Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

only a small portion is organized.
TRE National Union of French Rail-
way Employees has a., 900 members.
LONDON shop assistants have asked
parliament to pass an early closing
law.
The ship ioiners at Mare Island. Cal
navy yard have received an advance of
wages
SIXTY cooperative shops were
opened in New York by the striking
tailors
IsnPENING Mich miners have been
cut to an average of ST.. per day; "A
korers sL2S.
The Adelaide. South Australia, cit.
corporation has increased its labore-s
wages to 81 GO per day, and gaugers {,
Sal2.
Miss CLEMESrIA DEL NALEsCo,
New York society belle and one of III,
wealthiest OF South American heir
esses, has taken the veil in the Domiui
can order.
THE Mississippi river around Nicks
burg is full of sharks. Some of then
are eight and ten feet long. They
come from the gulf and feed off REFUSE
and small catfish.
lT has been reported that the duke
and duchess OF Marlborough had pur.
chased Bath house from the executors
Of baron Hirsch, but the London World
emphatically dSSies the runor.
An English paper was recently
guilty OF the following beautiful bull
Looking back along the trackles.
pathways of the future, he deserted the
footsteps Of an invisible hand"
As result of the establishment o
creameries in Ireland one railway
alone has carried to Cork and Dublir
for export nearly thousand tons NOR,
butter during the past six months.
IT is reported that DR. Nausen TEN
porarily divorced his wife before start
ing for the pole, SO that she might no
TO inconvenienced by the difficulty
proving his death il he should not re
turn.
TmE Japanese have supplanted tn,
Chinese as grape pickers in the vine
yards of Fresno county, California
They have done il by accomplishing
better and quicker work for lowe
wages
DURING the last two years the boiler
makers expended less than 5000 70,
strike benefits and in ten of the prin
cipal strikes secured advances in wager
aggregating $50, 900 per annum to theiI
members
< ALI of the oollieries of the Lehixf
Valley Coal Co. have been ordered Il
work six days a week until further no
tice. This is the first time in year.
that the miners have had a chance t.
work full time.
PRoF. LANG, of Vienna, declares that
sponges, owing to the impossibility Of
destroying germs in them, have long
since been baD;shed from the surge
on's table, and should also be excluded
from the bathroom and washstand.
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, the young
Negro poet, who recently read selec.
tons from. his works at the Lvceum
theater, New York, has been for sew
ersl years the elevator boy in a publ i,
building in Dayton, O., and still re,
tains that place.
MRS ANNIE BARcKIEY, of Pitts
burgh, sued for $40, 900 for her hus-
bands affections, alienated by Mrs.
weigold, and the jury awarded her
$3.50. On the same day an Illinois girl
sued for $4,000 for q stolen kiss and
the Jurors gave her $3.50.
WHAT is looked upon as Q most i'm
portant discovery Is a solder for glass
This is composed of e5 parts of tin anu
five parts OF zinc. 1t has a beautiful
metallic luster. is not subject 10
change, adheres firmly to the glass
and melts at 200 degrees
The British Medical journal saw
that the paper used in many brands OF
cigarettes made in England contains
arsenic. When arsenic is inhaled in
small quantities IL causes a chronic
cough and other symptoms usually as
ISOLATED with consumption.
MRS ALExANDER, the popular novel
list, Is known in private life as Mrs.
Alexander Hector. Although ambi-
tious to become a novelist in early
girlhood, she abandoned her literar,
work on marrying Mr.. Hector. nor di1
rhe resume her pen until after his
Seath.
A DOCTOR in the highlands OF Scot
land, whose patients are scattered over
n wide district, takes carrier pigeons
with him on his rounds, and sends his
prescriptions by them to the apothe-
cary. He leaves pigeons, too, with
. distant families, to be let loose when
his services were needed.
JUSTICE as it is dispensed, officially
and otherwise, in Arizona had an H.
lustration the other day at Phoenix
when man who had thrashed a peep
Ing Tom went to Justice tombstone
and wanted to plead guilty, but was
told by the justice to go back home
and drub the offender again upon any
provocation-
The olds st love letter in the world is
IN the British museum. 1t is proposal
OF marriage for the hand of an Egyp-
tian princess and 1t was made $500
years ago 1t is In the form of an in
scribed brick, and is, therefore, not
only the oldest, but the most substan.
tial love letter in existence.
SCRANTON, Pa, has started a munich
pal labor bureau, where applicants for
employment and persons in need of
help may register their wants without
charge. All the work connected with
it is done by police officers already in
the pay of the municipality, and the
scheme does not cost anything.
vEsUvIUs is an interesting sight just
now. One stream of lava flowing down
from the center is 100 feet wide and
from seven 10 fourteen feet deep, while
100 other smaller streams are running
down the cave and q big column OF
black smoke rises into the sky.
NINE. CHRISTINE Nilsson has q charm.
ing house in Madrid, two rooms OF
which are decorated in a unique style.
The walls of her bedroom are papered
with leaves of music from the operas
in which she has sung and the dining
room is papered with the hotel bills
she has collected during her journeys
sr0und the ~orld.
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