The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-04-26

convulsions by piano playing. and died
therefrom.
THE American Steel Casting Co, at
/ 7hurlow, Pa, has successfully cast .
depress.ls, gun carriage weighing 2s..
900 pounds.
THE newest puncture proof band for
use on cycles is made Of strips &. whale
bone inserted between the air tube and
the outer cover.
THE emperor of Germany, II Is said,
has decided 10 honor Bismarck by hav-
ing his head stamped on future issue
Of German coins.
AN Oklahoma implement dealer
charges his partner with trading plows
TO farmers for their votes, and has do
manded q receivership.
RAPHo township, Lancaster county,
Pa, has been sued for SEQ, 900 damages
by the widow of John II. Hersey, who
broke through township bridge and
died.
THE Prussiau Academy Of Arts has
elected Prince Bismarck an honorary
member. There are but four such mem.
bers, one Of whom Is the Empress Fred
erick.
In the first century Of our national
existence there were 207 cabinet Of
| ficers appointed and n of them resigned
before the expiration of their terms Of
Office.
TRAIN robbers who held up an ex-
press in Indian territory apologized for
taking the passengers valuables by
saying; you know times are mighty
hard"
The bridge across the Genesee river,
at Genesee, N. Y, Is Of lattice work
resting on wooden piers. Although
built in 1890, 1t is apparently as sound
as ever
JEREMIAH GAMER and jeremiah
Mitchell, Niagara county. N. Y, pio-
neers, died within seven hours of each
other, the other day, aged o5 and 90 re-
spectively,
MISSOURI has 5,257 dramshops, from
which revenue of So, 449, ,oiO IL annual
ly received. The state gets s2I5, ,74s,
the counties 81, yes, 40, the cities and
towns $751;
OVERLAND telegraphic communica-
ton between India and China has at
last been established by the junction
OF the Burmese and Chinese lines on
the 10th Of March.
JULIE Rooms, Of Marshall county, Ia,
was such a puny little babe that his
parents despaired Of raising him, but
he weighs 952 pounds now, and Is six
feet five inches tall.
THE remedial effects of laughter are
really wonderful. Cases have been
known where hearty laugh has BAN
ished disease and preserved life by q
sudden effort of nature.
THE best Of the naval architects and
constructors in the service Of the gov
ernment get salaries Of not more thap
50, 500 Private shipbullders pay such
men two or three times as much.
Gov. HoLcoMB has signed the law
passed by tho Nebraska legislature ap-
propriating 100000 for the purchase
Of seed grain and food for the drought
stricken farmers Of the state, and II
becomes Immediately operative.
In all probability the champion serv-
ant OF the world was Elizabeth vierer-
be. German woman, who died recent
ly at the age of ninety-three II Is
claimed she was domestic In one
household for seventy-nine years
sELrzER water gets It's name from
the village OF Lower Seltzer, In Nassau,
whore seven syringe united In one
basin, yield 1900 cubic feet an hour Of
this sparkling and effervescing mineral
water. More than million and q half
bottles Of this water are exported every
year
cohrRrssRD air h used In glaas-blow.
Ing by French manufacturers Watch
crystals are made BY blowing . sphere
as nearly perfect a. possible. and then
cutting glasses from IA One parllcn.
ulnr ball wns nlxly.two inches IN diam
elor, and a,ooo watch crystals we're cnl
! from