Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-28
INTERESTING ITEMS.

IL the fourteenth century suits of
armor often weighed 115 pounds and
over
OUT of 226, 900 farms in Denmark
only 1900 are more than 80 acres in
extent
Ar recent western wedding the
wedding march was whistled by L. girl
friends of the bride.
IL ~ nth Africa there is great de-
mand for doukeys, as they are proof
against climate, plague and flies.
THE republic of Uruguay has more
newspapers in proportion to its popu-
lation than any country in the world.
In India the rhododendron grows To
height of so feet. Marigo,ds and
camomiles in North America reach a
height of or 5 feet.
IN Nuremberg, Bavaria, there are
many very ancient houses still in an
excellent state of preservation, some of
which were built as early as the year
1850
The Maine ice crop for trade outside
the state, which is put up almost en-
tirely on the Penobscot and kcnebec
rivers, is estimated at about $4,000
tons.
SEVERAL well known French cyclists
have lately, it is said. been rejected as
unfit for military service by reason OF
hypertrophy and other diseases Of thu
heart.
OUTDOOR chairs and benches for
parks are provided with hinged backs,
which can be closed over the seat to
protect it from the weather and keep
it dry when it rains.
A SCoTCH tea planter in Ceylon, Mr..
Malcomson, is going to start planta-
tions in Mexico, and is now negotiat-
ing for the transport of 500 Japanese
coolies to Vera Cruz
In 1850 the tallest building in New
York was only five stories high, and
the church spires were conspicuous
above them. Now there Is only one
spire in the city as high as the tallest
building.
DURING the last 80 years Great
Britain has been at war more frequent
ly than any other nation. The total
number of large and small wars waged
during that time amounts to about 80,
or one year.
WHEN a newly designed fountain pen
fails to work an auxiliary pen can be
pushed down to take its place by OPP
Grating n sliding ring on the holder,
the second pen being intended for use
with an ink bottle.
PARIS and Marseilles are connected
by telegraph lines entirely under
ground. They are placed in iron pipes
and buried four feet beneath the sur
face, with manholes 5000 feet apart.
1t cost nearly el,500, 900 to bury the
wires.
ALTHOUGH this country has not the
advantage of location that Great
Britain has as regards German mar
kets, yet one-third the sewing ma
chimes and two-fifths of the bicycles
imported into that country in 1897
came from the United States.
JAPAN is land of many periodicals.
1t is said that already there are 500
newspapers and magazines in the king
dom. Toxic alone has 20 newspapers.
The religious reviews are said to be
the richest, while the Japanese Ladies'
Magazine perniciously spread Partisan
fashions among the DANES of the
kimono.
RECENTLY, while excavating some
land for the construction of the mu-
nicipal sewage outfall works at Stock
port, Cheshire, England, a gigantic
fossilized oak, with two branches COM
plete, and computed to weigh over 40
tons, was .unearthed. 1t is quite an
unique specimen, being larger than
any oak at present growing in En-
gland, and its solidity and beauty of
color and grain are alike remarkable.
Prof. Boyd Dawkins, of Owens college,
considers it can not be less than 10, 00e
years old,