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

POKER PLAYERS go through life hand in
hand. Diughamton Leader.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

IN winter W 'athcr rabbits arc very apt 10
bark up tho wrong tree .-lnlcr Ocean.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

LIGHTFINGEUED people arc frequently
found lrtlmg with the keys Of an uprIgrt
piano.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

GOLD SoAKEM has quit drinking" "What
for!" six months in jail."-N Y. Journal.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

TIE man who aspires to make Il successful
p:ckpockes should stGdy ircc-hanG drawing.
-YoHgcrs S, atesman.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

THERE is no LHlp for the case Of the wom-
an who can't get Servant,-Philadeph
Record.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

EAErHwoIMS have done more to bcncfi
man than elephants Rams Horn.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

MORE people would be generous II morI
were nUne: t,-Ram's Horn.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

JUDGES arc not sufficiently epigramnd'ir
20 suit some people. Their sententts al,
100 lopg.--B ingnilmi on Leader.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

THERE Is advice that machine poetry
should to sent IN cog.-Worcester EvcEin g
Gazette.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

TIM elevator boy is y youth who helps d
great many people to rise IL The worlG.-
RAMS Horn.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

A BALD HEADED man may yet be u hare
Drained fellow.---Yonkcrs Gazette,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

81 CANE and saw saw" said the face.
tlous tramp; but didn't saw."-Dusi OF
Herald
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

BEECnAM's PILLS have been in popular use
in Europe for 30 years, and are safe, sure
and gentle remedy IS cents box.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

TEA drinkers believe that it takes an
artist 10 draw it.-lnter Ocean.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

WHAT is done cannot be undone, especial
ly If it is hard boiled egg.-Texas Siftings.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

A WALKISa-srIcK-A wooden leg Truth
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

NOBODY ever blames good apple for hay
ing come from twisted tree.-Ram's Horn
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03
49, .'.',.'..'.. '..' al
HALLS
CkTARRH CURE
is TAKEN
I'M ERMALEY
and acts directly
upon the Blood and
mucous surfaces.
CA I R|(R|I|
II. B. WALTHALL &

EB. WALTHALL & CO., Druggists, Horse
Cave, KY, say: Halls Catarrh Cure cures
every one that takes it"
CONDUCTOR T.. d. LOOMS, Detroit Mich,
says " The effect OF Halls Catarrh Cure Is
wonderful" Write him about 1t.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

REV. H. p CARSON, Scotland, Dak., says!
1.-TWO bottles of Halls Catarrh Cure complete
ly cured my little girl "atH p tg ~ tl
j. C. SIMPSON, Marquess, W. Va, says:
Halls Catarrh Cure cured me Of very bad
case of Catarrh.Ns.1 .f 1aa
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

* II
: NOTARIAL SEAL :
. LUCAS CO.. o.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-03

IISHor HRooKs left three brothers
living. They are William G. Brooks,
business man of Boston; Rev. Arthur
Brooks of the Church of the Incarna-
ton in New York; and hev. John {,
Brooks of Sprinl field. Rev. Frederick
Brooks another brother, was drowned
several years ago.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
ROPES OF PEARLS.
They Are Now Worn by Rich Mems W
 and Daughters.

They Are Now Worn by Rich Mems Wives and Daughters.
 When D'Israeli, in ''Lothair,' men. toned Corisande's ''ropes of pearls, J the idea seemed rather barbaric in it's splendor and merely an outburst of the Oriental imagination of the writer. Now, however, many society women own these splendid long strings, each separate pearl of which may be worth from $500 to $1,OOO. These sumptuous chains are from a yard to a yard and a half in circumference, and are worn wornd once around the throat, with the rest of the rope hanging loosely over the corsage to the waist.
 Diamonds, too, are also worn in this gorgeous, reclless-looking fashion, the modern ''riviere," which just encircled the throat, and which used to be thought so magnificent, being quite superseded by the long, glittering, scintillating chain which ''Milady'' winds once or twice around her throat, and then leaves hanging in careless, rich-looking fashion loosely over the front of her dress.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
4 Squirrel Ratter.

