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 THE KIPU.
Bunch of Strings Used by the Ancients to Keep Accounts.


 to Keep Accounts.
 Dr. Max Uhle distinHished Ger man scientist. has been for many years engaged in archaeological ex- plorations in Peru He now retl ms to that country under the auspices of the American Exploration society for the purpose of clearing some of the unsolved problems of the ancient civ ilization of the Incas and to complete collection for the museum of the University of California. He had made similar collection for the Uni Yersity of Pennsylvania. Dr. Uhle proposes to remain two years in Peru to complete his work. Among other important discoveries of Dr. Uhle is the kipu, a collection of knotted strings of different colors, which were used by the people of the ancient civiliza tions of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia for the purpose of keeping accounts They had no written language and no sys. tenn of figures. Their arithmetic con- sisted solely of little knotted strings. Among the primitive. villages of tho
 
 depend upon the kipu for keeping ac- counts, and Dr. Uhle was so fortunate as to discover them in the hands of Indian herdsmen, who used them so skillfully that they are able to make record of every animal, every bushel of feed and article of property that is intrusted to their care. The colors of the different strings represent differ ent articles, such as barley, corn, sheep, rams, ewes, lambs, horses, etc, while the knots, by their size and dis tance from each other, express hun dreds, tens and units, in such a man. her as to accurately include the deci- mals. For example, one of the kipus obtained by pr. Uhle from a shepherd near Lake Titacaca showed that he had delivered 3S7 sheep, 2S5 rams 121 lambs 1 year old, and 99 still younger: the number of bushels of barley that had been used, the number of sheep killed and furnished to the kitchen Of the owner of the flock, and the num- Der eaten by the shepherds, the num- Der that died of disease, the number killed by wild animals and by acci- dent, as completely and as accurately as if it had all been set down by double-entry bookkeeping.
 Worse Than Automobile. The Germans call their new electric
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All for His Family. ]

A dangerous, criminal was about to be executed in California While hia last toilet was going forward an Enr- lishman who had just landed begg6d five minutes conversation with him. which was granted. All that was heard of the interview was the final remark of the criminal. He called after his visitor: "A thousand pounds to my heirs? You understand?" When the hangman had prepared for his sad duty, the cuiprit claimed the right to say a farewell word. Lifting up his voice, he roared aloud to the assem- bled multitude: All you who listen hear my dying statement. The best coffee is the coffee of Messrs. Chicory. Chewem & Checker, of Calcutta and London. .'-The Argonaut.
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COST OF THE CUP DEFENDER
Racing Yacht Has Cost a Handsome
 Fortune to It's Owners.

Fortune to It's Owners.
 A correspondent of the Army and Navy Journal having applied to it for information on the subject, that paper answers that the cost of the building Of the Columbia has been =yarious1y estimated at from $10o,090 to $150,0o0, and for the Shamrock at from Sl50000 to S200 000 1t then adds: X sum- mary of the cost of the Shamrock, based on estimates from various sources, is as follows: Construction and rig, $2o0600; pay roll officers and men. including sailmakers and carpen- ters eight mem, for four months at average of $40, SIP, 2,S00; provisions for men and officers, at $5 a week for eighteen weeks, $7,200; clothing for crew, $1,000; for dry-docking twice, $600; tender at $150 day, for sixty days, S, 1000; tugboat at $50 a day, for sixty days, $3,600; derrick and lighter services. $500; lighter for storage of spars for six weeks, $600; freight for spars and sails by steamer. $500; pas sage for thirty worBmen, triggers, etc, $5 ,000; total, $242, 500. If the special services of the designer, Mg Fife, and Of SaiImaker Ratsey, who came to this country, are | charge against the ae- count the sum would, of course, be so much augmented. Reeapitulation shows that the Erin and Shamrock represent first cost of $725,0O0 The cost of running the Erin increases the expenses to $S75, ,000."
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Tons of Poems.

Queen Victoria eheerfully bears
 position the inflictions of a crowd of
 minor poets who send their verses to
 Ter in honor of every conceivable oc- SI Il lon. It is said that at theA eApirth of zz<h pllIriK1e of Wales no less thAn half s.'s,ro poetry was deliy9red at
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PET ANIMALS BECOME PESTS.
Horses. cats, Pigs. Goats and Rabbits
 All Have Become Nu'sances.

