Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-09
INTERESTING ITEMS.

INTERESTING ITEMS.
A TuIEE-HUNDREp-Fo sea serpent is
reported of Atlantic city.
MCKEESroRr taxes each of tn 2.5.3
electric poles in that city S.
THE bullet fired into Ii Hung Cha. =
left check by a would-bc a>-a>>in at
Shimoncski, Japan, wa located 10y 4
of the Eocntgcn rays AT Berlin.
4 SET of large drawings by Thack-
cray, made for the album of his f / nd.
Mrs Robert Brll. and described 10y her
in IIarpcrs Magazine five years ago,
will bc sold at the end of this month in
London.
ROBERT +. .IoYCE, who has just died
In Washington, was retired from the
federal army a few years ago, under
the 30 years act. lie was on the Star
of the West expedition, sent to relieve
TT sumter.
TmE date of Mr.. lSave's second visit
to this country has again been put
back, and the present announcements is
that he will come in lS9S. Henri Mar
teau has signed Il contract for an
America tour next year
On the first sunday that all the Lon
don museums were thrown open they
were visited 10y 1860 persons. Of
these 2,437 went to the National gal
lery, 3,l73 to the South kcnSingt m
scum.
FIVE families have deserted u New
Work hnu~" because they believe II tn
he haunted. They refuse to accept the
explanation that a hoy in the neigh.
borhood threw the pictures of the
ghosts on the windows with Il magic
lantern.
THE royal harem of the sultan % Mo-
rocco is guarded at night by "a number
of lions that are let loose in the court
yards every evening, and serve the
double purpose of preventing escape
from within as well a. entrance from
without.
LIZARDS. il is well known, are at
tractcd 10y the notes nj music. and the
Negroes in the island of Madeira. when
catching them for food, accompany the
chase 10y whi>tling some tune. which
invariably has the effect of drawing
great numbers toward them
CAMBRIDGE university proposes to
confer an honorary degree upon simon
Ncwcomh. professor of mathematics
and astronomy of Johns Hopkins uni
versity, and upon Francis Andr W
March. professor of the English lam
guage at Lafayette college.
CART LAr.Lo. while fishing in Great
South bay. from his sloop. had his at
tcntion called by his mate, whose line
was heavily weighted. Together they
cXertcd their strength and hauled mp a
sea eel which they had to dispatch with
anaX. 1t weighed 10 pounds,
DR. SAULIE, "a member of the Pastcur
institute of Alg:crS, has just discovered
a vaccine which will prevcat sheep rot.
lie has made many experiments, which
he declares to he conclusive. All the
vaccinatcd sheep get n very mild at
tack IF the disease and recover.
THE largest boat ever built in Michi-
gan was success ,fully launched from the
Wyaudottc yards of the Detroit by
Dock Co. recently. The new boat was
chri>tcned The Senator. She cost
S26O. 600, il I2O feet over all, iOl feet
keel, - feet & inches beam, and Is feet
deep.
Ar the recent Osuna sale in Paris. The
portrait of Il lady, attributed tn Van
/ Dyck, brought Sl2,O0a. The two m, 81
important GoyaS were bought for - ..
600, and $1,000 respectively. for tie
Pradc museum, which also bought Il
portrait of gentleman, by Carrcdo de
Miranda. for $4,000.
IT is stated that since trees have
been extensively planted in southern
California the rainfall of the regioL HIS
become much more uniform and favor
able To agriculture. But there are
other parts of the state in which tie
sawmills are wiping out the fore is
and planting the desert in the midst of
natures bountIcs.
1HE first living thing to appear upon
the surface of our globe, in other
words. the earliest iii timely organized
animal whose fos ilizcd remains re
found in the rocks which go to make
up the earth's crust. was threC-.obrd
the biologists, it was the first cr, atcd
being that had a distinct ANN Al or
ganizatioG.
LoNG-DIsTANCE telephones have been
placed in the smallest Swiss villages,
making it possible to communicate
from one end To the other of the coun-
try on instruments kept in pcrf"c re-
pair, and on which one can hear dis
tinctly. The fee varies from tg.o TO
eight cents a message. Electric light
ing from water power has been intro
duced in even small places.
TEARooMs in the west end OF London
are rapidly becoming the popular arm
of commercial enterprise for woma a,
who have established, during the last
year, quite a network of these Little
concerns in and around Regent street
and Bond street These dainty little
establishments. where the tea ard
cakes and sandwiches are of the best
quality, are an immense improve
ment upon he ordinary confectioner's
shop.