Owingsville outlook., 1897-09-09
INTERESTING ITEMS.

'FRIsCo glassblowers report that busi-
ness is good and work plentiful
THE international convention of union
coopers will be held in Cincinnati next
month.
DURING the war of the Spanish sue
cession the English army in Spain was
commanded by a Frenchman and tho
French army by an Englishman-
JAMES ToBIN. an Indiana man. is re-
ported to have not only supported life
on ice cream since July IL. 1s9s, but To
have increased from 40 to 2lO pounds
in weight.
FIFTEEN years ago the Diamond mine,
near Helena, Mont, was bought for 30
cents. The purchaser sold it for $1,000.
Recently Scotch syndicate paid ST.
500, 900 for the mine.
A MONUMENT has been raised in South
Carolina over the grave of Lucinda
Horn. who went all through the civil
war with her husband. 1t is said that
this is the only battle monument on
any woman's grave except that of
Joan of Are.
THE report comes from Providence,
X. l., that when laborers were remoy-
ing recently the ruins of the Masonic
temple, that was burned n year or more
ago, they found a smoldering fire, that
burst into flame as soon as air was ad-
mitted to the embers.
GROVER CLEVELAND and David Ii.
Hill. at the end of their terms as gov
ernor of the state, apparently through
modesty, did not add their portraits to
the incomplete gallery of governors
owned by the state. Their hkenesses.
however. are to he carved in stone on
the grand western staircase.
DIR. W. FLINDERS PErRIE, the Egyptol-
ogist, has sent To DIR. BreasOd for the
University of Chicago a valuable coli
lection of relics eNcavated along the
Nile. Among these are statues of Men
Khefea. wealthy nobleman, and his
wife. which are said to be nearly 900
years old. They are of limestone, and
are remarkably we'll preserved. They
will go to the Haskell Oriental museum
of the university.
THE Swedish press. which has been
following up the success of Nansen. the
Norwegian explorer. with rather jcal-
ous eyes, are figuring what he has
made out of his publications so far.
His book has been published in Swed-
iSh, Danish, German. Dutch, English,
French and Bohemian. and the royal
ties actually paid to Nansen amount tn
s1SO. 900. of which 1000 were paid to
him for the rights in England and
America alone.
ALTHOUGH Senator Perkins, of Cali
fornia, rides n wheel, he is not yet an
expert. The other evening he was
wheeling through the agricultural
grounds when he met a man and two
women whom he knew. Quite proper
ly, the senator raised one hand from
his wheel to lift his hat, and the next
minute he had tumbled into n bed of
flowers. You did that very graceful
ly. senator" was the comment of the
trio of bicyelcrs. Il always dismOunt
in the presence of ladies' instantly re-
piled the senator. with the instructive
gallantry of Chesterfield
KHYBER PASS, the gate of India,
which has been taken by the insurgent
tribesmen. is the great military road
between the Punjab and Afghanistan.
1t is So miles long. lying between the
spurs of two inclosing ranges of hills.
In places Khyber Pass is only ten feet
wide. Its average width is about 100
yards. Here and there the hills ON
either side are perpendicular walls of
rock, varying in height from LOO to
$500 feet. Only in a few places is il
possible To scale these walls. For two
centuries Khyber Pass has been cock,
pit of Afghanistan and India.