Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-24
CURRENT TOFlCS.

lecturing on astronomy.
HE Hebrew charity ball in Philadel-
phia Melted about s22, Oo0
JUPITER was known to the Chaldeans
as a planet as early as b. c. $1,000
HEDER NEWTON is spoken of as q
successor to the late Bishop brooks.
A WYOMING caucus has nominated
Mr. Corn for senator from that state
GARFlELD's son Irwin McD. Is chosen
senior class day president at Williams.
A FIvE-LEGGED hog, it is reported, is
an animal monstrosity of lIowells, Neb.
The stocking of Pacific coasts waters
with Holsters is meeting with great sue.
cess
A RESIDENT of Colon, Mich, advcl
tises that he will clean chimneys ana
wells
A SINGLE factory in North Carolina
is now turning out 1000, 600 cigarettes
daily.
TIE strongest telescope brings tht
moon to an apparent distance of 100
miles
The Pars-decrccd hoopskirt has al
ready made its appearance in New
York.
Mrs. GEORGE DREW BARRYMORE has
entirely recovered her health, it is re-
ported.
THERE is said to be more illitcracy in
Portugal than in any other country of
Europe.
The Alabama legislature has finally
decided against calling constitutional
convention.
ECLIPsEs of the sun were calculated
by Egyptian and Athcnian astronomers
us early as 1876 Is. C. ...
A sEvENTEEN-MoNTns-oL hog, owned
by resident of Scdala, Mo-, is claimed
to weigh 72G pounds.
In Spain it costs 500, 900, 900 to main
tain the army and only $l,j00,000 to
educate the children.
The suggestion is made that the ma
ton proceed at once to the erection of q
monument to Mr.. Blaine
The oldest American citizen now in
public life is Senator Morrill,, of Yer
mont, who was bornin 1870
CHARLES A. DANA will be invited by
the Boston common council to deliver
the eulogy upon Gen. Butler. a
ANY one who can pay the fare can
now go from New York TO Egypt with
only one change of steamers.
TIE hotel proprietors of Jacksonville,
Fla, say that so far this years business
is far ahead of any previous season.
JOHN TMpLETT, resident of Black
Fox, Tenn, claims to have shot q rabbit
the other day which weighed twelve
pounds.
The landau used by Marshal Bazinc
during the siege of Metz is now used as
postal wagon between two villages in
Lorraine.
GENUINE amber is becoming very
scarce and it is believed that within q
few years the worlds product will be
exhausted.
The average weight of the Chinese
brain is said to be heavier than the
average weight of the brain in any
other race.
THE pin is no new continuance. They
are found among the mummics OF
Egypt and in the prehistoric caves OF
Switzerland.
THE use of ornamental terra Gotta as
a building material has increased
greatly in New York city during the
past ten years.
The pastor of a Scdalia, Mo-, church
a5vcrtises good music and short SER
mons" with the result that his church
is always filled.
A STEEL chimney has been built in
Chicago which, it is said, is $50 feet
high, with an outside diameter of nine
feet FIVE inches
THE Mount Blanc observatory is prac.
tically complete, and will be placed in
position as soon as the parts can be car,
ried to the summit
AMONG the estates left by persons
who died in Vienna intcstatc, and
whose heirs have not been found, is one
consisting Of an opera-glass.
A PHILADELPHIA minister manifolds
his sermons and sends them to those
members of his congregation whose
absence he notes during service.
IT is claimed that forty-two young
men of Atchison, Kan, have taken al
oath not to be found in company Will
woman who wears hoopskirts.
THE News, published at Cochran, Ga.
is but little larger than an ordinary en-
vclope, and claims to be the smallest
weekly paper published in Georgia.
Mr.. POWERS, an advertisement wri
ter for cod liver oil company, earned
$50, 900 the same year that w. d. How
ellis received SIS, 900 from great maya,
zne.
THE lihedivc of Egypt uses type
writer, and is so pleased with the in
strument that it is said he has con
fcrrcd the honor of the Mejidie on tn,
inventor.
THE federal and cantonal authoritie
of Switzerland will shortly begin prep
arations for the art and industrial expo
sition to be held in the autumn of $50,
ut Geneva.
IT is said ice will be higher next sum
mcr because it was more expensive t,
Cub uuIllS IIC very COlu weather
Nothing seems to work in the consum
CrS' interest
MAXniE LsBONNE, Frenchman
drives through the streets of Paris in
conveyance propelled by electricity sell
ing revolutionary fried potatoes" t,
the ParisianS
A BEAR recently chased West Vir
G;nia boy and the lad only made hi
escape, it is reported, by crossing tn,
river on the ice, jumping from block t,
block.
THE Bellefoute (ra.) furnace, whicl
has been idle two years, will rcsum
about March /. The Bcllefonte glas