Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NEBEAsKA's corn crop is worth sS7,-
geo. 900.
The most rapidly growing of Ger
man cities is Dusseldorf. Twelve
years ago it had 10000 inhabitants.
To-day it has 1876. 900
A LEARNED antiquarian says that
smoking piprs OF bronze are frequently
found in Irish sepulchral mounds of
the most remote antiquity.
AN Austrian commission recently
appointed to consider the advisabilitv
of allowing the manufacture of art-
fetal wine has decided in the negative
ABOUT 5000 words in the English
language have no rhyme to them.
These include such important w9r.ss
as >pn"I, virtue. gulf, month and
ecao. a
Jsr.. rEN. TANGO has issued proc
ltgratioI ,us. IL soldiers in Cuba reg
MIA and volunteers, who have served
san years, may remain in Cuba If they
SO elect.
AN Englishman has designed n vest
to be worn on sea voyages which can
be used as life prescrver. the front
and back having air-tight compar T.
ments to be inflated by blowing in the
mouthpiece.
IT is an inexplicable fact that men
buried in an avalanche of snow hear
distinctly every word uttered by those
who are seeking for them, while their
most strenuous shouts fail to penetrate
even a few feet of the snow.
THE deepest lake in the world is
Lake Baikal, in Siberia. In some parts
it is 5, a6l feet deep; it's length is 397
miles, with an area of $4,000 square
miles 1t is the largest lake in Asia,
and the sixth largest in the world.
BENIN's ex-king, who is detained as
a prisoner by the British at Old Gala
bar, having been reduced to three
wives instead of 500 he had before, has
taken to smoking briarwood pipe and
atte nding services at the Presbyterian
mission.
PLYMOUTH, Eng, has just cele brated
the opening of its new waterworks.
begun five years ago. A lake, contain.
ing $50, 900, 900 gallons, was made 10y
closing the two lower outlets of the
Burrator valley of the Meavy river
I
hill to hill, thus forming huge Gun.
One dam is 500 feet long, "a feet thick
at the base and II at the top. The
second wall is 700 feet long. The ex-
cavations went down over 100 feet be-
low the old bed of the river.
MUCH is claimed for tine new French
explosive named ''promethee, the
composition of which is now made
known as consisting, in its solid por.
tion, OF So per cent OF potash, 20 per
cent manganese dioxide and 20 per
cent ferrie oxide-this being tritu-
rated, mixed in a mill and filled into
cartridges, a permeable artridge be-
| ing employed to facilitate the penetra-
| tion of the oil, the latter consisting of
so per cent of petroleum and 10 per
cent oil of bitter almonds. This pre-
pared liquid is not used to impregnate
the cartridge until just before it is
| to be used
AN electric kitchen in operation at
the general offices of the Edison Co, ,
in New, York, is model of culinary
art. The oven bakes brown biscuits
in jiffy and twist of the wrist dis
poses of the old hearthstone adage,
"a watched pot never boils." The new
tangled teaTot, with an electric heat.
err, begins TO boil within 60 seconds.
In order to encourage cooking, heat
ing, etc, by electricity, the company
proposes to include kitchen apparatus,
heating and veEtilating in reckoning
installa:io here Alter. Thus the cost
of lighting wtl Be relatively dimin.
ished by the use OF current FOR ihess
purposes,