All Have Become Nu'sances.
 Ordinary domestic animals under fa- vorable conditions often become pests. Some instances: In 1897 Nevada passed a law permitting the killing of wild horses as nuisances. In Washington they are cut up to bait traps. Most of the wild horses on the continent are descended from few loosed by Cortez in Mexico. In Australia hunters shoot wild horses, which eat grass needed by the sheep and cattle Cats have made home on Cat island. one of the Ker- guelens where they are so wild that 1t Is impossible to tame them. Their pro- genitors escaped from whaling vessels. They were put ashore on Sable island. off Nova Scotia, to kill the rabbits that had become pest. Now the rabbits are gone and the cats are worse. Pigs were put ashore on many islands, such as Bermuda, the Galapagos and is- lands along the southern coast, as food for shipwreeked sailors. In every case they have multiplied and become wild. Capt. Cook put some ashore on New L6dlduu, WH6IS iuEy rti ioW oAlot eso game. St. Helena, mountainous is- land of small extent, 2,700 feet high, was heavily wooded at its discovery. To-day it is a rocky desert, owing to the introduction of goats by the Por- tuguese in 1513. When the goats ate off the underbrush rain washed away the soil and the big trees tumbled. Rabbits are the worst of all animal scourges in Australia and New Zea- land. They are poisoned, killed for their skins, for their meat; lStill they multiply. Cats alone t<Sill them off but then cats bec0T st also. Since 1S73 New Ad shipped more than 20Qc ofe
 skins.-Ne York Woi VIZ
 Sn
 X Lucky !
 Several stage-loa =
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SEEMS SLOW NOW.
Zen Miles an Hour by Rail Forty-seven
 Years Ago.

Zen Miles an Hour by Rail Forty-seven Years Ago.
 T was greatly interested the other day. said a passenger conductor who runs into New Orleans, "in looking over an old schedule of the South Carolina railroad, printed just forty seven years ago. in the fall Of g. It is hard to realize what tremendous changes have taken place within the memory of the people who are now alive and hearty. In the 50's the South Carolina line was considered one of the best equipped and fastest in the country. l find by the old schedule that the night express between Charleston and Columbia, which is distance of about 130 miles, made the trip, when it had good luck, in F hours and b minutes, but the public was warned not to expect such 8 feat every day. The freight service be. tween the two points was scheduled to cover the run in 29 hours. there or thereabouts That was a shade better than four and one-half miles an hour, and was considered so fast that there Is special order to trainmen to stop at the first siding in dense fogs and wait for the same to lift. 1t seems to me that order gives one a wonder ful picture of the good old times. Think of throus l freight roasting on siding, waiting for fog to lift! Nowadays the passenger trains make the run from Charleston to Columbia in four hours. According to the '52 schedule, there was an express train that left Charleston at , D. m. and arrived in Hamburg at 6 the following morning. The distance is 136 miles. freight for Aiken, 120 miles away, left at the same hour, and reached it's destination at $40 next night. Ten miles an hour was considered remark able speed for passenger trains in those days, and an old inhabitant told me that many people declined to risk their necks at such gait From what l hear of the rolling-stock equipment. they showed their good senseP-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 h iSCAcdb.Oudt
 During the performance Of the drama s'When London Sleeps" at the Broad way theater. Deptford, England, an unrehearsed incident Of q sensational character was witnessed by the audi enee When the performance had reached the stage at which the villain attempts to strangle tne girl whom he has wronged and drown the child someone in the gallery, apparently car ried away by the situation, threw knife at him as he stood in the center Of the stage. The knife missed it's aim. but struck the musical director in the back of the head who staggered from his seat in the orchestra, and proceed ed underneath the stage where his in- juries were attended to The sensa- tional incident passed unnoticed by the actors, but was noticed by the audi eree.
 Got Her Dell.
 4 little English girl dropped her doll in a very deep hole not long ago and wrote to Queen Victoria that she thought it had dropped through the earth, and, as she had heard the other side belonged to the queen, she wished the queen would order 1t sent back. She did not get her own doll back, but she got another one, a great deal finer.
 
 The Fe :. Hour.
 DetrqEt Free Press: I'll 6W happy the Dabne Jonesef look nine. II .,, 5saf F ss 1f3f F ax %t f5S E $<
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surnames i. Ireland.

