Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-02-17

restored.
The California orange crop is report
ed to be very heavy and unusually sat-
isfactorye
The population of Aurora, New, was
once 5000. 1t is now, it is said, but
twenty-five.
UP to date the only thing that is not
manufactured in silver for women's use
Us corset stecls.
Ice made at zero temperature will
last longer than that made at eighteen
ar twenty degrees.
PLACE 500 earths like ours side by
side, yet Saturn's outermost ring could
easily inclose them.
The United States has less percent
nge of blind people than any other
country In the world.
THlRrY-sEvEN thousand women are
employed as telegraph operator in this
eeaItry, 1t is claimed.
The hair of Nancy Garrison, colored,
OF Hobby Springs, Miss, is said to meas
ure eight feet in length.
ALTHOUGH many bacteria are killed
by freezing, yet it is said that as many
as 10 per cent. survive in ice.
In spinning cotton, one machine to-
day can Go as much as 100 operatives
could do two generations ago
STATE secrets rarely leak out in Rus
sia. Any person who divulges one, if
discovered, is hustled off to Siberia. -
THE latest fashion in hair dressing
allows for an ornament being placed
vertically, cutting it directly in two.
CANADA takes in proportion to her in
habitants almost three times as much
of British goods as the United States.
THERE are 1876 students at the uni
versity of Berlin this winter, the larg-
est number in the history of the institu-
ton.
TYPHUs fever Is also known as Jail,
hospital, spotted and camp fever, and is
a near relative to typhoid and emigrant
fever.
In manufacturing occupations the av-
erage life Of soap boilers is the longest,
and that of grindstone makers the
shortest
A DISPATCH from Lyden, Wash,
states that a sixteen-foot vein of coal
has been discovered few miles north
of that place.
OVER dozen American maidens and
and two widows are at present matri-
monially engaged to foreigners of more
title than cash.
THERE are q, 900 places for the sale Of
liquor in Paris, and throughout the re-
public there is one saloon for every
eighty-seven people
MEXICO, Mo-, claims the live insur-
ance agent who sawed two cords of
wood for the privilege of writing a
$4,000 policy on mans life
The fleece of ten goats and the work
OF several men for half year are re-
quired to make genuine cashmere
shawl yard and half wide.
GOLDEN shoes are worn by Shetland
pouy belonging to the Shah of Persia,
This expensively-shod animal is only
twelve and half-inches high
FARM laborers' unions organized un-
der the jurisdiction of the American
federation of Labor are said to have an
aggregate membership of $4,000.
The newest fad is bright red rain
umbrella. The red is of bright hue,
the handle heavy, with gold knob, anG
the general effect exceedingly good.
THE population Of London now ex.
ceeds that of New York, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia and Chicago combined,
and thess four are the only American
cities having 1000, 900 or more inhabit-
ants.
RABBITS arc becoming serious nui.
sance in some parts of Kansas Barbour
county pays bounty of five cents each
for rabbit scalps, and about 5000 scalps
have been paid for there since last DC.
tober
REPORTS of temperature 40 and 80 de.
grees below zero in Russia will quicken
sympathy for starving peasants who
are using materials OF their houses foi
fuel in order to keep from freezing Il
death.
The last spike on the Great Northern
railway has been driven thirteen mile.
below the summit of Stevens Pass, OF
the western slope of the Cascade mount
aims, near Spokane Falls, Wash, thul
completing another trans-continepta
route.
JOSEPH BARsTow, who went to lear,
the craft of a printer on the Norwich
Conn. Weekly, in 1924, still works a
the case in that city. He is now eighty
four years old.
RUBIEs have been so successfully mi
tated that the price of the gen'in
stone is said to have declined fully one
third, and it is said that oleomargarin
keeps genuine butter from going up t
war prices.
A PHILADELPHIA confectioner, bein
curious as TO the weight of 500 pen
mics, placed them in a paper bag Of
confectioners' scales, and found tina
they weighed three pounds five and
quarter ounces
Cooks in Boston average not NOR
than s., As per week. This fact was a:
certaiued from the statements of 81
men questioned by officers Of the stat
bureau of labor for Massachusetts,
A YOUNG man wrote to girl: "You
loveliness has inspired me to ask you
become my wife" She read it lionel
ness" and got so everlastiugly ma
that she refused him by return mail
RUDOLPH oBERMEIER, of Moline, III
brought suit against Don Leach, a ba
Der, for $1,000 for the loss of his lux,
RANT mustache, which, he assert
Leach destroyed by wanton carelessne'
In trimming it