Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-06
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will make hard, coarse or rough Skin
soft.
LAND in the center OF London re
Gently sold at the rate of over Fl. 80,
900 per acre.
The Francis Scott Key mansion, il
Georgetown, ID. g., is soon TO be turned
into a hotel.
Mrs PARNEII, mother of the lrisl
agitator, has sold her property il
America for So, 900 and will liv,
ahroad.
some Of the tops with which the Chi
nese amuse themselves are as large n,
barrels. 1t takes three men to spin
one, and il gives ont a sound that
can be heard several hundred yard,
away.
MORE than loo, 900 pairs of shoes will
be saved by the changes in the British
army regulations. 10y which the sol
diers may wear their shoes until used
up, instead of having a new pair issued
at stated intervals.
THE Princess of Wales is an even
tempered woman, who ALWAYS looks
the same. She has no gray hairs. and
her complexion is still good; but there
Is certain sadness in her expression
that is ineNplainable.
THE investigation Of the disaster
which recently cost so many lives in a
coyl mine at Pitiston, Pa, reveals the
fact that the mine was unsafe and
known to be unsafe at the time il was
reported safe by the inspector.
LADIES in London and the south are
now decorating their bicycles with
flowers The idea really comes from
Italy, where the front part Of the little
victoriss on the Pincian or in the Sas
cine are crammed with gay blooms
A VENERABLE Wilson county, Kan
sas, veteran. who not only served all
through the war, but still staggers
along under burden of the name OF
Legrand Ferdinand Hortus Scortus
Marin, is restricted to a pension of 50 a
month.
"ANYoNE can discover the difference
between butter and oleomargarine, =
said an expert. If the article is put
in n frying pan and il IS not batter IL
will not become brown. neither will If
make the article that is fried in il as
brown as butter will do
THE new watch is to have a phono.
graph cylinder hidden away. and a,
the hour and at each quarter of an
hour tiny voice will be heard giving
you the exact time. You will simply
touch a spring, hold the watch to youl
s. ear, and the little fairy ON the inside
viii whisper the hour.
The emhlems of royalty of the queen
of Madagascar are slightly different
from those ofthe English queen. .s'hey
consist of three scarlet umbrellas
which are held over her ma jesty whe1
she sits in her palanquin of state
This palanquin was gift from tn,
late emperor of the French.
A BATH (Me.) young woman church
member who played cards from
o'clock until 10 one evening and died
the next morning, gave Rev. +. W.
OBrien the occasion to denounce card
playing and also to express the conclu
sion that the young woman, though in
the church, was not saved.
HANS SCHI.IEssMANN, the well-lnowr
dozen letters to artists and authors OF
his acquaintance, writing on the en-
velope only MIR, and then adding a
tiny sketch OF the person in question
and the destination OF the quarter OF
the town in which he lives.
SIeNoR MANUEL GARCIA, the teaehe
of Jenny Lind, Catharine Hayes anS
Nine. Marchesi, began his ninety
second year recently. Signor Garcii
is still hale and hearty and instruct
private pupils in London. His debu
in New York took place 20 years ago
He retired from the stage in ls29.
ALocK of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair
r cut when on the Bellerophon and sen
TO Mr.. Capel Loft by the count d
Milleraye, with a note, in 1916, brough
$50 at a sale of rare books and histor
ical relics, that included also a fin
illuminated book by Flemish artist
for which the new possessor PAL
s., 500.
PLUCKY Mrs Louise Cation, of Ian
sing, Mich, is an accomplished and in
dependent traveller. She has jus
started for Moscow, taking with her
lot of nine valuable trotting horse
belonging to her husband, a well-know
driver who is now in Russia Durin
the trip across the United States sh
had sleeping apartment in the stoc
car.
WITHIN the past few days permit
have been issued for the erection 1
Atlanta, Ga, of two immense ofiic
ii 4. 4
height, and to cost not less than half
million dollars each. Contracts for tn
erection of the buildings have been le
and work on them will begin at once.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FLETCHER WEBsE
JEWELL, who are among the bes
known Americans living in johannes
burg, have returned to that city, afte
svisit TO this country. As to woman
life in the rand, Mrs. Jewell saw
Take dress, for example, and 1 assur
you nobody in johannesburg need be
whit behind Paris or London"
PERHAPS the most expensive perfum
Is altar of roses, which costs 5000 pc
pound. The oil of jasmine is wort
$40 per podnd; that of ambergris s45
and musk $500 per pound.
A WOMAN who died recently used |
boast that she had not spoken to a ma
for over thirty years, and another wa
equally jubilant over the fact that 81
had lived IS years in one house withoJ
ever a man crossing the threshold. 81
probably the bitterest man-hater ,
modern times was an Austrian woman
who, at the time of her death, was el
gagged in developing plan for the ult
mate extinction of the whole male Sc,
IT needs $1,000 persons TO make
. crowd in st. Peters 1t is believe
hat at least that number have bee
present in the church several tim.
within modern memory, but It
thought that the building would hol
o,0o0-as many as could be seated O
he tiers in the colosseum. Such a co,
course was there at the opening of Il
Oecu menical council in Decembe
1859, and at the two jubilees celebrate
,y Leo Kill, and on all three occ
ions there was plenty of room in Il
isles, besides the broad spaces whie
we're required for the functions ther
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