The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-08-03
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TnE sultan Johore wears an electric
light In his shirt front
In brazil couple may be married hy
drinking brandy together.
iloIIow castiron bricks are used for
house building In Germany
TnE usual royalty paid by publishing
houses ON books is 10 per cent
MorIoN has been conveyed by cleo
trio wires distance Of l20 miles.
LOUISIANA has found II necessary to.
puss laws for the care Of its lepcrs
TnF proportion Of widows fs about
three times as great as Of widowcrs.
Mn Auousr RYE married Miss May
Wheat the other day in indianapolis
CniSA raises and consumes more
ducks than any country In the world
TANNED elephant skin IS over an
inch thick and brings very high prices
uNIrEp SrArrs fish commissioners
are Matching fifty million lobster eggs
Nav LONDON. Mo-. hasa boy Rodney
Elzca. who MAS born without arms or
legs.
TIK great nqucdnct which supplied
Carthage with water was seventy .nilcs
long
THE two sWifiest runners of the ami
NAL creation are the kangaroo aud the
ostrich.
Is twortr states therc nre prohib.
itory lave against selling tobacco to
minors.
MoRE dusls are estimated Ia DO eaten
by the ChiErsr thnn by any other ma
tionality
ArrIK bii1hi Is destroying orchards
la Wyoming and adjacent counties in
New York
TnE population of New York as
shown by the new directory iunt issued,
is i.9a7.0sa
A m.Asr ina south African diamond
mine recently brought up Petriied
ostrich egg
A cERfAIS forest plant in Japan
grows 10 bc about siE feet high ia
three weeks
TnE thinnest and Ut the same time
one oi the toughest feathers tanned !,
frbg's skin
FKAALE bootblacks are reported Ia
be- multiplying In Paris and other
French cities
TnE annual production Of matches,
II u stated, now amounts tn ahout ten
thousand tons
A scnEAE Is ON foot 10 utilifr the
current Of the Bosphorus 20 illuminatc
Constantinople,
mcHCLI 20 run on a single track q
railroad has been invented by man
IN I.atah. Wash
TnFBE is now ahout 3. ~ Indians in
the state ot New York of thrso about
200 arr Scnecas
SUNDAY sacred concerts, good bpat'
and bait. are advertised attractions
at Lake rushaw, Me
TnE thread ~ spun quartz j. 50 lin,
that Il can be seen only through :
powerful microscope
TnE people of the world ,lcak nis'
hundred languages and twelve hun
dred different dialects
A Nrw loRH man committed suitti,
because be could not lind wife AN,
could nBt get work without one
A BURGLAR la New York was dc
tcctod through his hat falling from hi
head and striking a passing police
man
PorspAM. the Windsor of Prussia. &
about ten miles from berlin, and wa
made royal palace by Frederick th,
Great
ON billion feet of timber per year !
being cut la Texas. aud at that rate
will take but Is years 10 exhaust tn
supply.
In the Austrian village of StorlecI
all the Inhabitants are chess player.
and the game is taught in the publ
schools
oF 1909 men who marry 31s MARI
younger women, hs9 marry women q
the same age, and ~ marry oldc
women.
TnERK are $50 iron and steel mant
featuring establishments In rennsy
vania. with an invested capital of owe
SeOO. 10000
QuEEN VICTORIA has one ot the line.
wine cellars In Europe, the features q
which are some Rhine cabinet wines q
rare vintage.
" America were as dcnsely populate
~ Europe Il would contain ns man
people as there are in the world at III
present time
y "Tissus MICRomCprs warranted I
keep out the most rcrsevering hacillu
are being sold By some OF the chi,
Partisan shops.
In Russian Poland the man VIII
owns n vloclta Of land is considerc
wealthy A vlocka is equul to abot
forty-one acres,
In was discovered TINT sixteen me
In the venire Of jurors summoned for
murder trial In Grand Rapids Mich
were not citizens.
Tim sundews are carnivorous plant
When an insect touches the liquid d
the leaves Il is held while the leaf 60
ers over Il, smothering IL.
WAsHnsorns Is to have a museum I,
all sorts Of life-saving appliances, i
cluding the earliest kinds of life boat
rockets and life preservers.
TnE Venus ilytrap u flower indigo
Gus 10 our southern states, catches ili
by an apparatus exactly like the ord
nary spring trap or fox trap
Tux Bo0lsman makes the aston!shir
announcement that no book of NJ
|, Ruslsins has over been translated NJ
- published in u foreign language,