Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-30
INTERESTING ITEMS.

The baroness Burdctt Coutts has
given $3.50 toward a home for POOR
women in London.
SAMSON of old carried off the gat
of GAIA on his shoulders. Our sampson
closed the gates of Santiago with a
coal boat.
y GLASS firm lately received an order
for 800 glass fence posts. In 5c of the
usual size, and groovcd for the reccp-
ton of wire.
There is no question that Mas>achu-
sets has gone into the good roads
movement in dead earnest. Tbs state
has purchased l27 steam road rollers.
OF the l23 women students who have
entered Berlin university thi, term -
are German, II Americans, I Aus'rians,
and britain, hungary and Sweden
contribute one student each.
TIE department of art in France
has not suffered at all in the boycott.
Mile. Angelo de Ia Sale. who received
a second medal from the Salon dies
Artistes Francois, has Just sold the
lucky painting To a rich New Yorker.
CATS are held in great reverence IN
Persia. The shah alone has 80 of
them and each one has an attendant
of its own, with a special room for
meals. When the shah travels the
cats go also, being carried by men on
horse back.
NOWADAYS there are said to he few
regular receivers of stolen property in
London. Stolen property of value,
which is capable of Identification. is
sent out of the country. 1t is some
times consigned to Holland, but more
generally to Paris.
The Germans have introduced what
amounts to slave labor in their East
African colonies. Each native village
must furnish a certain number of in
habitants to labor for the Imperial
government on plantations or else
where for nothing.
The ear of Russia, SO the story
runs, has among his household an un-
derstudy, singularly like him in ap-
pearancc, who shows himself at the
windows of railway carriages and the
like when his imperial majesty does
not wish To disturb himself.
VENEER cutting has reached such
perfection that single elephants tusk
so inches long is now cut in LondCn
into n sheet of ivory 80 inches long
and 20 inches wide, and SOM sheets of
rosewood and mahogany are only
about a fifticth of an inch thick.
Miss JANE TAYLOR, the young WOMB
an of Fon du Lac, Wis, who did some
good work as nurse in New Orleans
during the last yellow fever Epidemic
there, has been accepted by the Red
Cross society and expects to be sent Ia
Cuba with the army.
THE will of john Kipp, an army
veteran, probated in jersey City re-
Gently. provided that 500 should BE-
expended for his burial, $50 for a
band, $50 for headstonc, $50 for Il
caskct, Sl6 for beer, SIS for tobacco
and pipes, each pipe to be painted with
red, white and blue stripes; $40 for
grave.
RECENT studies of the animal life of
Lake Tanganyika have shown that
that lake differs from all other AT
rican lakes in possessing inhabitants
that belong to the oceanic species.
Still, these singular dcnizens of Lake
Tanganyika are not exactly like the
marine organisms of the present day
and the conclusion is drawn that a sea
connected with the open OCEAN one,
occupied the parts of Africa where
Tanganyika now lies, and that the
lake is the last remnant of the an
cient sea.
The making of wool into ooi pull
and thence into paper set inventors t.
thinking, and II result is the discovery
of the transformation of wood fibers
into strong and handsome cloth, says
the New York Mail and Express. The
wood is boiled, crushed and the fibers
separated in parallel lines, dried and
spun, the same as cotton or wool. Oak,
hickory and locust make a very hand
some cloth, while bamboo produces
one that is almost iron-li<e in its
strength and elasticity. The cost of
the new Process is not large. but is
still little above that of converting
cotton or linen into substantial tissues.
UNLESS the Chicago papers are work
ing on fiction, Il DIR. j. H. Murphy, of
that city, has discovered consump,
tion cure which looks plausi BILE, ami 4
said to b. effective. His process is Il.
throw n diseased lung into temporary
collapse by filling it with nitrogen.
and allowing it absolute rest whils thn
| other lung does the work of re>pira.
ton. This prevents the throwing of
by coughing of the curative fluids se-
GREETED by nature and causes the death
of the bacilli. The lung is said To e.
! sumo its function, when the nitrogen
| is withdrawn. One would suppucs
I that such a process wonld curs peg
sou OF Kill him IN o short time,