Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-09-29
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about 1000, 600 ctpies per arnum.
Boston fishermen have captured sea
serpent but it is only five feet long.
IRELAND has the least proportion OF
criminals TO the million of population,
$50.
OVER 6S per cent of the whole num-
her of English criminals are unable to.
read.
PALMER, Mass, has ghost that
wears whiskers and shows itself in day
time
ITALY has the greatest proportion OF
criminals, 5,140, to the million of popu-
lation.
THE Empress Frederick owns chain
of thirty-two pearls that is valued at
S175, 600.
CHLDLEss and unmarried men form
IS per cent. of all the criminals OF
France.
In 1881 the British parliament passed
an act furnishing PRISONERS by boiling
to death.
Two Texas boys, fourteen years old
each, are walking for wager to the
Worlds fair.
A GORILLA escaped from ''show" at
Polo, Mo-, and at last accounts was
still travelling.
XYIoIITH, or wood stone, is extern
sively used in Germany for flooring and
other purposes.
VENICE is built on eighty small is
lands, which are connected together by
nearly 400 bridges.
The tax collectors list at Chicope,
Mass, contains the name Of John Quad.
eusedebetoncourt
CHEERFUL VALLEY and Pleasant
Ridge are two adjacent communities
In Saline county, Mo.
INSANITY in every country is more
prevalent among unmarried than
among married persons.
On Lower Broadway in New York in
corner plats, land is worth from SIS, 0Ot
to $4,000 per front foot.
FRUIT growing on the southern coast
of California has been seriously him
dered by the heavy fogs.
THERE are $4,000 Americans residing
in France, according to the census OF
foreigners recently taken.
THE longest telephone in the world
is the one between New York and Chi.
cago. 1t is $50 miles long.
A CALF that, it is said, runs down
chickens and eats them is owned by
VIM. Raglan, of Hutto, Tex.
A FAMILY in Utica, N. Y, possesses
Bible which was printed in London
in 1886, and which is consequently 26E
years old.
An observatory is approaching com
pletion on Mont Blanc at an altitude Of
10, 701 feet bove the level of the Med
iterranean.
For 200 years the paper from which
Bank of England notes are made ha,
been manufactured at Laverstokc il
Hampshire,
For want of other employment, 6
Colorado paper suggests that the miners
go to work and cultivate the voices o.
their burros.
WooDsMEN at the remote lumber
camps in Potter county, Pennsylvania
frequently walk twelve miles for
drink of whisky.
THE New Zealand house of repre-
sentatives has passed the electoral bill
comforting the franchise upon women
including Maoris.
AMONG the old patents of recent in
vention is one for harness covered
with phosphorescent paint which makes
ii luminous at night.
The navigable river mileage of Eu
rope, Asia and America is 144, 1872 miles
The United States has the creates
river mileage-47,S5
AMONG the most beautiful flower
brought here from Japan is the fra
grant Auratum lily. tbs easy of cultur,
and free from enemies. h.|
FRIGHTENED by dog, large steer
purchased by Frank Lawrence at Glel
Hall, Chester county, Pa, ran for hal
an hour and dropped dead
ACCORDING to Richard Barker, tn
Gilbert and Sullivan stage manager
when the Lord gives man teno
voice he takes away his brains"
THE cornerstone of monument t.
the memory of Maisonneuve, first gov
ernor of Montreal, was laid by resi-
dents of that city on Labor day.
AN indication of how the slave trad
survives in Africa, it is stated that las
summer n caravan of 10000 camels an,
1000 slaves left Timbuctoo for Morocco
A GERMAN town council has post
poned the erection of an electric ligh
station for five years. because i'm
provcments may be made in that time
THE eairngorm, or smok ~ quartz
takes It's name from town in Scotlan,
near where it was first found 1t i
found in great abundance In the Unite
States
II was one of the great Napoleon
superstitious fancies that the names O
persons and places beginning with tn
letter NJ possessed an influence over hi
career
QUININE, the active principle of Peru
Wan bark, was discovered in 1920. i
1883 there were produced $4,000, 90
pounds of bark and 100000 pounds G
quinine,
THE founder of new home for age
and infirm colored men in New Orlean
is an old Negro named Thorine Lafor
who has also founded nu asylum fo
destitute colored boys.
THE steam yacht Feiseen ran n
miles against the tide, in New Yor
harbor, in 1884 minutes This mean
nearly SO miles an hour. She is tn
fastest vessel in the world.
JAMES Fox and William Heckathor
of Oil Citv Pa while herrvinr fnnn