The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-03-15
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fishers during the past six months
JAMES Tyson, the richest man in
Australia, began life as farm labor
er, with salary of $3.50 per annum.
AMERICAN savings banks have nearly
two billion dollars deposited with them
as the surplus earnings of the people.
THE smallest church edifce in the
world is at the mouth of the Saginaw
river. Its capacity is eighteen per-
sons.
HoRsEs were never so cheap on the
Pacific coast, good animals bringing
only two dollars or three dollars a
head.
APRIL FooI's day had its origin in a
Roman festival, the FOOLS holiday,
which was celebrated about the lst of
April
JoHN JACOB AsToR has been refused
admission to the New York Coaching
club because he can not drive four
in-hand.
A WARRANT was issued for man at
[ Garden City, Kan, "who had twenty
five yards of carpet concealed on his
person"
TIE longest continuous street rail-
way in the United States is the forty
two mile strip from Lowell to Haver-
Hill, Mass.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has presented the
! Castle Cronberg, near Friedrichshof,
Germany. to his mother The estate is
fine one,
OF I,620 children recently subjected
to cruel treatment in England, it is
suggestive that l.937 had had their
lives insured.
MILE, REJANE receives $1,000 every
time she plays, and her expenses are
paid, besides which she is allowed a
maid and dressmaker
LONDON is twelve miles broad one
way and seventeen the other. And
every year secs about twenty miles of
new streets added to it.
THE report that the famous Shaker
settlement at New London, N. v, is to
be abandoned and the community re-
moved to Florida is denied
TIE largest sailing vessel afloat is
the France, five-masted ship, $50 feet
long, so feet broad, registered tonnage
1850, carrying capacity 6,lj0
LORD RosEBERY's voluntary retire
ment from the post of Prime minister
on account of i'll health is discussed in
London as strong probability.
THE present sultan of Morocco is de-
scended from an Irish girl who became
member of the. then royal harem
i~o.e tHar ear hundred years ago
Rom, GAlBR>iliT, g ttormcr of PAYNE,
Pa, is perhaps the only man on record
who amputated his own foot at the
ankle. lie did it neatly with razor.
WARRENsBURG, Mo, claims the cham
pion tree climber in the person of VIM.
Long &C years old, who, seeing a coon
run up TO the top OF sixty-foot tree,
ran up as.er him.
A WOMAN Of Valuntown, Ct, recently
suffered the loss of her husband AT
the time of his death she expressed the
wish that She, too, might die. Eight
hours afterward her desire was graft.
fed
TnE colorcd congregation of a Shell
bina, Me-, church has given notice that
it will prosecute any person running
horses, drinking liquor, or using Gus;
words within 100 yards of the sacred
edifce
An Copenhagen, n, Y, a young wom'
an who held thief until the police
came was presented with diamond
brooch and letter OF thanks from tn,
director OF police.
AMERICANS use more than 90 000, O0
pounds Of tea year For the supply
OF this necessity the United State
looks'to China and Japan. In 1898 Chi
ma gave ii,G53,l7s pounds of tea anS
Japan 30,d0s, ilg pounds
IT is reported that one hundre,
farmers In both branches OF the New
Hampshire legislature have formed
farmers council. in which they will
consider all matters itaininr to agri
culture before v~ upon them.