The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-06-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

RAIN falls in the Andes about once in
seven years.
In 1885 Great Britain had e527, OOO,O
loaned abroad.
SIBERIA has 5000. 900 square miles of
good farm land.
VIRGINIA has the worlds greatest
mires
SILVER gray false hair is the most
10 obtain.
ROMAN coins have been found among
ruins in South Africa.
FRANCO is worth, all property con-
sidered- $4,000, 100000.
CINcIHNArI is the largest tobacco mar
lset ON this continent
The salary of the governor Of Massa-
chusetts is 5000 per annum.
CAMELs are being imported into Aus
tralia for use in the gold fields.
GAS now costs consumers in London
ffty-six cents thousand cubic feet.
FALSE teeth made Of ivory have
been found in the Roman catacombs.
TIm longest clock pendulum ever
made is that of Eiffel tower-377 feet.
LIFE SAVERS on the French coast arc
hereafter to be aided by trained dogs.
TnE total annual value of the worlds
minerals is estimated at 81 ,0OO, 900 900.
OVER 150 flags are necessary part OF
the outfit Of every American warship.
The net profits Of the Suez canal
company last year were about ss,OOO,.
900.
THE average value of cultivated land
in Germany is slO5 per acre, in France,
si65.
EMMA JucH says that after her mar.
riage she viii never sing in opera
again.
A Biz glacier has formed in the
Rocky mountains near st. Mary's river,
Mont.
GREAT BRITAIN's savings banks have
3,7i5,Ooo dcpositors and 1886, 100000 de
posits.
Two hundred people are killed By
lightning every. year in the United
States.
GIANTS usually have weak constitu-
tutions and are shorter-lived than
dwarfs
WINTER Frost is man in Seligman
Mo-, who is engaged in the sale Of fly
screens
The people Of the United States have
over s350,O0O,OOO invested in church
property.
NEXT to Niagara, the largest water
power plant in this country is in Port
land, Ore
IN l7sg the official estimate of th'
rental of all the houses in France wal
e74,0OO,00O
ADMIRAL DA CANA is to try anC
raise funds in Europe to renew hostili
ties In Brazil,
TIE underground electric railroad ii
London is in places sixty-three feet be
low the surface.
OUT Of nearly 500 criminals in tn
Kansas penitentiary there are onl,
fourteen women.
MoRE harness and saddles are mad
in Cincinnati than in any other city o
the United States.
The expenditures of thestate prisol
at Auburn. y. Y, exceed the income b.
over slOo.0o3 year
Az Illinois court has decided that
turtle lis not an animal, but a reptil
of the snake species.
GINcINNArI. Covington and Newpor
pay one-siNth the entire internal reve
nue. of the government.
For over five hundred years tn
Egyptian monarchs maintained
strong body of Greek mereenaries.
CINCINNATI makes more iron safe
than any city Of the world, than al
the rest Of the United States together
So varied is the climate of Mexic
that all the products of the polar an,
the tropical regions can be raise,
there
AMoNG lot Of onions dug from
farm in Iomosarra, Fla, n few day
ago, was one which weighed over 81
pounds.
THE war department is experiment
ing with aluminium for cups, plates
horseshoes, bayonet fixtures and othe
articles.
NJ. MorE, the well known America
baritone, has renewed his engagement
at the Grand opera house, Paris, 70
two years
EGyrT's smelling festival is a lega
and commercial holiday. Onions an
other odorous articles are in great d,
mand on the occasion.
TnE fastest shorthand writer in tn
world IS a young Dublin gentleman
Mr.. George Bunbary. He can writ
$50 words in minute.
UNcLE SAN burned the old carpet |
the Philadelphia mint and took out {
the ashes 500 in pure gold. He use
$50 TO buy a new carpet.
DAVID Mccoy, pensioner of the wa
OF 1912. who was born in Burke count,
n. c., has Just celebrated his l0it
birthday at San Bernardine, Cal
THE little hamlet of Aumone, Franc,
has forty inhabitants, twenty-eight {
whom are over s5 years of age, an
three have passed the century mark.
Mrs. NELLIE GRANT SARreRIs' eide,
son is now IL years of age. He wi
complete his education at 0xfor,
which school he is at present attend
ing.
A NEW YORK engineer hung a monl
ey wrench on the safety valve to pr
vent the waste of steam. He will r.
cover, but the building was badly dan
aged.
Ii eosts Great Britain s2O,OOO I
serape the harnacles off the bottom
one of its big men-o'-war and repair
it, and this has to be done twice yet
in the ease Of nearly every vessel.
TnE petrihed body of woman W,
found by hunters, few days ago,
the woods near WalIxervillc, Ill.
scar on her forehead shows that q
woman met her death through vi
lence.
Is the face Of the innumerable pi
lures showing the English queen wit
her crown on, 1t is rather curious
learn that, as matter of fact, She h,
not worn il twenty times during II,
entire reign.
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