The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-05-31

four months and of the worker six
months
MATTHEW SEATTLE, an educated but
full-blooded Indian, of Washington,
will deliver n Fourth of July grafton
at Chicago.
For Journey of 200 miles or so,
sound reindeer can travel at the rate
of about twenty-five miles an hour on
good roads
A BUFFALO, escaping from the Wild
West show at Schenectady, N. Y, was
run down, jumped into the Erie canal
and was drowned
IT is stated as an interesting sociology
ical fact that in London out OF 100 wild
overs who marry again twelve marry
their housckeepers.
five cent heaving line the tug Magul
was wrecked Off Cape Flattery, Wash.
causing SOS, 900 loss.
THERE is a spring on Pecos river, In
San Miguel county, N. NJ, which
throws out stream fifteen feet wide
anu tnTte leol Octp.
J A MARRIAGE license has been issued
at Reading, Pa, to Peter Lsxter, aged
eighty-six years, and Mrs. Mary Gaul,
seventy-siX years Old
The natives of Sumatra have visit
ing card consisting of a piece Of wood
/ about a foot long, decorated with a
bunch of straw and knife
AT present all the planets are even
ing stars and they are all above the
horizon ut the hour Of sunset, though
OF course they are then invisible.
PHILADELPHIA organ grinders are
not slow. They hire little colored
girls to travel with them, and give APP
parently impromptu skirt dances.
A CHICAGO company has been organ
lied for the purpose of piping cold air
from house to house to take the place
of electric fans and refrigerators
RAIN while the sun is shining Is re-
ferred to in nearly every country In
the world by an expression equivalent
to 1.-THE devil is beating his wife.
EDWIN BURNE-JoNEs, the famous
British artist, is of Welsh extraction.
lie Is Rudyard Kipling's uncle. Burne-
Jones is almost entirely self-taught.
opALs from the White Cliffs fields In
New South Wales sell as high as 1925
an ounce The best are red or red in
combination with blue, yellow and
green.
Mr.. LABoUCHERR never attempts any
flights OF eloquence when addressing
the house of commons. He considers
that friendly, colloquial style is more
effective.
JuDGE A, n, WATERMAN, of Chicago
said recently that In reference TO the
industrial problem Japan is greatly In
advance of America and the countries
of Europe
CHRISTIAN MAY committed suicid,
at Hazelton, Pa, by hanging himself
, from the monument over his wife,
grave. He was seventy-three year
old.
HEREAFTER February IL will be
public holiday in New York state. Oh
February l2, 1909, Abraham Lincoln
was born in La Rue county, Kentucky
His birthday is legal holiday In Hi
nois
The improved Industrial Dwelling
Co., of London, accommodates 1000
persons In It's houses. II is claimc'
that It's system has reduced the tene
ment death rate from forty to onl'
eleven In thousand.
BEmLN's Imperial library Is for tn
first time to have catalogue Of II
books. II win DO modelled on that o
the British museum, and will cost SIS,
900.
BLINDNESS is ON the increase In III
United States Forty years ago bu
four In ten thousand were blind, blu
now the ratio has increased 100 pc
cent.
1T reported that Walter Camp, th
famous football coach has withdraw
from the sport His reason for qulI
ting IA that he Is disgusted with III
continued warfare between Yale an
! Harvard over iopthali.