The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1898-01-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

One million dollars is spent IN
New York every year for perfume.
Great Britain controls q out Of
every 100 square miles Of the
earth's surface.
One OF the magistrates In New
York has decided that bicycle is
necessity, not luxury.
Pitcairn island now contains 40
inhabitants, the descendants OF the
mutIneers oftLe Bounty.
An admission fee OF l2i cents 10
the Berlin parliament house yields
q yearly revenue Of $4,000.
John wannamaker, the great
millionaire merchant, Is perhaps
the heaviest advertiser in the
world.
Spiders. grasshoppers and all
sorts OF winged insects and grovel-
ing bugs are the popular designs in
jeveled pins.
The new mayor OF Greater New
York has made n rule that those
who come into his Office must take
OF their hats.
Mushrooms generally consist Of
30 per cent water, but the remain,
ing 10 per cent l. more nutritious
than bread.
Something unprecedented has
hsppened. A foreign nobleman
has married an American woman
who has no money.
Nearly 10000 tons OF eorks are
needed for the bottled beer and
aerated waters consumed annually
in Great Britain.
notwithstanding the closest es-
pionsgc the diamond mining com
panies Of South Africa lose, 1t is
said, E2OO,OOO a year by theft.
Western Kansas IL Overrun this
year with coyotes. Great numbers
OF sheep are reported TO have been
killed by the animsls
1 Only fye provinces in Spain
have paid up their debts to the
sehOol-teacher> The others owe
them no les than s,g65 600 pesetas.
Three packages 81 yellow fever
serum have been received from
South America for experiments in
the United States marine hospital
service.
or all the sovereigns in the world
the Shah Of Persia IL said 10 poe
se-s the largest treasure in jewels
and gold ornaments, IL being val
ued at fl5,OOO,OOO sterling.
| Mountain climbers frequently
fiod butterflies frozen on the snow
and 50 brittle that they break un-
less carefully handled. When thaw-
ed the butterflies recover and fly
away.
Jerry Stephens OF Nicholson, Pa.
killed a aseyeu-and-a-half-mOnths'-
old pig that tipped the scales at 33(
pounds, dressed. Mr.. Stephen:
claims that this beats the record.
In decision handed down in th'
L. :. court at Abingdon. Va, J udg,
! Paul holds that n state can no
collect taxes on property that Is il
the hands o: a receiver appointed
Dy a federal court.
Attorneys for DR. Cornelius Her
: have presented at the state depart
] ment an indemnify claim OF s, GOO
) OOOagaiust the French goyernmen
for the alleg, d ba-eless prosecution
! OF Herr, who Is an American eiti
{ zen, In the Panama canal case.
, New York is troubled because
; has not kept pace with other coAs
cities In the volume Of its expOI
trade In alarm some people j
New York speak Of this eOnditiO
a. n loss Of commerce, and GOyeT
, nor Black suggests an inquiry int
the causes.
A swOrd-fish weighing 2lOsO ID
: was lately brought TO the maIks
N at TAPPING, in the Straits Settl'
nj iments. Is was 80 feet long, and th
fiesh and bOnss Weighed so cattle
l. or l 100 pounds the fat I'D cattle
= the entraiIs 40, aud the sword ;
n eaities.
DIR. John Hall, the famous Ne
10 York divine who has just resigns
his pastOraie for % years servie
e was a well paid clergyman, and y
!. few men Of his eminenee in anOtI
d, er profession would have he'
u content with the $500 salary
IN received.
The city OF Riverside, Cal, mai
tains a suburban aud distributil
system on the electrical transmi
sion from Rsdlands, aud sells eli
tricity for light and power PurPS
es. The movement has proved
profitable that the sub-siatlOn is
be enlarged.
Mr.. Deshler Welsh, Of New Vol
X has seen 30 many good things
Cl. the newspapers, aud has eonsid'
ed "a Il such a pity that their ]
should be 50 ephemeral, that he