Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-12-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

NEW Indian rubber tree has been
found on the island of Madagascar.
OVER three hundred lynchings have
taken place in the south during the
present year
The principal mosque of Damascus
has burned to the ground, causing o
loss of 81 500, 600
IT is said that Kansas can show a.
record OF forty-four poor-houses with
out any inmates. h6
A PARTY of Kalamazoo hunters have
returned from Upper Michigan with
twenty-five deer.
A GUEST at Chicago marriage stole
the wedding cake and pot containing
the broiled chicken.
The United States has CSC vessels en-
gagged exclusively in the foreign trade;
Gyeat Britain has 5 06s
THERE are fewer lawyers in the Eng
fish parliament than in the American
house of representatives.
THE two-year-old son of ii. w. Pamm,
Of Hillsdale, Mich, choked to death
the other night on bean.
AN editor in Six Town, Me-, recently
became Disguised with his profession
and became fish peddler
The Shaker community at Shirley,
Mass, has just cele ated the one hun.
drcdth anniversary of. it's establish.
ment. sAksa AXE 81
THE largest gold nugget ever found
uu Rail T. al
weighing q i66 ounces, and was worth
e4i,s
A HINDUsTANI work on music saws
that music is the painfully acquired
art OF speaking very loud in shrill
voice"
WHILE Mrs Catharine Malloy, OF
Brooklyn, was returning in a cab from
q funeral recently she died Of heat
disease.
JOHN MCDONALD, of the New York
bar, is said to bear remarkable re,
semblance physically to President
Cleveland.
In Is stated on authority that Mr..
Cleveland is worth to-day $3.50, 900 and
that his salary is being spent as fast as
1t comes in.
The larger part of the exhibit at the
Worlds fair of Costa Rica has been do
mated to Fairmount park museum in
Philadelphia.
The United States has the highest
death rate from diphtheria, $50 in TO-.
600. Holland and Sweden come next
with 440 each.
In Moscow the winter cold is,so in.
tense that it freezes quicksilver, while
the summer temperature is as high as
that of Naples
IT may interest many to know that
from an artistic point of view won.
ans face is more beautiful when view.
ed from the left
JAMES J. VAN ALIEN, the minister to
Italy, expects to bring out his nineteen.
year-old daughter in Rome during the
present winter
The Caspian sea is the largest in.
closed body of water in the world. It
varies between TAO miles in length and
200 miles in breadth.
To open q new highway in Minneap.
oils the graves of the founders of the
city are being despoiled and the bones
moved to potter's field.
WAGES in the Michigan lumber camps
this winter will range between $40 and
s22 per month, with board, compared
with $40 to $26 last year.
The forty-four United States owe,
collectively, 1924, ZOO, 900, and they pay
to the holders of state securities $40,
100000 a year as interest.
A New YORK widow lately secured a
husband for $40 at an agency. The
man has decamped, and the woman Is
advertising for his return.
A PRETTY schoolma'am in Weymouth,
Mass, has succeeded in tanning the vii
lage terror, the worst boy in the school,
and is going to marry him.
SINCE the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second tc
the fourth place in point Of population
among European countries.
THERE are now twenty-one law firms
in this country composed of husbands
and wives, and also over two hundred
women who practice at the bar.
FRUIT growers and merchants Of
British Honduras are talking of charter
ing line of steamers to trade between
the United States and other ports.
THOMAS NELSON PAGES mother, Mrs
Lathrop, died at her home in Illinois q
few days ago. She was the niece Of
the late Judge Barbour of Virginia.
MARSHAL CANRoBERT at the age o.
eighty-fve, says; "This life of a sol
der is the finest of all. To become 6
soldier again, what sweet dreaml"
GEN, JOSEPH c. RREcKENRIDGE, in
spector general of the United State.
army, says that the condition of oul
southern coast defense is disgraceful.
PAUL BoURGET liked the fair, bu
Chicago he does not like. The con
trast of wealth and poverty are to,
sharp, he says, and then it is too noisy
SENATOR ALLEN, of Nebraska, is t,
be given silver brick of forty ounce
by the people of Silverton, Col, il
recognition of his fifteen hours speech
MOUNT ORIzABA, in Mexico, is nov
believed to be the loftiest peak on tn
continent, MS it has been shown to b.
900 feet higher than Mount St Elias, il
Alaska.
OWING to the recent coal strike il
England the Great Eastern railway i
fitting up twenty-five locomotives witt
liquid fuel apparatus to burn crud
oil or tar,
SEVERAL of the graceful launche
which have been used in the lagoon
at the Worlds fair have been sold T.
proprietors of summer hotels in tn
Wisconsin lake regions