Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-05-28
INTERESTING ITEMS.

The payroll of the Pennsylvania rail-
road averages 100000 a day.
TIE oxford Bible is still turned
out at the rate of 10000 volumes per
week.
Mrs 3RxTEA G. LAMME, of the West
inghouse works in Pittsburgh, is tho
only woman electrical engineer in tho
country.
BIBLE 24s years old was recently
found in an ancient building in New
London, CT. 1t was printed in CAM
bridge in l6is.
RALPH WHITEHoUsE, of PunNSutaw-
ney, Pa, is dying from the effects of
being struck on the back with pack.
age of papers.
IT is now a misdemeanor to throw
upon any road in New York state. glass,
taclIs or any sharp substance likely to
injure bicycle tires.
The railroads of Mexico are, with
one exception, of American uake, and
the engineers. train and station officials
are nearly all Americans. The roads
are well managed.
The coal fields of the United States
have an area of nearly two hundred
thousand square miles, or ten times
that of all other coal producing ooun-
tries in the world.
Miss ELLEN RICHARDSON, one of the
two Quaker sisters who. in 1915, paid
the $50 by which Frederick Douglass
was legally manumitte6, has JUS. died
in Newcastle, Eng.
! The oldest postmaster in the United
States in continuous service is Miss
Louisa c. Danforth, who was appointed
postmaster at Wcatherslield, Vt Man
! :. 1852, and has held the ofiir ever
+ since.
t>GRsY African parrot owned Dy a
/ f, nily in Providence, X ]. has a vo-
J "a 'ular of l4O words The bird is
! about sixty years old and has been
I Inc The possession of rhis family %
years
RUFUS Hill, master IrIach:nist of tho
Pennsylvania Railroad company, be.
! lieves that within five vsars the greater
part of the entire Pennsylvania railroad
system will be operated by electric To-
comotives.
EVERY ton of Atlantic water, when
evaporated. yields 81 pounds of salt.
a ton of Pacific watsr. 20 pounds;
Arctic and Antarctic waters yield 81
pounds to the ton. and l'ead sea water,
Isl pounds.
A SoUTH PARIS (Me. solid man-400
pounds in his stocking feet-tried to
get excused from jury deity on account
of his size. But the jrdge ordered in
! an extra broad chair, end told him to
/ sit, and he sat.
NINE. EMMA NEvEDA has had the
misfortune to lose n dia aond and pear
shell of great value at r,soiree given in
Paris by Nine. Laborde. The shell
was presented to Mime. Nevada at he's
debut at the Opera Conique, and bore
the touching inscription, ''Une Perle y
Une Perle.-
In an article in the Yale Medicai
Journal DIR. Edwin A. Down combat5
the popular impression that insanity il
increasing. lie says that the increase
for the last 20 years, shown by the of
fetal records, is comparatively trifling.
and is more than accounted for by tia
change in conditions, which has result.
ed in sending to insane asylums many
persons who were formerly kept 4,
aims houses or in private families, and
not reckoned in making up the record 81
the insane.
GREATER NEW YoRB, which has been
created by the recent law, has an area
of $50 square miles, considerably over
5000, 900 inhabitants, fpd includes, ae
cording to a statisticiaa, !, 100 churchea
90 post offices, Exclusive of stamp sta
tions), debt of sl70, coo, 600 a taxable
property of se,5s3, a2A.s99, $1,000 bust
ness houses, 10000 dwellings, 5000
acres of parks, -aaeles of paved
streets and as many sewers, double
that number of gas mains, u, 100 hotels
and $50 public schools