Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-28

ties, like a dirty steam engine, needs
blowing out. The output of his
brain has about the same flavor Of
a smoke-cured ham. He has mo
power Of thought, no depth of feel
ing, no troublesome sensibilities :"
even the commonplace instincts
that he possesses being shriveled.
slimed and saturated with narcotic
essences stolen from the ponderous
jaws of calloused tobacco worm.
He has the complexion of q cauli-
flower, his eyes glimmer like tead's
fresh from a collision with a hop
pergrass, while his voice is some
thing between the squawk of a bel
ligerent gander and the Modified
rumblings of a masculine bovine.
Say, il this amt sufficient to arouse
our mutual friend from his lethar-
gy, let's step over and invite him
to attend the Reform school under
the supervision of Clodhopper.
South Side.
Kissics & Co., of Lexington, have
stationed a large saw-mill on Hen
~ Wills farm, where they will be
employed for some time.
Everyone is talking of it-noth-
ing like it was ever seen before
The OUrLooK-bring our paper
home, please, and subscribe.
The perplexing question with our
pretty young ladies that pick black
berries is to decide which they get
the greater portion Of, berries, ticks
or chiggers.
The South Side baseball team,
recently organized by Oscar Ken
dali and Charley Hovermale, claims
to be the second best in the State
and will soon be ready to challenge
the world.
II all the girls were just half as
good, pretty, cute and smart, and
boys too, in proportion a. their
mothers think they are what a per-
feet heaven this world would be.
What q pity everybody can't see
alike.
There are few people that are
very stylish, some of whom are
able to afford it, while there are
others who put on quito a good deal
of style and owe nearly everybody
in the country. There is nothing
like gall"
"These colleges" said an old
man to your scribe the other day,
lis the greatest things in the world.
Why, my sons done larnt me ter
play foot ball an hanged II the old
woman amt a-ridin Of q bicykile
in britchesl"
A Frenchburg young man a few
days since sent his girl q box of
nice blackberries, and the next day
another youth met him on the street
and said: "Those berries were very
good last night. Send some every
Wednesday evening; that's my
night, you know"
The last account we had of our
friends j. w. Classify and John
Henry, of Sideview, was the next
day after County Court ut Mt.
Sterling. They were sitting on a
big log, jess reading the Bible, and
"Uncle" John reading South Side
items.
The editor of the Darlington
Thomas Cat says he has just taken
in three six-foot blacksnakes, thir-
teen rattlesnakes and a couple of
carriers on subscription and asks
"What next?" A certificate of schol-
arship in a Kelley institute would
seem to be about the right thing.
If some people who owe two or
three years subscription to The
OUTLOOK would attend to their own
affairs and let other peoples bust
ness alone they would find it much
easier to get along through this old
sinful world and thereby have
friends where they have enemies.
Yes, "West End" I expect we
had better 60 sort'o slow and apol-
oaize. We thought you had for
gotten the night We went to the
dance and you set those girls
across the creek on your hip, and
the night We robbed Jess Caudilrs
old setting hen and stole-don't
you tell it.
One Of our good young ladies in
Q conversation the other day thus
graded it: "First step, smoking !;
second step, drinking beer; third
step, drinking whisky; fourth step,
common drunkard." She lie aware
of the fact that the fifth step is
right into hell. but a woman never
likes to use that bad word.
Six years ago last month was q
hot one. 1t got 90 warm that many
left their fields at some time during
the day for several of the warmer
days. In this neighborhood there
lived a thrifty German who made
up his mind not to let Old Sol drive
him in. He was blowing corn and
Old Sol kept shining hotter and
hotter. Finally his brooches got
too heavy for him and he took
them of and was blowing in his
shirt-tail. He had not been plow.
ing in his abbreviated costume long
until aomo had hova came alono And