Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-10
INTERESTING ITEMS.

1T is believed that temperature on
the earth at depth of 200 miles is not
less than $50 degrees Fahrenheit.
EMPLOYEES of the Erie shops at Ilor-
nellsville, N. Y, have been put on five
hours time. They work from to IL
o'clock.
THE cycling press Of Great Britain is
raising hue and cry against the in
vasion of that territory by American
bicycles.
A Brown CITY, Mich, judge fined
the driver of a wagon SO for running
into a bicyclist on the highway and
laughing at him.
AS AN indication of the extent of the
recent butcheries in constantinople it
is stated that 700 bodies were buried in
the Chickli cemetery alone.
ELIZABETH SEWARD, of Denver, the
only woman bill poster in the United
states, employs from eight to ten men
and is assisted by her 22-year-old
daughter.
The newest thing under the sun is
the raising of doves for supplying we'd
.. u- r1rt-->. hey are to coo softly
I-. io. a. teeorations as a .symbol of
rtni.nrss o. the bridal pair.
g.. a sait to be quite among the pos
ots - that Miss Estelle Reed, the
~ 81. 1t superintendent of instruction
.u 90 state OF Wyoming, may be the
res hc"u nominee for governor next
-.
MooDY Las made Il bnoy.A that he
will largely withdraw irGI E>ra.
evangelistic work aad devote himself
to furn Ing the $50, 900 prisoners IN
United ,tates with good literature,
chiefly religion
IT is probably not Il very well known
fact that the ST, hing of tears keeps
the eyes cool. Sol is the case, how
ever, and no matte how hot the head
may be, SO long tbc.s are tears the
eyes will be cool
The POPULATE If Zanzibar and
Pemba exceeds 1000. 1t is of the
most heterogeneous kind and of the
lowest type. The population is nom
productive, consisting mostly of trad
ers and exporters of ivory.
A FEARFUL monster OF the deep, a
king cutie fish or octopus, became
stranded recently on the Irish coast.
Its arms, or tentacles, were 80 feet
long, SO that it had grasp of 20 feet,
sufficient to drag down 4 vessel or
strangle n whale.
The three first prizes of $4,000 l., 900
and 5000 francs for the best designs
for the palace of fine arts to be erecte d
for the faris exhibition of 1900 have
been awarded to Louvet, Deglanc AMI
Binet and Thomas; but neither plan
is to be used Just as it is.
THE statue of Edgar Allen Poe, which
is to be set up in Bronx park, New
York, by the Shakespeare society,
shows the poet seated in an armchair,
in meditation, with raven at his feet.
The statue is of heroic size and will
rest on a granite pedestal.
Mrs. HOBART is Presbyterian and a
member of the Church of the Redeemer,
of Paterson. She is one of the Tues
day class of her home city, which last
year studied Dante. But lately" she
says, brightly, my favorite literature
has been the newspapers"
. A GERMAN physician says that STAN
ley owes the fact that he alone of
those who made up his party has so
long survived the most dangerous of
his African trips to his having submit
ted five times to TRANSMISSION of Afri-
can blood into his veins, which is be.
lieved in Africa to be great aid to ac.
Mr.. TERRELL, the United States min.
to
dinner recently Miss Clara Barton and
her assistants, who have been doing a
great work for humanity in Asia
Minor. The other guests we're the
United States consul general, Mr..
Short, and Mrs. Short, and the gentle
men of the legation.
The theaters in Japan have novel
method of pass-out tickets, which are
positively not transferable. When
a person wishes to leave the theater
before the close of the performance,
with the intention of returning, he
goes to the doorkeeper and holds out
his right hand Tn, doorkeeper the n,
with a rubber stamp, imprints on the
palm the mark of the esta blishment.
DIR. HAYES C. FRENCH, San Fran
cisco physician, who has recently be-
come an evangelist, has adopted a
unique costume for the pulpit "All
my preaching" he says, lis done in
knickerbockers and sweater. This is
the uniform of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association Cycling club. The
triangle on the breast and cap means |
spirit, body and mind, the emblem OF
AMONG the Migrants caught on the |
recent raids on the Bots de Boulogne |
was a man who proved that he had an
income of 5000 francs year. He de. |
clared that he had not slept under a |
roof in ten years, and that he could not |
breathe behind a shut door. He spent |
his days in the National library, went
to a tbeater in the evening, then turned
into the Bots or under a bridge to sleep. |
He kept a trunk with clothes at a rail- |
road station. and went into the wash
room there to change whenever he felt
it was necessary. The police say that
he spends a good deal of money in
charity. They;had to release him.