Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-16
INTERESTING ITEMS.

IT takes healthy man four months
to eat his own weight in food.
The finest shops in Chinese city
are those devoted to the sale of collins.
IN Florida a wine is made from to-
matoes, which is superior to orange
wine.
THERE are Less registered denti ,ts
and 1854 registered pharmacists in the
German empire.
ANTS have brains larger in proper
ton to the size of their bodies than
any other living creature.
IT is claimed that Lake Erie pro-
duces more fish to the square mile than
any body of water in the world.
AUsTRIA-HUNGARY expends less up
on liquor in a year than any other
country of the first-class in Europe.
IT is estimated that more gold and
silver have been sunk in the sea than
are now in circulation in the whole
world.
PIPER FINDLATER. the hero of OAR
gal, who received the Victoria cross
from the hands of the queen herself.
pital. lie is now drawing a salary of
sle5 per night for piping in a London
music hall.
LIEUT.. HALPIS, of the army, has de-
signed torpedo for which the torpedo
net of war ship has no terrors. 1t
does not explode itself, but discharges
another torpedo at such an angle that
the latter dives under the net and ex-
plodes under the ship.
DURING the Franc o. German war the
Germans threw 500, 900 shells into Bel
fort, only killing 60 Frenchmen, or 500
shells to kill one Frenchman. At
Strasburg, in the same war, il took IS
shells to kill every man. And at the
siege of Paris 10, 900 shells only killed
lO7 and wounded 209
An old man ma med George Russell.
who has died in Aberdeen, has left
property valued at El3,0O0. The in
terest is to be distributed yearly
among the policemen and scavenrers
of the city, in recognition of kindness
done by local constable to the testa-
tors sister so years ago.
WELL preserved flowers discovered
at Dahsourh, in Egypt, in tombs of the
times of the Pharaohs, have just been
placed in the Cairo museum The COM
monest of these were the white or
blue lotus, the red poppy, the leaves
and flowers of the pomegranate, of the
saffron and of the crocus.
The only prince of the royal house
of Spain who is now in active service
in Cuba In the cause of his country is
Don Antonio, infant of Spain. He is
in the prime of life, being only Just 30.
and colonel of the crack" regiment of
hussars, Ell Princess" He is the hus-
band of the Infanta Eulalia.
THE hump on the back of the drome-
dairy is an accumulation of n peculiar
species of fat, which is store of nour-
ishment benefcently provided against
the day of want, to which the animal
is often exposed. The dromedary or
camel can exist for a long period upor
this hump without any other food.
A CLEAR compensation of the Span
ish development is that our country
will hereafter be fully able to protect
itself at any moment against any foe,
and every other country, having due
public notice of this condition of inn
proved preparedness, will think the
longer before giving such offense as
might lead to war with the, young
giant of the western hemisphere.
LIGHTNING specialist maintains
that rods arr no protection, and that
most precautions taken by penple to
keep out of the path of a possible cleo
trical discharge are useless. The re-
cent wonderful discoveries in relation
to the nature of electrical force prove
the worthlessness of the lightning rod.
but offer nothing towsEd disarming
the thunderbolt