Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-02-03
CURRENT TOPICS.


GERMANS are said to constitute IS per
cent Of the population of Indiana
The double handed swords OF media
val times often weighed 80 pounds
MARAUDINe bands are again making
things lively on the Mexican border.
The Panama rascals in France got
away with $3.50, 100000 or Whereabouts.
The early revival of the cholera scare
In Europe BODIES no good for our Worlds
fair.
FRANCE is the only civilized country
in which the custom of dueling sur.
wives
SEvEN-YEAR-oLD Lille Beal, of Cal
houn county, Ala, is said to weigh las
pounds.
A HORSE at Osceola, Mo, 1t is claimed,
stands II hands high and weighs l, $40
pounds.
A ST. LOUIS paper offers prize Of 81
day for errors discovered in its adver
Using columns.
MRS. HANNAH WHITALL SMITH writes
that 1000 American girls are now study.
ing art in Paris.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has been
elected vice-president OF the Egyptian
exploration fund.
CHARLES DICKENS daughters taught
him dance polka, but he couldn't mas
ter the schottische.
ACCORDING to the latest estimates the
Kaiser Wilhelm monument in Berlin
will cost 100000.
A BILL has been presented in the
house to establish a Bureau Of Con.
gressional Information"
TIBURzI, an uncaptured Italian ban.
dit, died Of old age recently. He had
boen sentenced to death thirty-seven
times
EVERY Catholic candidate for the
Boston board OF education was defeat.
ed at the election recently on the relig.
ious question.
MRS. ADELBET BRANNINe, Of White
Mills, Pa, lately presented her husband
with daughter that only weighed one
pound and a half.
THE buttons on the wedding dress Of
New York millionaire's daughter, re.
Gently married, were made of jewels,
and cost 500 each.
THE youngest man in the Fifty-third
congress will be Thomas Settle, re.
publican, OF North Carolina, who lie in
his twenty-eighth year.
THE Ropes gold mine at Ishpeming,
Mich, is not going TO close down as has
been announced. 1t made g. 422 last
month and is prosperous.
GERMANY has a Louise Michel In the
person OF Mile. Wabnitz, who is i'm
prisoned at Berlin for speaking disre-
specially Of the emperor,
In Boston they are getting to call af-
ternoon teas Smoke talks" because
the hostess usually has incense burning
in little Oriental incense burner.
WHEN Mr.. Cleveland becomes presi.
dent again he will find that there are
24,132 more ofiice-holders than there
were when he left the white house in
+ 1880.
JUDGE EMORY SPEER, of the United
States court at Macon, Ga, has decided
that q laborer can not be discharged
imply because he belongs to labor
union.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has lately de-
veloped fancy for smoking clay pipes,
such as those which were in use among
the early Dutch and Puritan settlers of
America.
JOHN w. GRANTHAM, q resident of
Johnston county, North Carolina, has
seven grown daughters, six of whom
are married, all to men whose baptis-
NAL name is John.
1t is said that Chinese laborers an
nually take or send out OF this country
5000, 900 in gold. They are not the
only visitors who are depicting the
United States of its gold.
ALL previous trotting and bicycling
records were smashed the other after
noon on the Flatbush Pond, Brooklyn,
by Prof NJ. Murphy, who rode "bicy-
cle-skate" mile in 1888.
A PRINCIPAL at Los Angeles, Cal,
dismissed the schools for the circus,
which the trustees considered as
breach of the law and rules, and his
= resignation was requested
EDISON, the electrician, is satisfied
with cracked wheat and cream for
lunch, and dimes rs plainly as II ne was
yet a poor operator who had to count
every quarter he expended
New YORK city has no end Of profes.
sional detectives, yet it was reserved
for the New York Advertiser to lay bare
the long-standing iniquity OF the print.
H. a o., q
WILLIAM Il. RUTnERFoRp, of Kuther-
ford station, Va, recently found in a
hickory tree a lock of red hair that had
been plugged up in the tree for $50
years, as shown by the growth rings.
MANY Of the hotel bell boys, so called
through the country are fathers, and
some are grandfathers San Fran.
cisco has three over fifty years old, one
Of whom recently retired from business
rich.
THE influence of the money raised
for the Panama canal seems to have
been far-reaching. 1t is said that two
thirds of it was employed in corrupting
the French press and the French law.
g!vers.
MEMPHIS women property holders
voted at recent municipal election,
some twenty-five in all, and to each,
even to the two black women among
the number, the greatest respect was
shown by men.
FRANKLIN W SMITH, Of Boston, i,
still agitating the establishment OF q
national gallery Of history and art in
Washington to cost ultimately &c..
600, 900.
THE coyotes in Crook county, Ore,
are becoming too high-toned to live ex-
clusivelY on mutton and are cultiyatinr