Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

ATLANTA theaters are to be taxed 80
cents for each performance
The headless body of a man was
found in the Monongahcla near Pitts
burgh.
An Akron girl traced a recrcaut low
er to Trenton, y. j., and made hin
marry her.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BTECUER is now
suffering from whooping cough for the
fourth time
Miss EMMA SToKTs. of Portsmouth,
was almost strangled TO death 10y a
huge black snake.
JomN BOYD TEACHER, democrat'c
nominee for governor of New No. L.
declares himse.: for gold.
TnE hanging OF Ilayne at Atlanta
cost Sheriff Rarncs So, and all he re-
ceived from the county was $40. and
that sum is generally given To the man
who pulls the trap.
Ii llCNG CHANG is credited with tell
ing director of the Bank of Scotland
that sclf-intcrcst as a rule of business
''is the same the world over. but espc-
cially in England"
REV. DR. JoHN MATTHEWS, pastor of
the Centenary Methodist Episcopal
church of II. Louis, celebrates the ff-
tieth anniversary of his ordination on
the 3)th of September.
THERE are about 100 grains of iron in
the average human body, and yet So
important is this exceedingly small
quantity that its diminut on is attend
ed with very serious results.
Miss ELIZA TALBOT, who has been a
missionary in Japan for - wears, and
acted as a nurse in the Japanese army
daring the war with China, i visiting
her old home in Rockville, Ct.
STOPPING may be quickly cured, said
gymnastic instructor, il the patient
several times daily slowly raises him
self upon the toes in n perpendicular
position. at the same time fully inhat-
ing the lungs
Italy and Abyssinia have come to an
nmicable agreement upon the hand
some basis of two million francs FOR
the board and lodging of the Italian
prisoners captured by King Menelek
during the war.
QUEEN NICToRIA's physical condition
Is such that she never stands on her
feet for two minutes together. She is
wheeled from room to room, and at all
court and other functions Sits constant
ly in a low chair.
The British Egyptian expedition has
captured Dongola with apparently
slight loss 10 the assailants. The Der
wishes, though numerous and brave.
were no match for the British with
their superior artillery.
DYNAMITE, contrary to general be-
lief, is comparatively harmless SO long
as it is kept apart from the materials
which are used to explode it, Gunpow-
der y far more dangerous in trans
portation than dynamite.
PoPE LEo MI. is going to make an
other English cardinal, according To
the Rome Tribuna, Monsignore Ed
mund Stonor, archbishop of Trebizond
in partibus, having been reserved in
pctto at the last consistory.
KAISER WILHELM has designed 4 sill
yer cup. which he win offer as a prize
for yacht race from Dover to lIcligo-
land next year after the Goth annivcr-
sary of his grandmother's accession to
the throne OF Great Britain.
n oo-stOr1 buitOinE Is 70 Ot STeCNca
on Park Row, New York city, on the
site of the old International hotel. and
will be 3s6 feet high from the curb line.
There win be 81 main floors and three
floors on the side towers, so floors in
all
Two orng men of St. Johns. Mich,
ssi,16d q lot of wheat in alcohol and
ssrewed il aronnd the courthouse
grounds Then they gathered up in
bags upward of 400 inebriatci spar
rows and gathered the bounty on them
also
Rev. WILLIAM NJ LANE, an Episco-
pal rector of Alameda, Cal, has re-
signed because, as he says 50 much
gossip was excited in the church by hi.
wearing brown suit. smoking cigars
purchased of local dealer and going
TO Oakland to attend the theater.
The funeral Of a wcrkingman in
Japan costs SIS cents unless the family
wishes TO have it especially fine, when
IL will cost as much as sl.2S. The price
of a coffin is 20 cents, and the rate for
cremation is from 40 to IS cents. Re-
freshments figure up from IL to 2j
cents
AT the seaside or in the country,
where the air is clear, 1. 500 microbes
must be inhaled INFO the nose every
hour. while in the cities the number
often reaches $4,000. The organisms
are caught by the nose and passed to
che digestive organs, which, when in
health, destroy them.
The citizens of Nashville propose to
erect a statue of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt TO show the city's apprecia-
ton of the many handsome donations
hich the Vanderbilt family have made
ITO Vanderbilt university. The statue
will cost $4,000 and will be placed on
the university campus
THE other day father in Philadel-
phia started to give his little child a
ride in a basket attached to the fore
part of his bicycle. The wheel struck
an obstruction and the child was
throws forward on its head and killed
father on a charge of manslaughter.
THE latest In London is a bicycle
cleaning and insurance company. For
a subscription of sixpence per week
the company undertakes to clean a
bicycle at the owners own house, in
addition TO giving the owner of the
machine an accident insurance policy.
SINCE the death of his mother, Lady
Wilde, the health of Convict Oscar
Wilde has broken down. There APP
pears TO have been deep affection be.
tween them. The home secretary re.
Gently decided that there should be nc
remission of the sentence. That de.
cision is now under revision, and
Wilde's release is probable about Dc
tober
MRS. SEWARD WEBB, of Newport,
has recently added to her jewel casISe,
a tiara, which can also be worn as a
necklace, schumacher or corsage brooch.
IT is said TO have cost 500, 900.
ONE of the greatest prizes that ever