The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-03-29

is translation of Kingsley's "West,
ward Hor'
ABOUT Easter London publisher |
will bring out Henry NJ. Stanley's book
entitled my Early Travels and Ad-
ventures"
Two MEN have been sentenced to life
imprisonment at Pembina, N. D., for
stealing three dollars from man on
the highway.
HIS inability to eat night lunch in
less than an hour and half resulted
in the dismissal of Policeman Yelch,
Of Reading. Pa.
ACCORDING to Whitaker's "Alma.
mack" the population of Liverpool il
517,9sO, of Manchester 515,99s, and of
Glasgow ST., 1888.
An expert oculist has been appointed
to test the eyesight of all conductors,
engineers and brakemen on the Cana.
dian Pacific lines.
A NEW YORK woman who sells news.
papers on the streets is reputed to have
made $50, 900 out of her calling in the
last twenty years.
The coroners' inquests of London
show eighty deaths a year from hunger,
without counting persons who commit
suicide In extreme want.
NEXT year will witness the four
teenth centenary of the conversion of
France TO Christianity. The event is
to be celebrated at Rheims
The industrial situation in the
Wheeling wv. va.) iron district is i'm
proved. More men are employed now
than have been for months.
CALIFORNIA has a splendid orange
crop this year, and abundant rains
through the winter season insures
grand fruit crops Of all kinds
The British museum possesses col
lection Of old Greek advertisements
printed on leaden plates, which shows
that the practice is very ancient.
CHARLES SPRAaUE PEARcE, the art.
list, has been awarded the gold medal
OF the Midwinter fair, San Francisco,
for his paintings in the recent exhibi.
ton.
In the DIR. Abbott case of Egyptian
antiquities, in the museum of the New
York Historical society, is preserved
the iron helmet of Shishak, who took
Jerusalem from Rehoboam 900 years
BIC
So MUCH has the art of dressing and
dyeing feathers been developed that
numbers of the seemingly rare feather
boas worn have simply been made
from the plumage of the ordinary
fowl
PRINCE BISMARCK recently said to q
visitor that he had only one serious
complaint to make against old age, and
that was that he had been obliged Of
late to abstain almost entirely from to
baeco.
A NUMBER of families from Chippewt
and Eau Claire counties, Wis, have
selected site and are TO establish {
: colony about 100 miles from New Or
leans.
GLASS is the most perfectly elastl
substance in existence. A glass plat
kept under pressure IN bent condi
ton for fve-and-twenty years will re
turn to its exact original form. Stee
comes next.
THE car believes in the higher edu
cation Of women, and has ordered tn
reopening of the Woman's Institute Q
Medicine at St Petersburg, which wa
closed by order Of tho government
some years ago.
WHEN a portion of the brain is n
moved II seems TO be renewed, bu
whether the substance is true brai
tissue or not appears'to be undetel
mined.
THE estate OF Edwin Booth, by car,
ful management on the part Of the 9,
ecutors,. has been considerably Il
creased, and now stands inventorled I
So7s,6
THOMAS JEFPERsoN, Il Is said, spoil
like professor lecturing To his elias
He used few gestures, and always d
4. llvercd his speeches IN moderate tor
4 Of voice. with little appearance Of 4
! forest or enthusiasm.