One of the curiosities of recent philo- logical Literature is the appendix to the 1893 report of the British registrar general, which bears the suggestive ti- tie, "Surnames in Ireland" From that compilation one who has an eye for the curious may glean facts and figures for q most interesting article. For in- stance it is shown that the most com- mon name on the Emerald Isle is Mur- phy, the number of persons, great and small, who bear the cognomen being e2,60O. The following come next in or der of frequency: Kelly, 55,9o0; Sulli- van. 43.6Oo; Walsh, 41,700; Smith, 370OO; O'Brien, 33,400; Byrne. 33.200; Ryan, 32,o00; Connor, 31,200; O'Neil, 29,110 and Reilly, 29,OO0.
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A Singular Case.

A singular case has just been decided
 in Germany after occupyi nearly a year in trial When Prince Bismarck died, two Hamburg photographers
 bribed watcher in the room to allow them to take fash-light picture of the dead chancellor. They tried to sell the photograph, but the Bismarck family interfered The photograph itself furnished the evidence which convicted the persons concerned. The men who took the picture did not notice a clock on the wall, which was reproduced in the photograph, and re corded the exact moment when the view was taken. It was known who was on watch at tEat nNent. and the faithless watcher Savs names of tho n1o of6orn 7ers hgxG
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Worse Than Automobile.

WUlb6 HUH zAutU4x1OU1lcs
 The Germans call their new electric cabs sauto1ho 1hobiletaxameterdroschken-" By the time they get through callipg them the fabs are generally out -
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Got Her Dcll.

A little English girl dropped her doll in very deep hole not long ago and wrote to Queen Victoria that she thought it had dropped through the earth, and, as she had heard the other side belonged to the queen, she wished the queen would order 1t sent back
 She did not get her own doll back, but she got another one. great deal finer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-03
Valuable secret for Him.

A Cincinnati man advertised his de- sire to sell a valuable secret for fifty cents. He stated that he would tell how he was cured of drinking, smok- ing, swearing, staying out at night. going to the races, gambling, and hew he gained twenty pounds in weight in two years. Several persons sent him fifty cents each, and here is the secret they received: Just cured of all bad habits named by an enforced resi- dence of two years in the Ohio stat0 prison." A woman notices this joke and observes that few men addicted toI .ns bad habits mentioned will consent; to try this remedy, but there ss sss s:cz doubt that many of them should eN forced to do so.-Berlin Herald.
 Remarkable Village
 Tn New Guinea the village of IF puselei is most remarkable. The houss are all supported on piles and sfa out in the ocean consid1
 tance f4ser aere: This Nthe v~ily the
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The Fe Hour. Detrdtt Free Press N happy the Dabne Jonessf looH Rips. lt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-03

X Lucky ! Several stage-loa (Mass.) people, who having a free ride !ls in a neighbos e ' i1|5fG1 zxSf e70 4o as
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02
Salt Lick.

Frank Prater came to this town
with the corpse of his wife Jan
Goth, on his way to Blackwater
Morgan county, for interment
Douglass Smith accompanied him,
returning Monday night. Mr.. Smith
says he found many friends and
was Hospitality cared for.
Mrs. Peachy Rose Hedger, wife
of Thornton Hedger, Sheriff OF
Menifee county, died at Frenchburg
Jan. 17lh, 1899, and the remains
were brought back to the burial
ground on the old homestead in
the southern part Of Bath county
for interDent. She was the only
daughter of Van Rose, deceased, q
well-known and respected citizen,
who passed away April 9Th, 1898
and his wife. Mrs. Any Rose. Mrs
iedger was 30 years old the 18th
of last March. She leaves only one
child, son eleven years old. She
was a half sister of j. W., Jessie
A. b. and Douglass Smith, all we'll.
known good citizens, and a full
brother Lonny Rose.
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Licking Union.

Several RATS went down Licking
the last tide.
Tom Snedegar mas moved over to
Rowan on L. I. Carey's place.
Prayer meeting every Thursday
and Sunday night from house to
house.
A certain young man in this
community seems to think he need >
a start before he marries, so he has
gone to the timber woods. That's
right, Ep. but you must get IA hus-
tie on yourself. March will soon
be here.
w. II. Ham and Scott johnson
attended the birthday pound par
ty given by Miss Sallie Crosthwaii,
of Mount Hope, Friday night. The
boys don't seem to care for high
water when they want to go to a
party. They report good time.
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Upper PriCkly Ash.

