Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-01-06
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leo and Africa.
ONE inch of rain means 100 tons OF
water on every acre.
EACH wing of the ostrich furnishes
twenty-six long white plumes.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the famous,
nurse. is seventy-two years old
AN electric cigar lighter and electric
refrigerator are two late inventions
I The water of about twenty-five diff
ferent springs is peddled in Chicago
streets.
The patronage Of the vice. president is
limited to private secretaryship and a
clerkship,
The experiments in raising tobacco
In Georgia this year have proved very
successful.
The three-hundredth anniversary of
Isaac Walton's birth occurs on August
0, next year. -..--. ...,...~,-
Reports from different cotton centers
report very short crop, due to floods
and earlydrosts. se> ~ - u r&3
THE tunnel at Niagara falls iscom-
pleted, and the falls are to be harnessed
by next March. q s. r
The man who is perfectly proper
toned weighs 2oH pounds for every
foot of his height
THE scaffold on which John Brown
was hanged at Harper's Ferry has been
sent to the Worlds fair.
THREE of the four Dutch universities
are open to women, namely: ,Leyden,
Utrecht and Amsterdam. s7ti
A KANSAS CITY farming implement
house intends sending ont young wom-
an as drummer next year.
SIX children from one family were
lately admitted to the Soldiers Or
phans' home at Atchison, Kas.
MORE than one-ffth of the work done
In agriculture and in small industries
In France is performed by women.
A JEFFERsoNvnLE Qnd. young wom-
an won fine berry farm, valued at
$1,000 as the result of the recent cleo
tion.
KNUTE NELSON, the governor-elect Of
Minnesota, was born in Norway, and
was six years old when he cams to this
country.
CHARLES CoNNELLY, of Bradford, Pa,
is to eat six pieces of billiard cue
chalk the effect of bet on Harrison's S
election.
BUTCHERS who slaughtered hog in
Lower Saucon, Pa, found, snugly i'm
bedded in the left lung, a silver ten
cent piece. ,-
JULIAN HAWTHORNE, who is the
father of seven children, calls his home
at Sag Harbor "The House of Seven
Gabblers."
A PARIS laundryman uses plenty of
water and boiled potatoes, instead OF
soaps, sodas and boiling powders, in
cleaning clothes.
THERE are seven Hebrew members
who have seats in the British house of
commons, and they are all related to
the Rothschild family.
A PHILADELPHIA candidate complains
that so many lies were told about him
during the campaign that he can not
get credit from his tailor.
The Arkansas supreme court decides
that express messengers are entitled,
equally with passengers, to the protec-
tion Of railroad companies.
A PHILADELPHIAN paid an election
wager by pushing a peanut along the
sidewalk on Chestnut street from Broad
to Seventh with toothpick.
CHARLES DICKENS cid house at No. 20
Wellington street, Strand, in London,
will soon be a thing of the past, US it Is
to be remodeled for business purposes.
THE French minister of public in.
struction has decided to preserve the
home of Joan of Arc In Domremi as q
museum in which to illustrate her story.
A PHILADELPHIA man, who won
twenty-four hats on the election, has
opened an account with his halter, and
will draw on him at pleasure for hat.
STREET car conductors receive only
621S cents for days wages in the city
of Berlin. The day is eighteen hours
long, with holiday once in two weeks.
A GOLD throne, of the value OF 50, 500,.
0o0 is to be presented to the pope by
the united subscriptions of all the
Roman Catholic cathedrals in the
world. 1t is to be given to his holi.
ness on the occasion of his episcopal
jubilee. '"-~
FOLLOWING is the verdict of Penn.
sylvania jury of inquest in case OF
supposed arson: I'VE, the jury, find
that the thing was done. Who did il
or how it was done of course we don't
4 - a.
1t was done"
In Jacksonville, Fla, factory has
been started for the purpose of making
brushes and brooms of the palmetto
fiber, and elsewhere sink brushes are
being made of blocks of the wood, hall
of whose thickness is converted into
bristling points
THE fisheries of Jamaica are to bs
transferred to an English syndicate
The waters about this)island are said tc
swarm with the finest kinds of fooc
fishes, but natives have not the energy
and enterprise to capture and turr
them to profitable account
i The representative of an English
syndicate is quoted in the dispatche.
as saying that he has just bought 90,
900 acres of land in West Virginia, ant
that his syndicate is to establish there
on big iron and steel works similar tC
those owned by Mr.. Carnegie.
Fl. X. b. Brown, OF Newburgh, NY.
is at present engaged on statue fol
the finest type of the native Indian for
the Worlds fair. Lone Wolf, from the
Indian territory, is the model.
REDFELD PROCTOR feels as Il he wa,
sitting upon velvet Vermont has elected
him to fill out the unexpired term o
Senator Edmunds and the next regular
term. which will carry him over unti