Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-11-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
SPAIN has expended thus far sIl5.-
$4,000 in her futile efforts to suppress
she Cuban insurrcc;ion.
'ANEs PAWN recently declared that
Carlyle was free from affection at
any kind; he had not even Manners
Russell SAGE celebrated h's cirh-
tietk birthday recently hv going down
TO his Office and dong full DAYS
work
In Is estimated thattwo years arr re-
quired for the Gulf stream water To
travel from Florida Ia the coast of
Norway.
NM. u. PmIIIPS. of New Madrid.
Mo, is credited with total Of $40
squirrels in three days hunting on
Latte river.
CALIFORNIA has shipped 10 onl tons Of
whoa; To India at good prices. and this
- believed 10 bc In; the beginning Of a
large and proiitahl trade in the same
direcotin.
MHEN railway line runs north and
south, on the track ou which the trains
run from the south the eastern rail will
wear ont Grsi, and on the other line
the western.
LADY SrENCER has collected 5. 800
toward the $4,000 required for the
memorial To Nelson. which will soon
be erected At Burnham-1 horpc. near
Noriols. England.
RECENT insurance statistics show
N...s al 1 4.
Len an average survives njrc years:
Mile il the husband dies first the ~.
Frvives eleven wears
NJ Paris hard organ c. I,;i;.ru
-ss-been start. - som -.a-,. -c.rr,
= aasr r,,> assoc ancs {. euicrine.
VII 'ltyr, prr -,r-ral ICES. one On
Nhicn Il IT, sc,,.c of the "Golicrdarl-
merung."
rHE government has contracted for
$4,000 pounds Of dried apples and 6S.-
900 pounds of dried peaches fer the
ladian schools 1t * thus thar the
products of the cniig htened cas-: 80 To
swell the population Of the beuightod
west.
THOMAS Edison receives many anus
ing letters. Not long ago lac was
startled by an epistic from a young
lady asking if he could not invent ar
electrical eontrivancr that would en-
able her TO see the face OF her future
husband.
A NEW life Insurance company. called
the British Life Office. has been formed
in l.ansoR- Ii Will receive m..n,hl.-
premiums assr-Tuan r0T-cy holders
money for building purposes to the ex-
tent of $500 for each five shillings of
premium.
Mrs. sKEATs, an old lady living in
London, has six sons on the police
iorce, all of whom have over u years
service to their credit. Mrs. Skeats
has but one daughter, and she has
evinced the family trait by marrying
4 London policeman.
1HE cancels foot is n soft cushion.
-p-cul arly well adapted to the stones
and gravel over which il is constantly
walking. During single journey
through the Sahara, horses have worn
out three sets of shoes, while the cam
c.'s feet are not even sore.
Nor only are the Astors going hcav-
lily into the tearing down of their old
fashioned houses in New Work and
erecting hotels and business buildings
in their stead, but they are now launch
ing ont into the romo ieling of others
of these old-fashioned houses FOR bus
mess purposes
A Plunge of 30 feet s.. inches was
made in l minute SIS seconds in the con-
test Tor the English plunging cham
pionship by Mr.. W. Ailason This
beats the record by over feet. There
is time limit OF minute, however.
the championship competition, which
MIR. Allason woa. his plunge of 7s feet
four inches in that time being also
record.
AFTER smoking tobacco so years or
more. Mrs. Hannah Chard. Gloucester
county, New Jersey centcnarian, has
thrown away her pipe with the deter
mination never to use it again. The
old lady became convinced recently
that smoking was shortening her life
Aunt" Hannah still enjoys good
and is looking forwerd to the
OF her lOsth birthday.
- 7nos living who heard the
scientist, Prof. Siftiman. de-
"a lecture at Yale college. after
sANntAtldlACdl
that sould contain a sufficient
amount>~--al TO propel il across the
Atlantic ocean. 1t is not likely that
he ever dreamed that ships would be
CONSTRUCTED which could contain and
consume nearly 1900 tons on n single
voyage.
A MAN arrested in London on a
charge of attempting to commit sui
eide said he had no intention of killing
himself, but had had dream in which
he thought he was cutting his throat.
aud woke up 10 find that he was real
ly hacking his neck with n carving
edife.
THE biggest annual pension that is
paid in any part OF the world is S95,-
coo. The duke of Richmond is the re-
cipient, and he has never moved fin
ger or a leg TO acquire this vast annu-
ity, which is perpetual, passing from
son to sen. for no other reason than
that the first duke of Portland had a
pull with Charles IL
IL Switzerland, from the smallest
village il is now possible TO telephone
to any place in the country at fee of
from one penny to four-pencc for the
most distant points on instruments on
which one can hear with perfect dis
THICKNESS and which are kept in thor
ough repair.
KING CARLOS of Portugal paints in
his leisure hours. His mother, Queen
Marin Pia, models in clay, and his
grandfather, the King Consort Ferdi-
nand. who was Coburg prince and
married Boston shoemakcr's daugh.
ter after his queens death, used to
\ make respectable pen-ard-ink sketches.
ALI of the sovereigns and chiefs of
State of the world have been ngited 20
- visit London and attend the fetes which