The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1898-01-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
In Greenland potatoes never
grow larger than marbles.

4 Tho latest edition Of q Berlin
comic paper has been confiscated
for publishing a cartoon which Of
tends the emperor.
Under the new charter OF Great.
or New York no municipal fran
chise can bO grained for u longer
period than 25 years.
The elephant can neither trot,
cantsr nor gallop. ItS only pace il
walk. capable OF being hastened
TO fast shuflls.
The largest collection OF coins In
the world Is in Vienna. They are
placed In the public cabinet Of an
tiquilios, aud number over $4,000.
Taking iS pronounced by doctors
10 be- healthtul occupatlon-good
for heart disease, and TO somc ex-
tent substitute Cor bodily exer-
clsO.
The latest and most appropriate
um brella has n duck handle-sig-
nincant OF the fact that the water
will run OF the umbrells, which Is
It's back.
Skinned milk II now turned In
TO champagne by an electric pro-
cess, and the beverage ls clear,
bsady and delicious In flavor,
though non-alcohollc.
While smoking, Zack Cameron,
OF White county, Tenn, stumbled
aud fell on his face. The pipe
stem was driven through his neck
and no dled in fsw hours. Nor
al: Quit smoking.
In the Brltish museum thors are
books written on bricks, oyster
shells, bones aud lat stones, and
manuscripts on bark, ivory, leath-
or, iron, copper and wood.
London has 1900 policemen,
Paris has G,0OO and New York B.
500. Tho ordinary arrests In New
York In . year arc 5000, In Paris
10000 and in London 10000.
suecI. who recently completed
hls siNty-fOurth public fast In
Rome, has abstained from food In
his performance for 400 days Of
his llfo-noarly seven years.
The largest tortoise living Is said
to be the one lately acquired by the
Royal Geological society. II iS 4
feet I inches long, 2 feet 10 Inches
broad aud weighs about 600 pounds.
France consumes every year L.
$4,000, 900 gallons Of wine, beer,
cider and alcohol, OF which 96T 900
OOO gallons are wine, S95, 900, goo cl-
der, sO2, ,6OO,O 900 beer aud 36,SOO,OOO
alcohol.
In Antwerp alone nearly 1900
horses were slaughtered last year
for human consumption. The
number OF shops dealing exclusive
ly In horssflesh in the Belgian ports
exceeds 30.
As one testimony 10 the rapid
growth oi Palestine's population,
IL Is stated on good authority that
while ten years ago there were
nearly 1900 residents In Jaffa, to-
day there are nearly 5000.
Rev. DIR. Clement c. Moore, the
author OF ~The Night Before Christ
mas" wrote his famous pOom as q
Christmas present to his children
IN 1922, when he was Al years old.
IL was first printed In tho Troy
Sentinel In tho following year.
The combined natives OF Great
Britain and Japan amount to near
ly 800 ships war, most OF them ar
mored vessels Of the new type,
while against this gigantic naval
force Russia can only bring = fleet
OF 200 torpedo boats and war ships
all told.
How many historical students
have observed that Denmark's
kings for 3S4 years. have all been
named Christian or Frederick
This is not the result of accident
The present King is Christian TX
He will be succeeded by Frederick
VIII, who In turn win be succeed
ed by Christian y.
A coastlnR steamer was wrecked
near Sydney, Thecaptain tied life
lines to some pigs which formed I
part OF the cargo. These, on beini
thrown overheard. quickly swan
ashore, taking the lines with them
Communication being thus estab
llshed every person on board wa
rescued.
Some Of the wooden churches o
Norway are fully 100 years old, an'
are stlll In excellent state Of preser
walton. Their timbers have sue
csssiully resisted the frosty ant
arctic winters because they hav
boen repeatedly coated with ,a'
Norway pine thus treated seems ;
rssist decay,
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