A ynang man living in the outskirts of PcEtland caught a squirrel recently and started in to tame it, and he had such success that the squirrel is now as tame as house cat. The squirrel, after being boxed mp for awhile, was given the run of the house and went about upstairs and down at will. Then he was let out doors and allowed to play in the trees. but he got back into the house regularly at meal time and at night. A few days ago the squirrel lodged into a rat hole and began running through the walls The house had been overrun with rats. and after the squirrel got into the walls there was 8 scampering and racket which threatened to tear the house down. The squirrel came out of the hole after awhile, and from that time nothing has been heard of rats in the house. The squirrel enjoys a scamper through the walls every day but the rats have taken themselves off.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
4 Clever Cat.

A parsonage cat, whose favorite seat is on the study table, has found a new use for himself. He watches his mas ter's pen, and occasionally, when the writer is tired, takes the holder in his mouth. But his real usefulness is to act as paper weight. When sheet is finished and laid aside, the cat walks gravely to it and takes his seat on the paper. As soon as another is laid aside he leaves the first and sits down on the second. Sometimes, to try him, his master lays down, on different parts of the table, sheets in rapid suc- cession. But 'sPowhatan"-the cat remains seated, shrewdly supposing that to be fun, not business. When work begins anew the cat seats him. self on the last paper laid down, and waits for another. Thus he shows that he watches his masters work, and perhaps thinks it his duty to keep the paper from blowing away.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
A LAND OF PHENOMENA.
Strange Results Produced by Storms in
 the Northern Half of Borneo.

IrOQuceQ Dy storms Tn
 the Northern Half of Borneo.
 The northern half of the island of Borneo is the queerest and most unsat- isfactory place to live that one can imagine, says a writer in the Globe Democrat. It is a land of constant re- curing phenomena, where cyclones are frequent and deluges of water very common. The vegetation in that half is very fine, but in all probability the widest and most tangled on earth not even excepting that of Africa. The cause of all the trouble is the shallow condition of the sea north of it, great shoals of sand existing a few miles out which extend along it's en- tire northern length. These shoals are covered by depth of water not over five feet deep. The constantly recurring winds that blow in that eli mate change to hurricanes and sweep the smaller islands of all visible life.
 When such storm strikes the sand shoals north of Borneo it sweeps up the shallow salt water into it's course and trenches the island with it. Often it gathers up sand, great masses of it, from the clear swept shoal and whirls it for miles high over the island, carry ing it into the inland and scattering it everywhere. The work of these storms does not always end with that. Entire shoals of fish, of all sizes, have been swept up time and again by the fierce wind with the water and sand and scattered about Borneo. In some places the ground would be literally covered with fish, enough to supply a heavy population for weeks. But such luck is no reparation for the evil the winds do, and consequently the northern half will never be inhabited 5y those who value their lives.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
DOCTORS AND cLEReYMEN.
The Former Much the Shorter Lived, Their
 ardncr,s Kvnrtr r7nircr 4l,n Carso

The Former Much the Shorter Lived, Their
 ArduOus Work Being the Cause.
 The deaths of several well-known medical practitioners lately at ages but little beyond the middle period of life have given a shock to good many of their professional brethren. And no wonder! One of the first things a doctor naturally aims at is the preserva- tion of his own health and life. If he cannot keep himself alive and well, the prospect is certainly not encouraging for his patients. It is commonly be- ieved that doctors are a short-lived class. Is the popular belief well found ed? It is, according to the London Hospital, only too well founded. In his ''Vital Statistics" Dr. Arthur .NewsholIne informs us that of every 1000 clergymen between the ages of 45 and 6 only 1. 8 die annually. But of every 1000 doctors between the ages of 45 and 65 no fewer than 2S.03 die every year. That is to say, the mortality of medical men is almost double that of clergymen. And the rate is increasing. Twenty years ago it was only 24 instead of 28. These are facts to make us pause. They seem to throw an ugly doubt upon the competency of our pro- fessional skill. It may perhaps be argued that clergymen are financially more prosperous than medical men; but that would be quite fallacious, be- cause Dr. Newsholme includes in his clerical class the ministers of all the nonconforming denominations; and, class for class, there is no doubt that medical men are much better off than the body of clergymen as thus consti- tuted. What is the reasol then, for this portentous death roll? It is to be found in the arduous nature of the doc tors daily work. But then the doctor knows the seriousness of his work, and if he had faith in physiology he would counteract the effect of that righteousness by more holidays and by combining with his fellow doctors to diminish the killing strain. This is matter which is generally talked about and then dropped.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
THE NIGHT CLERK.
Very Useful If He Doesn't Wear Many
 Diamonds.

