Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-17
CURRENT TOPICS.

On the average, four out of every six
men use tobacco.
Ii HUNG CHANG says lac is going To
write book about us
STATE employment bureau is to be
established at baltimore
MAINE textile workers want a law
fixing a weeks work at 81 hours
MISSISSIPPI planters are short on cot
ton Pickers- The Negroes refuse to
work.
OVER Is, 900 men are now working
nearly 800 mines in "a counties in Cal
ifornia.
DENMARK allows every subject, male
or female, who is 60 years of age, a
small pension.
Los ANGELES brickmakers will or
ganize and will attempt To have Chi
nese workmen discharged.
DR. DEFEw made AZ speeches in one
day on a special train with MIR. Blaine
in 1854 They were of great variety.
JAPAN now ranks fifth in population
among the nations of the earth, only
China, India, Russia and Germany be-
ing ahead il.
TUE queen of Portugal has taken
Roentgen photographs of the waists of
her court ladies to demonstrate the
evils of tight lacing.
QUEEN VICTORIA approves of wom-
ems clubs, and to one of these in Lon
don, the Green Park club, has sent her
portrait and autograph.
liz is said that the gold bracelet sent
60 I,rir a -, 4. a.
notice taken by pope of an English
wedding in several centuries
Miss MARIE CoREIII is entertaining
a party of lady grouse shooters at
killiecrankie, Perthshire, Scotland
They are all said to be having good
sport"
HUNDREDS of cokcworkers are leav-
ing the Connellsville, Pa. region for
the West Virginia fields, where work
Is said TO be more plentiful and wages
better.
The new Louisiana law which pro-
hibits the wearing of high hats in the
aters was enforced for the first time
at the St Charles theater, in New Or
leans, the other day.
In has been suggested that as a me-
mortal to Harriet BeGher Stowe. ma
tional institute and hospital as train
ing school for colored nurses shall lie
erected in Washington.
The longest tunnel in the world is
~. Gothard, which is -, $40. The next
longest are Nit Cents, 80, $50 feet; Hoo
sac, 25.Os0 feet; Severn, %. 992 feet;
Nochistongs, 2l,65s feet; Suits, 81, 100
feet
A NEW method of stopping hiccoughs
Is said 10 have been accidently discov-
cred in French hospital 1t consists
in thrusting the tongue out of the
mouth and holding it thus for n short
time.
TIE German Emperor has nearly
completed another painting, symbolic
ing the protection of the arts and
sciences by the army. Prof. Knack-
fuss has assisted him in some of the
details.
MRS CHRI STAN ALMER, the wife of
The eldest of the Grindewald gnidcs,
in ,omPany with her husband, made
the ascent Of the Wetterhorn the other
day by way of celebrating her golden
wedding.
- In proportion to the population, the
eatest number of telegraphic dis
Aches are sent in Australia For
.Sery 100 inhabitants nearly twice as
many messages are sent in Australia as
in Great Britain.
sixteenth century addressed to many
others besides clergymea, such as
judges and eminent writers; but from
that time its use has been strictly con-
fined to the clergy.
LITERARY students in Paris wear
''muzzles- when perusing old books in
the National library, mot because
there is fear that they will bite the
old volumes. but to prevent the inhala-
tion of the book microbes into their
lungs"
A MUSEUM in Berlin has secured pos
session of Luther's Bible which he used
in his study. Its margins are covered
with notes in the reformer's hand
writing. 1t was printed in Basic in
1909, and is in an excellent state OF
preservation.
An international conference of moth
ers is TO be held in Washington next
spring. Tt will be opened on the 10th
of March, and remain in session about
q week. Mrs. Josephine Butler and
Mrs Farrar, Dean Farrar's wife, will
be among the speakers.
ONE of the best known japanese
journalists is X. Tamalsi editor of the
Asahi Shimbun of Osaka. which has a
daily circulation of 100000. lie has
been secured as japanese correspond
emit of the new Chinese newspaper at
Picking. the Kuan-Shu-Tchu.
Ii hUSe CHANG was amazed at the
knowledge which every one in Eng
land whom he met had of his doings.
Why" he said, ''how can they have
found IL out? There are millions of
people in China to-day who do not yet
hnow of the war with Japan"
GOLD mining in the public streets of
a town is an unusual spectacle, espe-
cially in the south, but such can be
,een daily in the streets of Dahlonega,
Ga Two shafts are being put down
on the Lawrence vein in the street.
near the signal Office, from which good
mill ore is being taken.
A CURIOUS point in Swedish criminal
law is that confession is necessary be-
fore a capital sentence can be carried
out IL. however, the culprit persists
in protesting his Innocence in the face
OF overpowering evidence, the prison
discipline is made extremely strict and
severe until the desired confession is
obtained
UNLIKE many great ladies, Queen
Victoria has always refused to trust all
her household arrangements to a
housekeeper. Something like a thous.
and people are employed in and about
the royal household, and no change Is
ever made without the queen being
told about it
7. C. BARD, of Kildare, o. T, re
ports a remarkable find after the ligh,
shower a few days ago. He says that
upon going into the yard after the rain
he found four or five live goldfish
wriggling around in the grass, and
picked them up and put them in a jal
of water, where they are still alive.
THE huckleberry crop in the Blue
mountains of Oregon is enormous thii
year. Every bush is loaded and tn,
berries are so thick on Blalock mount