The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-05-24

ground.
A DOCUMENT envelope that works like
a telescope, adjusting itself to one pa
per or to fifty, is said to be recent In |
vention.
CHARLES S. FAIRcnILD Is to be the
new leader OF the the state democracy
of New York city, succeeding William
R. Grace.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE at the age OF
! seventy-five lives with her sister, Lady
Verney, at Clayton House, In Bucking-
hamshire.
AN Antarctic Iceberg has been seen
that was twenty miles wide, forty
miles in length and four hundred feet
in height
A BENTON MOL inventor has been
offered $4,000 for an invention that
prevents horse from throwing his tall
over the lines
JoHN WHITE, aged 10 years, tos sed q
LIGHTED match into an oil can at Pitts
burgh, and was killed by the explosion
that followed.
THE Siamese have great horror Of
odd numbers and were never known TO
put Ave, seven, nine or eleven windows
/ In house or temple.
THE first map Of America bearing an
authentic date is that found In Soil
nus ''Polyhistor." 1t is by AplanuA
and bears date of 1920
PoPE LEO Kill does not wear the
| OrrantnnG hIrt n
papier-mache imitation, as the tiara
y itself is much too heavy.
TIE average volume OF the Indian
brain. as shown from the measure
; ments Of nearly thousand skulls, II
seventy seven cubic inches
BIsHoP PHELAN has sued Pittsburgh
10 70 recover $4,000 on account OF dam
N ages done St Stephens church by
change of the street grade.
$ IT is claimed that the largest bur
n oak tree in Missouri grows on the farr
Of Capt. Andrew Elliott, one and one
10 half miles northeast Of Camden. IL
- - twenty-five feet eleven inches In ell
n cumference.
THE daily consumption OF water l
:. New York city is about 1ss, ,Ooo,0 900 ga
- Ions, and the population Is less tina
half that Of London. The capacity
" the new Croton aqueduct Is S0ooO0O'
Ia gallons per diem.
THE schoolhouse flag idea Is movir
~ ve..ward. The Missouri house OF re
'e resentatixes has passed bill directiI
:, that the star-spangled banner shall
- hoisted over every common scho
.1s building in the state.
NAPLES is to build permanent 3
baths to accommodate $1,000 person
&C. and 10 enable them TO have hot al
u cold baths at all seasons Of the YET
% Three points on the shore have be
a. selected for the sites
Nv ~. A WOMAN with long thumb wi
AVo according to Desbarolies, the authC
-0 ity ON palmistry, always do her best
have her own way. So will almost a
.oo other woman.
len FRESH butter has been transport
ny- from Australia to England and sold
A nrofit for twenty-five cents pour
The freight amounts TO two cent
Mound. The next Australian expo
II. ment will be with poultry.
PRoP. c. V. Riley thinks he has .
covered satisfactory evidence OF te
pathy among the insects-that Is
say, a sixth sense by which they
able TO communicate IDEAS from
another at great distances
Two years ago a poor tailor OF Pat
ogue cared for sick man, Nc
jackson; OF Holbrook, L. ]. Jack
died the other day and left eso,ooe
the tailor.
A LONDON arm which has manu-
tured eight Of the eleven cables II
ing the United states with Engla
makes flfty.fvo miles Of cable s'
twenty.four honra
CART. JACK sLETn, the veto
steamboat man, who died At his b
near paducah. KY, the other dal
f'e' said 70 have been the pioneer Of
.isni submarine cable. In leis he hurie'
luauiascd wire under The ohio river