Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-29
INTERESTING ITEMS.

SECRETARY OF WAR LAMONT's annual
estimate of appropriations places the
total next year at So, SIS, 63s.
SOMETIMES in the course of a year sc
many as 400 bodies are taken out of the
Nile, from which the Egyptians obtain
their water supply.
Mn FERGUSON, the Boston kite-flyer,
has broken all records by flying a kite
1855 feet above the earth and keeping
it more than a mile high for three
hours.
MILLIONS of men in India live, mar.
ry and rear apparently healthy chill.
dren upon an income which, even
when the wife works, is rarely above
so cents week and sometimes it falls
below that.
In the Bowery auction shop OF J. a
Weinberger is Bible printed in Span
ish at Madrid in 1896. The pub
lishers name is in Hebrew, though
both Old and New Testaments are in
the volume.
THE largest mirror ever brought to
America has been placed in the dining
room in the wing of the Hotel Savoy of
New York city. 1t occupies the entire
of the room, being IL feet high and 1873
feet long. Several attempts had to be
made by the manufacturers to produce
n glass of this size without flaws
ONE of the most beautiful homes in
London is that of Alma Tadema. From
descriptions it is veritable fairy tale
realization and lighted with really
Aladdin lamps. Each room is furnish
cd in exquisite design and coloring,
and the drawing room is considered
the most perfect in workmanship in
the world. 1t is built in Gothic style,
with the arch above, set in various
shades of yellow glass. through which
the light flickers in subdued radiance,
likened unto the moons mellow rays.
The LeBoutillier family, of Cincin.
natl, have some of the rarest heirlooms
from their distinguished ancestors.
Among others may be mentioned a
tankard of beaten silver, which is over
800 years old. 1t is appropriately in
scribed and stands ten inches high.
Another object of value owned by this
family is n tortoise shell snuff-box, or
namented with silver medallion por-
was presented by Charles III. 1t is al
so adorned with the family crest, with
hand holding an oak branch.
The natural bridge of Virginia has
always been regarded as great Won
der, and justly so. but there is n far
greater one in Idaho near the Bay
Horse mine, which is known to very
few people, and they have never paid
any attention to it, except to make
some exclamation of wonder when
they first saw it. There is a tunnel
through a granite mountain. The
tunnel is a little over a mile long, is
wide enough for a double track rail-
road to pass through and is straight.
The walls are nearly as even as they
would have been had it been blasted
through by men.
WHEN Geo. Peabody gave $4,000, 900
into the hands of a board of trustees
to be used for educational purposes in
the southern states he stipulated that
at the end of 80 years the fund should
be divided if the board thought it ex-
pedient to do so. That so years will
expire on the 9TH of next February.
Al a meeting of the board recently
held in New York, at which Hon. VIM.
NJ. Evarts, the only original member
surviving, presided, it was decided to
keep the fund intact and continue dis
tributing its income in the future as
had been done in the past.
KING OTTo, of Bavaria. is incurably
mad, being afflicted with that form OF
insanity called ''mathesis," and which,
like that ascribed in Biblical history &c
Nebucha6nezzar, takes the form of the
victim imagining himself to be either
bird or an animal. Otbe. royal luna.
tics are the Archduchess Macmillan
of Austria, better known as the ex
Empress Charlotte, Ct Mexico; Emper
or Williams r1ather-irl-law, the dowa
ger duchess OF Schle wig H olstein- Az
gustenburg. ara the Archduke Leopold
OF Austria. The reigning prince o;
Lippe is likeY sc mailman and unde
restraint, as Is also ex-5Gifan Murad.