Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-09-01
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AN aluminium bridge over Gibraltar
Is proposed.
Sixty thousand people in Ireland
speak Irish only.
COAL mines were begun in Pennsyl.
vania in 17s4at Pittsburgh.
GLASS curtains are coming into use
and are said to give satisfaction.
HoGG, BACON & Frer is the name of a
mercantile firm in western Australia.
FOURTEEN Negro lawyers have been
admitted to practice at the Georgia
bar.
A sEATURTLE weighing 1000 pounds
was captured near Portland, Maine, re.
Gently
The Salt sea was the home Of oysters
from fourteen to twenty inches in di.
ameter.
ILLINOIS now has new crime added
to the penal code; it is called wife de.
sertion.
Mrs JULIA CUMMINGS, aged III years,
of Red Bank, N. j.. has son who is 81
years old
HAHsToRMs very rarely occur in
countries where there is large growth
of timber.
MORE machinery is moved by the Mer
rimac river than by any other stream in
the world.
THE post office department costs &c.,
900, 600 year, and has revenue Of
s61, 600, 900.
The loss of champagne by bursting
bottles sometimes amounts TO twenty
five per cent
THE catalogue of the books in the Ii
brary of the British museum occupies
1000 volumes,
BRADsTREET makes the estimate tina,
since June $780, employees have lost
their situations.
Official reports from the Mexican
government show 1,S75 Mormon resi-
dents in Mexico.
EVERY man in the French republic i,
required by law to serve at least one
yenr in the army.
IMITATION pearls are nowadays sc
skillfully made that they are prettiel
than the genuine.
EVERY regiment of the British army
in India has been rearmed with the
new magazine rifles.
THE 43d anniversary of the admission
of California as state will be cele
bratcd in September
A WOMAN of Sea bright, n. j., took ad
ventage of the fact that her HUSBAND
was in bathing to elope.
The proposed Trans Siberian railway
will be the longest in the world. L
will be over 5000 miles long.
COLLECTOR CLARK, of Chicago, il
called upon TO appraise seven barrels o
water from the River Jordan.
THERE are two mountains in lowe
California that are estimated to contain
LOG, 100000 tons of pure alum.
A LUMP of nickel weighing 4,5O
pounds, exhibited at the Worlds fair
is worth half as many dollars.
LORD SALISBURY is said to be tn
only prime minister since the time o
Elizabeth who has worn beard.
THERE was financial bank at Baby
lon as early as 700 b. c., and, so far a
known, it was the first on record
A HORSE thief was run down and cap
tured by policemen mounted on bicy
cles, at bloomsbury, Pa, recently.
ONE of the most curious farms in tn,
United States and one of the mos
profitable is frog farm in Illinois
HAVING an income now of 800, 900
day, the Worlds fair managers see al
expanding rift in the financial cloud.
IT appears that in Massachusetts
nearly twice as many women as mel
live to be more than eighty years old
A SNAKE that climbs up the glas
walls of its polished cage is an attrac
tion in the Natural History museum a
Paris.
A SKowHEGAN (Me. man had quite
tussle to drive three hungry deer out o
his bean patch. 1t was illegal to shoe
them.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN lives on 81
week. If he had $40 he says he woul
not know what to do with the extr
dollar.
IT is estimated that there are nearl
100000 acres of unoccupied govern
ment land in Kansas still open for set
Element
A BosToN Judge has decided that
newspaper may publish biographical
sketch of man, but not his portal
against his will
A REAL meerschaum pipe that ha
been smoked continuously for the pas
century, is in the possession of w. Il
Thompson, of Durham, N. C.
PROF HoLDEN says that the cavit
represented by the largest spot on tn
sun is sufficient to take in the Who'll
of our planet without touching tn
sides.
ALPHABETs vary greatly in the nun
Der of letters they contain That o
Hawaii has twelve while the Tartariar
is made up of two hundred and tw
characters.
MORE than forty million young tree,
it is officially reported have bee
planted in Switzerland in the las
seven years in the effort to ''reforest
that country.
THERE is society in Calcutta, Indit
which has for it's object the giving {
food and shelter to old, useless COW
and horses, that would otherwise b
left to starve.
THE transparent crystal from whic
imitation diamonds are made is Gale
'strass," from its inventor, Germa
ieweler who lived in the first half of tn
present century.
MATILDA ~, one of the most famor
Jersey COWS in the world, owned b
Congressman Joseph c. Sibley and h