Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-03-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
RoUNANIA is the highest taxed oun.
try in the world
JAMES WBIrcoMB RILEY announces
his retirement from the lecture plat.
firm
YvETrE GUIIBERT has given N cy-
cling because il causes her to hrgct
things.
The population of Newfoundland has
increased from 10000 in i7s6 to aG 900
in 1891.
Miss BRADDoN WAS at one tiur an
actress. playing small parts in the
provinces.
ALL the Western Union messenger
boys in Lexington are to be equipped
with bicycles.
and International exposition" held at
Omaha in ls9s.
The Chicago university Is making an
effort 70 secure Padcrcwski for its ON.
servatory of Music.
ALEXANDER FERGUsoS and his sister,
of Frankfort. Ind. are aged respective
~ lO3 and 100 years.
Mr.. UuI, the new ambassador to
Germany. pronounces his name as Il il
were spelled "Yuie.-
THE Lake Superior ice crop is now
excellent. Up to February I2 there had
not been an inch cut.
SwArsNe horses on the streets in
Kentucky is prohibited in a bill now
before the state legislature.
cory of Audubon's Birds OF Amer
lea" with hand-rainted plates, has
been sold in New srS for 81, 500.
BARNsToRNISo was gracefully recng-
nized in lloltoa, Kan, the other day,
when the '''1I"ra '.ouse" was sold for q
livery staio hsrn.
sNR. c 'ICERs, the African ex-
= Plorcr, .'li rGiiertake a new cNplora-
ton of -.lu,t.aud in the interests of
Wealthy Au1-ri,sns.
MAYoR SsviFr - chicago. IL. Is ar
ng for $50. 0nC sub .criptisn to
fray the Cos { ihe Southern States
, position In Al F; city.
KANSAS editor calls ever IAN who
year in advance colonel six
hs, major" three months, cap
the others "Mr"
NJ have had a church sluabble in
Ainthrop, Me-, and out of 1t there
sActually grown a glorious revival,
s.n 40 hopeful conversions
~ MAINE paid last year 81 .662 in boun-
ties for seals caught in the waters OF
the coast of the state The bounty lie
for the benefit of the fishermen.
The house in which Andrew Jack
son had his headquarters during the
period including the battle of New Or
leans was burned TO the ground the
other day.
VERONA Is a pretty old Maine town,
but IL never had a clergyman, n lawyer,
or a doctor living in its limits, and il Is
the only town in Maine that has no
post Office
JUsT now there Is no name more I'M
popular in the Isle OF Wight than that
cf the German emperor. The only
name that they give him there is ''Blus-
tering Bill
A POLISH woman, lo4 years old. who
saw the march Of Napoleon and his
army into Russia in 1872 and the tori
BILE retreat of the survivors, is living at
shamokin, Pa
GEORGE MEREDITH delights In the &C.
centricities of costume permitted to
genius, and on all possible occasions
revels in the luxury of a flannel shirt
and corduroys
A TELEPHONE has been placed In the
Norfolk tct) Congregational church,
and those who are unable to attend
church will be able to listen to the serv-
ices at their homes.
SIR JoHN Mu.LAIs' first picture was
purchased by Charles Reade, the Eng
'ish novelist Rusl<in said that it was
rot a failure, but fasco, and kicked q
sole in the picture.
THE Chicago common council commit
tee on schools has frowned on so-called
'.fads' and proposes to make q clean
$4,000. 600 cut in the running expense.
of the school system.
The Authors club of New York ha.
lost several prominent members by
death overwhelmingly, Prof. Boyesen
Col. Thomas E. Knox, Eugene Field
and Edgar Willis Nye.
psRovE of antique oak has been dis
wed In New Madrid county, Mis-
Heretofore this valuable ma
-Aas been produced almost exclu
EeSSivclyin northern Minnesota.
AT Grenoble, the seat Of the glove
trade In France, n statue has beer
erected to the memory of Xavier Jou
win, who established the trade tbers
and thereby enriched the town.
WHILE swinging in his fathers barn
1T Turner's Mills, near Bellefonte
Pa, Clevan Rossman, IL years old, slip
.~.l ID inc .x<xl.f ,x,f \.
trap loop, he was strangled to death.
PAX Yose KuI, Corean charge DAT
fairies at Washington, viii sail from
San Francisco for Seoul on March 5
He will return to this country with tn
king of Corea's second son, who is to b
educated here.
THE Russian railroads are all making
considerable progress t,wsr1 the sub
stitution of petroleum for coal an,
wood for locomotive fuel. Many loco
motives have already been sltered at
cost Of $3.50 per engine.
LARGE deposits of platiaum hxv
been discovered at Fitted in New
South Wales One bed of plstiniferou
lead ore Is q mile long and from 9
to 15o feet wide. The crude metal con
tains about seventy-five per cent o
platinum and sells ON the field for ii,
dollars an ounce.
STEPHEN SAULLsBURY, of Worcester
Mass. has given 500, 900 with which 4
build . museum of fine arts ID tina
city. His desire to save the handsom
Worcester common has induced him I,
make offers of several other sites 70
the city hall, which the authorizes in
tend 70 build on the common
A HUNTER in Bracken county Ken
tucl<y, cut down a tree to get sta pos
sum. and when the tree came down h
< found Il contained four 'possums, tw
Acoons, ave young squirrels, and sbout
hundred pounds of honey.
Tn king of Benin, on the we< Coz
Of Africa, believes in the efficacy o
human SACRIFICES When times aEt goo
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