The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-11-12
INTERESTING ITEMS.

The albatross has been known TO fol-
low ship for two months without ever
being seen to alight
IT is claimed that the coal veins of
the south alone aresufficient to supply
the country with fuel for the next g.
900 years.
TIE unclaimed funds in keeping Of
the various British government de-
partments are enormous, amounting to
something like s43l, 900, 900.
CHICAGO will not be represented at
the convention to be held in St Louis
on December so for the purpose Of or.
ganizing a national building trades
council.
GREAT BRITA IN is in state of great
Indignation at what il calls the land.
grabbing policy of France in West
Africa, and both sides are INDUCING in
ugly talk.
GLASS is the most perfectly elastic
substance. A glass plate kept under
pressure in a bent condition for 2.
years will return to its exact original
FORM Steel comes next
COUNT BoSIFAcE DE CAsTEILASE,
Anna Gould's husband, is about to en-.
ter politics. lie is candidate for the
chamber of deputies from the depart
ment of the Basses Apes
KANGAROO tails for soup have been
sent to London from Australia A ship
ment of $500 weight was sold at the
rate of S. dozen tails In Australia
they are considered great delicacy.
A NEw HAVEN clergyman is 50 dead
in earnest against church fairs that he
has returned 500 of his salary, it be.
ing that portion Of it that he assumes
was contributed by church fair and
dance.
Miss ANALiA KUssSER, the famou,
young American miniature painter. has
finished painting the portrait Of the
prince Of Wales and has selected Rus
STA as the field for her work during the
coming winter.
To INDICATE that the contents have
been tempered with. or that 1t has been
reflled, n new bottle has a double
neck forming a chamber, in which Is
placed a paper or other material
which viii change color as soon as the
liquid touches it
ONE of the best weather prophets Il
the spider. II there happens 10 be a
web in the secluded corner of the
porch, watch it carefully for a few
days or weeks, and the spider will un-
failingly predict the coming of storms
When the spider sits still and dull in
the middle of its web rain is not far
of. II it be active, however, and con-
tinues 50 during a shower, then it will
be OF brief duration, and sunshine viii
follow
TIE United States treasury is re-
tanning all the United States coins re-
ccivcd in the ordinary course OF busi-
ness bearing the figure of Liberty seat
ed. These coins are sent 20 the mint
TO be melted up Over s., 200, OOj worth
in subsidiary coinage has been melted
and recoincd during the past year OF
course the new dies are used. This
is but drop in the bucket TO the
mass Of old silver which is still in cir
culation.
FLORIDA people have been writing tc
the United States fish commissioner
recently TO ask that something be done
in the way OF propagating alligator'
BY artihce. SO that the streams of thai
state may be repopulated with the
fast-disappearing saurianS II is esti
mated that 2,5Oo,0OO alligators have
been killed in florida since 1850, ant
ths warl, of reckless determination ha:
proceeded 80 far that the great lizards
are now TO be found in numbers scarce
anywhere outside Of the UNEMPLOYED
everglades. Alligators arr one OF the
notable attractions Of the state.
LFoN ]. KIgIS, Of Kansas City, pos
sesses coin which he says numismat
lists consider one OF the rarcst in exist
ence. II IS asa piece, and Is one q
seventeen in circulation. On one Side
OF the coin Is the head OF woman, ans
beneath this Is the date 1870.
Encircling the head are thirteen starr
representing thirteen original stateA
The government started To make thes'
81 gold pieces In 1870, but after 100 has
been given out the director Of thI
mint noticed that they rescmhlcd lhl
e. gold piece No much In alse that Il wa
decided 70 ea|l the entire issue In.