The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-03-29
is a translation of Kingsley's West

is translation of Kingsley's West
ward Ho!"
ABOUT Easter a London publisher
will bring out Henry NJ. Stanley's book
entitled my Early Travels and Ad-
ventures"
Two MEN have been sentenced to life
imprisonment at Pembina, N. D., for
stealing three dollars from man on
the highway.
HIS inability to eat a night lunch in
less than an hour and half resulted
in the dismissal of Policeman Yelch,
Of Reading, Pa.
ACCORDING to Whitaker's Alma
nacks the population Of Liverpool ID
5l7,9sO, of Manchester 5l5,99s, and of
Glasgow 677, $685.
An expert oculist has been appointed |
to test the eyesight of all conductors,
engineers and brakemen on the Cana.
dian Pacific lines.
A NEW YORK woman who sells news |
papers on the streets is reputed to have
made $4,000 out of her calling in the
last twenty years.
THE coroners' inquests of London
show eighty deaths a year from hunger,
without counting persons who commit
suicide in extreme want
NEXT year will witness the four
teenth centenary of the conversion of
/ France to Christianity. The event is
to be celebrated at Rheims.
THE industrial situation in the
Wheeling w. Va) iron district is i'm
proved. More men are employed now
than have been for months.
CALIFORNIA has splendid orange
crop this year, and abundant rains
through the winter season insures
grand fruit crops OF all kinds
THE British museum possesses a col
lection of old Greek advertisements
printed on leaden plates, which shows
that the practice is very ancient.
CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE, the art
ist, has been awarded the gold medal
Of the Midwinter fair, San Francisco,
!, for his paintings in the recent exhfbi.
tion.
al IN lilC III AObONN Naot Va AAFN RhA1A
antiquities, in the museum of the New
York Historical society, is preserved
the iron helmet of Shishak, who took
Jerusalem from Rehoboam 900 years
BIC
So MUCH has the art of dressing and
= dyeing feathers been developed that
- numbers of the seemingly rare feather
boas worn have simply been made
:, from the plumage of the ordinary
- fowl.
PRINCE BISMARCK recently said to I
~ visitor that he had only one seriou:
y complaint to make against old age, ,anC
that was that he had been obliged o
~ late to abstain almost entirely from TO
- baeco
A NUMBER of families from Chippewl
m and Eau Claire counties, Wis, hav'
CO selected site and are to establish
s. colony about 100 miles from New Or
leans.
az GLASS is the most perfectly elasti
" substance in existence. A glass plat
kept under pressure in a bent cond
= tion for fve-and-twenty years will r,
turn to its exact original form. SteS
. comes next.
. THE car believes in the higher edl
cation Of women, and has ordered tn
reopening OF the Woman's Institute ,
Medicine at St Petersburg, which WI
closed by order Of the governmei
some years ago.
WHEN portion of the brain is +
moved II seems TO be renewed, b,
whether the substance Is true bra
tissue or not appears'to be undete
mined.
THE estate Of Edwin Booth, bY ear
fal management ON the part Of the 8
ecutors,. has been considerably
creased, and now stands inventoried
SO7an
TnoMAs JeFFEnsoS, Il Is said, spol
like professor lecturing TO his clal
He used few gestures, and always q
-. iivcrod his speeches IN moderate tol
mn of voice, with little appearance Of
leTeSt or eplhunlasm.