The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-05-31

four months and of the worker six
months
MATrHEy' SEATTLE, an educated but |
full-bloodcd Indian, of Washington,
will deliver a Fourth OF July grafton
at Chicago
FoR journey of 200 miles or so,
sound reindeer can travel at the rate
of about twenty-five miles an hour on
good roads.
A BUFFALO, escaping from the Wild
West show at Schenectady. N. Y, was
run down, jumped into the Erie canal
and was drowned
IT is stated as an interesting soclolog-
lcaLfact that in London out of 100 wild
overs who marry again twelve marry
their housekeepers.
In an attempt to recover a seventy
five cent heaving line the tug Magul
was wrecked off Cape Flattery, Wash,
causing s95, 900 loss.
THERE is spring on Pecos river, In
San Miguel county, N. NJ, which
/ throws out stream fifteen feet wide
and three feet deep.
A MARRIAGE license has been issued
at Reading, Pa, to Peter Laxter, aged
eighty-six years, and Mrs Mary Gaul,
seventy-six years old.
THE natives of Sumatra have visit
ing card consisting Of piece of wood
about foot long, decorated with
bunch Of straw and a knife.
AT present all the planets are even
ing stars and they are all above the
horizon at the hour Of sunset, though
of course they are then invisible.
PHILADELPHIA organ grinders are
not slow, They hire little colored
girls TO travel with them, and give ap-
parently impromptu skirt dances.
/ A CHICAGO company has been organ
lied for the purpose of piping cold air
from house to house to take the place
of electric fans and refrigerators.
RAIN while the sun is shining is re.
ferred to in nearly every country In
the world by an expression equivalent
TO ''the devil is beating his wife"
EDWIN BURNE-JoNEs, the famous
British artist, Is of Welsh extraction.
, He Is Rudyard Kipling's uncle. Burne-
Jones is almost entirely self-taught
oPALs from the White Cliffs fields in
, New South Wales sell as high as sl2c
an ounce The best are red or red in
combination with blue, yellow and
green.
Mr.. LABoUCHERR never attempts any
flights OF eloquence when addressing
the house of commons He considers
that a friendly. eolloquial style is mor'
! effective.
, JUDGE A. n. WATERMAN, of Chicago
said recently that in reference TO thu
, industrial problem Japan is greatly IL
advance of America and the countrle
of Europe
CHRISTIAN MAY committed suicid
, at Hazelton, Pa, by hanging himsel
:, from the monument over his wife
!. grave. lie was seventy-three year
old.
HEREAFTER February IL will be
public holiday in New York state Oh
February IL, 1900, Abraham Lincoll
was born In La Rue county, Kentucky
His birthday is legal holiday in I'LL
nois.
The improved Industrial Dwelling
Co., of London, accommodates 5000
persons In Its houses. 1t is claimo
that its system has reduced the tenC
ment death rate from forty TO onl
eleven in u thousand.
BEm.IN's Imperial library Is for th
first time TO have catalogue Of II
books. II will be modelled on that {
the British museum, and will cost s7S
OOO.
BLiNnNEss is ON the increase In N
United States Forty years ago b.
four In ten thousand were blind, 'bS
now the ratio has Increased 100 p
cent
IRIS reported that Walter Camp, Il
famous football coach. has withdraw
from the sport. HIS reason for qul
ting IL that he Is dlsgnated with u
continued VI rfAre between Yale a.
Harvard over inethan