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

NEARLY 40 per cent of the popula-
ton of Siberia are Russian exiles.
THE average duration. of human life
in European countries is greatest in
Sweden and Norway and lowest in
Italy and Austria.
MAHOGANY is now very generally
substituted for hickory in the manu-
facture of wagon wheels in France, it
being found cheaper and quite as dur
able.
CAPT. w. BURKITT, of Palestine, Tex,
has offered to contribute $50, 900 for the
equipment of cavalry regiment to-
fight against Spain, and says he will
spend SIS, 900, if necessary. His offer
has been accepted by the war depart
ment.
UMBRELLAS are prevented from drip.
ping water over the floor when in
verted by a neat little rubber device
formed of a cone with an opening in
the peak which slips over the tip of the
umbrella and acts as cup to catch the
water.
THREE miles an hour is about the
average speed of the gulf stream At
certain places however, it attains a
speed of 81 miles an hour, the rapidity
of the current giving the surface,
when the sun is shining, the appear
ance of n sheet of fire.
W. w. Il. BEACH, NJ. F., holds the
record as the silent member. 1t is said
that he once asked for hearing at an
uproarious election meeting on the
ground that during nearly 40 years of
parliamentary life he had never OPEN
ed his mouth in the house.
HERR DUsES, German traveller, who
has recently explored the west coast of
Patagonia, says that MOSES of all
species are developed there to an ex-
traordinary degree. They grow in inn
mense heaps, the explorer sinking to
his armpits in some of them.
A MUSEUM in Berlin has secu red pos
session of Luther's Bible, which he
used in his study. Its margins are
covered with notes in the reformers
handwriting. 1t was printed in Basic
in the year 1909, and is said to be in an
excellent state of preservation.
AN Indiana inventor has patented a
wagon in which the forward wheels
of the wagon box cut under to make
room for the horse; the steering being
done by lever running from .he
drivers seat to the forward truce
DINNER pals are being fitted with
balls which will permit their attach
ment to the top bar of bicycle frame.
the bail having circular spring
formed on either side close to the pail,
with spring braces extending to the
cover to prevent a sudden jar or swing.
A NUMBER of years ago, when it be-
came apparent that the buffalo was to
be exterminated in the northwest,
Fred Dupree, an old ranchman living
on Cheyenne river, captured s,v-
eral calves from one of the small herds
which were yet roaming in Dakota,
and began breeding them for the pur-
pose of keeping them in existence.
Many times his efforts seemed a fall
ure, but the little bunch finally began
to increase, and now consists of so
head of full blood buffalo and IS half
breeds.
A PATENT for fastening kid gloves
has yielded fortune of several hum
dred thousand dollars for its fortu-
nate owner, and the inventor of a col
lar clasp enjoys $50, 900 royalty a year
as the reward for his endeavor. A
new kind of sleeve button has made
$50. 900 in five years for its patentee,
and the simple twisting of safety pins
in such a way that there is no possible
danger of the point sticking in the
child promises to enrich its owner BE-
yond any Of his early dreams Of
wealth,