Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-17
INTERESTING ITEMS.

1T is computed that there rs one
horse in Gre. Britain to every II per-
sons.
The largest known moth is the giant
Atlas, n native of China, whose wings
measure nine inches across.
SCIENTISTS say that were it not for
our atmosphere the ocean would be-
come boiling hot from the suns rays.
The bill anncxing l. squa re miles
to the city of Memphis has passed
both houses of the Tennessee legisla-
ture.
IT has been estimated that there are
between $50 and 200 women who are
practicing dentistry in the United
States.
CHICAGO sports have purchased Fight
ing island, eight miles from Dctrdit,-
and propose to establish an American
Monte Carlo.
HERBERT SPENCER is in exceedingly
feeble health from an affection of the
heart, and has removed from London
to Brighton, Eng, permanently.
VENEER cutting has reached such
perfection that single elephants
tusks, 50 inches long, is now cut into
sheet of ivory $50 inches long and 20
inches wide.
GOLD has been discovered i'm Vermont
and the assay shows that the ore is
very rich. Vermont is a much more
comfortable place for prospecting than
the klondike.
THE countess of Wisborg, wife of
Prince Oscar, of Sweden, is preparing
herself at a London school for nurses
to assist her husband in his missionary
efforts in Africa.
In the yard of a Mexican prison the
governor has caused a monograph to
be placed. which repeats to convicts
the charges made against them in the
voices of their victims.
TIE gold contained in the medals,
vessels, chains and other objects pre-
served in the vatican would make more
gold coin than the whole of the pres
ent European circulation.
j. w. HENDERSON, the well-known
traveller and antiquarian, has just pur
chased the oldest house in America
that at St Augustine, Fla, which was
built in 1864 and was used by the Span
was at first monastery.
PERHAPS the greatest fortune ever
made by actor or actress is invested in
the estates of Adelina Patti. She is
worth to-day over $4,000 900, and in
the zenith of her career she was rated
at many millions more. Every cent of
it was made behind the footlight.
THERE are indications that the Mica
ragua canal will again he actively
brought to public attention. con-
vention was last month held at Kan
sas City, at which IL states in the
south and west were represented and
a permanent promoting organization
effected. A party of experts from Chi
cago has been sent to go over the pro-
posed canal route and report on its
! feasibility. The project has for many
years been before the people of this
! country, and has been advocated by
several prominent men.
In Europe the principle of co-opera-
| ton has been Incorporated in many
forms as vet untried in this country.
A late number of the Economic Jour
nal furnishes interesting particulars
I
makers. which has flourished at Ver-
sailles for about IS years. The work.
ers, about $50 in number, work at their
own houses and supply themselves
with osiers at their own cost The So
ciety exists for the purpose of finding
a market, and is SO successful that the
demand is greater than the supply.
| THE discoverer of Mount Bischoff,
the greatest tin mine in the world,
which has paid 1900, 900 in dividends,
died a short time ago practically penni-
less. philosopher" Smith as he was
called, had a pension of $1,000 per an
mum from the New South Wales gov
| eminent, but it did not enable him to
make provision for his wife. The
New South Wales parliament was ac-
cordingly asked to continue half the
pension in her favor, which it did by n
large majority. When Mount Bischoff
was made in a stock company to Smith
took a large number of shares, but
losing confidence in his own discovery,
sold them for song.