Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-03-25
INTERESTING ITEMS.


THERE is church in Kansas City
the Calvary Baptist-which WAS erect
I'd At total cost of Sl6s, 200 md was
dedicated without a dollar of deb;
"A il.
TIE word "fe," or its equivalent in
sound, exists in all languages, and in
every one is expressive of disgust. In
the Icelandic the word ''ptul" means
putridity.
A CANARY owned by Baltimore
musician is said to sing at a signal
from him, given on the violin, the
"Popagano" from MoZart's Magic
Flute" lie has had the bird two
years
The accuracy of some parts of the
locomotive is ten times finer than in
the watch, but for absolute measure
ment the accuracy in the watch is al
most three times as fine as in the loco
motive.
THE old George ". tavern in Portu-
gal street, London, which Dickens
commentators unite in saying is the
house which the novelist described in
''Pickwick, has just been sold at auc-
tion for 81, so.
THE eat came back to Samuel Ward,
of Waynesboro, Pa, not in song, but
in fact, n few weeks ago. Mr.. Ward
had not seen it since July, 1891, when
he had dropped it from train near
Frederick, Md.
THOUSANDS of head of antelope are
4. . \ II.
around Back with, Ida. They have
been in that section all winter and arc
little hunted. One band is believed to
contain fully 5000 head.
TIE American Machinist has ran
sacked the patent office, procured a
copy of Grant Bramble's patent. and
pronounced the invention ian abso-
lutely imperative device" In other
words, it won't run when steam is
turned on.
NoEMI SAUMoN, n middle-aged wom-
an arrested for shoplifting in Paris,
went off in a fit when she arrived at
the station, and an inspector tried to
revive her by applying smelling salts
to her nose. The woman remained in
a state of coma, 4 nd showed no signs
of returning to consciousness Then
the inspector tweaked her by the nose.
and to his horror that organ came off
in his hands, being made of paper
mache.
True mamma has been found on a
blue grass in Queensland. 1t appears
on the nodes of the stems in masses as
large as marbles. IL is sweet, and
nearly three parts of it consist OF man
mite, which, though sweet, is not a
sugar. II also contains n fcrment
which has the power to decompOse
cane sugar without evolving carbonic
acid or any kind of gas. The grass
is not only indigenous in Australia, but
it is found also IN tropical Asia and
Africa.
Ii is designed, in restoring the old
home of John and Abigail Adams, at
Quincy, Mass, to preserve for future
generations a good example OF the
New England cottage of the last cen
tury. The house is n little less than
200 years old, and in it, more than n
century ago, John Adams and his bride
began their housekeeping. John
Everything in the house that was not
there originally has been removed as
far as practicable, revealing the old
smoke Drowned joists, floor board
ing, etc.
JURIEs in Russia are sometimes as
grotesque as our American juries. \
short time ago the foreman of a Rus
sian iurv declared he YOuld not vote
to send culprit to Jail because it hap,
pened to be the foreman's birthday.
The prisoner thus escaped. Another
jury agreed on a verdict of guilty,
when the church bells began to ring,
and then reversed the verdict because
Il holiday had begun. A notorious
burglar was acquitted because the
man he robcd had refused to lend him
money. This, the jury declared, was a
direct incentive To crime.