Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-02
INTERESTING ITEMS.

On very dark nights a white light
can lie seen farther than any other
color.
THE smallest flower known to the
botanist is said to be that of the yeast
plant 1t is microscopic in size, ami is
said to be only one hundredth part of
millimeter in diameter.
THE deer forest of Kinlock in Suth-
erlandshire, which comprises about
10000 acres, has just been let by the
duke of Sutherland to Arthur j. Bal
four, the rent being FL, 900 for the
season.
NEARLY a hundred years ago Thomas
jefferson said: Great Britain is the
nation which can do us the most harm
of any one or all ON earth. With her
on our side we need not fear the whole
world"
MEDICAL circles in Berlin are much
agitated over statement made by a
prominent ply sician of ;Aat .i;y t.
the effect that the nurses in the pri-
vate hospitals are in league with tire
undcrtaNers.
THE largest proportion of single
persons is found in Ireland and Scot
land, and the smallest in the United
States. In Ireland 81 per cent in
Scotland Is per cent. but in the United
States only 80 per cent are in that con-
dition.
CHESHIRE cheese owes its excellence
partly to geological causes, the red
sandstone and bowldcr clay, with its
immense salt deposits, of which the
country is formed, producing an herb
age peculiarly suited for cheese pro-
duction.
The oldest woman chorister in the
world was a Mrs. Benton, who died on
the Isle of Wight short time ago.
She was Sc years old. and for 20 years
was in the choir of st. Thomas, Ryde.
that time.
Il. l.. STEVENS, of Atlantic City, who
was o gunner under Commodore
Dewey when the latter was lieuten-
ant on the Mississippi, at New Orleans,
in 1862, says that Dewey directed the
shot that put the Manassas out of the
fight, and that he showed wonderful
nerve in that battle.
SENATOR ALLEN, of Nebraska, is de-
termined that his son shall not go to
war as an officer. If the boy goes at
all, he says, il must be as a private.
The son, who is 20 years of age, was
appointed to a lieutenant colonelcy of
Nebraska volunteers and has been
commissioned for active duty. The
senator Immediately telegraphed the
boy to resign, and was reluctantly
obeyed. He will not enlist as a pri-
vate in the ranks Senator Allen says
he is not willing that his son shall be
given preference over other men be-
cause of his political influence.
THE Alabama was the first war ves-
sci To be launched in war times in this
country for nearly thirty-fve years,
and in consequence the event was I'M
like the baptismal cere monies of other
engines of naval destruction and de-
tense. There were no cheering thou
sands to witness the plunge as when
the Kentucky and Kearsarge glided
from the dock into the water. Only n
select and unostentatious party wit
messed Miss Morgan formally best1w
the name of Alabama upon the tre-
mendous hull of what is to be the
most powerful battle ships ever de-
signed for the American navy.
IL the English official regulations for
lS9S il is stated that the mean extreme
range of the Lee-Metford bullet NAV
be taken as about 5, 500 yards, although,
with strong wind, 3,70O yards have
been observed. The bullets find their
way through joints of walls, unless
the walls are made very fine and set IN
cement. About $50 rounds, concen-
trated on nearly the same spot, at zoo
yards, will break a nine-inch brick
wall. Rammed earth gives less pro-
lection than loose. When fired into
sand, the bullet is found to he always
turned aside after 1t had entered y lit.
tic way.