Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-03-31
INTERESTING ITEMS.

OF the al nlNcrSallSt ministers in
the annual register - are women.
\ ROSE fence around a ranch Ia keep
out thieves and dcspcradoes is the
unique plan of Texas man.
Miss HELEN GoUI.D has given $50, 600
Ia Rutgers college. The money is Ia
he applied tn a fund Ia b. known as
the Gould memorial, in memory of her
parents.
a KANSAS genius has introduced a
bill in the Legislature against snoring
in sleeping ears, hotels, churches and
other places where the practice is more
or less annoying.
TIE wedding drcs, of Mrs. Monroe
and the lace shawl of Martha WASH
Ington will adorn the Virginia table"
at the Confederate Relief hazar to be
held in Baltimore thi, month.
Mis-. VICTORIA CoNKIING WHITNEY.
of the Missouri bar. has been admitted
TO practice before the supreme court of
the District of Columbia and the de-
partments of the government.
To KEEP brass, steel and nickel free
from rust when not in use rub them
over with a paste ma lie of lime and
water. To rub them over with kcro-
sene will bc found equally ctficaciouS
THE whole of the blood of the body
passes through the heart in about -
beats; in man of 40 years of age,
about 615. $40 tons of blood will have
passed through his heart during his
life.
WINNING race horses are generally
bays, chcstnuts or browns: and for
every hundred bays among them there
are 30 chestnuts and 80 browns. There
is no record of an important race being
won by piebald.
THE latest freak of Kaiser Wilhelm
is to detail complete regiment of in
fantry, 1000 strong. To devote their en-
tire time to fighting the caterpillars
that gradually are destroying the trees
in Wilhelm's private forest of Romcn-
ten.
A WESTERN woman has designed n
bookrtst and fan for attachment to an
ordinary stand having a slanting shelf
on which the book is held by clamps,
with a horizontal shaft above on which
the fan blades are mounted to be
turned by a small motor.
SCIENTISTS have been extracting gold
from the waters of the ocean. This
gold is theoretically carried into the
ocean by the streams leading from the
gold regions in the finest form or par
/ ticles known. 1t is, in the parlancc of
the mining camp, flour gold" and in
that shape manifests its presence in
the sands of all the Rocky mountain
plateaus.
SOMETIMES parents, through ignor-
ance or neglect, are incapable of prop.
crly rearing children. France, with
its comparative REORGANIZATION of pop.
ulation, has recently passed law for
the protection of infants. The law
forbids anyone to give any solid food
of any kind to children under one year
without written authority of qualified
medical man. The medical profession of
France petitioned for its enactment.
believing that the frequent verdicts of
died from eating improper food" will
cease.
THERE is little, low-ceiling shop
down at the foot of Washington street,
New York. where Bibles and rum aro
sold side by side, and the patrons of
the place for one thing or the other in
clude Russians, 1ongsh oremcn, Turks,
Armenians, Irishmen and Syrians.
The place is fitted up with a bar, be-
hind which woman serves drinks
part of the day. The Bibles and pray
er books are in a ease at the end of the
bar. This part of the town is near the
Syrian and Armenian colony. and some
of them are not aversed to mixing
piety with drinks.
The rapid-fire automatic gun recent.
ly adopted by the navy department is
weapon of immense destructive ness.
1t can be operated by one man and dc
more damage in an hour than n com
pany of infantry could execute with
the ordinary rifle in a day. 1t can de.
liver 200 balls minute with absolute
precision for an indefinite length of
time. Its fire may be concentrated on
one point or distributed over any area.
At a recent test its bullets pa sSed
through a barrier consisting of n IL
inch brick wall, backed by two feet OF
oak and a half-inch steel plate.
, A REMARKABLE application has been
made to the French government in the
case of a man named Gernain Cira IS :,
who was tried for murder and con
demned to death as long ago as is 81
His three daughters have pctitio ned
the authorities to review the trial and
exonerate their father, although he
was executed more than 40 years since.
THE crime, even if committed, wa
partly political, but there are abund
; ant reasons for believing that Cirasse
was the victim of a judicial blunder.
1t is said in Paris that the petition o
} the daughters is SO strongly supported