Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

IN Finland and East Turlcstan thun-
der storms are wholly unknown.
A ton OF sea water is supposed to con.
tain about fourteen grains of gold.
lr has been colder in Constantinople |
this winter than for fifty years past.
In Pennsylvania man has been fined |
81, 600 for calling another u Molly Ma |
guirc."
A welITER in the Critic estimates |
Zola's literary earnings for twenty
years ut 800, 900
If you were on tho moon the earth
would appear to you six'y-four times
larger than the sun.
AT Norwich, England. thirty
ton weight stone has been quarricd. |,
is the largest on record.
THE California assembly has passed
a bill making przc-lighting with or
without gloves felony.
A MISSISSIPPI man is suing his wife
for divorce on the ground that she
makes him do the cooking.
a COW at Gainesville, Tex, has an APP
petite for colorcd autographs and post
bills, which it seems TO enjoy
A LOUISVILLE girl who plays the cor
net has discovered that playing wind
instruments produces dimplcS
A BIGD in the London 200. shell
drake, committed suicide recently on
account of the death Of its mate,
10 DE up with the times you must not
call it foul air. any more. The new
medical name is crowd poison
lT is said that with a vocabulary of
1000 words man can transact all the
ordinary business matters Of life.
j. W. Fclkncr, of palatka, Fla, il
the owner of an English coin which, he
claims bears the date of the year 1924
GLADSTONE is to bc the name of the
new city TO be founded by capitalists
on the bank of Little Bay DNoc, Michi-
gan.
WOMEN are employed at railroad
switches and crossings in Italy because
they do not get intoxicated so often as
the men.
MRS. STEVENSON, wife of the vice
president-elect, has been elected prcsi
dent of the society of the Daughters Of
the Revolution.
THE tcautograph, an instrument for
transmitting messages in fac-simile at
any distance and with great rapidity, is
late invention.
REV. FRANCIS WELLS, who died late
ly at Bethlehem, Pa, is said to have
been the inventor of The machine for
making paper bags.
FoRr SCOTT will soon have the largest
paper mill of any kind in the state OF
Kansas, and the only one that converts
cane pulp into paper.
IT is estimated that in the United
States and Canada six out of every ter
young men who have reached the age
of thirty are unmarried.
A TEXAS editor being asked why he
discontinued publishing replied, Every
body else stopped my paper, so | con
cluded that would too"
MISS JULIA BRYANT, daughter OF VIM
Cullen Bryant, the poet, has given l,OOC
volumes from her fathers library to tn,
trustees of the Tildcn trust
Mrs. EAMoNs BLAINE has given $40,
900 with which to found n library TO
the city of Augusta, Me. The gift is il
honor of her husbands memory.
AN Andrew county (NIo.) man VIII,
stopped the mail carrier in the road I,
quarrel with him has been arrested 70
delaying the United States mail.
A wErI-KNowN resident of Frcdcricks
burg, Va, who has recently died, had
name that was odd enough to attrac
attention. IT was y. X. Charters.
THE postmaster at Washington, Mo.
skatcd from that place to St Louis,
distance of eighty-siX miles, in eigh
and one-half hours and won big BET
JOHN M. WEBSTER, of Tennessee, ha
brought suit against his wife for dam
ages, because she would not allow hir
to sell his farm and ferry for steam
boat.
DEATH has no terrors for Mrs. Ami
Besant, What the majority of munllin
regard as theory to be decided she dc
fines as "a choice relief from the bul
den of the flesh"
HERMAN ENDEMANN, q chemist test
fed in the whisky trust inquiry the OIL
or day that a tablespoonful of any {
the essences used in adulterating liquc
would kill man.
IT cost Mrs Fritz w. IIinklcy, nc
Florence Blythe, of San Francsc,
1894, 32i4i to secure her inheritance {
$4,000, 900, that being the amour
claimed by her lawyers and the exec,
trix.
TIE imperial infantry and cavalr
bands of Germany, composed of OF
hundred men, each of whom stands 81
feet or more in height has made an CT
gagement to play at the Chicag
Worlds fair.
Mrs. ANDREW CARNEGIE displays Il
utmost care in the distribution of h,
charities All the needy eases th
come to her notice are thoroughly i
vestigatcd, and help is given only
the really deserving.
WHILE peasant wedding part
was crossing the Dnicpcr, near Ekatc
inoslav, Russia, the ice broke and tv
sledges with ten persons disappear,
under the water. All were swept Vi
der the ice and drowned.
FROM statistics covering the last TIL
ty-two years it is computed that the a
cragc life of women in France has be,
thirty-cight years. and of men thirt
six years During last year, howevt
the average rose to forty years for DO
sexes.
QUEEN VICTORIA, Princess Christi
and Princess Beatrice will each co
tribute at least one original piece
literary work to the woman's exhibits
ut the Worlds fair.
THE greatest number of people ey
l.illcd nv an on hounlSe since the Il nv