The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-11-23
CURRENT Toplcs.

Ruazlr furnishes half the world
coffee.
AN iron furnace was built in Virginia
in l7lG
EvFnY American shin has an outfit
81 $50 iihfs
TiTEE ago 100 women sugar planters |
IN I0uisiIId.
THEEE ne 5,s3s building associations /
in this coualry.
THE engipcs of first-class nan-ot- :
war cost scout S7OO.00
or Of tlt New York street ear lines
now rams roking ears.
TnR popu alton Of the islands of ia
pan mum bt Is iI.O00.1lO
The present dynasty in Japan has
held sway 81 zee 600 y. c.
TmKr dynamite guns are to he
bought foi Boston harbor.
AS English express engine consumes
ten gallons Of watcr mile.
BARN DooG is one Of the peculiarly
named Pennsylvania towns.
T9E raw silk from Kansas cocoons is
said to be The best in the world.
NEARLY one-third OF the people in
Chicago live in tenement houses.
JAMES SUIT. of Center, Mo, has
plan for cptching burglars in nets
A NuGsET Of tin weighing 5,4cO
pounds has been found in Tasmania
Is Russia it was once the common
belief that beardless men were soul
less.
RAW silk Of the value Of SEQ, $4,000
was imported during the last fiscal
year,
NICKEL has greater strength than
iron when subjected 10 breaking
strain,
hGnr narrow gauge railroads are
again being tried in England and
France.
GLASGOW has one underground rail
way in operation and two more under
construction
/ AT Reldng, Pa. seventeen school
iAnitrcss cs are to have authority to az
rest disturbcrs,
IT Is said that whales can remain
under the aurfacc of the ocean for n
hour and halt.
GERMASN is said to have 4 law which
forbids the sale OF beer TO persons who
have eaten fruit
sUIrof chain armor such as tht
knights Wore in Charlemagnc's tiUs,
cost about Si.0O0.
Is Peru the cotton plant grows " b,
tree and is in bearing from twcnty
five to fifty years.
STEPHEN KELLY, of Mcriden Conn
weighs ius pounds, and measures SIS
feet around the waist
TnE largvst Bible in the world is il
the vatican. 1t is written in Hebrew
and weighs 800 pounds.
TitE eap1al letter 20 will be foun,
but twice in the Old Testament an,
three times in the new.
THEIRS are venomous fshe,, who's,
spincs inilict dangerous wounds, mucl
like the ~tings Of snakes.
; pE, HAWrfs' annual report show
I that there were GlO pairs Of twins borl
in l.oston within twelyemonth.
rRoF SwINa bequeathed sl0OO0 I
the Illinois Humane society and the r,
i mainder of his estate TO relatives.
G ILLINOIS has $50, ,g3s pupils in the pull
, lie schools. llG,G3G in private school
d and over SIS OO,OOo in school houses.
Il ON leaving New York for Eur u
q Whitelaw Reid said that the currenc
e and not tine tariff will be the issue i
Y lSg
n lEFoRE the war the merchant mt
q rine Of the United States was Of ey,
&c greater magnitude than that Of Ems
hand
y A RRnGE over Melo rapids in Bolivi
\. IS 6aei feet above the surface OF n
water and lo.OOO feet above the level ,
the sea,
., IuE hrst book pcinted in Ameri,
a came from pres. in the City of Mex
co in 1855 1t was a Catholic book
- devotion.
\. lonN lNNcm the brother OF judi
!. Charles Lynch. the originator of n
=. lyrch law, was the founder Of Lyme
y, burg, Va.
he lnH harvest oang outang ever kill'
mcasurcd four feet ten inches
height; the average IS about ioar a.
two inches.