Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-03-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

| Ea4s like Il locomotive.
+ THE annual cocoanut crop of the
world is worth 500, OOO,O
The phonograph is. now used In
schools for teaching purposes l
The Boston public library has $780,.
900 Volumes that of Chicago $780, OOO
GIANT human tracks are said to exist
In the solid rock near Rushville, Mo
KRUPP has made fully 10000 guns of
large caliber for the armies of Europe
A WAVE of thought would require
about a minute to traverse a mile of
nerve.
ST LOUIS now has electric ambulance
cars for use after street railway accl.
dents.
CALIFORNIA has the largest per
capita wealth of any state in the
union.
A MAN in St Joseph, Mo-. purchased
his sister-in-law of her father for ten
dollars
The estimated death rate of the
world is twenty-four per thousand per
annum.
ACCORDING to the Publishers Weekly
there were 5, 1874 new books published
last year.
MEGALAMANIA is the techinal name
for the malady commonly known as the
''swelled head"
A COUPLE were married on horseback
ut Wilkesboro, N. c., recently, under
the American flag.
CLAPIssoN, the French musical celeb
rity, is building chateau composed
entirely of buttons
BURGLARS at Bridgeport, Ct, stole
the safe from an office and cracked it
later at their leisure.
COYOTE hunting has been introduced
in southern California and is meeting
with much popularity.
Two CENTURIES ago liquors, without
exception, were invented and manufac-
tured in the monasteries.
A MORNING SESSION. in the house Of
commons begins at o'clock in the az
ternoon and lasts until Z.
The Dirigo, recently launched at
Bath, Me-, is the first steel sailing ship
ever built in New England.
The civil engineers of the navy, an
arm of the service that may soon be
abolished, number only ten.
IN some parts of Australia earth
worms grow to length of six feet and
are three inches in diameter.
IT is said that on several Russian
railways iron telegraph poles are to be
substituted for those of wood,
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., is said to look
more like an English town than any
other city in the United States.
THEoPHILUs BLAND, of Pitt county,
N c., has seven sons, each of whom
weighs over two hundred pounds.
AN ingenious Kansas hog stealer
thloroformed the pigs he stole, and
DOT one of them ''squealed" on him.
TORONTO has over $4,000 people and
publishes seven daily papers, each of
which claims the largest eli culation.
PROF LoMBRoso has discovered that
women criminals have larger hands
and feet than those of average woman.
DR.. CYRUS Epson, of the New York
board of health, says the grippe is like.
ly soon to disappear for a generation
or so.
BATH, Me-, is to have a coasting
party, and nobody can go but bachelors
ever forty-fve and old maids over
forty.
M. PICARD, the French commissioner
general for the Paris exposition of 1906
already has one hundred clerks al
work.
STATISTICS prove that Pennsylvania
has u greater railroad trackage pei
square mile than Germany, France OF
, Holland
MRS. VIM. HOWARD HART, of Troy
, N. Y, is to erect fine building for the
Young Mems Christian association, O.
that city.
THE Hebrew colony established il
5 Palestine by Baron Rothschild has
grown SO rapidly that he is buying
| more land.
Mrs. HFNRY YOUNG, of Pensacola
t Fla, aged 40 years, is reported to hav,
, recently given birth to her twenty
: fourth child.
AT Salisbury, Austria, man wal
r kept prisoner in a cellar for ffteel
=. years, during which time he never saw
g a human face.
7 MONTANA, it is asserted, has pro
. duced nearly one-third of the gold
: silver, copper and lead mined in tn
n United States.
DISTRIBUTION of real estate left b,
r the late P. II. Barnum shows that hi
g entire estate was valued at over fou
q million dollars.
u LAST year 27O religious sects were re
> corded by the registrar.general a
Somerset house as having places Of wor
u ship in England.
ADvICEs from Hawaii Says that ex
Queen Lii is in that picturesque an
: bizarre financial condition known a
l. con her uppers"
y JAPAN has one OF the best engineer
ing schools in the world, and is begir
l. ming to manufacture creditable eleC
-" trical machinery
y ANY respectable man, woman G
" child may have a fit here" is the inscriI
tiou on a sign displayed by Rock
q Hill (Ct) shoemaker.
- A WILDCAT lit on the back of Arm
:. stead Gilbert, of Galloway, county
: Mo, as he was going through tn
woods, but his two dogs made the CO
get off his perch.
N a BILL has been introduced in tn
ID Mississippi legislature authorizing tn
"a city of Meridian to issue bonds to pu,
II, chase and construct water works an
.. for other purposes
, NJ. PoUssET, the founder of sever;
L.. -, d.