Very Useful If He Doesn't Wear Many
 Diamonds.
 There is one individual about a hotel who is seldom seen by the out. side public, but who occupies one of the most responsible positions in every hostlery. It is the night clerk.
 His duties, says the Washington Star, are, of course, not as arduous as the day or room clerds, but they are very responsible. The house is filled with sleeping people and he maintains over all these precious lives an indirect and important supervision. He looks after the watchman closely to see that the halls are properly patroled and a sharp lookout kept for fires. At the disastrous Hotel Royal fire in New York it will be remembered that it was alleged that the great loss of life there resulting was mainly due to the fact that the night clerk was at the time the fire broke out either asleep or improperly attending to his duties, as the flames gained such tremendous headway before any effort was made to arouse the guests.
 The night clerk witnesses many strange and interesting scenes and in- cidents, and could many an interesting tale unfold if he chose.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
HOW TO WIN AT EUCHRE.
Louisville Player Gives the Secret of
 Her Success Last Winter.

Il
 Her Success Last Winter.
 There are as many superstitious peo- pie in the world to-day as there ever were, says the Louisville Courier-J our nal, and the belief in signs, charms and omens has by no means passed away. A charming young married woman won alnsost all of the prizes at the pro- gressive euchre parties she attended last winter. She plays well, but, as a friend told her, ''the best players have to hold good cards to win" At the end of the season she tsld what she thinks has been the cause of all her luck. q never fail to cut my finger nails before breakfast every Monday morning. she said, ''aRd that is nay magical charra against bad luck for the whole week." A pretty little woman, whs was visit ing here from neighbering town, locked adlniringly at her own dainty fingers and arxiously inquired Eff filing would not cle as we'll, for cutting the nails ipjurcs theRi so," but the lucky enc was positive it would not, and tte pretty nails would have to be SSiSL 14ANNd II lA4SAl OW4CI WlSllCNl OO VIII. Gne of t}se best womeR I know shows piece of silver to tlse new mson each month, and if she has to turn back after she starts anywhere she carefully sTits before she sets out again. The most cherished possession of one of the most successful singers now oa the stage is pair of old stockings she wore on the night of her greatest triumph, and she is so sure that so long as they remain with ker so long her luck will last that she would part sooner with her costliest gems than with these worn silk hose It is said the late Mir. Bel mont would bet heavily if a fight of birds crossed his path while he was on his way to the race course. And so on, from high to low, everyone has pet superstition carefully hidden away or laughingly confessed.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
FIVE DOLLARS AND PLUCK.
The Capital Upon Which a Texas Rail-
 road Was Built.

