Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-01-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

MR. GLADSTONE earns on an average
$4,000 year by his pen alone.
The town of Icicle, Washington, has
been rechristened Ieavenworth.
CHAIRMAN CARTER will resume the
practice of law in Helena Mont.
BATHING the abdomen with alcohol
Is an excellent remedy for diarrhea.
GOOD halibut fishing is reported of
the British Columbian coast this fall.
8 FLOWING water has been struck at
Helena, Mont, at depth of 1,O24 feet.
AN Englishman has invented clock
that will run for ten years without
winding.
A NAP taken at II o'clock will prove
more refreshing than one taken later
in the day.
Mrs. BAYARD TAYLOR is visiting the
old home of her husband at Kennett
Square, Pa.
A WHITE quail is Missouri's latest
unique production. 1t will be exhibit
ed at Chicago
ARTIFICIAL grass for the grounds Of
seaside cottages is one of the industries
ht.4u ancneSIer, Eng.
The curtain of the Greek theater was
raised through the floor instead of being
lowered from the ceiling.
A THIRTEEN AND oNE-HALF pound carp
was caught in the Neuse river, North
Carolina, several days ago.
Mrs. LUCY STONE, one of the most
noted American champions of women's
rights is now so years old.
THOMAS A. EDISON, who sleeps but
few hours himself, says that the man of
the future may do without sleep entire
ly.
is easy to see, even with defective
vision, that the reign of suspenders on
the backs of women is drawing to
close
AN extensive bed of deep-water oys-
tiers has been found, it is said, in the
sound about twelve miles from Seattle,
Wash.
AN ingenious inventor in Norway
claims to have realized the much-felt
desideratum of a soldering metal for
aluminium.
Few men have legs of equal length,
and to every one thousand men in the
British army only eighteen are over six
feet in height.
Mrs. LANGTRY will send to the Chica-
( go exposition a doll three feet high
specially designed to look like her in
face and figure.
THE Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts,
which is said to be the longest in this
country, is four and three-quarters
miles in length.
THE new $500 notes now being issued
is one of the handsomest ever turned
out, and bears good portrait of Gen.
w. T. Sherman.
MIcnIGAN's potato king lives at Man.
celona. He raised 1000 bushels on his
farm and has purchased $4,000 bushels
more. His name is Jesse Wisler
MONACO, with its territory of eight
square miles and it's standing army of
1876 men, proposes to have universal
exposition next year,
Lucy BOOTH, Gen. Booths youngest
daughter, is about to go to India to be
at the head of the work among the
women OF Jnat dark lana.
A CHARLTON county (Mo.) paper offers
to send the most popular young lady of
that county to the Worlds fair, the
matter to be decided by vote.
If any foreign substance is swallow.
ed which is sharp needle for instance,
do not give an emetic, but confne the
diet to mashed potatoes for two days.
L. d. LOOMS, of Chelsea, Mich, raised
225 bushels of beans on piece of
ground covering one and quarter
acres this season and sold them for
s1S5.
ONE of the features of the Missouri
exhibit at the Worlds fair will be re-
production of the Eads bridge on a large
scale, composed entirely of grains and
grasses.
Mr.. JAMES PAyN, the noted novelist
and editor, is probably the worst writer
in the British kingdom. A letter from
him is nothing more than an interesting
study in hyeroglyphics
THERE is brick famine in Chicago.
Last May the price was Sc. so thou.
sand, and now it is SO. One cause was
the wet weather last spring, which pre-
vented the manufacture of bricks
AN Elmira woman has beaten New
York city player in a long endurance"
contest, in which the 5000 stakes went
to the performer that kept both hands
employed longest on the key board.
SISTER MARY ALBINI, of st. Louis, a
beautiful girl twenty-five years of age,
. who has become a member of the Fran
ciscan order is going to nurse the lepers
of Molokai in the Sandwich islands.
NEW drink is celery coffee. 1t is
supposed to give renewed strength to
the brain and nerve. 1t is very nice Ia
. the palate and improves the general
health of those who take it regularly
IN Madagascar dissatisfied husband
has only to give his wife piece OF
money and say: Madam, l thank
you," and, according to the laws OF
Madagascar, he is divorced straight.
way
f. MARION CRAWFORD considers that
the United States contains more origin
al characters and in greater variety
than any country in the world, and,
hecce, offers the richest field for the
novelist
A BROOKLYN man bet $40 on the cleo
ton He could raise but So and for Sc
curity left his false teeth He lost and
has not yet been able to redeem hi:
teeth.
THERE is said to be distressing
amount of lunacy in Ireland, the mum
Der of cases per 100000 of population
having increased from 249 in 1880 to S5I
in 1891.