Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

RATS and mice are generally very ac-
tive aud noisy just before a storm.
THE only gem in the world which
can not be counterfeited is the opal
THE full seating capacity of all the
London theaters combined is soO. 600
1T is said that of all instruments the
violin requires the most delicate ear tn
pas.
A HUNNING bird a little larger thar.
house fly is common in the East
Indies
THE Vatican is the coolest palace in
Rome, because of its immense size
l, 100 rooms
SOUNDS can be heard distinctly
twice the distance on water that they
Fan on land.
MICRosCoPIsrs say that the strongest
microscopes do not reveal the lowest
stages of animal life.
Is making champagne the grapes are
squeezed six times. each pressure max
ing wine of different quality.
DIS MONIES council will inaugurate
publis works for the unemployed and
change the force every two weeks.
mated at 81. OOO. 900, has the reputation
Of being the richest actor in the world
FLORIDA has adopted a constitutional
amendment changing the date of the
state election from October 10 Novcm-
her
MAN is the only animal whose nos
trils open downward. Even in the
. ha
front
The latest suggestion made in the
columns Of a London paper is that
married men should wear wedding
rings
A sNaSE of an unknown species
meR sUTiur 10 feet and 6 inches in
= lengrH, vas recently killed at Gerwin.
Ont r
Ia naounced that Miss ANY
Craw ari eacoek, of Reading, Pa. is
enga.ru Baron Won Knesebecl, OF
the l.r.,uta regiment of I'hlans
AGO. BORN on the high seas is by
nativity a citizen or subject o. that ma
tion whose flag covers the ship on
which he is born. This is international
law.
THE Gaekwar Of Baroda possesses
the most costly sword in the world
The hilt is so set with precious stones
that the weapon is worth at least
sSa0.OOO
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE RUSSELL sad
in a speech on his recent visit to Moa-
treal that the average English Judge
makes great sacrifice in income in
taking the bench.
- ArEs made Of gold are popular ia
teter sharg. One lady had the blades
~ her skates enriched with diamonds.
Skates set with pearls aud precious
stones have also been in fashion.
IHs sum expended by the queen in
the form of bounties TO those mothers
~ the nited Kingdom who have given
n-rth to triplets amounts to the large
su-l Of $4,000 during her 60 years
ncign.
CHEMIST recommends that every
i.io bat carried by ships should be
PROVIDED with bottle OF citric acid.
which lrecipitates chloride of sodium,
SUD -o- 'erts sea water into palata bic
drins
w.'rre green snow Is found. One of
these places is near Mt Hecla, Iceland:
another IL miles east Of the mouth OF
the OBJ; and the third near Qaito.
South America.
ALTHOUGH much is heard concerning
Lady Henry Somerset, little or MOTH
iag is heard of her husband. Such al
person does exist, however, and he
sometimes is seen at la Scala in Milan.
He resides mostly in Italy.
As a child, King Umberto. of Italy.
was extremely fragile and as a youth
he WAS very delicate. When he grew
older, however, his constitution i'm
proved. and now he almost equals his
late father, Victor Emanuel, in robust
ness.
GOOD test of a mans symmetry NAV
he made il he stands with his face to
the wall The chest of a perfectly
formed man will touch the wall, his
nose will be four inches away. his
thighs Eve and the tips OF his toes
three.
recently made some satisfactory ex-
periments with an electric motor with
a view 10 doing away with all steam
locomotives. The new device requires
no trolleys and no overhead or tunnel
wires.
BARRIERS in the early days of the
Christian era were not permitted TO
talk while shaving n patron. Indeed,
silence was SO much appreciated by
persons while under the BARRIERS hands
that mutes were preferred for this
service.
REV. Asa RoUTH, OF Sullivan county,
who is one of the oldest ministers in
East Tennessee, has, since he was or
dained. witnessed 5000 conversions,
baptized 5000 persons, married BOO
couples and preached more than 500
Inen4or al sermons
MR. GLADsroNE's maid n speech in
. the aonse Of commons was an unmis-
taxable failure He spoke SO low that
even those nearest TO him failed to
catch the drift of his words, and later
on he had to rise on "a point of ex-
PLANTATION" at the request of a speaker
who had complained of the want of
clesrness OF the honorable menber for
Newark.
The largest hornets nest that has
ever been taken unchanged was more
than a yard in circumference, and one
foot four inches in length. II was
found suspended from the roof of
house on the earl of Clarendon's estate,
and weighed barely three pounds Ii
was said to contain $50 insects
An ordinary man can say everything
that any occasion calls for with
vocabulary of 1000 words. OF these,
he only uses 400 or 500, using the re-
mainder when an idea out OF the usual
line of thought occurs to him Most of
M, being only ordinary men. seldom
draw upon the surplus of 500 words.
JOEL II. PALMER, the Oldest living
locomotive engineer in the state, has
resigned, after having been employed
by the Boston and Albany Railroad
company for as consecutive years MIR.
Palmer is now almost helpless
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