Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-04-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

IN jewels,
MORE than one,half the sugar of the
world is beet sugar.
TIE inve ntor of the velocipedc il to
have statue in France.
The Inauguration of President Glove
land will cost about SOC, 600.
THIRTEEN universities have been sup.
pressed by the Italian government.
AN epidemic of snoezing is reported
to nave broken out in Jamaica, l.. l.
GRESHAM is record breaker. He had
two cabinet portfolios under Arthur.
DIeNIFIED and moral Philadelphia
had twenty divorce cases in one day.
MAPLE sugar-makeis are predicting
great season for that toothsome prod
uct.
A MURDERER hanged in ALBANIA paid
his lawyer his last nickel on the scat
fold.
CATS are being extensively used in
New Zealand for the destruction Of
rabbits.
Two women are fighting in the courts
ut Atlanta, Ca, over the ownership Of
rooster.
AFARMER who lives near Lamar, Mo-.
has beard which measures seven feet
in length.
THERE are fourteen women and two
men in one of the church choirs at Otta-
wa, Kan.
SAN FRANCISCO boasts of "a highway
man in a buggy" and 1.-TWO highway
lady robbers"
A LARGE plant for the purpose of
freezing sturgeon is to be established at
Kalamn, Wash.
New YORK has at least ninety mrnu-
lnents erected to her dead on Gettys-
burg battlefield
SOME of the fine old oak trees of iVav.
erly, Mass, are supposed to date from
the tenth century.
A FRENCHMAN has written volume
of two hundred pages to show that
oysters rest the brain.
THE ice on Sand Beach harbor, Michi-
gan is seventeen inches thick, the thick
est clear ice since 1888
THE lost books of Euclid, in Sanskrit,
IRE said to be now in the library of the
Maharajah of Jcypore.
A LAUNDRY in England, owned by
women and employing only females
earned s25, 600 last year.
ALUMINIUM tobacco pipes are the lat
est invention. The bowl is, however
lined with mocrschaum.
A CHEDDER cheese valued at $iST ant
composed of hundreds of smaller chceses
will be exhibited at the Worlds fair
1T is stated that great number o.
small frozen frogs fell with a snow
storm in Fulton county, Pa, recently.
OF the Is, 327 female depositors il
the savings banks of Philadelphia, s, Az
are described as observation-disclosures
THE colored citizens of America pro
pose to hold grand jubilee on thu
Worlds fair grounds, on August II
1893
The Chicago Historical society has 1
novel written by President James Mad
ison called Jonathan Bull and Mary
Bull.
BOBBY BURNS is to have a statu,
erected at Denver, Col, w. Gran
Stevenson, of Edinburg, being the de
signer.
THE Hong Kong papers say the few
Englishmcn in the service of China ar
being replaced by Germans, Belgian
and Americans.
DURING the past twenty years 92S, 90
divorces have been granted by tn
courts of the United States, 80 per cent
of them to women.
Chicago congregational singing o
hymns in the language Of the peopl
has been introduced
MRS. DEWITT TALMAGE makes he
husbands pastoral and social en-
gagements, and all his lecturing inter
ests are in her hands,
THE curios of the late King Fernando
of Spain, are for sale at auction, whic
will last two months, and the catalogu
comprises 1900 articles
In Hawaii the climate is said to be 6
remarkably equable that the Hawaiia
language has no word to express tn
general idea of weather.
THE Church of All Hallows in Lor
don still possesses an income original
given to it for the purpose of buyin
faggots for burning heretics
PRESIDENT DIAz is one of the hardes
worked men in Mexico He is sixty-tw
years old, but his life has been so ten
perate that he looks much younger
CEsARE ORslNI, whose appointment q
Italian envoy to Mexico is announced
is brother to the leader in the a
tempted assassination of Napoleon II
Mrs. MARY A. ANDERSON was electe
assistant sergeant-at-arms to the Al
kansas house of representatives, defea
ing twenty candidates OF the orposit
sex.
Gov. FLORES, of the Mexican state {
Durango, believes that he has disco,
cred the famous mountain of gold, tn
legend of which is a household story
Mexico.
AN American girl rules the rcpubli
Of Guatemala, through her husband
the president, Gen, Barrios She is tn
leader of all woman movements in tina
country.
THERE is n pond in the vicinity {
Chestertown, Md, that has never bee
known, it is said, to have even a skim
ice on its surface, and during the la
cold spell it is said that it was n,
frozen particle.
CLoruRE (the French form of IL
word closure) means, briefly, the shu
ting off of debate and of motions, SO {
to force direct vote to be taken on I'll
question before the house.
THE city of Seattle, Wash, will her
after employ all idle men who wish