Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-01-20
CURRENT TOPICS.


A STATUE of Brigham Young ten feet
tall is to be cast at Chicopee, Mass.
THERE are 1S6 men and 1856 women In
the New Hampshire insane asylum.
VIM j. THOMPSON, of Gloucester, N.
j., won $4,000 on the election of Clevc-
land.
A CHERRY tree at EllSin, N. c., is said
to measure twenty-one feet in circum-
ference.
The Boston Post has been sued for
nine cents by the Boston & Albany
railroad.
The London museum contains the
hrst envelope ever made. 1t was used
Ia May, 1896.
Rosa BoNHEUR will receive 500, 900 for
her Horses Thrashing Corn" from an
American dealer.
STALK of Kansas timothy five feet
and three inches high will be exhibited
at the Worlds fair.
A DRUGGIST in Madison. Ind, carries
about with him gold watch once worn
by Marie Antoinette.
Stockmen in South Dakota are i'm
porting Russian wolf hounds for the
protection of their herds.
A RESIDENT of Bates county, Mo-, re-
Gently finished guitar composed Of
over 1000 pieces of wood.
AN electric plant has been discovered
In India, which will influence mag.
netic needle twenty-five feet distant
MISS SoPHoNIsBA BRECKENRIDGE,
daughter of the Kentucky congress
man, has recently been admitted to ths
bar.
AN exchange regrets that with sis
comets in sight not one of them is like
Iy to be secured for the Columbian ex-
position.
The mayor of Pittsburgh has issued
an edict against every dance-house and
low resort in the city and ordered the 10
sealed up.
JUDGE ALTeELD of Illinois, recently
elected governor, is now possessed OF
property amounting to $4,000, 900 in
value, it is said.
HENRY M. CoLcoRD, whom Blondin
carried across the Niagara river on his
back and on rope in 1884, is painting
pictures in Chicago.
WOLVES in Russia destroyed annually
800, 900 head of domestic animals, valued
at 100000 rubles. Their number does
not appreciably decrease.
IT is estimated that nearly &c, ,0OQ
women have registered in Boston for
this years municipal electton-a gain
OF about 1000 over last year.
EMILE ZoLA is now paid Cor the right
to publish his novels serially at the rate
of three cents a word. That beats Alex,
ander Dumas seven cents line.
BENJAMIN Poor, of Raymond, N. H.,
cast his first vote for Monroe, in 1916,
and has not missed presidential elec
eion since. He is almost centenarian.
A WICHITA thief while being escorted
to Jail by the sheriff, his wrists encased
in two pair of handouts, picked the
pocket of a farmer whom he passed o1
s14.
Six hundred pounds of wild honey
was recently taken from twelve trees
in New Madrid county, Mo-, by party
Of honey-hunters. One tree yielded $50
pounds.
To JAY GoULD's credit, he never as.
sumed q coat-of-arms or aped the man
ners of foreign aristocracy. With all
his faults, he was an American oil
Americans.
Miss SCHLEIcHER, pretty bar-maid
In an Edinburgh hotel, has recovered
$4,000 damages from Mr.. Simpson, 6
guest of the house, for breach of prom
ise of marriage
THERE is shepherd at Monor, Hun
gary, who is 1O6 years old, and still at.
tends to his tlocl1s His wife, who is
the third partner of his joys and sor
rows, is ninety-one.
THE worst scandal that has ever oc
Cured In connection with American
politics was mere bagatelle compared
to the Panama canal scandal, which i:
now convulsing France.
OF fifteen cholera patients received
at a hospital in Bruges, Belgium, with
In forty-eight hours thirteen died. The
plague is making rapid progress in ,
. number of Belgium cities
THE authorities of the French navy
propose to confer honor on the Boy
who 'stood on the burning deck.
They are about to name new torpedo
boat the Luce de Casabianca."
BURGLARS entered the prison at Old
enburg, Hungary, occupied by 800 pris
oners and among other things stole ant
carried away 1,s00 forins and qual
tity of gold and silver bric-a-brac,
SINCE 1881 over one million Bible
have been distributed among the Ger
man troops under the direction of tn
emperor. Just enough is charged 70
them to pay for the cost of production
THE New York Sun says that in tw,
years there won't be a tirst-class pas
senger ship on the Atlantic with
single screw. Twin screws are TIL
safest bulwark against accidents tC
machinery.
In his great speech in the reichstae
in opposition to the army bill Eugel
Richter made the striking statemen
that already the German laborer has Il
work a month and half to enable hin
10 pay his share of the cost of the arm,
and navy. 90
THE highest chimney in Germany
and probably on the continent, ha
just been built at Stolberg, near AiN
la-Chapelle. 1t is 4O7 feet high, and
stands, moreover, on an eminenc
which rises some 2T0 feet above the SUI
rounding plain.
A RATTLEsNAKE will not cross a hal
rope, Experienced campers, when the
fear rattlesnal1es are around. encircl
their camp with hair lariat or tw
and feel secure.
FATHER ToIroN, the first America