Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-02-24
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EX-SENATOR INGALLS, is said to be 60
Ing to Europe again.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX dances almost |
as we'll as she writes.
THE editor of Missouri paper takes |
'possums on subscriptions.
A HOPKINS MOI hunter claims TO
have recently killed LOO quail.
The Toronto Ont law society has
admitted women to practice law.
A WOMAN life insurance agent does an
excellent business in Wichita, Kan.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY contains the
mortal remains of /, 173 illustrious dead,
FARMERS near Fairbury, H., are much
exercised over the appearance of CLAN
ders
BosToN bicycle-mallers are proposing
an asphalt road from Chicago to New
York.
The Marquise LAMA often rewrites
her stories as many as four or five
times
MRS. VIM w. AsToR has a unique col.
lection of photographs Of beautiful
women. f(&}4
Ex-Gov. BALDWIN, of Michigan, and
who succeeded Senator Zach Chandler,
is dead.
A CLARENCE, Mo. man has been fined
s6.75 for the luxury of riding mule on
the sidewalk.
Mrs. SARAH BALcH BRAMIN, OF
Georgetown, Mass, it is said was born
in December, 1890. @
The Georgia legislature has done its
work promptly, adjourned and given
the taxpayers rest
IT is computed that twelve city people
die where ten deaths occur among
jewellers in the country.
New ZEALAND has set apart two
islands for the preservation of wild
birds and other animals.
THE heaviest man in congress is John
W. Rife, of Pennsylvania. A special
chair is provided for him
Mrs. PIERpoNT MoRGAN's correspond
ence is so large that she is obliged to
employ private secretary.
TIE Krupp gun to be on exhibition
at Chicago is eighty-two feet long and
throws a shot sixteen miles ssue.
A JUDGE at Biddeford, Me-, sentenced
drunkard to pay fine or take a
course of the bichlorde of gold cure.
PRESIDENT Low announces a gift Of
$4,000 to Columbia college, to be di-
vided between biography and history.
THE most indestructible wood is the
the jarrah wood OF western Australia,
which detes all known forms of decay.
The total loss by fire in the United
States during the year 1892 is estimated
at s15o,S24, 5S5, as against $l66, 047, 900 in
1891. fEF Ft 8tEE
THE Gretna (Neb. Reporter tells
about doctor of that place who took a
tapeworm from a man seventeen feet
long" t.tt.'
A TEXAS farmer raises the money to
go to New York and buy green
goods, and finding himself duped goes
insane.
LEGISLATION on the immigration ques.
ton in so far as it pertains to tho i'm
portation of disease is promised in the
near future.
The Languedoc ship canal in France,
by a short passage of las miles, saves a
sea voyage of 1900 miles by the Straits
OF Gibraltar
THE largest needle mandatory in
the world is in Redditch, Worcester
shire, England. Over 10000, 900 are
made weekly.
Tn =, 1oI - ~ 4. 4
Mrs. Hearst, widow of the millionaire
senator, will leave it 81 100000 for a
great museum.
A TELEGRAPHIo signal passes from
end to end of the Atlantic cable, dis
lance of 2,700 miles, in less than one.
third of a second
LONDON papers accuse Mrs. Maybrick
with swallowing needles in an effort to
provoke symptoms of consumption, anc
SO secure her pardon.
Z DEATH claimed Augustus Haas, OF
Bethlehem, Pa, after he had eaten q
large pot of sauer krout and drunk
seventeen schooners of beer.
THERE are two places in London
where clergymen can buy sermons
printed. They cover all subjects and
can be had for every season.
A CONVENTION of the Negro editors o.
Georgia have formally resolved thai
Negroes should be so designated, anc
not be called "colored" people.
BRONSON HOWARD says that American
managers are now seeking American
plays, and that foreign dramatic work,
IRE merely regarded as stopgaps.
TENNYsoN's personal estate proves Il
! have a value of about $3.50, coo. Brown
ing's amounted to little over $50, 600
and Mathew Arnold's to only $4,000.
You must not say dress" when 20,
mean lady's outside garment Gown
is the proper word. No fashionabl,
woman now has anything but gowns.
WHEN canvassing the larger villas a
Florence TO choose a resting place fo
Queen Victoria, one enterprising owne
was found who wanted $4,000 week
VIcE-PREsIpENT morton has appoint
ed Senator Gray, of Delaware, regen
of the Smithsonian institution, in plac
OF Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, de
ceased.
A WRITER in the St Louis Globe Dem
ocrat defines widow to be one VIII,
has buried her husband, and grass
widow to be one who has simply mis-
laid him,
CONGRESSMAN ROBINSON of Pennsylva
MIA has been offered So, 600 for a farm
which only cost him $4,000 year age
The farm is on the line of proposes
electric railroad
A YANKEE, by name John Beattle
has applied for patent on contriy
nnce to prevent that whirring sound i
the telephone wires at parallel trolle
wires used for street car purposes