Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-01
INTERESTING ITEMS.

OVER 5000, 900 worth of counterfeit
Italian notes have been unearthed in
Naples.
THE Bank of England contains sill
yer ingots which have lain in its vaults
since 1896.
NEARLY e1,OO0,O 900 worth of patent
medicines are exported from the United
Kingdom each year.
The Forth bridge is capable of sus-
tanning the weight of two ironclads
slung from the center.
EVERY person over five years of age
in Storbcch, Austria, is n chess player.
The game is taught in the schools.
ACCORDING to the official returns the
output of the coal in the United King
dom during 1855 was lS9, $50, 552 tons,
being an increase on the output in 1894
of a million and a quarter tons.
The late Sir John Millais' income
ranged as high as 500, 900 in his best
years, and from an early date in his
career his terms for portraits exceeded
those charged by Sir Joshua Reynolds
The railway clearing house is one of
the largest offices in Britain. 1t has n
staff of 800 clerks and $50 outdoor Of
ficers. The secretaryship is a much-
coveted post, the salary being 81, 500 a
year.
In England more than 10000, 900 oil
lamps are used nightly. Lamp acct
dents cause about three hundred
deaths annually in London alone, I65
fires a year having been traced to
them
TIE cycling schools of London have
lately become SO crowded that the
prices of lessons have increased. One
firm raised its charges to Sl.75 per
hour, or one guinea a course, owing to
the rush of the pupils.
PERHAPS the most curious fire insur-
ance claim was made by an English
lady who considered herself entitled to
the sum of half guinea, the value of
a plum pudding and a saucepan that
had been burnt in her kitchen. The
accident had resulted from the omis-
sion of the cook to put any water in
the saucepan.
Arc JOSH, one of Menelek's secreta-
ries, has arrived at st. Petersburg b
euts from the negus to the czar, in
Guiding ivory, leopard and tiger skins,
an elephant and various weapons of
war, adorned with precious stones,
among them, it is averred, the shields
and sword which Menelelx himself bore
at the battle of Adowa.
PARIS has countless monuments
many in memory of blameless medioc-
rites, both French and foreign, but
the next to ornament the city will be a
bronze statue of our own great Wash
ington. The ladies' of the American
colony who collected the funds are
elated over the fact that Mr.. Daniel
French, of New York, is expected to
arrive for the purpose of inspecting
the proposed site before beginning
work upon the statue. The place
chosen is the intersection of the Fan
bourg st. Honore and the boulevard
Haussmann. Upon the latter Shakes.
peare has been in position many years.
In one of the school districts in Lon.
don too many people reported no chill
dren in their families, and in order to
ascertain the real number of children
in the district the school officers re-
sorted to an ingenious measure. Two
monkeys were gayly dressed, put in q
wagon and accompanied by brass
>and, were carried through the streets
c. this district. At once crowds of
CHI. iren made their appearance. The
procession was stopped In park and
the school officers began their work;
distributing sweets to the youngsters
they took their names and addresses.
They found out that over 60 parents
kept their children from school.