Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-04-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


A SCHOOL for spinning has been
opened in London.
The cost of the capitol at Washington
has exceeded $50, 900, 600.
A PENNY changes hands 1875, 900 times
In the course of a lifetime
CONSUMPTION is said to be unknown
where cows milk is not used.
IT. is limited that Inauguration rates
flom the soath may be cut to cent
mile.
A LIVERPOOL hotel has placed in each
room a telephone connected with the
office.
1T is twenty years since Pasteur be-
gan his notable experiments in germ
culture.
SCARCITY Of grain cars in the west
Is causing great annoyance to large
shippers
TIE new Union station in st, Louis
will cover thirty-two trains and cos,
$500, 900.
A BALTIMORE man is sucing young
woman of that town for possession OF
his love letters
FEMALE suffrage was beaten in the
Missouri house of representatives by
vote of IS to 49,
TIE Mexican government has adopted
measures to retire the big copper cents
from circulation.
TEXAS permits high-toned convicts to
CT hct fttt.. 10 IL f4,, hn.
the convict camps,
A NEW county in the pine country OF
northern Wisconsin has been named
after Senator Villas.
TWENTY-FIVE boy pupils of school at
Milton, Ore, were recently expelled for
smoking cigarettes.
IRELAND sends annually 10000 tons
OF eggs-some Gao, 900, 600 in round num-
bers-to England alone.
SEVEN new planets, all small, the
largest OF the ninth magnitude, were
discovered during January
The province of Ontario has decided
to admit women to the practice of law
IN the dominion of Canada
A LARGE boulder of galcna recently
mined at Cartcrvillc, Mo-, is said to
have weighed 2,45O pounds,
HANDSOME park, in memory Of Ed
ward z. Roe, the late novelist, is to b
laid out in Cornwall, New York.
ORIENTAL gardeners produce chang
able roses" which are white in th
shade and blood-red in the sunlight
Two Chattanooga policemen were
"held up" by one man. lie got the
drop on them, but that was all he did
get,
ALL railroad lines leading to the south
are short of cars This indicates good
movement into country fast develop
ing.
AN investigating committee of the IL
linois Legislature found in Chicago
sweaters who were paid four cents al
hour
A LITTLE borax put in water in which
scarlet napkins and red-bordcred towel!
are TO be washed will prevent then
from fading
A Merry correspondent of the Bostor
Pilot tried to work The Burial of ST
John Moore" off on that journal as al
original poem.
A roT of gold and silver coins o
American mintagc was dug up nca
Pittsfield H., recently. The value o
the find was 1925
A PHILADELPHIA minister is in con
slant demand for wedding purposes b,
sentimental and superstitiore couples
because his name is Bliss.
VERNI was almost sixty when h
wrote Aida" was scventy-Gve when h
brought out "Othcllo," and now n
eighty he produces "Falstafr."
NINE. PATTI is said to have relb
pushed her intention to visit the birth
place of her father in Sicily, owing t
her fear of possible capture by brig
ands.
In the south an average mule
worth $40, and pair of extra goo
ones will bring $500 or more. Loui,
Vile is the great mule market of tn
south.
In the British patent office, where c
all places in the world one would e1
poet TO find things ordinarily 'up t
date" the steel pen is unknown and tn
nntediluvian goose quill absolute an
supreme.
THERE are now living within radiu
of ten miles of Ashland, Me-, cigl
American women who are the mother
of 102 children, eighty of whom are lii
ing in the enjoyment of good healt
and sound minds.
WITH nothing but jackxnif
Adolph Sjohrim, a Marquette Swed
has constructed the frame of cloc
representing an ancient castle. lie use
various kinds of wood and worked @
the job for two years.
A VALUABLE contribution to the re
les for the confederate museum,
Richmond, was received several day
ago. It is bound album containir
over eighty specimens of notes issued |
the confederate states.
"WnAT foolish nonsense for men
ay they are too poor to we'd" sa,
Susan Il. Meredith. THAT is the e
cuse they make when they wish
shirk their duty Every man can MARI
1t is money in his pocket"
AN immense ore dock is being built
Onesta, near Duluth, MINI. The stru
turc, which, it is claimed, will be Il
largc.s on the lakes, is to be ., 500 fe
in length, so feet wide and height aho
mean water level, 5915 feet,
GENUINE volcanic dust has been foul
in Kansas and the Indian Tcrritor
There is deposit near Galena, in t
territory, which is said to be many fe
in thickness
NUMBER of leading statesmen
Montana are of the opinion that