The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-05-18
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rrGslA has bu, twenty miles Of rail.
bible
height
Tnr center Of Judaism nov /, Ncw
York city.
TIM canals Of the united states are
LAS mii,s IA length.
CANADA has granted but no divorce.
In the last twenty years
NISEff-sFyfS out Of every 100 Arctic
explorers have returned alive
PosrAGE stamps are now canceltd by
little machines run hy electricity
THt ear Of Russia holds tic nFft,t
individual estates, 100000 900 acres
IEN per cent OF the inhabited houses
OF England and Nnies are ia London
TnE crop Of corn In this country last
year aggregated ,Glg. i9i, 900 burbt.z
THr largest flower is the rahifeia.of
Sumatra, whose diameter J, nine lref
rnf streets Of Melaphis nte 10 10
sprinklcd by an electric street sprinig.
Ter
Az ordinary teacup holds about six
ounces o. huid and tumbler about
ten.
TnE wool production of the world IS
estimated at I, ,ia5,'5adoj pounds auna.
ally.
"ArNr Cmor" Wment. ~ Hot
springs, Ark, is repu'rd 20 Ia in her
Hath year
Tar greatest bee owner an Garth Is a
Mr. HARRISON q California. Who owns
5000 hives
NV NonK boasts that ls.019 people
witnessed the frst balt game = ihs
sraton there.
EN.stsAron lNGAtlp Is under con.
tract To write several magagincarticle,
on Coxcyism
inE drill plow Ia every cs,cni.al
point Was known 10 th, Ch,nr.c irarly
aoco years ago
1nEW isa girl. In Eastou, IA. who
drops asleep Whenever shr gets iu the
bright sunlight
TuoNAs CoHXt father Of ). $ Cuxry.
has been buyihE lead mines ncIr
Doyiestown, Pa
Tn Astronomical sociely of the Ia.
cihc has but one woman iucmber Nibs
Rose oiiallornn
TuEaK are said % tc as. coo species -
fishes of which about. .onc4icuth iu.
habit fresh water
fnE popular belief thei Alby k an
unlucky month for marriages dates
from Roman times
No fewer than /, 100 ancient mann
seripi copies Of the New Testament IN
whole or In part exist
CnAmTAntE societies are 20 bc or
IAnlged in France toad cunyicis whose
Ierms have expired.
4 BoY At Hull. England, had dis
eased lung cut ont Within three
mouths De was we'll
WILLOW wood Is most commonly used
in the manufacture Of artificial iiubs
owing 10 is lightucsS
TaK statement Is made that the prod
ucis ~ southern factories now exceed
the products of its soil
TIN friRatc bird, the iustcstui all
fowl In flight can cut the air az the
rate oi 100 miles an hour
TIM Bay Of iicugal and the Bby oi
Fundy have the highest tides. ueasur.
ing SIXTY and seventy feet
THK health commissioner of Rropilyn
has determined 10 stop the use of soft
coal In factories ui that city
Az Italian musician suggests that
those % an audience who desire aH en-.
core bc required to pny Tor H.
TuE German mile oi to-day Is atais
feet In length, more thhn four times
and half AZ long ~ our mile.
THE jungle fowl ~ Australia builds
nest that Is about twenty feet in
diameter and fifteen feet high
WALrTR BEsANr Is an antl.vuman
sunfagist lie holds that as men coE-
quer the world they should rulc.ii
The state Of New Hampshire Is pay.
ing ti bushel 10 farmers Tor all the
grasshoppers that they can destroy
THE Chinese are putting $500 600
into great rolling min at Han
Van An Englishman Is bossing the
Job
II is estimated that between $40 600. :
600 aud ESQ, 900. oo1 are expended in
this country annually Tor church cdi.
fees.
TmERr is in Jerusalem a branch Of
the Young Women's Christian associa-
tion which numbers about eighty mem
berA
THE suez canal is eighty-eight miles
long. and reduces the distance FROM
England TO India nearly 200 miles for
ships
THREE United States senators were
born 10 foreign lands Mcmillan in
Canada, Pasco in England and Walsh
In Ireland
Mas Ann wnfEER died recently.
aged i0s years. at Ashmore, Eng. in
the house where she was born and had
lived all her life
A MUsCAIosGE weighing fprty-eight
pounds. NIL but an ounce, is on exhibit
iion In Chicago The fish was caught
in Fox Lake, III.
THK wife Of Crispi, the ltalian prime
minister, is confirmed smoker OF cig-
ntcttes Her husband does not use to-
baceo in any form.
TIM order OF Postmaster-General Bis
sell against the appointment q saloon
keepers as postmas,ers is prohibition
that the prohibitionists like,
OK the banks OF Lake Nyassa. few
years ago the habitatioh Of cruelty,
there are now Christian schools with
$50 teachers and 1000 scholars
SmAD fishing has been practically
abandoned on the Connecticut river,
because OF the use OF pounds along the
north shore OF Long Island sound
A RESIDENT OF Phoenix, Arizona ter
ritory, was fined IS the other day for
going to sleep in the courtroom and
disturbing proceedings by snoring,
TnK Connecticut state building from
the Worlds fair, will be set up in New