Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-24
INTERESTING ITEMS.

HE estimate OF the number OF
tramPS in the United stat : varies be-
tween 10000 and 90, OOI.
BY \ curious coincidence, the number
of lives lost at sea during l>gd in Brit
ish merchant ships is returned rs cx-
actly 1897.
SECRETARY GAGE has submitted to
congress plan for consolidating Gus
toms collection districts which will eff
feet saving of $3.50, 900 year.
\ MAN who recently died in Paris
had kept record of the number of
cigars he had smoked during his life
time. The number was 62s,7l3.
As AN example of the sway which
the bargain craze has over women. a
girl in Detroit is suing for breach of
promise and places her damages at
$500.
SAN MARrNo, the little republic in
the Apprentices, has proved that il is
up to date by having bank fail
urc and arresting all the directors for
fraud
SETH LEONARD, of Shutcsbury, Mass,
reports a specimen of hen fruit %
inches the larger way and G9- the
smaller, that he found recently in his
hen house.
On the Russian state railroads num-
Der of the employees are required to
wear spectaclcs constantly while on
duty, and to carry Il spare pair with
them in ease of accident.
IT is said that when whisky is Us ii
instead of water in making glus the
mixture will remain unaltcred for
years. will remain perfectly liquid and
is ready for use without heating.
ALI efforts To obtain anything like
correct information regarding the
output of gold in Siberia have 50 far
proved unavailing. No one outside of
few Russian officials is pcrmi ttci to
know.
a POLAR bear and a sloth be ar from
India got into ii ght in an English
menagerie recently, and after IA quar-
TER of an hours struggle. during which
the keepers were unable to get them
apart, the sloth bear killed its antag-
onist.
BIRMINGHAMs cotton receipts since
the LIST of last September have been
,073 bales, which is the largest ut
this season of the year in the history
of the city. 1t is thought that the
total receipts for the cotton year will
reach $50, bales. This will exceed
the receipts of last season by 80. 600
bales. and those of the season prior to
that by 30. 900 bales. The erection of
two cotton mills in the city has done
much to swell Birmingham's cotton re-
ccipts.
THIS years crop of centennial cclc-
brations includes observations of the
four hundredth anniversaries of NascC
de CANA discovery of the way to In
dia by way of the Cape of Good Hone,
at Lisbon in May; of the burn
ing of Savonarola at Florence,
also in May, and of the birth of IIol-
bein at Basil, in Switzerland. Mont
pelier will celebrate the hundredth
birthday anniversary of the philoso-
pher August Comte; Ancona that of
the poet Leopard, who was born at
Recanati, close by, and Paris that of
Michelet, the historian.
NATURE seems to he able to regulate
the births of males and females with
out the aid of German savants. The
Springfield Republican asserts that in
Massachusetts for 40 years the male
birth rate relative to the female has
not noticeably changed, the number of
male births to each loo female births
i'll the last 20 We ars being LOSS, as
compared with .O59 for the prec, ding
20 years. In Europe observations COW
ering ten years indicate an average of
LOGO males born to every 200 females,
England being at one extreme, wi til
LOSS, and Italy at the other with l,UIl.
The largest cable is the MANILA
hawser which was used II tow the dry
dock in Havana. 1t is - inches in
circumference, bat it is by no means
the largest that ever has been made
There are at least two others of a
greater circumference, hut both older.
One of thes, had n circumference of %
inches, and was used for thu purpose
of anchoring the ship North Carolina
in a navy yard ut brooklyn, while the
other was 2i-inch hawSer, which was
used as IA sheet anchor cable On the
Tennessee when she was stationed in
the Mediterranean in the sixties.
REPRESENTATIVE EoUNG, of Phila-
dclphia, represents Il district having
the largest population in the Unit Il
States. The vote in 1896 was 80. Ia for
Young. republican; Ii, $50 for Cunning
ham. democrat. ana 53S scattering
total 16,22l. Ten wards in the city OF
Philadelphia constitute the district,
which has n population of 80. $50. The
con .srsssional district having the small
lest area in the country is tn Teath
of New York, which Is composed of
the Ninth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth
assembly districts in the city of New
York. and has Il population of l5d So.
T-'e district having the smallest pQpu
latioa is the state Of Nevada