Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-14
INTERESTING ITEMS.

ABOUT 400, 900, 900 pounds of soap are
used in Britain yearly.
The common house sparrow flies at
the rate of - miles an hour.
MORE than - per cent. of the popula-
tion OF Spain live on farms.
INDIA wheat is still threshed by be-
ing trodden out by bulloclis and buff
falos.
THE largest mule in the worli was
bred in Missouri, is 10 hands "a inches
high and weighs $3.50 pounds.
The streets of Paris are swept every
morning by 1900 males and COG female
scavengers, divided into l49 brigales.
II we moved our legs proportionately
as fast as an ant, it is calculated we
could travel nearly 500 miles an hour.
PAPER was first manufactured in
the east, and was introduced into
Europe by the Moors in the eighth
century.
THE title of Majesty was first given
to Louis NJ. of France. Before that
time sovereigns were usually styled
"Highness."
AN epicure says six things are neccs-
sary in order to make home happy.
The first is good cook, and the other
five are money.
SOME naturalists are of the opinion
that the whale was once land an
imal, and that it was forced to take TO
water as a means of protection.
In 1894 the habitual users of the
English language did not number
more than 80, 900, 900: in 1897 their num-
Der was estimated at 1000, 900.
SKINNED milk is now being turned
into champagne by an electric process,
and the beverage is clear, heady and
delicious in flavor, though non-alco-
holic.
A RECORD book 1a5 years old at
Woodstock, VT, has this entry: Abe
Hoes, the LATEST man in Woodstock,
watered his sap to save gathering
more"
LEO XIII. is the 264th pope in the
register of the Roman pontiffs, reck-
the lath only who has reigned more
than 20 years.
BEAN fever has been added to the
list of epidemics like hay fever and
rose fever by a German doctor. who
has christened his discovery ''Favis-
mus" His cure for the diseas, i to
keep away from the beanfields.
ANY one with Sancho Panzas fancy
for islands may buy THE Salvages. -
fered for sale at Madeira. There are
three large islands and several small
ones, by themselves in the ocean, I'M
inhabited. but with game.
THE first woman to offer her ser vices
to her country in 81 comes again to
the front in '9S Nearly 40 years have
elapsed, yet it has not served To damp
en- the ardor or chill the patriotism of
the woman who less than two hours
after the firing of the first shot ut IT.
sumter. was enrolled n nurse in the
union army, the first of the original /!
appointed by Miss Dix. She is Mrs.
Mary 5. Gist, and lives at Washington,
ID. c.
TuoUGH so years have passed since
Macmillan was shot in Mexico, his
| brother, the emperor of Austria. al
ways holds memorial services on June
| 10, the anniversary of that tragic
event. At the castle of Miramar, near
Trieste, on the Adriatic, the rooms oc-
cupied by the Archkuke Macmillan
before leaving for the new world are
kept, by the emperors orders just as
| his brother left them when he went to
his death.
Swiss funeral customs are most pecu.
liar At the death of person. the
family inserts a formal black-edged
announcement in the papers asking
for sympathy and stating that 1.-The
mourning urn" will be exhibited dur.
ing certain hours on a special day. In
front of the house where the person
died there is placed a little black table.
covered with black cloth, on viii I'll
stands Il black jar. Into this the
friends and acquaintance of Che
family drop little black margined
visiting cards, sometimes with Q few
words Of sympathy on them.