Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-25
INTERESTING ITEMS.

The exodus of the priests from the
church of France is attracting tine "a
tention of the French press. Some of
them are qualifying for the Protest.
ant ministry, and others are going into
business.
THE latest thing made in Germany"
is harmonious bicycle" This terri
bic invention is constructed to grind
out 500 tunes. The continuance is a.
fixed to the handleba and worked by
the front wheel, and will play for an
hour while the cyclist is pedaling at a
speed OF ten miles.
VIGOROUS measures will be taken in
Madagascar to prevent the extinction
of the population. After next year
every man - years of age vino can
not show that he is the father of a
child, legitimate or illegitimate, will
pay an annual tax of SIS. Childless
women over % years of age Will pay
SIS
At the sugar conference in Brussels
| the delegates of Great Britain, Ger
many, Austria Hungary, Belgium and
Holland were ready to propose the
abolition of bounties while those of
France and Russia insisted on their
retention. sweden and Spain would
agree to anything.
AN extraordinary run of luck is re-
corded at the last drawing of the city
of Paris bonds, when six successive
numbers were drawn belonging to one
owner, a barber at Nerrieres L. Buis.
son. The first drew 1000 francs, the
next two the right of being withdrawn
at par, 500 francs; the fourth drew a
prize of 500 francs, the fifth 1000
francs, and the sixth the grand priz.
of 100, 900 francs
The first American tramp" steam
ship has just been launched at Bath,
Me. She Is 500 feet long, with a ~.
| foot beam and a5-foot depth. The ves-
sci will carry S, 500 tons of dead weight
freight and will seek for cargoes
| wherever she can get them. The rea-
son this class OF vessels are called
"tramps" is the fact that they roam
around all over tn, world, get cargo
wherever they can and have no home
port
The army of 10000 men ut Camp
Merritt consumed last month 3O4 Ol6
pounds of fresh beef, 4s.l of bacon,
500, SIS of flour, Is. s9s of baking pow-
| der, 3.474 of beans, l, l5S of rice, a11. 95S
of potatoes, 60, 4s9 of onions, oI,796 of
coffee, 5,9la of sugar, lS.s9S of salt,
S,474 of vinegar and $50 of PEPPER;
they used 5.2l2 pounds of candles and
IS, SOS of soan. From these figures a
slight idea may be gained OF the work
of the commissary department.
EXPERIMENTS upon materials at ow
temperatures which have been de
possible by the advent OF liquid aid
develops some unexpected results A
ball of India rubber cooled to the te NJ
perature of the air becomes brittle,
and if dropped on the floor flies in to
pieces. while 4 ball of lead will re-
bound, having acquired a remarka bile
increase of elasticity. Lead also makes
a very respectable spiral spring at n
temperature of 200 or 800 degrees be.
ow zero.
THE only tea plantation in the
United States is located near Summer
vile, S. c. 1t is the property of DIR.
Charles u. Shepard, who has under
taken to prove that tea, one of the
greatest staple ARTICLES used by Amer
leans to-day can be raised by our farm
ers profitably. Last season DIR. Shop
ard sent to market upward of loo
pounds of the finest tea obtainable,
and this years crop, he states, will
amount to more than two thousand
pounds.
HITHERTO workmen and others who
had to bear very strong white light in
their work or profession have been in
the habit of wearing blue glasses to
relieve their eyes from the possibility
of being blinded This is the case with
sailors who operate the powerful
searchlights that are now so necessary
an adjunct to the war vessels and COM
mercial craft, especially if their eyes
happen to be blue or gray. But re-
Gently it has been demonstrated that
yellow colored glasses will serve their
purpose better, and it Is expected that
they will be used hereafter,