The Capital Upon Which a Texas Rail-
 road Was Built.
 From south Texas came man who built six hundred miles of railroad with five-dollar bill and faith, and the bill was a borrowed one, says a San Antonio letter. He moved up from Corpus Christi to San Antonio with all of his possessions heaped up on a two-wheeled cart. He got a charter to build railroad from San Antonio to Aransas Pass. He graded a mile of it, throwing a good deal more than one shovel of dirt with his own hands. The receiver of another road loaned this indefatigable builder enough old rails for mile of track In distant part of the state was pur- chased an engine which had been con- demned six years before and sent to the shop to be wrecked for scrap iron. Two old cars were picked up some where else at bargain. And that old engine, drawing those old cars, steamed into San Antonio. On en- zine and cars in bold lettering was painted in lamp-black, IS. A. and A. F." With one mile of old rail track and with the equipment of the old en- zine and the two old cars Uriah Lott started the Aransas Pass system. There has been some tall financiering in the history of railroad building in this country, but there isn't anything which, for dazzling pluck, quite ap- breaches the story of the building of this six hundred miles of road in south Texas To the one mile of track three were added-three miles by diclzer for some secondhand rails which a street-car company had bought from Q narrow gauge company. On this basis a credit trade was made with Penn sylvania rolling mill for ten miles of rails. When they arrived there wasn't enough money in the treasury to pay the freight. But it was got somehow. Ten miles of track gave the founda- tion for bonds which built forty miles more, and so the system grew into it's present proportions. This man who built the Aransas Pass system rode from San Antonio to Chicago at one critical period in his enterprise with out a cent in his pocket. He had transportation, but he hadn't anything to buy food with, and he went through hungry
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
A Visitor from the Moon.

A remarkably fine specimen of me teoric iron (which, according to Prof. Tschermers views, is simply a piece of ore projected through volcanic agency from the face of the moon) has been sent from Rockingham county, S. C., to the state museum at Columbia. Its greatest length is not above twelve inches and it's thickness through the thickest part is about two inches. In general shape it is flat, though some what concaved on one side and con- vexed on the other, as if broken of from the outer surface of rounded and larger mass. It is entirely coated with a thick crust of dark brown rust and weighs twenty-five and three quarter pounds.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
rnDIA's INFINITE VARIETY.
Her Society and Her Scenery Complex and
 Varied to a Degree.

Her Society and Her Scenery Complex and
 Varied to Degree.
 The grand difficulty of talking to an Englishman about India is that he al- ways forms picture of the place in his mind. It may be accurate or inac- curate, but it is always picture. He thinks of it either as a green delta, or a series of sunbaked plains, or a wild region, with jungle and river and farms all intermixed, or a vast park stretched out by nature for spOrtsmen, and sloping somehow at the edges toward highly cultivated plains, says the London Spectator. It never occurs to him that as regards external aspect there is no India, that the peninsula, so-called, is as large as Europe west of the Vistula, and presents as many variations of scenery. East Anglia is not so different from Italy as the north west provinces from Bengal, nor are the Landes so unlike Normandy as the Punjab is unlike the hunting districts of Madras. There is every scene in India, from the eternal snow of the Himalayes, as much above Mount Blanc as Mount Blanc is above Geneva, to the rice swamps of Bengal, all buried in fruit trees; from the wonderful valleys of the Vindhya, where beauty and fer tility seem to struggle consciously for the favor of man, to the God-forgotten salt marshes by the Rum of Clutch.
 It is the same with indigenous Indian society. The Englishman thinks of it as an innumerable crowd of timid peasants, easily taxed and governed by a few officials, or as a population full of luxurious princes, with difficulty re- strained by scientific force and careful division from eating up each other. In reality, Indian society is more complex and varied than in Europe, comprising, it is true, a huge mass of peasant pro- prietors, but yet full of princes who are potentates and princes who are survivals of landlords, who are in all respects great nobles and landlords, who are only squireens of great eccle- siastics and hungry curates, of mer- chants like the Earrings and merchants who keep shops, or professors and pro- fessionals, of adventurers and crim- inals, of cities full of artifcers, and of savages far below the dark citizens of Hawaii.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
Lots of Room.

All the people of the United States could be lodged in the three states of California, Kansas and Nebraska with out ovcrcrowding and without produc- ing greater density of population than we find in England or in Italy or in Japan. or in many of the provinces of China. The two provinces of Kiang- Su and Ngan-Hui, in China, support between them population rather larger than that of the United States on territory less than two-t;lirds of the area of California
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-21
A Profound Mystery.

