Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-02-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

The four great ocean routes employ
LOO steamships.
HARRISBURG complains about adnl
terated buckwheat.
ERNEST REMAINS name is to be given
to street in Paris
The princess of Wales wears gloves
which are nearly three feet long.
The Maharajah, of Baroda, and his
whole court are strict teetotalers.
THERE is said to be material increase
this season in the export of oranges and
oysters.
AN Indian girl student at Haskell,
Kan institute is named Jenny One
Feather.
THE new union station at st. Louis
will cover thirty-two trains and cost
$500, GOO
Mrs. RUSSELL, aged IA, has secured a
divorce from her husband, aged 80, a.
Victoria, b. G.
FALSE teeth are now made from
paper and are said to wear well and
last lifetime.
A RAILROAD with a gauge of but
twenty-four inches is now building If
North Carolina.
AMONG the late inventions is sewing
needle provided with a bevel-shapeG
eye for easy threading.
THERE are now 1000 loan associa
lions in this country, with member
ship Of 1000, 900 persons.
THREE of the Dutch universities are
open to women, namely; Leyden,
Utrecht and Amsterdam.
THEY opened new theater in Seat
tie, Wash, the other day, box No.
selling at auction for $775.
THREE fresh recruits in the garrison
at Stressburg committed suicide rather
than serve in the German army.
mo CAKE, no cards, nobody's bust
ness" is the novel climax of marriage
announcement in Maine paper.
A WOMAN who is an active worker in
a Brooklyn church has been regularly
appointed assistant to the pastor.
A PHILADELPHIA dentist gives every
patron pound of gum drops while
their false teeth are being repaired.
The British soldiers are now provided
with black silk handkerchiefs on which
army rules and regulations are printed
PARKMAN, the historian, who has beer
very i'll, is still confined to his bed, but
his recovery is not considered doubtful
A TRIAL of speed between English and
American locomotives will be an inter
esting and novel feature of the Worlds
fair.
| A MEXICAN street car can be hired
for personal use for So so per day, with
a right to stop at any one place for two
hours.
A SCRANTON (Pa.) dentist is sued foi
$4,000 damages by woman, who
claims that he fractured one of her
front teeth.
Tom BEAN and Deaf Smith, of Texas,
were solid for Cleveland this year. One
is the name of an election precinct, the
other of county
A VERMONT lumber dealer advertises
that he has for sale $4,000 shingles
made by 1.-The only Christian shingle-
maker in the state"
THE Brooklyn bridge is to have a
great pneumatic tube for the transmits.
sion of mail and baggage between New
York and Brooklyn.
TwENTY-oNE stays were shot in a
single day by three sportsmen, it i!
claimed, in the deer forests of Inchvae
and Strathvaick, in Scotland.
THE newest thing out for the table is
dainty plates, the size of saucer, fol-
bread and butter. The individual but
ter plate having gone out of use.
Mrs IRIS c. RYDER recovered verdict
at Memphis, against the Appeal-Ava.
lanchc Co., for $500, for the publica.
ton of an alleged libelous article.
OwINa to the large demand and the
scarcity of supply, the large cotton
mills at Atlanta Ca, have advanced the
price of goods Il of cent per yard.
New York state has paid out sl99,
647 so for the expenses incidental to the
mobilization of troops at Buffalo during
the switchmen's strike last summer.
| A. =. KIsER, farmer near Wenat
chez, WASH, owns turnip which he
claims weighs twenty-one pounds anc
measures four feet in circumference.
A MARYLAND woman entertained
three guests some time ago, stranger;
to her and TO one another, named Mrs
Sprinkle, Mrs. Shower and Mrs. Storm
JAMES MCVMGH, of Waycross, Ca, i.
eighty-seven years old. He has twenty
three children living. lie claims thai
he has never been sick Il day in his life
THE salaries of Queen Victoria's maid;
Of honor are $500 per annum, and should
one of them be married it is customary
for the queen to make her present o
el,00O
Hon. WADE HAMPTON declares tina
he is square with South Carolina on pc
Iitical account, and that he would no
take another Office in the gift of he
voters.
The sum of $4,Ol6,700 is wanted t.
complete the Philadelphia city hall, OF
whick some ten millions have already
been spent The tower alone is to cos
500, 900.
QUEEN VICTORIA has now 55 living
descendants--6 children, SO grandchil
iren and 10 great-grandchildren. Tht
latest addition to the royal family is
how. RECENTLY born to Princess Louis,