The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-08-02
Chang gwen uy

Chang gwen oy
retary.
ATHLETICS at the University Of
Pennsylvania cost in the neighborhood
OF $40, 900 last spring. Rowing absorbed
by far the largest portion of this
amount.
A PORTLAND fisherman made good
haul before breakfast the other day.
He caught a white halibut, a rare
fish in those waters, and sold 1t for
thirty-one dollars.
DIR. POWELL, superintendent Of the
asylum at Milledgeville, Ga, says
that 800 insane persons are lying in
county jails in the state, waiting for
room to be made for them at the asy-
lum.
THE rent roll OF the earl of Dudley
from %, 900 acres OF land is Rl23, 900,
and his profits from mines in the
Midland counties are so large that he
is one of the wealthiest men in Eng
land.
PATRICK McBRYDE told the West
Virginia miners to be peaceful, "fo-
in twenty-five years l have never
known a strike to be won after
troops had been sent TO the scene OF
trouble"
IT is estimated that 80 per cent. Of
, the iron manufactured in Tennessee Is
sold outside of the southern states. II
Is said to be the favorite iron with
pipe, plow and stove-makers in the
east and north.
IT is said that II England were to be-
come republic tomorrow, and there
were popular election for president,
the prince of Wales would be sure to
receive n majority of all the votes in
the United Kingdom
LEPRosY is increasing in Iceland in
an alarming manner, according to the
Jesuit missionary, Father Sveinsson.
Last year Danish physician, sent by
the government, examined one-third OF
the island and found l41 lepers.
The Shahzada can not understand
why English ladies and gentlemen
lower and trouble themselves by doing
what he considers should be done fol-
them by menials. He refers TO dane
ing. This is new aspect OF ball CIV
ing
QUEEN VICTomAs household is a
large one, consisting of just under
/ 900 persons, for the maintenance oi
whom the nation sets apart the sun
of 81, 500, 900 every year. Most OF the
officers are sinecures or fixtures fol
life.
THERE has Just died in Rome the
widow OF Felix 0rsini who, in 1888
tried to assassinate Napoleon Ill Sh'
was in receipt of an annuity from thu
ex- Empress Eugenie, which speak
volumes for the latter's kindness o
heart
CABLES will connect the Eiffel tower
with the turrets of the Trocadero pal
ace during the 1900 exhibition and up
= = on them light passenger trains Will b
run by gravitation.
DELcARrEs' works are to be publish
: ed In u complete edition for the frs
time by committee of French scho
ars aided by the government Print
ing will begin next year, and, II is hoI
ed, will be finished by 1900
In Boston there are women now VIII
wear boomers on the street as every
day garb, and at Asbury Park some {
the girl bicyclers wear their knicke
booker wheeling suits around the hot
porches and on the promenade.
THR Alaskan sealing industry Is /
poor this season that Capt Hooper.
command of the Behring sea patrol, II
ports that there Is not a sealer IN
hardly a seal in the seq,
TOBACCO is grown in forty'two stat
and territories, but nearly half th
crop comes from Kentucky, virgini
Ohio, North Carolina, Tennessee, Penl
sylvania and Connecticut
ONE gold mine in Georgia, on n
Chestatee river, near Dahlouega, issal
,s TO be yielding orc worth $40 ton, an
4 In some instances as high as $40 a tol
Near Canton Ia another mine, not "
developed but about ready 10 work,
....l1al.l