Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-04-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
He girls in Savannah take their hat.

LONDON bus lines charge double fares
for women in crinoline.
OF the 1858, 900 teachers in the United
states, 100000 are women.
a PAPER has been started in Atlantis
called the Swapping Turtle.
ONE-HALF the population Of Mime
sofa and the Dakotas is foreign born.
WOMEN are to be admitted to the
pulpit of the Swedenborgian church.
PHYSICIANS are saying frozen fish are
the cause of q peculiar rash on the
body
THE San Francisco police now carry
an AK to break into Chinese fan tan
shops ,.r
CHRISTIAN JOACHIM Nom, who has
Just died ut Naples. knew sixty Ian.
guages
ACcoMAC county, Virginia, ships
nearly 100000 barrels sweet potatoes
annually
FRANCIS MURPHY's son Tom has got
$4,000 Hartford men to sign the temper
ance pledge.
A CHICAGO woman has been arrested
on the charge of stealing glass eye
from man.
STATISTICS Of mortality in the south
show that the death rate is "a colored
to one white.
THE wire nail manufacturers have in.
creased the price of their product one
dollar per keg.
AN ofiice-seeker offers $500 to the gov
ernmcnt for appointment as postmaster
at Austin, Tex.
THERE is said to be invested in Amer.
lean breweries about S9l,000000 Of
English capital.
WOMAN is advancing. In thirty-two
states and territories she enjoys some
form of suffrage.
THE starfsh has no nose, but the
whole of its under side is endowed with
the sense of smell
Christian Snyder has been road super.
visor of Jackson township, Indiana, for
thirty-three years.
THERE are nearly seven hundred APP
plicants for one vacancy in the pay
Solpo VI VIC urluy'
A BUFFALO firm recently advertised
for red-h.aded young woman to drive
four white horses.
IT is said that the water line has
risen one foot all around the Gulf O
Mexico since 1850
A PIG with five well formed ears is ar
animal monstrosity owned by DAME
Reese, of Muncie, Ind.
AT the present time the Philadelphi;
School of Pedagogy consists of clever
professors and one pupil.
LAST year more tonnage passed
through the Sault Ste. Marie cana
than through the Sucz canal.
UNDER the present law it is peni
tertiary offensc for full-grown Mis-
sourian to gamble with a boy.
A MAN in lIackensacll, N. j., wa
recently sentenced to sixty days i'm
prisonment for swearing in public.
BLOCKS sixty feet long without
break are found quite frequently in tn,
onyx quarries in Lower California.
AN Englishman in Philadelphia say
he hasn't eaten bread for twenty years
but he eats meat four times a day.
A SALISBURY On. c. farmer state
that hogs watercd exclusively witt
well water will be free from cholera.
A PETRIFIED mound builder has ar
rived at Topeka from Oklahoma. Faith
Baker pronounces it genuine speci
nen.
FISH in the Royal Aquarium in 81
Petersburg are still alive after havin
been on exhibition for more than 10
years.
DAVID Mccoy, of California, who !
reported to be 1903 years of age, is sal
to be the oldest war veteran in thi
country.
TEXAS has Deaf Smith county, abou
the only instance of nickname havin
been fixed upon an important poltca
division
A MISSOURI man has applied for
divorce after ten days of married lif
because of the pugiIistic inclinations c
the bride.
A TYPE of firearm has been invente
In England by which compressed gas
utilized instead of powder as propel
ing force
DR., MARTYR KELLOGG, installed a
president of the university of Cal
fornia, was the senior professor of tina
institution.
TWIN sisters, Mrs Alderman an
Mrs Christian, of Glen Ellyn, neu
Chicago, recently celebrated the
ninoty-frst birthday.
SO SMALL is the thread carried by tn
spindle of the monograph that til
process of threading requires the al
of mechanical device.
MERvIN PAGE, colored man of How
ard county, Mo-, wears shoe tn;
measures fourteen inches in length an
five inches across the sole.
A MOTHER at Pemiscot, Mo, has for
daughters who bear these euphoniol
names: Beulah, May, Ivy Rose, Beod
Alwilda and Greta Alheta.
u. S. SENATOR PETTIGREw, of Sout
Dakota, wears top boots and scragg
beard, and looks more like grang,
than any populist of them ALL
THE production of rubber boots ar
shoes in this country is about equal
n pair a year for every man, woma
and child in the United States.
Mrs. JANE L FowLE, of Dedhar
Mass, has been awarded $3.50 by 30
ton jury against dentist who extrac
ed sound tooth instead of decayt
one.
AN Atchison county Kan. farmer
net profits last year on his eighty-acl
farm were Sl463. The net profits
his wife from forty-two hens in Il
same time were Sl26 IS.
A BEECH tree on which Daniel Boor
rnrvnl his mama in r.ude letterS tQ2 Won