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

ing DallS IN GarlS.
Six thousand people sleep in the open
air in London every night.
A RACE horse clears from twenty to
twenty-four feet at bound.
1T is SO cold in the northern part of
Sweden, the mercury freezes.
A SALISBURY IN. C.) woman is re-
ported to be cutting her third set of
teeth g,1
! BALrIMokE has 365 churches, and
claims to be the greatest church city in
America
A BILL providing for three-cent
street car far in Illinois is before the
Legislature. tgfs,
skESTuckY has, it is said, more wom-
en- school commissioners than any other
Southern state.
ITALY expends every year 500, coo, 900
q for her soldiers, and less than "a, 600, 900
for her schools.
Two Indians who live in Atchison,
Kan, wear plug'hats, and one Of them
has a mustachp.
FRANK G. CARPENTER, the well-known
''PNTNA NoiiN'POiitNiSt huo bohSA w
the lecture field.
A JOHNSON county MO- man has been
CONVICTED OF stealing cracker and
chew Of tobacco
EXTESslNE surveys have lately been
made for cable between North Amer
lea and Australia.
~ JANUARY is rcputed to be regarded
by the shopping world as the linen
month OF the year
THE original manuscript Of "Scots
VIVA hde vii Wallace bled." is owned by
Mrs J. G. Burns, of Dublin.
THE public school system OF Hawaii
: istexcelent. There are few of the ma
tiyes who can not read and write.
1855 THE population of the Sandwich is.
lands is 10000, and they are in area
about one-sixth as large as tho state of
Ohio.
THERE is a bill before the New lamp
shire Legislature which provides for the
purchase of Daniel Websters birth
place.
"a, RIFE bananas put up In cans with
b condensed milk are said to make MI.
tritious food for those who like the
flavor. t,.'
J THERE is said to be an insurance COM
pany in Paris that refuses TO issue poll
cies on the lives of any people who use
hair, dye, ...
AMERICAN money is in universal use in
the Hawaiian Islands, and nine-tenths
of the trade of the islands are with the
United States
OF the sixty-four cardinals who COM
pose the sacred college but five are
English-spcaking and only one of these
is an American.
FLORIDA is to have confederate
home. A place on the Shell road, four
miles from Jacksonville, has been Sc
lected as the site
New telephone companies are already
organizing, and in St Louis private
families are furnished telephone SER
vices4at $50 n year.
NEW YORK is proposing Worlds
fair for 1897 in New York city, in com
memoration of the discovery OF North
Z America by John Cabot.
A MONUMENT to Gov. John Sewer, of
Tennessee, has been raised in the court
house lawn in Knoxville. 1t will be
formally unv -ilcd in May.
NEW York city is to have one Of the
largest public schools ever erected.
About 2,400 pupils will be accommo-
dated in the mammoth structure.
THERE is only one regular newspaper
~, lhi,n - q, II
gan. Ordinarily news is disseminated
by means of handbills and posters ....
A YOUNG lady in Newark, N. j.,
whose ankle was injured during a
waltz by her partner accidentally kick
ing her, wants s., COO damages from him.
EDWARD II. PAysoN, of Salem, Mass,
has filled the position of cashier in one
bank for siXty-seven years, lie is nine.
ty years old, and recently resigned his
position.
THE Texas Legislature is considering
s a proposition to exempt factories from
taxation for ten years. Such law was
in force in South Carolina up to few
years ago.
A COMMITTEE of classical scholars in
Italy are trying TO raise funds TO build
monuments in honor of four ancient
Romans of renown-Virgil, Saliast,
Horace and Cicero.
Ex-PREslDENr HAYES did not carry q
watch. The experience of having his
chronometer twice stolen from him made
SO much trouble that he declined tC
tempt another thief
A BALTIMORE man who paid his fare
on cable line in that city got caugh,
in a tie-up and was awarded S. damages
by the court because the conductor re
fused to return his fare.
SINCE the discovery of the diamond
fields of South Africa in 1867 there have
been exported from Cape Colony $4,000
600 carats of diamonds, weighing over
ten tons and valued at $3.50, 100000.
THE most terrific explosions on record
were those at the eruption of the vol
cano of Kral1atoa in August 1888. The
&rthest point at which this eruption
was heard from the island of Rodriguez
9,06S miles southwest
THE vice presidents room at the cap
itol is luxurious apartment, and one
of its chief features is the fireplace. Il
has been the custom, it is said, to
give the retiring vice president the
fender, tongs, poker, etc, belonging
thereto
The heir to the Austrian throne
when he becomes emperor, will govern
y nine countries, bear eighteen titles
g as duke one as archduke, two as Crane
duke and also thirty-three other titles
CAPT. JOHN ADAM COOPER is tb,
youngest veteran of the Mexican war
bar;n,r aplistod NJ tho n ro of tuvol,a II.