Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-02

nave varied from Sl.2s IN that year to
an average price of 67c in 1884.
WILLIAM BLACK. the novel writer. Is
also portrait painter. an enthusiastic
botanist and an all-round sportsman.
JOHN ID. RoCkEFEIIER. president of
the Standard Oil trust, owns 400. 900 o.
The |, 200. 900 shares in the corporation.
A NEwLY-DIsCovERED West African
butterfly spins a cocoon which re-
semhles a mask made for a human face.
DURING the recent spread OF the
Charlton river over the bottoms in Mis-
souri,, a big catfish was caught by
dog.
Ma. AND Mrs. DURGIN. two hale and
hearty people living near Portland.
Me-, are aged respectively IOs and as
years.
Mrs JUIIA c. DAILY, of Chicago. has
given real estate in that city valued
at $4,000 TO Commander Booths fol-
lowers.
A NINNEG ANCE me. woman recently
proved her experiences with a gun.
bringing down two large gulls at
single shot
TIE night Waterman in Albany. Mo.
rings the big bell when he thinks the
clouds indicate the near approach of
heavy storm.
LIEUT.. PEARY will sail from sydney,
c. b.. about the middle of July on his
North pole expedition, and will be ali.
sent two years.
A REDWOOD plank exhibited at the
Kansas City exposition was 10 feet
long, seven feet nine inches wide and
Eve inches thick
THE next annual congress of the Ma
tional Prison association of the United
States will be held in Milwaukee. o,
September % 10 30.
SESAroR JoHN SHERMAN is to be
: present and take part in the centennial
cefelSation exercises of the city of
Cleveland ON July 30.
An old man, 81 years old, committed
suicide in Maine lately because the sc.
lectmen would not repair the road
leading up TO his farm.
A LOCAL paper says that a mine of
pure mica has been discovered ON the
mountains aear Cranberry creek. a few
miles from Gloversville. y. Y.
OAK acorns from Rondebosch. Cecil
Rhodes park in South Africa. are ud-
vertised for sale in London at n shill-
ing apiece or five for three shillings.
IRE 5.ooO-horse power pumping en-
CINE in the mines at Friedensville, Pa.
raises 1880 gallons of water nj each
revolution of the gigantic fiy-whecl.
LADIES bicycles are now turned out
In England with charming bags, hold
ing napy dainty articles, such A. mir
ror. powder-puff and perfume bottle.
The yield of wheat in France. owing
TO the careful cultivation OF the soil
and the large quantities of guano and
other fertilizers employed is IL bushels
per acre.
A rEAR-oI.D baby of Mrs. Wilson. of
Brooklyn, n. v, crawled out of win
dow, but its gown caught on a protrud-
ing nail. and IL hung suspended until
recovered.
MORMON elders arc working hard tc
secure converts in Southern Alabama
One of the inducements held out &c
young men is l6e acres of land and
seven wives
Cn~res common council. in alarm
1t the increase of nude pictures at the
academy, proposes TO license all artists
models and only allow them to sit I'M
der conditions laid down by the eoun-
ell
ONE Of the interesting exhibits at the
Blair county Pa.l semi-centennial was
local piano made 1t Flowing Springs
In 1927 by Joseph Small, the inside
work being made by lady with pen
knife.
A LOT of land on Cornhill, in London.
with front of "a feet, facing the bank
of England, was sold recently at a
price equivalent to sl2, 26O, 900 an acre,
about sass a square foot.
DECATUR. Ala, will be a ''dry- town
for some time TO come. The city is in
debt to the water company and the wa
ter supply Is to be shut off. There is
no money in the city's treasury and
zone due until after October l.
The cloth of the old Egyptians was
90 good that, though il has been used
Tor thousands of years rs wrappings of
the mummiss, the Arabs of to-day can
wear 1t. II is all of linen, the ancient
Egyptians considering wool unclean.
THE Duo de Noailles, whose appoint
ment to the French embassy at Berlin
Is much talked about, although he is
90, is an ardent cyclist, and may be
seen daily plying the pedals in the less
crowded quarters in the Bots de Bo-
togne.
A FAST mail train with a dead engi-
neer holding the throttle came near
plunging through an open drawbridge
into the Mississippi river at Burling-
ton, Ia, the other day. How the engi.
neer met his death is unknown, and his
accidental discovery by the fireman in
the nick Of time prevented serious
disaster.
THE post Office of war-like Gibraltar
10 commanded by a woman. The post
mistress is Miss Margaret Cresswell,
who receives the snug salary of 81, 500
ayear. She is superintendent as well
of all the post Offices of the North Afri.
can coast
AUGUST BELMONT, q man with close
TO 90, o0o, 200. has few leisure hours.
He is at his Office at nine o'clock in the
morning, and leaves it only when work
for the day is over. Sometimes that il
~ lste as seven or eight o'clock in the
evening. His leisure consists in
month 1t Newport IL the season anc
n edd night 1t the opera