Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-19
INTERESTING ITEMS.

AN elephant has more than 800 mus
cles in his trunk.
The oldest university in the world i
Ell Ayhar at Cairo.
A HARTFORD man was fined S1.l7i.s2
for selling liquor on Sunday.
The game of chess is taught in all
the Australian public schools
STEAM has been found very efficacious
in distinguishing fires on ships loaded
with cotton.
IN England less than a century ago
it was not unusual for man to sell his
wife into servitude.
A BILL to prevent false and mis-
leading advertising has been signed
by Gov. Black, of New YORK.
AT sea level an object 100 feet
high is visible little over Is
miles, and if $50 feet high it is visible
nearly 80 miles
THE Siamese have a great horror of
odd numbers, and were never known
to put five, seven, nine or eleven win
dows in a house or temple
THERE are annually killed in Africa
a minimum of 65, 900 elephants, yield.
ing the production of quantity of
raw ivory, the selling price of which is
ESQ, 900.
IT appears that Gladstone had actu.
ally begun his long delayed and often
abandoned autobiography when his
illness compelled him to give up all
literary work.
THE marine docks at Portsmouth,
Eng, are the largest in the world, COW
ering more than 500 acres and employ
ing some 10000 men. Two of the
largest docks are 600 feet long and s.
broad.
THE son of the sultan of Zanzibar,
who is in England, will remain in that
country for some time and when he
returns home will try to introduce the
ideas of English civilization among
his countrymen.
The royal palace at Madrid is one of
the most beautiful structures in the
world, being built by an Italian archi.
tect in the early part of the last cen.
tury at a cost of 5000, 900, and in
tended to be a rival to the French
palace at Versailles
THE bicycle nose is the latest devel.
opment of the bicycle craz,. The dust
from the road accumulates in the tor
part of the nostril, being driven there
by the rapid movement through the
air, and in the end, it seems, doctors
help has to be applied for.
SHENANDOAH pa man has pa
triotic hen which laid an egg the other
day five inches long and one inch wide,
in shape suggesting a torpedo. THE
hen," he says, was particularly proud
of her patriotic feat, and caclxled all
day long over it, until she finally be-
came quite hystericaL 1t is happy
augury, it seems to me. If my hen lays
more of the same sort of eggs pro-
pose to boil them hard and send them
to the government as ammunition"
A WONDERFUL. feat in dancing is re-
corded from Berlin. At recent ball
prize of a gold ring was offered to
the lady who waltzed the longest with.
out stopping Twelve couples compel.
ed. They began waltzing at 1890 a. m.
and it was 5:45 a. IN. before the winner
and her partner stopped waltzing. by
2:2o five couples dropped out, and al
5:l5 another lady tainted. Two more
couples dropped out at 4:45, and at 4:5C
only two couples remained on the
floor
SOME American gIrls have found il
possible to earn pocket money in a
very pleasant fashion by taking up the
profession of entertainer at children's
parties and picnics. They go early to
assist in preparing the tables and ar
ranging the menus, and during the
party they act as elder sister to the
little ones and right hand to the host.
ess. OF course. they must have a rep
ertoire of tales and riddles, and a gen.
ius for inventing and arranging games
A love for children and an unfeigned
interest in their enjoyment are equally
indispensable,