Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-03-17


THERE are stars whose diameter il
greater than that of our whole solar
system.
CHINESE evade the anti-opium law In
this country by hiding the drug in wal
nut shells.
THos ]. CARPENTER, of Canton, Ga,
raised hog last fall which weighed
COS pounds.
KING HuAIBERT and Queen Marghar
ita are to celebrate their silver wedding
ON April a.
TIE city Of Lubbock, Germany is pre-.
pairing to celebrate this year it's tooth
anniversary.
A LARGE deposit of alum, tits claimed,
has been discovered near Asheyillc,
North Carolina.
Miss MARY MOODY, niece Of the ia.
nous evangelist intends to engage in
missionary work.
A NEW YORK city shoemaker displays
a sign which reads as follows: "Squeaks
taken out of shoes"
LITTLE alligators sent to France from
Florida are popular pets with fashion.
able French women.
GLADSTONE has now attained great.
err age than any other prime minister of
England ever reached.
In Prussia the price of medicine is
regulated by the state, and new price
list is issued annually
Mrs. SnIoNs, of Sodaville, Ore, is
over 100 years old, and draws a persion
from the 1912 war fund.
ICE is quoted at six cents ton at
Devils Lake Mich, and at cent a
pound at Shreveport, La.
r. OF 1884, S2 recruits received into the
German army and navy recently only
C24 could not read or write.
THE mineral production of Idaho for
1899 was $13,O75,OOO, falling off of
nearly so per cent, from 1891.
MELVIN FRnAY, of Bango-, Me-,
broke his collar-bone short time ago
while trying to put on his ulster.
The Kansas State Agricultural col
lege has received $4S, 900 from the United
States during the past two years
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS has declined
the proposition of her Georgia friends
to raise for her cash gift of $40, 200.
The governor OF Mississippi offers a
reward of 100000 for each white cap
convicted in the courts of that state.
SOME Missouri tobacco seed raised
twenty-nine years ago was planted in
kentucky in 1892 and grew nice crop.
A PUBLIC library has been founded in
Panama in commemoration of the 40lth
anniversary of the discovery Of Amer
lea.
The valley OF Roam creek, near De-
Beque, Mesa county, COL, has been
stocked with several hundred eastern
quail.
IT is related Of Macmillan, the giant
Roman emperor, that he could grind tc
pieces of hard stone to powder between
his fingers
THE Sedalia Razoo describes Gov.
Stones inaugural address as beautiful
as tinted sky and fragrant with tho
roses Of thought"
LYMAN WILCOX, living near Hudson,
Mich, had eight teeth kicked out by 9
vicious colt. They were false, AID the
dentist fixed them in again.
ADAM PRIsoc, who is ninety-twc
years of age, recently rode horseback
it is said, from his home to Greensboro
N. c., distance of seven miles
A SOUTH CAROLINA colored man re
Gently applied for pension on the
ground that he was swindled when the
Freedmen's savings bank failed.
PRESIDENT DIAZ is one of the hardest
worked men in the republic He is
sixty-two years old, but his life has
been so temperate that he looks mucl
younger.
: ]. NJ. HoLLEDRoF, colored, who was
lately elected tax receiver of Camder
county, Ga, is said to be the first col
ored man ever elected to that position
in the state.
A TABLE constructed of various his
toric woods is to be placed in the WON
ana building, at Chicago, by the ladie
of Dauphin county, Pa. The cente
piece is of olive wood from the Noun
OF Olives.
AN English sparrow few into to-
store at Port Carbon, Pa, and alighte
upon the money drawer. So voraciou
bird seized dime and took wings 70
the outside world.
THERE are in existence, it is claimed
specimens of paper made from rags a
early as the fourteenth century, tn
oldest extant being, it is reported,
letter from Joinville to Louis y. c
France, dated A. D., 1915,
MORGAN RUSSELL brought suit at Boil
var, Mo-, for payment of services
bringing about 'he marriage of John
Raymond and Miss Nancy Z, Carte
The court awarded Mr. Russell S. fc
lis rustling in the matter.
A FREE grant of 100 acres of land t
every father with twelve children wa
lately offered by the Canadian govern
ment, and 14O applications were receive
within three weeks.
SINCE 1855 Harvard has filed hig
places in the government as follow
Two presidents, two vice-president
fifteen cabinet officers and thirty mil
listers pleripotentiary.
A SEAT in the parquet Of Londo
theatcr costs 26S}f and one in the fir
balcony tl.7a Then a programu
costs from two 20 six cents, and Il
fees Of the attendants court up an
where from dino TO fifty cents