Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-29
INTERESTING ITEMS.

The finest shops in a Chinese city
are those devoted to the sale of cof-
fins.
glass and covered with asphalt, with
highly satisfactory results.
Louis NV. of France, drank the first
cup of coffee made in western Europe.
Coffee was then worth 81 los. a pound.
THERE are |, l55 glaciers or ice rivers,
in the Alps, of which 249 have a length
of more than four and three-quarter
miles.
Miss HAMILTON GRIFFIN, half-sister
of Mary Anderson, is cultivating her
voice in Germany and will make her
debut as singer next year.
SUNsrBoKE, or, rather, heatstrolle,
can occur even in winter in a close,
darkened room where the temperature
is for long time above the normal.
SUFFERERS from neuralgia are warn
ed 10y medical writer not to drink
tea. but to partake of coffee INTO which
the Juice of a lemon has been squeezed.
4 CURIOSITY recently exhibited at
Stockho was a section four feet
in diameter from a pine tree which
grew 60 TO 20 miles north of the Arctic
circle.
AT Welbeck, in Germany, n decree
has been proclaimed that license to
marry will not be granted to any in
dividual who has been in the habit of
getting drunk.
The largest steamship ever built in
England is now in process of con-
struction. 1t is to have n total lengt tn
of 56i feet, a GA feet beam and a depth
of AZ feet, its total tonnage to be 49,
900. Time was when master ship
builders insisted that ships of this
size were impracticable, that they
could not be navigated advantageous.
~. This experience was based upon
the experience OF the Great Eastern.
But men know more about ship-build-
ing now than they did when the Great
Eastern was launched.
REV. ANsoS DODGE (episcopaD, of
St. Simon's island, brunswick, Ga q,
who has just died, endowned church
in Allahabad, India, with $40. 900 in
memory of his first wife, who died
there fifteen years. ago. He gave s4O.-
900 to the diocese of Georgia, southern
district; $40, 900 to the northern and
western districts, and S2O.0 to the
eastern district He built twelve
churches and chapels and many school,
houses in the southern district, and
esta blished ana endowed an orphans
home on st. Simon's island.
PROP. RE, of Palermo, arrives at the
conclusion that the Roentgen rays con-
sist of electric waves of infinite
wave length, or practically SO. This
sence of interference phenomena, the
luminescence, the passage round OBJ
stacles, the manner of reflection, the
absence of refraction, the photo
graphic action. The theory admits
the possibility of polarization, but it
is weak in regard to the difference be-
tween diffe<ent Roentgen radiations in
respect of their pene trative powers.
The Germans have been making
head against their English competitors
in the Uruguayan trade 1t is claimed
the German goods are not as dura BILE
as those of English manufacture, that
they are distinctly of a poorer quality,
but the Germans have had the sagacity
to study the demands of the market,
have found out what the Uruguayans
want. The same authority furnishes
the information that the American
manufacturers of agricultural imple-
ments are rapidly making Roadway
in Uruguay in spite Of English and
German competition.