The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-12-31
INTERESTING ITEMS.

SwINBURSE, who writes very little,
makes s., 900 year by his poems
DURING the most violent gales waves
are not more than forty-hve feet high
The new biscuit trust will have q
capital Of $4,000, 900 and will DO co
operative.
The highest point TO which man
can ascend without health being seri-
ously affected is 10, 500 feet
TIE total number Of electric lights,
both are and incandescent, in New
York city is estimated TO be 1,O43, 46s.
MosT of the shoes worn in Japan are
made of straw or wood In the entire
country there Is but one factory where
leather shoes are made.
IT is proposed, should Pittsburgh
get the Grand Army encampment in
1900, 10 unyail soldiers monument
to cost in the neighborhood Of $780,
900.
DURING the influenza scare eucalyp-
tus oil came into such demand that
over 20, go pounds were sent TO Eng
land from California The tree has
been planted in immense quantities in
that state.
SPIDERS arc tangling up the Japanese
telegraph lines They start their webs
on the wires, and are so numerous as
to cause serious loss Of insulation.
Sweeping the webs of does little good,
as the spiders begin all over again.
ST. GEORGES church In Berlin Is to
be lighted with electricity and an or
gan-blowing mechanism is 70 be actu-
ated by two and half horsepower
motor. A motor Of ten horsepower Is
also to be laid down for ringing the
bells.
THE German army has 4 swimming
school for troops, where every one
must learn to swim The best swim
mers are able TO cross . stream OF sew
eral hundred yards width, even when
carrying their clothing, rife and am
munition.
THE Oldest and biggest oak tree In
France is at lArdeche. II measures
over 100 feet in circumference at is
base; nine feet above the ground,
where the first branches grow, It Il
about 40 feet in diameter. Its height
is about 80 feet
In France there Is peculiar custom
which requires both parties 10 civil
suits at law to pay visit Of ceremony
at the residence Of the Judge befor'
whom their case Is to be tried. II Il
necessary for them 10 call in persor
and at least leave cards II he Is al
home he receives them. but II IL not
considered good form TO discuss the
matter in litigation,
DR. HAssE, a noted PrussiAn derma
tologist, announces q new treatment
and cure OF cancer. In Virchow'i
archives OF medicine he reports tina
he injects alcohol about the cameron
growth. His experience he thinks, en-
courages him 10 assume that his ex
periments bid fair TO promise perfec
cure and exemption from reaPpeaI
ance Of the dread disease.
ONE OF the latest "anti-societies" 4
one for the abolition of the hip poke
In the future and sewing up all thos
now existing. The ultra faddist won
en-, who are interested In this NOV,
ment, claim that this will lessen In
ebriety and homicide and think tina
the public, the press and the men VIII
make and enforce the laws should b
stirred up TO n sense OF their respons
bility,
A hill TO change the alphabetical
designated streets In Washington
names beginning with the letter b
which they are now known has bee
introduced In congress- There are
public thoroughiares designated b
letters Of the alphabet, from A TO W
tho letter only not counting. Tho'
that come after w are not used. III
proposed change Is from le,ters
prominent American statesmen, hist
rians writer's and others idenths
witlfthe history Of the country