Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1892-12-23

=. -. SCHEMNRHORN, sEcOlOBlSt,
claims to have. found fossil forest in
. Custer county, Idaho - s,s
: nsAs BoTTLE corking machine, with a
feedreservoir of corks like the magazine
gun,i a,recent invention.
Gov. PEcK's excuse for writing
"Peck's Bad Boy is that heswas .only
aforty-three,years old at the time. =
The largest catfish evercaught In the
Mississippi river was landed near Ca
rondelet 1t weighed 700 pounds.
F.. THR Dry Goods Examiner says 159
pearl button factories were started in
this country during the past two years
Two pelicans were. lately killed in
Jasper county, Mo-, one of them meas
uling nearly nine, feet in expanse OF
wing.
built at Everett, Wash, will be 800 feet
in length, AZ feet beam and 261S feet in
depth.
WHILE in Maine one can visit Norway,
Sweden, Mexico and Peru, and post.
Office has just been named in Knox
county for Turkey s
AN ingenious lndianian has invented
aplow In which an auger or screw
mold boards operated by means of a
drive wheel in the rear.
JoNEsBoRo, Ca, has a resident who,
1t is reported, has only spent IS in the
past six years for clothes. He is said
to be worth over $4,000.
AT the head of the Gulf of Bothnia
there is mountain, on the summit of
which the sun shines perpctually dur
ing June 10, 20, 81, 90 and 23. f
THIS very sage advice was given by an
aged priest: always treat an insult
like mud from passing vehicle; never
brush it off until it is dry"
Miss BERTIE CAMPBELL, of Allentown,
Pa, bet money that she could make a
pumpkin pie in five minutes She made
good ore in four minutes
AN average of three British seamen
lose their lives every day by drowning,
and 500 British steamers and sailing
vessels are lost at sea yearly
No INSTITUTION or device has with
stood ridicule so well as the nickel-in.
the-slot machine, which as collector
of small coin is still great success.
A AMosELEM, Pa, farmer grew, it is said,
an Irish potato, the stalk of which was
five feet seven inches in height, and
bore at its root a bushel of potatoes
MRs. q. VS.. QUACKENBUsH, of Troy,
N. Y, has given to the trustees of the
Troy Female seminary fund for the
erection of school for music and art
THE moth has a fur jacket and the
butterfly has none because the noctur.
nal habits of the moth require 1t. The
diurnal movements of the butterfly dc
not.
AN automatic match igniter is a re
cent novelty. You pull lever, mattel
travels along n roughened surface anG
is then thrust out of an opening already
ignited
A PHILADELPHIA woman goes shop
ping with a baby carriage which il
pushed by small colored boy in livery
and she returns with it loaded will
parcels.
New ZEALAND has set apart two
islands for the preservation OF its re
markable wild birds and other animals
forbidding therein all hunting ant
trapping.
SENATOR HoAR, who sailed for Eu
rope in May on account of serious
trouble with his eyes, has returned il
good health and with his sight great,
improved.
A CHAIN made for the United State
government at Troy, N, Y, in 1888, wa
six miles and fraction in length. |
was made of bars of iron each "a inche
in diameter.
Six brothers of the Frost family a
Kansas City own the following odd 10
of names: Jack Frost, Winter Frost
White Frost Cold Frost, Early Eros
and Snow Frost
A SLEEPING car company officia
states that fifty dozen whisks and sixt,
dozen combs are used up on his car
every month. This is suggestive of tn
mcmento gatherer.
THE Cotton marble works have jus
quarried what is claimed TO be tn
largest block of marble ever taken ou
in California. 1t is reported to be l
feet in length, feet inches in widt
and feet inches thick.
IT is asserted that there is not Ii,
ing stream of water in Thomas county
Kan, nor tree of natural growth. A
the same the farmers there don't fin
any trouble in raising wheat that turr
out thirty bushels to the acre.
AS NEARLY as can be aseertained, til
irrigated lands of California compri;
$500 900 acres Irrigation has cost $50
100000, but it has increased the valr
of the land $500, 600, 200.
PROF. A. u. HOPKINS, of the We
Virginia experiment station, has a
rived from Europe with bug whicl
ne thinks, will destroy the pine-tr,
beetle that has so greatly damaged Il
West Virginia forests
An advertisement appears in ives
ern paper which reads thus: IF &c
William Brown. who deserted his po,
wife and baue twenty-five years ag
viii return, the aforesaid babe wi
snock the stufiing out Of him"