Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-01-27
INTERESTING ITEMS.

THE German agrarian press has
started a campaign against American
wines.
y Guu >'uNNN '-tiwntCe that there
are about 10000 libraries in the world
worthy of the name.
\ MICRO laborcr has confessed To tine
murder of three people in Hale county,
Alabama, the motive being robbery.
Is China n company of 80 actors can
be engaged for $50 to play as many
pieces as may bc desired for two days
at IA stretch. ------
Mrs. GEORGE SMELTZ, of Hampton,
Va, has given 5000 to Richmond coll
lcge tn be used in the erection of a
science building.
The laws delays are illustrated by
the fact that case has finally been
dismissed in the st. Louis courts be-
cause every one who was ever connect
ed with it is dead.
An officer sent by the war depart
ment to ascertain the condition of af-
fairs on the Yukon, reports that while
there is Il shortage of stores, famine
does not exist, nor is one likely to oc-
cur.
MARIE AMEIIE of Portgugal, enjoys
the distinction of being the first wom-
an of royal birth who has acquired
the honorable right to add the letters
NJ. ID. to the Regina that follows her
name.
a NEW kind of cloth is being made in
Lyons from the down of hens, ducks
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make rather more
than a square yard of light, water
proof cloth.
PRoF. Koch has been invited by the
Indian government to return tn India
To study the plague. but has declined
for the present, rs his presence in Ger
man East Africa is necessary for some
time to come.
THERE is great satisfaction in Swift
be used for the Jungfrau railway has
been tried on the road now being built
up the Great Graf, where it has proved
n complete success
The health of the king of Italy, which
has improved during the last three
years, is again causing uneasiness. His
fainting fits, which at one time had al
most disappeared, have again begun to
afllict him, especially after long and
fatiguing ceremonies.
THE green ants of Australia make
nests by bending leaves together and
uniting them with kind of natural
glue. Hundreds of them have been
seen on one leaf drawing it to the
ground, while an equal number waited
to receive, hold and fasten il.
LORD HEREFORD, who has just been
appointed governor general of Canada,
began official life as a page, was after
ward lord in waiting and still later con-
troller or the household of the queen.
His salary will be about $50, 900 v ear
and allowances will amount to as
much more.
LIVINGSTONE was slow to believe that
cannibalism prevailed to any great ex-
tent in the Congo regions. Capt. Kinds
found it widely prevalent. He says, in
his recent book, The Fall of the Con-
go Arabs" $50 far as | have been able
to discover, nearly all the tribes of the
Congo basin either are or have been
cannibals; and among some of them
the practice is on the increase" In
some districts n regular traffic in
human flesh was carried on, and to
such an extent that the Europeans did
not venture to buy flesh offered in the
market, especially when smoked.
KING IIUMBERr and Queen Margherita
are about to undertake royal progress
through the island of Sicily, with the
object of reviving the royalty to the
throne in that neglected portion of the
nress 9ions, and at the same Ting
ticiaIs that ~ the minds ~ - ol'
them ready to rewa isssoS S"rvin above ens
to punish dishonesty 1t is idle to
deny that the tour will be attended
with a certain degI,e of danger. No
where in the kingdom is crime more
rampant, or has miery reduced the
masses to such a state of reckless DIES.
peration as in this beautiful island.