Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-18
INTERESTING ITEMS.

A RED Cross nurse won a hu band
among her patients.
STEEL billiard balls and aluminium
wall paper are the latest evolution> in
trade.
RUSSIA is said to own 1000, 600 horses
nearly one-half the whole number in
existence.
THERE have been % cases of insanity
in the Bavarian royal family dur ing
the last 100 years.
ACCOMMODATION for bicycles has been
added to the attractions of the theater
at Namur, in Belgium.
MORE than 5000 varieties of post
cards have been issued in the world
within the last 81 years.
PRISONERS when arrested in Morocco
are required to pay the policemen for
his trouble in taking them to Jail.
GEN SnAFrER has lost so pounds
since going to santiago, but Santiago
as an anti-fat remedy will never be
popular.
A BRIGHTON tEngland) young man
has killed himself because his wife
want girl.
MEDICAL authorities believe that
certain quantity of sugar is necessary
to health, especially if IA person is ener-
geiic. 1t is claimed that no substance
restores muscular vast, so quickly as
sugar.
AGUINALDo is only - years - "
is interesting TO note that at the Do
mimican college. where he was educat.
ed, he was regarded as a hopeless
Ounce.
SPANISH official statistics show that
the colonial vars from March, 1895, to
August, 1898, have cost Sgain over
$500. 600. 900 in money and the lives of
100, 900 soldiers
An Elizabethau seal-top silver spoon
weighing one ounce and a half was
sold in London recently for $3.50; that
is SlOO an ounce. This is a record
price for old silver.
The death rate of the world is about
81 minute. and the birth rate 20
minute. This apparently slight diff
ference causes yearly increase in the
population OF over 800, 900 souls.
THE lantern fly at surinam, South
America has two sets of eyes, to catch
the light from all possible directions.
The luminosity which CLOVIS from the
head is SO brilliant that il is easy to
read by it.
LAST year the output of ru bier from
Mexico was 1000, 900 pounds. Hun.
dreds of thousands of rubber trees are
being planted, and in a few years
most of the supply of rubber will come
from that country.
SEVEN times has Mrs Edward Har.
ris, of Richland, Mo-, given birth to
twins. The last pair were boys. and
arrived about two weeks ago. The Il
children are all living. Mrs Harris
is in her fifty third year.
A GERMAN biologist has calculated
that the human brain contains 500, OoO,.
and are succeeded by new ones every
day. At this rate W. get an entirely
new brain every 60 days.
AN international exhibit of birds
will be given in St. Petersburg in the
summer of 1899 1t is the aim of the
projectors to collect birds from all Sec
tions of the world, from the tropics &c
the Arctic and Antarctic.
The government has bought 25a
boats since the beginning of the war
and has paid over 100000 for them.
The smallest are launches run by
naphtha or electric engines, while the
largest are transports of 5000 tons
AN Iowa man, who claims to have
seen Aguinaldo, the insurgent chief in
the Philippines, says he is "a bit of a
chap, half-caste, part Spanish, part
Malay sian--the worst combination
that could be produced or imagined"
The human heart is six inches in
length, four inches in diameter and
beats on an average of 10 times a min.
ute, 1900 times an hour. 100, 500 times
day and Sc, 1921 times in the
course of a year, SO that the heart Of
an ordinary man so years Of age has
beaten 5000, 000, 900 times