The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1898-02-18
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A "trlee" /. the si1tieth part of a

iron n0rsosnOes nave Deen iOund
back to the year ISl.
Birmingham, England, turns out
tive tons Of harpins every week.
Shipments Of oranges from South
ern CaIIfornla eastward now aver
age s, 100000 daily.
Bank OF England notes are Eum-
bered backward-that Is from to
10000, hence the figures 0O,00l.
1The One-eyed pIowboy of Pig
cons Roost" Is what they call Col.
Chandler, candidate for Governor
Of Georgia.
In almost every school OF the
Empire II is the custom,
one day in the autumn, TO take the
pupils out rabbit hunting.
A celebrated physician divides
fruit into FIVE classes, each possess
lnga special curative value-the
seid, the sweet, the astringent, the
oily and the mealy.
A bogus doctors diploma was
lately exposed in France through
the X-rays; for when exposed to the
CroOkes tube the outlines OF pre-
vious name were disclosed.
When old coins are 50 worn that
IL !, hard to make out the inscriP-
Iion, the coin may be gradually
heated, and In almost all cases the
inscription viii appear.
Scarlet flowers are said to stand
drouth better than any other.
Antipodes Island, near New Zea-
land. was thus named because dl.
rsctly opposite London.
Acetylene is now used for light
ing Psns omnibusss. generator
and carbide Weighing about thirty
pounds.
The best fly destroyer In the
world is a common or garden wasp.
An expert says that he has known
one wasp to kill = thousand flies in
a day.
Since the discovery that Mexican
land is IS suitable as that In Bra
I'll for growing the rubber tree, the
price has advanced from IS cents
10 y 30 per acre.
There is no Jury room in the
Court House q 0'esn county, Ok
lahoma, and iuriOs are left to con-
sldsr vsrdicI In an open hSld.
They cell 10 "pasturlng the jury
Stealing telephone service 10 8
new form OF mlsdemeanor in Lon
don, elassed by the Croydon police
a. petty larceny, and
punished by him with . flne Of 5
The standing army Of the United
consists Of 1905 enlisted
usn snd ALAS officers. Oflhs en-
listed mss. IOe compose tho hos
pi,sl corps; Of the otncers. 1871 are
Of the line, and SSi, general and
staG.
At recent lecture delivered In
NuhlhausOn, Germany, . mission
AIRY named Eiehler read extracts
from 8 chinese book Of Ihe eleventh
which preeeuts some sirik-
Ing resemblance to Dsnts's "Inter-
no.
The amount Of capital Invested
in The manufacture Of bicycle tires
In the United States is estimated
by an exchange at $500, 900. the
number Of persons enploysd 1900
and the number OF iires produced
annually at l.0Oo. 30.
The fret clock, in our ssnse oiths
word, seems to have been (fOr II Is
not known what clocks they were
which, in SI3. the VeniiiAns In
vented, Of which they sent = specl-
men to Constahtiuopls) one made
In 1874 for Charles V, OF France.
Grant Tomb. at Riverside, n. Y,
is being supplied with gas heaters,
partly becanse heat Is needed for
the proper preservation Ofths msr-
BILE Of which It Is built, and Psrtly
for the comfort OF the guards aud
earetakers who are on duty in the
tomb.
~To run amuckr Is properly to
run amOk. Formerly in India, ST.
am and other eastern countries.
Malay men driven mad by opium,
hasheesh or other drugs, would run
about tran,ically, sword In hand.
striking at any one they might
happen 10 meet, snderying, ~AmOk,
amokH-kill, kin.
James Hedderwick, LIa H., who
died recently At tGlasoOw, establish.
cd the Citizen Ia that city In lSts,
aud the Evsaing Citizen In 1854,
IL was II the eolauns Of the nrsl
that ,he pOsms Of Alexander Smith
aad later the sarllest efforts In
verse Of David Gray, arss appeared
aad n the GtlNa wnllan nlach
made HE debut - . writer