 70 track turtles
THE pay Of an admiral in the Eng.
lish navy Is 50. ig5 year
TES dollars is the average annual In
come Of Z native Of lndin
AT pupils In the Chicago schools are
required 70 be vnccinatcd
WINDSOR castle has been used 40 a
royal residence for 3slyrars.
TBfRE Is one mitch cow In this eoub.
try 20 every four inhabitants
SlxrIFs thousand tons of phosphate
were handled Ia Florida during Aug
ust
NrAnLY all the gum arabic u com
merce comes from the great sahara
desert
InrRr arr ao000 Protestant Chris.
tihns scattered through the Turkish
empire
GERMANA. with her $50 steamships,
Is now secoud 10 Great llriinin in steam
navigation
AusrHAIia has more place. ~ public
worship ia proportion 10 ropulatian
than any other country
TIN water pf the dcep yea araway
FROM land 3 fgr mere transparent than
the water near the coast
Incpet eight months contained the
largest nnaiier 81 rccnrled failures III
the history u the nation
TnR preparation " the human hair
for the market gives cmploymnn. a.
seven thousand rarisians
IN Berlin they scll sheet mufic by
the pound. and they print The brst
music on very heavy paper
II Is estimated that the total lu,ars
caused by the recent arthquakc 10
Turkey will foot up s,n.@nua
II eost sln0o 10 take carload ~
fruit from Sacramento 10 London two
years age The rate this year IS about
500
MANY 70,0g tons - edrl,s are nccd.
cd for the bottled l,ccr aud aeratcd W.
iera consumed annually IN the Rritish
Isles,
II Is calculated that from lo,DDp 10
h0,ooo slaves are yearly carried away
captive from Zanzibar and ncighh0r,
ing ports
A noAfNAN on the S. ngnuts canal,
In France, recently found ia TIE water
a package containing railway shares
worth e.oo
A PORTRAIT by Sir Joshua Reynolds
has sold for sss,uu In . Condemnation
room, the highest price On RECORD for
such salcs
CANADIAN cattle have bcen shut out
81 England on tho ground that thoy
have the disease ~ contagious plsuro-
pneumonia.
TuH grand Jury NJ uninntown. IA.
ignored I've bills against deputy shrr
iffs charged with killing ricters dnriDg
the coke strike
AnrIcirs which one may wish Ia
preserve ~ nrmruiocs are now olcc-
tro-plated 90 prrscr,c them from the
ravagrs ~ time.
THr Sierra Nevada range ~ noun.
tains in California is nearly sn miles
long, 20 Wide and from s,op 20 ncarly
i5oo feet high
JAcon t,RurzNAN, o farmer near Eli
wood City. rh.. hid seIs IN coffee mill
la his cellar. Now he has neither col.
fee mill nor money.
TINS only white republican IN Ran.
dalph county, Ga, was sent to lnna.
tie asylum few days ago he was
over eighty years odd
NJ GRANninrR lntrly offered to pre-
sent his collection of Oriental china to
the Louvre II consists ~ i.uu0 pieces
and Is worth r6iUOo
OF every man aud woman living Ia.
day at the age Of twenty 1--we one out
Of two will live, according "a statistic.
20 be sixty-iyc years of aye
CHIcAao was named from the Chicago
river. which, IN turn. toek iis name
from an Indian word meaning Place OF
the Wild Leck or polceat plant
DR oIIvKR WEypELI IlotMEs is daily
engaged in debating his "Recollec.
tons TO his secretary but ihoy arr
not TO be published until after his
death.
TnR widow Of senator Hearst, Of
California Is said 10 hc the most heavily
insured woman In the country Shc
has policies amounting 20 s30oOo0 on
her life.
A noRsE which belonged toa Chicago
thief was turned loose the other day,
and II led a party Of policcmcn straight
20 Rendezvous of thieves, who we're
all captured
ATTORNEY OENFuAL MotoSEy OF Ili-
nois, is making an effort 10 compel the
Pullman Co to take out retail liquor
licenses on is cars or else stop selling
braccrs on them
In the latest French duel Count dc
Dion and NJ de Boisandre were stop.
ped after an hour's Fighting without
results, and Paris IS gosiping about
their endurance
PRiSrKEs ON the Pall Mall Magazine
have no copy before them The mat
ter they put in type is taken from a
photographic tube which is fastened TO
the ear Of the compositor
TnE iron furnaces of Scotland rely
for their profit not ON the pir iron
they turn out, but on the product OBJ
tanned from the waste gases, which In
this country are not put To use.
GREAr discomfort Is shown in Ger.
many at the large number of pcnsioned
officers Of the army, Since the pres.
ent emperor asccnded the throne in
lsss 1000 have been forced to resign.
GRAssmorrERs have attacked the
country across the Columbia river
Washington. and have oaten the leaves
OIL the oak trees, and The corn has been
stripped until nothing but the bare
stalks remain
kMrKRoRs and cmrrcsscs, kings and
queens, write to each other as brother
and sister reigning grand dukes also
enjoy this privilege when addressing
kings, but soyercigns not POSSESSING
royal honors are designated as cousin.
A IiosroN genius has utilized as a cnr
fender the revolving brush which is
commonly used for stree, cleaning pur.
poses. Whom parqon o.ts Ia ,ho ,,..,,