The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-04-05

IrUIil san Antonio
dino, Cal, distance of thirty miles.
IT Is estimated that during one day
recently 4o, o,oOOpeople indulged in skat-
ing in Windermere and Loch Lomond.
THE first Bible printed in the point
alphabet for the blind has been issued
in Louisville. 1t contains 1889 pages
THE emigration from Ireland last
year is the lowest recorded since the
collection Of returns commenced In
1851.
AT Hohenelbe, Bohemia, man was
killed last January by an icicle fall
ing from an cave and penetrating his
brain.
CANADIAN produce is pouring into
Portland, Me-, for shipment to Eng
land faster than the steamers can take
II way.
THE new editor and general manager
of the Boston Journal is Francis M.
stanwood, nephew of the late James
@. Blaine.
i A CHINESE firm at Butte made a
regulation assignment the other day,
naming as preferred creditors firms in
! Hong Kong and San Francisco.
AT Dieppe, France, recently Cana
dian vessel loaded with flint stones
pounded against the quay, the hints
struck fire and the ship burned
i THE Delaware legislature has enact
ed law making 1t punishable by a
fine Of s25 to fly any foreign flag on
any public building in the state.
AT Peter borough cathedral In Eng
land recently stranger was shown
round and then gave check to the
dean for SEQ 900 for new organ,
THE sultan OF Turkey is sending out
Mohammedan missionaries TO Africa,
! at his own expense, to check the
Christian advance in that country.
AFTER twenty years litigation, Johr
and Robert j. Gray won suit in New
l. York's supreme court against the Jer
sew Central railroad for breach OF con
e tract, getting 1922 damages.
. THE robbers of Canton, China, hav
organized an insurance compan,
- which, In consideration Of fixed pay
= ments, insures the subscribers immun
ity from robbery and plunder for on
" year
GEORGE BARKER, OF New York, ha
Just received Judgment of $1,000
ID against one Of the Atlantic liner con
" panies for injuries to his health b
reason OF the defective construction
lg HE cabin which admitted the sea WI
y ter.
THE greatest depth in which sh
n, has been anchored is 1000 fathon
n considerably more than two miles
This was accomplished by the Unit'
~ States vessel Blake when employed
sia the work eharting the various oce'
currents.
las THERE are at least two cases on re
is ord of five childen at a birth, viz,
woman of Konigsberg, September
ie- LISA and the wife of Nelson, tailo
we in oxford Market, in October, 1900
OWING to the fact that farms may
lit- had upon the sole condition that tn
ar. improve the land, many Norwegi
. immigrants have settled in British
lumbia rather than in the Unit
f. States.
THE original of Little Billee, VIII
Du Maurier exploited in "rrilby,
supposed to be Frederick Walker,
Young English artist, an account
whose life and works has just b'
published.
THERE is good long string Of yo'
monarchs and potentates now occu
ing the public attention. The king
Spain is eight years old, the queen
Netherland Is fourteen, the king
servia eighteen, the khedive tweF
the emperor Of China twenty-three
the czar twenty-six.
A LARaE number OF counterfeit
YER dollars, bearing the date OF
are In circulation In New Haven,
Many OF them have been offered at
banks by merchants for deposit
Fer counterfcits nre excellent, and car
ant detected only by their weight 7
are lighter than the standard dolla