Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-03
INTERESTING ITEMS.

grapes for Strengthening the voice
TIE ballet is said To have been in
vented by the duchess of Maine in
Paris.
NATuRAIIsTs say that, in proportion
to their size, spiders are seven times rs
strong as lions.
CHINESE streets are supposed to he
the narrowest in the world. Some of
them are only eight feet wide.
The carrier pigeon was in ne bv
the state department of the Ottoman
empire a. early as the fourteenth cen
fury.
To GET comfortably fitting shoes buy
them in the afternoon, when the kerr
else of the day has spread the muscles
of the feet to their largest extent
AN Austrian commission recently
appointed to consider the advisabilitv
of allowing the manufacture OF arti-
fetal wines has decided in the negative.
NEwFoUNpLAND is remarkable for its
lakes and pools. They are of all sizes,
shapes and depths, from tiny pools To
immense sheets of water over 30 miles
in length.
GRAY hair is caused solely by the
loss of pigment which gives it color
Grayness may occur at any period of
life, irrespective of age. 1t is also
hereditary.
IL the formation of single locomo-
tive engine there are nearly 5000
pieces to BE- put together, and these
require To be as accurately adjusted as
the works of watch.
Rev. DR. CHARLES :. RuBIXsox. pas
tor of the Church of the Puritan. in
| Harlem, is the poss,ssor of mummy
head. lie firmly believes it to be that
of Menephta, the Pharaoh OF the
Exodus"
THE will of the late Henry Barnhart,
one of the wealthicst pioneers of Cali
fornia, consists of Is words. and SAYS
| simply: Il direct that my property shall
be disposed of according to the laws of
the State of California"
ENGLISH farmers, who know it is
against the law to use ferrets to drive
out rabbits, place in the burrow a rub
Der hose with tin horn on the end
| inserted. Then they blow the horn
and bunny comes out in quick order
PosrAGE stamps may be reproduced
once more in England in stamp albums
and catalogues by recent order of
the British board of internal revenue.
They must be printed in black and not
be like enough to the originals to cause
deception.
POLICEMAN ii. H. CowEN, of Towan-
da, Pa, has made violin from the
shell of turtle. The turtle was cap
tnral
cleaned and at odd times Cowen con-
structed sides and neck of suitable
woods. Now, with main strength
and rosin on de bow" he draws select
strains from the uni que instrument.
1t is said to be the only turtle shell
violin in existence.
CATS have served heretofore as a sub
stitute for rabbits. No particula com
plant was made in Paris against the
substitution until recently. For some
reason there has arisen great cutlery
against the slaughter of marketable
eats, and French ingenuity has been
taxed to supply the deficiency. This
is found in a particular breed of Afri-
can monkey, and these animals are be-
ing imported into France in large
numbers to furnish the basis for rable
dc lievre-broiled backs of rabbits.
BUDDING genius in Portland. Ore,
has devised Il utilitarian plan to make
the new aluminium musical instru-
ments convertible into kitchen utcn-
sis. by making the keys and strings
detachable he proposes to use the man
dolin for a stewpan, the guitar for a
ham broiler or fish frier, and to cook
fiapjacks ON the banjo. 1t will be read
lily seen that a piccolo could serve
the uses of poker without any de-
taching, and the conversi on of n saxo-
phone into n soup ladle would have adj
vantages too manifest for comment.
WHAT is the life of n trolley car
wheel? The United Traction Co., of
Pittsburgh, reports the average life of
its wheels to be about IS, 600 miles, and
estimates that about one-third of this
life is secured by prompt grinding
when the wheels become fiat. This
company. rs well as some others, buys
its wheels with the guarantee of So,
00O-mile life, and if they should require
renewing before that time the wheels
are replaced at the expense of the
manufacturing company, while il the
life should prove to be longer the COM
pany receives corresponding credit.
THE multiplication of modern war
appliances is suggestive of the animal
world in which one destructive insect
feeds upon another, only to be attack
ed in turn by a more destructive one.
Every invention of a new war engine
seems to call out a counteracting one.
Torpedoes sunk in harbors and rivers
have heretofore been regarded as u
very effective defense against uttaulr,
but now comes a Baltimore inventor
with a submarine boat which, hs says,
can render useless the torpedoes IN any
harbor in the world. The heat Eas
demonstrated its ability to travel un
der water or traverse the bottom of
river or harbor.