Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-09
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lhlNbh nSlffloF IN bntarlo.
4 MAN catches molcs in Eldorado
(kas.l lawns AT - cents per mole.
IoHN MNETRoIF, of Webb City. Mo
blew his head of with stick of giant
powder.
lT is estimated that there are 10. OOC
chinese living in New York and ada
cent places
In is announced from Portland. Me,
that Speaker Reed will accept a rcnom.
instion for congress.
LINE a great many other men Of des-
tiny. both Mckinley and Hobart began
life as school-,cachers.
BELAsOo, who sued for SIS. 900 for
making an actress out of Mrs Carter,
has been awarded $4,000.
NN. II. PHEIrs. president of the Har.
ward Society of Natural History, has
left for Nenezula ON a scientific expedi-
tion.
MRs Ulysses s. GRANTS health is
81 much impaired that she has been
unable to correct the manuscript Of her
book.
PRESIDENT w. &. BALLANrINE. OF
Oberlin college, has resigned and his
resignation has been accepted by the
faculty.
LEANING too far out Of a trolley car
at Norristown, Pa, John Anderson
head was struck by pole and the skull
fractured.
BURLINGTON tNt.l woman who
jumped into the river with suicidal in
tent, was saved by the big sleeves on
her dress.
THE coffee bean plant is said to he
flourishing in southern Alabama. Il
Is said TO be a most excellent subSti-
tute for coffee.
JOHN e. SMITH, farmer living near
Sandy Lake, Pa, was attacked by a
vicious hog and 10 badly bitten that he
can not recover.
SENENTN-Two million pounds of wa
termelons is what the railroad and
fruit men estimate will be raised in
Florida this wear
In several European countries butter
is sold by the yard. The rolls are a
yard in length and are sold in sections
to suit purchasers.
coRoNER's jury in Maine reported
that deceased came 10 his death by
excessive drinking. producing apoplexv
In the minds Of the jury"
SEVERAL thousand toads OF minia-
ture size fell in Sharon, Pa, the other
day, with the rain. and the streets were
fairly covered with the hopping crea-
lures.
THE Y RAYS have shown that the
tibia and femur in Justice stephen J.
Fields knee have almost grown to-
gether and that the hinge has partially
Solidifcd.
A BRIDE in Montreal appeared at the
altar with her pet canary fastened to
her shoulder by a golden chain. Dur.
nag the marriage ceremony the bird
brok into song.
PRoyISCErowS (Mass.l waters we're
visited by school of white whales re-
Gently. They averaged about twenty
feet in length. and were of almost
milky whiteness.
JOHN +. PARSONS, of New York, the
sugar magnate, will give a school
house TO one of the suburbs OF New
York in the memory of his children
IL viii cost $4,000.
THERE was a Californian in 10, ia
tos, 25 years ago, who died and left the
income of $500 to buy candy for the
school children. The fund il still
faithfully administered.
Ian MACI.AREN sails for America on
September 10. DIR. Robertson Nicoll,
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs ]. VI.
Barrie, will also arrive in this country
about the end of September.
JACK TURNER, an octogenarian. who
has been married five times, and is the
father of forty-six children, was mar
ried few days ago at Jonesville, Va.
20 Nellie Van Bebber. aged H.
Miss MAY ABRAHAM, the new Eng
lish superintendent of factory inspect
ors, is a beautiful woman of the Sc.
metic type. She began her career a.
Lady Dillle's private secretary.
WHILE fircmen were fighting blaze
IN an electrical power building
In Chicago, the streams of water car
ried the current to the hose nozzles
and several men were severely
shocked.
lioN. F. A. PALMER OF New York
gave a Bible to each member of the
q sduating class of this year at An
tioch college, Yellow Springs, %. lie
also gave $50, 900 TO the college, the in
come of which is to he used TO found a
chair of Christian ethics
THE United States and Canadian
governments have entered into an
agreement whereby citizens from both
sides of the BORDER may enjoy equal
fishing rights in the 81. Lawrence
THE manuscript OF Gray's "Elegy"
remained in the authors hands seven
years receiving touches here and
there, and would not have been printed
then had not a copy loaned to a friend
been printed
AT Washington, Pa, q burglar OPEN
ed the safe in the law office of John III.
Mu rdock, securing only a small amount
ofchange. Before leaving he put every
thing in order about the safe and
turned on the combination again.
AT a wedding in New York the other
dsy the word 'obey" was by special re-
quest omitted from the ritual. The
old rules has been varied in this way
several times of late. Instead OF the
husband ordering and the wife obey
ing the bride orders and the preacher
obeys
DR. w. wALsHAN How, bishop OF
Wakefield, Eng, announced recently
that he had burned one of Thomas
Hardy's novels in order TO mark his
disapprovsl of it, and now numerous
good church people in his diocese are
reading the novel in question to see
how bad il is
QUEEN VICTORIA is to see herself in
bronz,. A heroic statue of III. r. NJ. is
to BE- placed at the junction of Queen
Victoria street and the Victoria EN-
bankment, Blaclfriars-one of the
busiest spots of the city of London.
The statue is the work of the iate-C. b.
Birch, the English scultor.
PRESIDENT KRUeER's metaphors are
as plain as his diplomacy. IF my lit
tie dogs are naughty" he said in reply
ing to the thanks of the released pris-
oners, II must whip them, but am al
ways sorry to do so. Next time
must get hold of the big dogs My
little dogs bark, but the big ones bite