Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-06
INTERESTING ITEMS.

| ACCORDING to the latest annual re-
! turns there are three re 'ormatorv shi1a
/ in great Britain, namely. the Cornwall.
stationed ut Purilert. in Essex. ccrti-
! fed for $50 Toys: the Akbar, for aOl
/ boys. stationed at Rock Ferry, Liver
pool, and the Clarence. for 800 boys
| CRoman Catholic, stationed ut New
Ferry, Birkcnhead.
Is THERE any living writer of tn,
name of O!chewitz? The majority of
people would say no. This. however,
is the real name of Jules Verne, who
I is, in truth, a native of Warsaw. JULES
1 the greater portion of his time on
board his yacht. doing most of his
writing while at sea,
ONE of the largest sailing vessels
afloat recently arrived in New York
from Calcutta. She reported having
cIucht shark off 1T. Helena whicI
was found to contain a COPY of the
! London Times. This paper is supposed
to have been thrown overheard from Il
| Cape mail steamer, and was, strange
to state, in readable condition when
brought to light.
WATER Is called hard and soft"
according to the amount of linn, and
magnesium salts it contains. Ii not
more than six grains per gallon, or, in
other words, six degrees of hardness,
it is called soft. IL it contains more il
is called hard: and il the salt is car
Donate of lime it is called temporary
. L Al.
posted by boiling; but if it consists of
salts of magnesium, it is called pcrma-
nent hardness, because boiling does
not remove it.
1T is unquestionably true that the
average stay-at-homc citizen of the east
has entirely failed to measure the
muscle of the west, or. better yet, the
muscle of the country. We have all
been recently amused by Mr.. Depew's
discovery" of California. After long
life of activity, with countless trips to
Europe and elsewhere, it is only within
the last three or four years that he has
penetrated further west than Chicago,
and only this year that he has ventured
beyond Denver, which is itself but n
trifie further than half way across the
continent. Mr.. Depew is an example
of large class.
The London England chamber of
commerce adopted the following reso-
buttons on the question of arbit ration
in financial disputes: That in the
opinion of this congress the present
gigantic expenditure on military prep
arations imposes an intolerable burden
on national revenues and an immense
! addition to human labor. That the
settlement of international differences
by force of arms is barbarous and un-
worthy of civilized nations, and that
, differences or disputes arising between
different governments, which can not
be adjusted by diplomatic agency,
should, as far as possible, be referred
to arbitration"
IT is fact not generally known that
statesmen and clerks who have learned
their business with John Wanamaker,
in Philadelphia, have no difficulty in
obtaining positions elsewhere. Mr..
| Wanamaker keeps a man, part of whose
work is to instruct the new people in
their duties and to see that they per-
form them properly. They are first
! taught how to keep a sale schedule,
then how to talk business to- Il Gus
toner, the best ways of caring for
stock and so on. Unless a beginner
shows aptitude for business he never
gets beyond his probationary period
The efficient ones, when they find their
way blocked to preferment by old, true
and tried seniors, go to other cities.
where they are eagerly snapped up by
good, live firms.