The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-03-22
killing him.

killing him.
CALIFORNIA; legislature has prohib-
tied the sale of ''the handmade of par
esis and the bride of consumption
the cigarette.
IL you were on the moon the earth
would appear to be sixty-four times
larger than the sun does to residents
OF this planet
1T is stated that the recent Hitch
cock Buckley dance in New York, at
which 200 guests were present, cost the
originators $4,000.
THE citizens of Philadelphia are re-
newing the talk about erecting a mon
ument to Admiral David ID. Porter on
the city hall plaza.
STATISTICS show that last year the
United States shipped over slO,OOO,O 900
worth of agricultural products to Ar
gentine republic.
The street railroad war which has
ragged in Savannah for several months
has caused one company to issue tick
cts at two for cent.
A BABE weighing one pound five
ounces, born TO Mrs. Lyman Oliver, of
Portville, Allegany county, n. Y, is
alive and doing well.
THE court records of Stafford county,
Va, date back TO 1893. The writing Of
the Oldest document is as distinct as
the day it was traced.
THE thirty-frst international meet
ing of the Young Mems Christian as
sociations will be held in Springfield,
Mass, on May to l2.
THE enlisted force of the navy is to
be increased by 1000 men. This will
put in commission the new ships Maine,
Texas and Amphitrite.
THERE are four clubs in New York
city that charge $500 initiation fee
namely, the Metropolitan, New York,
Union and Union league.
ALTHOUGH Gen. NJ. Scott, of Fari-
bault, Mimi, is 1903 years old, the hair
on his head remains the same color it
always was-a bright red.
c. Z. HAIGH, architect for the Van
derbilt memorial has completed the de-
sign for the William Walter Phelps
memorial building at Yale.
JAPAN has sent government agent
to Odessa with an invoice of japanese
tea for the purpose of introducing the
tea into the Russian market.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has given $3.50 to
the fund for the monument to Prince
Bismarck, which students intend to
erect at Kudlesberg, near Kossen.
The highest velocity attained by q
projectile fred from n modern rapid
fire gun is 2,ss7 feet per second, oil
something like l,96s miles an hour.
BARrnoLDI says that the giganti,
statue which he presented to the
United States is the likeness of hi
mother, "rejuvenated and modified"
TnE consumption of coal By locomo
tives in the United States in ls9'
amounted to $4,000, 900 tons, or abou
one-third of the whole production il
this country.
In London there is a manufactory il
which every kind of rare or aneien
coins are made, and n collector neeC
not go out of the place If he wants Il
: fill his cabinet with numismatic treas
ureS
CAsnIER-PERIER is posing as a maj
with secret His real reason for re
signing the presidency, he intimates
has never been diyulged, and patriot
ism prevents him from telling it at thi
time.
A SAVINGS BANK scare recently oC
CURED in Biddeford, Me-, because th
time lock on the vault refused to wor
and one Of the officers sat up all nigh
TO work at il,
Mr.. NATHAN ALGoop, of Boswell, Ga.
has clock which has bean runnin
and keeping correct time for 4 perio
of le0 years, and it has never been on
of fix but once.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS latest fad
teiegraphy, and he is spending sewers
hours week learning TO send me
sages 10y dots and dashes. lie has a
ready made considerable progress {
se an operator OF the key.