Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1897-05-20
INTERESTING items.

WoMES are employed as sailors in
Norway, Denmark and Findland.
THERE are open saloons in Topeka /.
Kan, for tho first time in ten years.
Ir takes l,sOO dozen of frog legs
a year to supply the Paris restaur-
ants.
Ir is obligatory in one of the public
schools of Germany that pupils learn
to ride the bicycle.
A NUMBERof the English newsp Ipers
express themselves in bitter terms re-
garding the failure of the arbitration
treaty.
THERE are 353, $40 telephones used in
the United States, 10, 900 more than in
all Europe, where the population is six
times rs great.
LAST year AIS English trades unions
spent 1900, 900 in sick and disabi ity
benefits Suporannuated members re-
ceived 500. 900.
A CHICAGO jury discovered the other
day, when it retired to max, no its
verdict, that one of it's number did not
understand word of English.
The number of Americans in London
at the height of the season, under nor
NAL conditions, is computed at 80, 90
1t should be doubled next June.
The Chinese government will soon
add to it's navy four armored cruisers,
two fast cruisers, or commerce. destroy
ers, and a number of torpedo destroy
ers
CALIFORNIA claims the largest boy of
\
John Bariin. He is IS years old, six
feet five inches tall, and weighs 30
pounds.
THIRTEEN leading physicians of At
lanta, Ga, have been called before n
medical association for trial be-
cause their pictures were printed in
newspapers
Twelve Japanese students arrive in
England neat month to undergo a
course of training at private estab-
lishments in shipbuilding and naval
engineering.
SPRISKLING the streets with a dilut-
ed disinfectant is a feature of the mu.
nicipal housekeeping lately adopted in
the city of Brussels, although no disease
is epidemic there.
The jewel of the coming London
season is the emerald. Good specimens
command high prices, and recently q
single stone of seven carats sold in the
English metropolis for $4,000
JAMES ii. SMITH, of Oglethorpe,
Georgia's greatest farmer, has just
broken all records of cotton sales from
a single plantation by selling to Macon
cotton buyers in one lot over 1000
bales of cotton of his own raising. he
cotton sold on basis of seven cents
for middlings, and when it is all
weighed and shipped Mr.. Smith will
receive a check for $4,000.
MARY ANN BAsCoMBE, of Stapleton,
S. /, is one of the most remarkable
women in America. Born in n little
frame house at Gordon and Broad
streets, Stapleton, 81 years ago, she
began life at IL years of age as maid of
all work, receiving as wages but SIG
year; yet from that humble beginning
she has succeeded through her own
unaided efforts in amassing a fortune
of over 5000
PERFUMED butter on the dinner table
is the latest fad of wealthy people in
London. In the first place, the butter
is made in small pats, like those in or
binary use. Each pat is wrapped in
bit of fine muslin and placed on a lie
of rose leaves specially prepared in an
earthen jar. On top another layer OF
the fresh and delicate rose leaves is
placed before the jar is filled with
solid chunk of ice. Then the jar j,
placed in IA refrigerator and allowed
To remain there for ten hours, whes
the pats are ready for the customer.