Isaac Hunt, who has been sick
for several days, is no better.
Perry Goodpastcr sold dry
COW 10 Daniel Harper for s26.
Daniel Harper, who has been
quite i'll for several days with the
grip, is some better.
Miss Jennie Is. Cartmill, Of Sapp,
Fleming county, is visiting rela-
tives in this neighborhood.
Jas. Harper and wife, If Cat
lettsburg, and W. G. Harper, of
Stcpstone, were at Daniel Harper's
Friday and SATURDAY.
Woodsnn Shrout bought of b. F.
Shrout his undivided interest in
the G.. W. Shrout tract of land for
5000, equivalent to cash.
Died. Jan. %, Della May Cart
mill. second daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. &. l.. Cartmill, of tonsihtis.
Sire was born in February, 1895.
Although not quite four years old
she weighed about ll5 pounds. She
was intelligent and Of a lovable
disposition and was the idol of heI
parents. Burial at the Cartmill
graveyard. The bereaved family
have the sympathy of the entire
community in their sadness.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02
ANNOUNCEMENTS

To THE DEMoC CRATIC VOTERS OF
BATH COUNTY, hereby announce
myself as candidate for the office
Of Judge of the Bath County Court,
subject To the action of the Demo-
cratic party, and declare that ! favor
the following
LIST, An economical administration
of the fiscal affairs of the county;
I'd, The payment Of all just and L.
gal obligations of the county i'm the
most speedy manner consistent with
public interests;
Sd. A reduction of expenses, in
clnding salaries Of county officers;
4th, The further acquiring and taxi
Ing up Of all the remaining turnpike
roads in the county and keeping
them in repair;
5th, An economical and judicial
expenditure Of the turnpike fund, IL
the end that free turnpikes may
reach the free Observation-Disclosures
and expectations and desires of the
people.
Upca these issues I solicit your
pport. JOHN A. DAUGHERTY.
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Bethel.

Professor Oscar Robertson COM
menced his spring school here Mon
day with 30 pupils.
Mrs. W. Il. Scott, Mrs. Will Hen
derson. Mrs. Allie Robertson are
still on the sick list.
Cyrus ArrasmIth returned from
Cincinnati Friday, where he had
been on business trip.
Jacob F. Trumbo. of near Mmr's
Station, Fayette county, spent sun.
day with his brother, ID. :. Trumbo
Charles Wilson, Allie Robertson,
John Bettis and Others left Monday
for Louisville to attend the tobacco
market.
Rev. Cheep, Of Paris, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church IT Sharps,
burg, filed the pulpit of Elder
Schoonover at the Christian Churcn
here Sunday night, Elder Schoon-
over filling his pulpit at Sharps-
burg.
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SharpSburg.

Wanted-To find man that
did vote for free turnpikes.
c. c. Boyd visited his fathers
family at Somerset on Wedne sday.
Harry McCue, of the 4th Ky. In
fantry. is expected home in few
days.
G. Elgin Sharp and Charles Ar
mold have started new blacksmith
shop on Mil! street.
David Cassidy and wife, Of Lit
tie Rock, visited at the home of
John Fields on Thursday.
Misses Kate and Lide Smathers
and Waller Boyd visited friends
near Sideview on Friday and Sat
urday.
The SICK.-J. o. AtchIson, J. o.
Ratliif, Ed Peck, Miss Mary Belle
Sharp and Leo Brown are reported
better at this writing.
J. +. Heath, at the old Hover
male shop two miles south of town,
has fitted up nice store room and
will conduct general store.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fields were
called to the bedside of their sick
sister, Mrs. Pepper, in Fleming Co.,
on Friday, who is not expected to
live.
Peter Stoner, who has been res
ident here for thirty three years,
will leave in few days for Chris
tian county. his old home, and will
probably go on to Florida To spend
the winter.
7 Miss Kate Corbett, Of Mt. Ster-
ling, closed her school at Gudgell
Hill school-house last Wednesday
lwith a nice treat to- the scholars,
Miss Kate is Il splendid teacher and
has given universal satisfaction.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02

The LOUISVILLE DIsPATcH has
serious trouble in it's "midst." b.
A. Enloe, the Tennessee editor who
came from Nashville to Louisville
in 1896 to establish the Dispatch
as a free-silver organ to down the
gold bug journals there, has resign
ed as editor and says that the money
power by subscribing $4,000 to
the capital stock of the Dispatch
Publishing Co. has gained a con.
trolling voice in its editorial policy.
That's the way with journals es-
tablished to down some other paper.
The journalistic trail in the United
States is strewn with the corpses
and bones of such, hut only a few
learn anything from it.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02

CECIL RHODES has induced the
British government to guarantee
$50 miles-from Buluwayo to Fam
besi-of the great railroad from
Cairo. Egypt. to Cape Town, South
Africa. That looks like a vast
project until pathfinder" Boone's
Pipe Dream" system Of railroads
is considered. The Arabian Nights
even are not ia it by the side OF
Boone. The Pipe Dream" railroad
starts any old place, branches and
ramifies at each watering tank,
covers the continent, and then runs
clean to the ultimate fireworks,
where he will soon send his doubt
ing critics.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
MAYORS Branch.