The verrniform appendix is about the only thing in the human structure for whose existence science has been unable to discover a reason. The yer inform appendix is a small tube of tissue about as big as half lead pencil and depending from the colon or big intestine. In this position it is apt to catch cherry pits, seeds of fruit, and other small objects likely to in. cite inflammation. When that takes place the only way to save the patient is to remove the veTniforIn appendix, and it is so situated in the body that the operation of taking it out is attended with much deep cutting and conse- oueDtlv much danger.
Evening journal., 1893-11-21
Tarin nin Ne.t nIondnv.

WAsmlNGIoN, Nov. 2l.-The ways and
means committee will probably give out
the new tariff bill on Monday next, the
25th inst. A meeting of the full commit
tee will be called for that day, as il Is nee
essary that the bill be spread before the en-
tire committee and formal vote taken on
its adoption before the measure is given to
the public
The Democratic members are now devot-
ing most of their time in conference, at
tempting to discover, with the aid Of As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin
and the treasury officials, the exact amount
Of revenue that will be yielded by the vari-
ous schedules under the revision contem-
plated by the committee This involves
detailed calculations, and until this labor
Is ended no final action can be taken on
any of the reports OF the subcommittee.
Evening journal., 1893-11-21
WlNNowEO VIKINGS.

Chester, Pa, is to have an electric rail
way system.
Sylvia Grey, London actress, married
wealthy Australian.
Two bombs were exploded in the Office Of
the mayor Of the Spanish village of Tor
rente
The 5-year-old daughter Of Mrs John
Huseck Of Harwood, Pa, was burned to
death.
Seven workmen were seriously injured In
a collision of an express train with a con
struction train near CarrolltOn, o.
Two young men, rivals in love, fought a
duel near Napoleon, o., with swords and
iackknives and both were hacked 70 pieces.
Roxie McKernin a hotel thief, known
under dozen aliases IN every large city in
the United States, was arrested in Cincln-
matt.
John 5. Smith, a travelling salesman for
a Holyoke Mass paper firm, died Of as.
phyxiation in Minneapolis boarding
house.
Senator elect Bradley Of Asbury Park,
y. j., proposes to introduce a bill in the
next legislature dividing Monmouth coun-
ty and creating q new county named Nep.
tune.
Evening journal., 1893-11-21
STILL HATE NELSON.
Three Young Montreal Frenohmen Tried
TO Blow Up His Monument.

MONTREAL, Nov. 2l-Three Frencb-Ca-
aadian law students-llonore Mercier, son
Of the ex-Premier of Quebec; Paul de Mar
tigny and Alphonse Pellard-were arrested
while attempting to blow up the historic
monument to England's great naval hero.
Admiral Nelson, which stands at the topof
Jacques Cartier square facing the city hall.
The police had received private nforma
tion few hours before that plot was on
foot to blow up the monument with dyna-
mite, and they secreted themselves in the
neighborhoOd TO await the arrival of the
trio of conspirators.
The young men affected indifference
when seized, one of them loudly declaring
that the thing had no right there anyway
and should be made mincemeat of. They
were taken to the Central station and
locked up after giving their names. On
the person of Paul de Martigny was found
a dynamite cartridge nearly a foot long and
about 80 feet Of fuse The three young
men vary in ages from IS to 20 and belong
to good families. They are all law stu
dents. Young De Martigny is the son
of DIR. A y. de Martigny; young Pollard
the brother Of j. o. Pollard, advocate and
young Mercier the son of the ex-premier,
who is out Of town at present.
The accused were admitted to bail in Sc
curities for a large amount, their friends
being willing to put up q y quantity Of
money to have them libera,-l Their trial
was postponed until the 2Sth inst
There is little doubt that the young men
were melted to attempt the outrage by the
fierce articles which have been published
in the French papers here during the past
few months against the monument. Their
innate hatred of everything British was
fired, and they determined that the stiStue
of the hego of Trafalgar should bite the
dust. There is great deal of suppressed ex-
citement throughout the city, and while
the French papers make light of the affair
there is plenty Of bad blood on both sides,
which needs but spark TO rekindle the
racial flames which, it was hoped, had died
out some time ago