The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-04-19

w. II. Silfies' home at Stroudsburg,
Pa, and knocked a stove litter from |
his hand.
THE bill to punish train robbers by |
confinement in the penitentiary for If
teen years, passed the Pennsylvania
legislature.
In Paris, when q local shopkeeper
advertises to sell "at cost, he has TO
keep his word or the government
knows why.
EDUCATION is doing wonders for the
Indians. One Of them is on trial at Ia.
coma for successful forgery, by
which he got SIS. ~
WITHOUT the express consent Of his
wife, no married Austrian subject can
procure a passport for journeying be-
yond the frontier.
THERE are now eighty ships engaged
in the business of carrying frozen meat
TO England They have capacity Cd
1,500, 900 carcasses.
A PHILADELPHIA street railroad now
operated by electricity saves S3,915
month as between the cost of coal and
that Of horse feed
CoNvIcTs in the Missouri penitentiary
have corn bread for dinner every day
In the week except Sunday, when they
have wheat bread.
A FEMGLE Fagin has been found In
| Elizabethtown, N. J. She was traced by
| the aid of two little girls who were
caught shoplifting.
PAPER gloves and hosiery are named
among the very latest novelties. Stock.
ings which shall sell for three cents
a pair are proposed.
THE kremlin of Moscow contains the
crowns of Poland and all the other
kingdoms and principalities which
Russia has overthrown.
ONE Of the valuable treasures In the
Lenox library, in New York, is an un-
broken file of the London Times, from
1905 to the present time.
THERE is butterfly Of India, which,
II pursued by bird, simply alights on
bush or tree, and becomes invisible
by reason of its green color.
| Mr. FIvEcoATs, of North Ottawa,
Kas-, was arrested the other night for
stealing a rubber coat from the fire de-
partment That makes six.
A AFARMER of Tuscola county, Mich,
is the owner Of a pig with seven per
feet feet, two heads, three eyes and
two tails; he squeals like two pigs.
A COMPANY organized to build an
electric railroad, with underground
conduit, on Indiana avenue, Chicago,
is incorporated with s5,OOO,OOO capital.
. The sting of bee, when compared
/ with the point of fine needle under
powerful microscope, is hardly dis.
cernible. The point of the needle
appears to be about an inch In diane.
, ter.
REV. A. b. EARLE, the evangelist,
who died In Boston the other day, Is
said to have brought about 100000
conversions during the sixty years Of
his evangelistic work
THE smallest known species of hog
, is the pigmy swine of Australia They
are exactly like their larger brethren
. In every particular except size, be-
ing not larger than q good-siEed house
rat
AT a church entertainment shortly
10 be given in Philadelphia the price Of
admission win be graded according u
the ages of those attending, each one
giving penny for every year of his OF
her life.
A WHITE tar has recently been In
vented. No climatic conditions will
render II soft, and II win probably
take the place Of pitch altogether In
caulking the decks Of ships.
KISo HunERr, OF Italy, Is an anna
teur cook as well as an expert fireman
IL Is said he can manipulate grill ant
manage kitchen range rs we'll as any
one In his chefs department
THOMAS u. Hunt, a Chicago saloon
keeper, Is looking for a man who 4
willing 10 sell the top portion Of hi
left ear. lie lost some Of his aural ap
pendage, and seeks live piece 10
graftlhg.