Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-11-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

Mr. MCKINLEY Will be 81 years Of age
at the time of his inauguration.
GES. BUCKNER is being talked OF for
q foreign mission under Mckinley.
A BABE should gain at least four
ounces each day until it is six months
old.
KANSAS CITY unionists want state
law in conservance with National La
Dor day.
THE German governments detectives
are said 10 be keeping a close watch on
Bismarck.
NINE. ADEIISA PATTI during the
course of her operate career has earn
ed IS. OOO. 900.
THE Iron Hall" organization is en-
deavoring to revive itself and start in
business again.
NATIONAL head quarters of the Union
Veteran Legion have been established
ut Wilmington, Del
WASHINGTON unionists have asked
the government to pay navy yard
bricklayers 81 a day.
1T is claimed that labor is better or.
gsnized in the city of Detroit than in
eha oNhcE CAl IN America
The Gillian cabinet has resigned. in
consequences of the passage of a vote of
censure of the government
The farmers of Northern Colorado
contemplate organizing TO handle the
products of their own fields.
NJ BRUSETIERE, editor of the Revue
des Deux Mondes, is to lecture in
America in French next December. on
French poetry in the nineteenth CEN
tury.
OK account Of the i'll health of Con :
gresham Hit, chairman of the for
sign affairs committee, it is thought
that he will resign his seat in the Fifty
fifth congress and accept a first-class
mission board.
GENERAL activity in the West Vir-
ginia coal field along the Norfolk and
Western railway has resulted from the
resumption of work by the immense
plant OF the Illinois Steel Co. and other
similar industries
The indications are that there will
be fully as many contested election
cases in the Fifty-fifth congress as
there were in the present congress.
And this time there promises to be a
few contests from the west.
KNOW KoFFEE, a government detec-
tive on the gold coast of Africa, having
been murdered, England has imposed
heavy fines on King Ackah Euyuimah,
of Benin, and King Blay, of Attua-
Doe.
DR NANsES is a lover OF bright col
ora His ship, the Fran, was painted
green, gray, scarlet and white, picked
out with gold-a bright dash of color
among the everlasting white of the
Arctic seas.
OWING to arbitrary regulations
adopted by the Austrian government
regarding the investment of funds
there. IT seems that the New York
Life, the Mutual Life and the Equit-
able Life will all withdraw.
In the Alps and Pyranees there is a
race Of people who are old men at Is
and die at 80. all through drinking
lime water. The Chinese, on the other
hand, drink only rain water, where
possible, and they live extraordinarily
long.
The company which has bought the
Giants Causeway, meaning TO let il
out 20 tourists at SO much a head, is
bringing an action for trespass agains
agentleman who. on principle, refused
10 pay his penny, but insisted on en-.
5oying the causeway for nothing.
A CHICAGO clerk recently threw a
book agent forcibly out of his Office.
after refusing to take his card in TO his
emplc-er, aEi vas justified by the
!udge before whom lie We tried for
assarlt Who r=ta h'i-.l ID as chicego
,S~ tle theory that Suc! forcible meas
lures In dealing with book agents were
justifable.
The czarins's favorite color is white
90 much so that in St Petersburg she
has come to be known as the white
ezarina A particularly pretty sum.
mer costume of hers was of white silk
and lace with an Antoinette fichu, and
one of the picturesque empire bonnets
which, SO far, none but French women
have dared to wear.
An ingenious Yankee cobbler is ply,
ing his trade at Atlantic. Ne, in q
queer craft He has built a scow with
. house on it which he uses as a work
shop. During the summer he sails from
one place to another doing shoemak
ne; in the winter he puts the whols
arrangement on runners and has il
hauled TO convenient places.
1T is stated In the Indian papers that
the entire harem of the late Shah ha:
been dismissed, and that the palace,
are almost empty of female occupants
The ladies have been enjoined to avoid
or military officials, but they are free
In their choice among the hordes OF
nollshs OF priests and merchants
A HITHERTO unknown composition by
Richard Wagner has been discovered
st Zurich. 1t was found among sons
scores sent by wagner's Paris publish
ers on the occasion of the Zurich cele
bration in 1875, is entitled Second
Concert Overture" and was written be
fore "h.enzi" As soon as permission
q obtained from Beyreuth it will b
performed in public.
! A GREAT impetus has been given Il
the iron industry in the south, as well
as all over the country, since the cleo
ton Large sales have been made al
advanced prices in Sheffield, Ala, ano
snother large furnace that will give
employment TO 500 men has been or
dered in blast
ONE of the richest men in Mexico i,
Macmillan Damn, a German by birth
began life in Mexico as clerk
Finally he went into business for him
self, and while he was visiting in Ger
many his manager took what was sup
posed to be q worthless mine for bad
febt It 10 now paying him an annual
income of 500, 900.
PARIS is the paradise of the dress
maker; In that city there are NOR,
Than n, 900 persons who make articles
u woman's dress, and 5000 dress
makers alone II is estimated that the
zezrx>z,zsea,Eearly in this business
= in The manu-
-. nj of swords.
. netal annually
more than al