Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-04-07

FERDINAND DE LESSEPS is SAID 10 nave
lost his whole fortune in the Panama
canal project
ONE fashionable New York woman
and her daughter spend SIS, COO annual
ly for clothes.
WIN. A. CoRKLE was inauguratcd gov
ernor of West Virginia at Charleston
the other day.
A WEATHER record for 1892 shows thai
there were $50 cloudless days out Of the
S65 at Tucson, Ariz.
THE origin of the geysers at Sanoma,
Cal, is supposed to be volcanic crater
filled by n landslide.
The marriage ring of Luther's wife
has recently been discovered at Alma,
not far from Coburg.
A DEALER in Dundee, Mich, is ship
ping ashes to Florida by the car load
for use as fertilizer
SUGAR beets weighing on an average
of sixteen pounds have been grown in
Floyd county Georgia.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE Of
England, will probably visit this coun-
try during the Worlds fair.
A CoMBINATIoN of folding bed and
billiard table is one of the latest
triumphs of inventive geniusN
THE government patent Office will
show upward of $500 models, many OF
them being working machines
THE bullet shot into Clcariicld pa.
veterans leg at the battle of Gettys.
burg was extracted few days ago
A SWORD has been discovered near
Brennan, Tex, which has Sam Ilous-
toms initials carved upon the handle.
EDIsoN's children by his first wife are
familiarly called dot" and Dash"
from the characters in the Morse alpha
bet.
THE second Office of the govern.
ment,' said jefferson, lis honorable
and easy, the first is but splendid
misery"
WHILE digging the foundation of a
building at New Alexandria, Va, the
other day workmen exhumcd three
skeletons.
A MAN in bridgeport, Ct, wears a
wig that was also worn by his father,
grandfather and great-grandfather in
their turn.
THE king of Servia is only seventeen
years of age, but he rules with wis
dom and trmness that vert denied his
unhappy father.
TIE National museum at Washington
will display at the fair u collection OF
coins and other metal money valued at
nearly $1,000, 600.
Four members of the cabinet are d.
rectors of either banks or railways, or
both, namely: Messrs. Bisscll, Olney,
Lamont and Smith.
STREET cars at Wheeling, w. Va, are
not run after o'clock in the evening,
rs the mayor of that town deems it
dangerous TO do SO.
A LOUISIANA mother locked her
daughter in a room for three days re-
Gently for appearing on the street
dressed in a hoop-skirt
ONCE it was great honor and privil.
eye to walk under an umbrella. In
some countries it constituted part Of
the insignia of royalty.
AT Central City, Mich. there is an elm
tree with diameter of nine feet at the
bottom. 1t is estimated that it will
scale Is, 600 feet of timber.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HEMINGWAY, O.
the Arkansas supreme court, has re
signed, declaring the pay too small.
He was serving his second term.
PERHAPS the greatest OF all nuggets
of gold was taken from tho Monumental
mine, near Sierra Duties, in 1885, II
was estimated 10 be worth $50, 900.
A HARTFORD florist, who would fur
nsh green pinks, had to pay for ruin
ing lady's ball dress, as the green dye
stuff came off the gruesome flowers.
Mrs. ANNA L. FIELD has been drawn
to serve on petit jury in the fedora
court in Minneapolis, the first instanc,
OF the kind in the history of the state.
THE proposition to hold an interna
tional humane congress has been extern
sively agitated for some time, and there
is every indication that it will be held
PRESIDENT HAYES was inauguratet
March 6, but he had taken the oath o
office two days before. His address wa
not lengthy, but it covered the grounC
thoroughly.
THE p, rchase of the Cherokee Stril
2 for IS, SOC, 900, TO be paid in five annua
installmcnts, is authorized by the In
dian appropriation bill, as finally passet
by congress
MEs. FLORA ELLLcE STEVENS, @
Chama, n. NJ, rs notary public, re
Gently administered the oath OF Office t
her husband, William l.. Stevens, VIII
had been elected justice of the peace.
A WOMAN in Brockton, Mass, cal
boast of having lived under the admin
istration of every president of tn
United States She was born the da
preceding Washingtons retiremen
from office.
EVERY member of President Cleve
Ia IDS cabinet, including the pres
dent and vicc-prcsident, is married
with the exception of Hilary A. Ilel
l"rt, secretary of the navy, who is
Vidower
\ FRENCH syndicate is buying up a
ia WORKOUT ponies on the frontier fc
tApurt TO Paris, the intention being I
1, nvcrt them into food for the peopl
Of the gay metropolis
MEMBER of the Pennsylvania senat
! $ introduced bill which provide
frl The punishment of bribery at elc,
1 rs by ine of $1,000 and diSfrar
rhisement for five Yeas
A LAW has been enacted IN 0ntari
fortildng the spraying or spriaklin
Of fruit trccs while they are in blooi
with any mixture continuing mar