Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-04-01
INTERESTING ITEMS.

To test diamonds easily, I lace wax
on the back o. the gems. This will
affect the brilliancy of good stones,
but will make paste limitations look
worthless directly.
Two married women, weighing l6)
pounds each, one > feet 10 inches and
the other feet 4 inches tall, fought n
fist fight in tight waists and boomers,
at Sodom, Ind. Honors were even.
OFF Grand Riviere, in Bre>t harbor,
frigate 100 feet long, pierced by
many cannon balls, was recently found
by dredgers. The vessel is believed to
have been sunk by the British 800 years
ago.
Nj. ANDREE, who means to try for
the north pole again next summer, has
had the size of his balloon increased by
800 cubic feet, which will enable him
to take along 400 pounds of dead
weight.
OYSTERS, after they have been
brought away from the sea, know by
instinct the exact hour when the tide
is riding and approaching their beds,
and SO, of their own accord, open
their shells to receive their food
from the sea, as if they were still at
home.
GLASS bricks are made extensively
in Germany. They are blown with a
hollow center, containing rarefied air,
and they are said to be as strong and
durable as clay bricks. They freely
admit light. So far the glass brick
has only been used in the construction
of Conservatives, and has been voted
n success.
The officiating clergyman at a we'd
ding, having concluded the marriage
service, gave the young couple a suit
able address. He had not, however
proceeded far in his discourse when
the bridegroom, going up to the verger,
whispered in his ear: Tell your
guv'nor to cut it short; I've got the
cab by the hour"
RAILWAY bridges are nowadays re-
placed in n very short time; but it is
stated that the Great Eastern holds
the record, as the servants of that
company removed an old bridge over
the Lea, south of Tottenham, and put
up the new one in nine hours in spite
of the snowstorm which occurred dur
ing the work. The new brid ge weighed
$50 tons.
NEAR Pn9niX, AriT., James Boyct
found a steel lance point that appears
to date long way bask. Some of the
local antiquarians refer it to the march
of Coronado. A few inches of the
wood, much decayed, remain attached
to it. The grain shows the wood to be
live oak, which is not found nearer
Phoenix than in Mexico, but was plen-
tiful in Spain.
A VERY curious scheme = as started
last spring in Paris. A society for the
relief of the poor placed a box in
wealthy quarter of the town, with a
placard begging women to throw worn.
out corsets therein. 1t was intended
that the manufacture into various ar.
ticles of the whalebone would give
employment to poor women. and the
result has proved that the idea was
most clever.
MANY statistics show that of 10, 0D0
smokestacks only three are struck by
lightning during the year, while a
10, 900 church spires 81, and OF 10. 900
windmills 50 are struck by lightning
annually. 1t has been endeavored -
explain this condition by the fact that
the smoke discharged from the smoke,
stacks takes the electricity asse ble2
around the building along and dis
tributes it in the air, whereby tina
source of attraction for thc e'ectris
spark oflightnin@ il not only dimtlish-
explains why tn. people in the conn
try Nnd.e large .irt in the fire placS
when zsnniers;orm is approaching.