Old Aunt Kittie Coyle lie on the
sick list.
Anthony Lathram has returned
from an extended visit In Owen Co.
Mrs. w. j. Honaker has been
sick. but is some better at this wri-
ting.
Louis A. Knox and wife, Of Ow-
ingsvilie, are visiting relatives in
this community.
We had another rain. Slate was
on a boom Tuesday and Wednes-
day of last week.
David Crouch and family, of
near Odessa, are visiting relatives
in this neighborhood.
There is talk Of several more res
licences going up near the Slate
Church in the near future.
Julius Bailey is erecting a new
residence near the Slate Valley
Church; John NJ. Coyle, boss work.
man.
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MOOre'S Ferry.

Pearl McLuin is also on the sick
list.
Jos. Purvis is on the sick list
with sympt, ms of fever.
Allen Spence will erect new
store at Iledrick's shortly.
Born. Jan. 81, 1899. to VIM. Ra-
zor and wife, "a ten-pound boy.
Miss Annie l.. Sorrrll visited her
sister. Mrs. B. b. Christy, Saturday
and Sunday.
VIM. Collins bought five head of
cattle last week of W. X. Razor at
$25 head.
Mrs. Susan Baty. who had been
staying with Mrs. Susan Ratlitf, of
Ringo's Mills, for some time, re-
turned home last week.
Mrs. Sibbie Mcdonald, j. A. Nc
Donald. Mrs. +. J. Blackford and
Miss Myrtle Rice visited William
Station and wife Thursday.
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Crooks.

Miss Ethel Barnes is considerably
better.
Hurrah for our free turnpikes
They are good ones"
A 9-pound girl was born to Eli
Craycraft and wife, Jan. 26.
]. F. johnson sold three hogs to
Fritz Carmichael at 81 cents.
VIM. Donohue sold 3 meat hogs
to Emmanuel Carpenter at cents
pound.
1t should have been Rennie Car
penter that sold his tobacco to j.
NJ. Richart instead of Rennie Car
michael.
Dudley Hart died at the home of
his brother-in-law. Presley Barnes,
Thursday, Jan. 26, of Bright's dis
ease. He had been in failing health
for the last year or so. He was
once married, his wife having died
number of years ago. He was a
highly esteemed farmer and q more
perfect gentleman never lived. In
his death we lose one of our best
citizens. He leaves 4 brothers and
3 sisters, besides close connection
all over the county, to mourn his
loss. To these we extend our most
heartfelt sympathy in their dark
hour of bereavement. His remains,
followed by a large concourse of
relatives and friends, were laid to
rest in the Owingsville Cemetery
Friday. May his soul find a resting
place in the great beyond.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-02

SENATOR VIM. GoEBEL opened his
campaign for the Gubernatorisl
nomination with a speech at Leba-
non Monday week. He said he
wouldn't accept a nomination unless
on the Chicago platform, declared
warmly for free silver, Bryan and
Blackburn. He says the 'crime of
1873" must be avenged, and good
times will never come without Is
to l silver coinage. Up to the time
of the State convention in 1896
there was no stronger gold-stand-
ard advocate in the State. How
are people to judge the sincerity of
such men? Convictions on such
questions do not undergo natural
changes that way.
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Olympia.

tgs d. F. jackson was in Mt.
Ting the past week.
Ben Il. Nicholson, of johnson
Station, was down Sunday.
VIM. Colvin, one of our hustling
drummers, was in town Saturday,
accompanied by his wife.
David Gault, recently Of Texas,
but now of Owingsville, is visiting
his sister. Mrs. j. X. jackson.
Sam jackson, of near Millers-
burg, was up the past week. sam
talks as though he might be back
with us again soon.
Some boys Of the Sour Spring
neighhorhood have got their foot
in il" by misconduct during relig
ions services at that place.
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CLUBBING TERMS.

The Ow'nssvi.le Outlook and
either Of the following will be
sent for one year for the price
named:
Outlook and Twice-a-Week
Courier-Journal. $3.50.
Outlook and Weekly Cincin-
natl Commercial TrIbun
ST. 40.
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