Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

ST. PAuL's, London, was begun in
1875 and finished in ITO.
To straighten whalebones hold them
to the steam of boiling water.
WINE in Theoretically sealed TASKS
was recently found in Pompei
COFFEE cups now should be high and
slender; tea cups low and broad.
A DARIEN (Ga.) colored man claims
to have gathered 900 lemons from one
tree.
A PHILADELPHIA burglar robbed two
dentists of their false teeth the other
night.
SOUVENIR forks are coming in, if only
to lessen the monotony of the souvenir
spoons
A CHICAGO burglar, when caught, de-
clared that he only wore mask to hide
his bushes.
The farmer in Japan who has ten
acres OF land is looked upon as a
monopolist.
THE marquis of Queensbury has made
his appearance on the lecture platform
in England
CINNAMON is said to destroy microbes
effectively, if not as quickly, as corro-
sive sublimate.
The catch of Spanish mackeral in the
Gulf of Mexico this season is reported
to be very large.
JACOB GREENABAUM, who committed
suicide at Miami, Mo-, had his life in
sured for $4,000.
The full name OF the new populist
governor of Kansas is Lorraine Demos
themes Lewelling
PEOPLE guessing at Mr.. Cleveland's
income put it at s25,OOO year since he
left the presidency.
THE rats of Ishpeming, Mich, are so
large that they it is said, run off with
the traps set for them.
Dr. WIELoBYCKI, president of the
society for the study Of inebriety, in
London, is 100 years old.
THERE is reward of IS, 900 for the
liar who started the falsehood about
the San Juan gold fields.
CHOLERA and cleanliness do not travel
together, and the cities of this country
will have to make choice.
PAPER teeth are now manufactured
by Lubbock dentist One set has been
in use thirteen years, and is as good as
ever
EIGHT olive trees now exist in the
Garden of Olives at Jerusalem, which
are known to be at least eight hundred
years old.
AS MIGHT be expected, the marriage
statistics of 1892, show a veritable boom
in the matrimonial market 1t was
leap year
\ WHILE Parisians may not crave horse
meat, they certainly eat a good bit Of
it Last year they consumed over So
900 horses.
THE Welsh spinning industry is to be
demonstrated at the Chicago Worlds
fair by number of Welsh girls in their
national dress.
STATISTICS carefully compiled show
. that of che 1906, 600, 900 people inhabit-
ing the world fully roo, 900, 900 are but
partially clothed.
TwENTY-sEvEN bears were killed in
the Cache river bottoms in days hunt
recently by party of Lee county
ark sportsincn.
AN aged colored woman is said to be
wandering through the southwestern
part of Georgia claiming to be THE
Queen Of Paradise"
In some parts of China formal in
PRODUCTION is given in these words:
This is my friend. If he steals any
thing will be responsible"
MR. MOODY is scrupulous about trav-
cling on Sunday, no matter how impa-
tent he may be, or how worthy the
mission on which he is bound.
WHEN policeman is wanted in Fort
Scott, Kan, at night they telephone to
Central" and the "hello girl" raises
the window and blows whistle.
JOHN G. CARLISLE will be the first
man south of the Mason and Dixon
line to hold the treasury portfolio since
the administration of James Buchanan
FoRTY-FIvE years ago canned toma.
toes sold for fifty cents can, while at
the present time the average price SC.
cured by the packer is about seven
cents.
A WOMAN died recently in the poor.
house at Sheerness who was born in the
institution ninety-two years ago. and
has lived there all her life, public
charge.
Our Of population of about S0,00O.-
coo in Prussia, only about one-tenth of
them possess, it is said, an income OF
900 marks year, which is equal to
about S225.
A YOUNG man who lives in Coldwater,
Mich, is said to have grown 81 inches
per year, on an average, for the past
three years. He now stands 6 feet 81
inches in height
A STEAMER which has just left Mel.
bourne for London has on board $4,000
cases of butter of the value of G35, 900.
This is the largest shipment of Austria.
liam butter on record.
THE status and authority oil Mgr,
Satolli is no longer in doubt. lie is the
first incumbent of a permanent apos
tolic delegation which the pope has
established in the United States.
W. j. WEEKS of Yaphawk, L. l., who
is sevcnty-two years old, challenges, il
is said, any man in the world to E
match at skate-writing, the sentence
10 contain not less than hundred let
tiers, and to be given out by the judge
at the time of the contest
ONE of the most startling announce
ments that has CONT across the sea fol-
a long time is that there is open antag
onism to the revival of the crinolin,
and probability that it will succeed.
IT is proposed to erect an electri,
overhead road from the Chicago pos
Office to the cXposition grounds I.