Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-23
INTERESTING ITEMS.

THERE are now 10 horse carts used
in collecting the mail in Chicago
AFTER nearly fifty years service,
Prof. George j. Becker, of Girard col
lege, Philadelphia, is to be retired on
April 20 on a pension of s., 500 year.
EDWIN WHEELER has presented TO
the natural history department of the
British museum 2,449 water color
drawings from nature of various spe-
cies of fungi to be found in Great Brit
ain.
LEwIsTowN, Me-, has a woman cob
bier whois doing a flourishing bust
ness. She learned her trade in Canada,
and works thrifty away at her cob
bler's bench in the window of her little
store.
THOMAS W. HALL, who has Just died
in West Chester, Pa, at the age of l01
years, was never i'll day in his life
and died from a general breakdown on
account of old age. A brother 80 years
old and a sister o. years old survive
him.
A CARPET company in Worcester has
received from an Amsterdam CHolland)
house a generous order for Burmah
rugs The order 10 this instance is one
of the first for the Importation of
American made rugs and carpets to
Europe.
THE biggest drive ever known on that
river will be sent down the Ontonagon
this spring. There is over one hundred
and forty million feet on the head
waters, which must be brought down.
A crew of 400 men will be needed on
the drive.
In a recent article purporting to have
been written by i'd" Mccoy, the pugil-
list, made this startling statement:
When my salary grew large enough to
permit it | joined the Young Mems
Christian association and it was here
learned the manly art"
The duchess of Abercorn holds a rec
ord. Four great grandchildren were
born to her in one day recently. One
of her granddaughters had n son, an
other a daughter, and third twins
She was heard to remark that great
oaks from little Abercorns grow.
MAYOR A. C. HoUGHToN, of North
Adams, has presented to the city pub
lie library building worth sl35, 900, as a
memorial to his brother, the late A. j.
Houghton, of Boston. The property
given is the Blackington mansion. ~
AT Marshall. n. c., Lafayette Shell
ton, a boy 10 years old, was hauled to
the state line in an OK cart to be mar
ried. shelton is n deformed boy: can't
stand, sit, nor walk. He married a girl
named Mary Hall. She is deaf and
dumb and about thirty years old.
A MAsToDoN's skull, in a fine state of
preservation, was dug up at Buchanan,
Mich, near the Indiana boundary, a
few days ago. Ii measures two and
one-half feet in width and has four per-
feet teeth. The teeth measure about
four inches by six and one-half inches.
PROF. WILLIAM HENRY GREEN, of
Princeton theological seminary, cele-
brates his jubilee this spring, as he
started in to teach just so years ago,
when he was but 81 years old. He be-
came professor of theology when he
was % years old and has been hard at
work ever since.
A PORTABLE crematory for military
purposes has been invented by Polish
engineer. 1t has the appearance of the
army baking oven, but is much higher
and heavier, and is drawn by eight
horses. 1t is intended for the disposal
of the bodies of soldiers killed in bat
tie, SO as to avoid the danger of epidem-
les from the burials of great numbers
of men. Each German army corps, it
is said, will be equipped with one.
In the Chicago fire of 1871 over is, 900
buildings were destroyed, of which p
400 were stores, shops or factories, and
about 100000 people were rendered
homeless by the burning of their
houses. The district over which the
confiagration swept was three and
three-fourths miles in length by more
than a mile wide, covering the most
densely peopled portion of the city. 1t
is said that $50 lives were lost by acct
dents during the progress of the fire,
and the total value of the property de-
stroyed was estimated at So. O00, 600
The Boston fire of 1872 was the fourth
most destructive of history, SIS, 5000. 00O
EAST of Australia and north of New
Caledonia is the republic of France
Vile, an island with an area of about
eighty-five miles. Its inhabitants num-
Der $50, of whom 40 are white and $40
natives. 1t was once a colony of
France, but in 1879 1t was declared in
dependent, and its people at once
adopted republican constitution. 1t
is governed by president and coun-
ell of eight, elected by the people
black and white, men and women. On
ly white males hold Office. The presi-
dent elected recently is R. ID. Polk. a
native of Tennessee, and a relative of
James X. Polk, one of the presidents Of
our own republic