Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-26
INTERESTING ITEMS.

The skeleton alon, of an average
whale weighs - tons.
THE River Jordan makes the great
est descent in the shortest distaac, OF
almost any stream.
A HORSE will eat in a year nine times
his own weight, a vo~-c;no times, IN
OK six times and IA sheep six time.
A GRANITE monument has been ar
cd above the grave of Ed Schieff lin,
the famous founder of Tombston.,
Ariz
The present indications are that our
millionaire class will soon be COM
posed of sailors on the prize capturing
cruisers.
The foot of the reindeer is most
peculiar in construction, being Glove n
through the middle, and ea.h half
curving upward in front
If the armies of Europe should march
at four-mile an hour gait, five
abreast, Is inches apart, it would re-
quire 1919 days for them to pass a CIV
en- point
A SOUTHERN railway has made a new
departure by appointing a young wom-
is a native of Georgia, and is said to be
but 20 years of age.
A MEDICAL authority on the virtues
of various kinds of foods declares that
the herring gives the muscles ela,-
ITCHY, the body strength and brains
vigor, and is not flesh-forming.
MosT of the higher animals-as mon
keys, elephants, bears, horses and
dogs-have a natural fondness for fer
mented liquors and suffer from the
abuse of these liquors as men do.
WOMEN bicyclists in ST. Petersburg
are ordered by the police to wear
bloomers or national dress, as the
wind blows too capriciously in Russia S
capital for skirts to be worn with de-
cency.
THE skin of a reindeer is so imper-
vious to cold that anyone clothed in
such a dress, with the addition of a
bla nket of the same material, may
bear the intensest rigors of an Arctic
winters night.
In East Indian schools mental arith-
metic is vastly more serious matter
than it is in the schools of this coun-
try. Catch questions are numerous,
and pupils of 10 years are taught to
carry the multiplication table up to 40
times 40.
FATHER DoRSEY, of Chicago, the new
chaplain of the Iowa, goes into the
navy with the reputation of being the
most popular priest in Chicago. He is
not vet 40, six feet tall, weighs over
200 pounds, and is an enthusiastic
athlete and handy man with boxing
gloves.
AMERICANS are producing paper ci-
CARS as an article of commerce, and,
connoisseurs of the fragrant weed.
The cigars are prepared from sheets
of paper which have been soaked in
tobacco juice, and then pressed and
cut into the requisite shape by means
of specially constructed machinery.
EXPERIMENTS are being made in the
Russian army with tall observation
towers which may be readily unjointed
and distributed among the men during
a march. In their drills with these,
squads of 90 men can erect complete
structures in 20 minutes. When not
supplied with the pieces already made,
they can, by chopping down a few
trees and properly cutting them, put
MP tower of almost the same kind in
half an hour.
A SURVEY of the powers of Europe
shows that from the beginning of the
century to the end of 1896 Turkey had
experienced 81 years of war and 80 of
peace; Spain comes next with 81 years
of war and IS of peace; France with
81 years of war and so of peace; Rus.
STA, "a years of war and ~ of peace;
Italy, IS years of war and 70 of peace;
England, 81 years of war and IS of
peace; Austria-Hungary, IL and 70;
Germany exclusive of Prussial IS ana
IS; Sweden, 10 and s6; Portugal, IL and
"a, and Denmark, 0 and 81.
CARLO DI RUDINI, son of the Italian
prime minister, has been winning
large sums at Monte Carlo. He is an
inveterate gambler, and his father has
tried in vain to reform him. He was
started on an exploring trip to Africa,
but slipped away at Alden and returned
to Monte Carlo with the money for the
expedition. He was then put up for
the chamber of deputies and elected,
but Immediately joined the opposition,
and made his father buy his vote
whenever it was needed. He is proba-
bly, the person spoken of as sharing in
the recent concession of coal lands
made by China to an English and Ital-
ian syndicate.