Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-04-27
CURRENT roPIcs.

~Nt Hp into ulce.
PNEUMATIC tires have been put on
many baby carriages.
MADAGASCAR has flower that cmita
The odor of putrid flesh.
Wool is manufactured into nearly
$4,000 different kinds of goods
OLIVE trees bud in May, flower In
June and yield every two years
GERMANY has 81 universities, with
1920 professors and 90, 700 students.
LoNpoN's Young Women's Christian
association has membership of IA, 900.
The first medical school in the United
States was founded in Philadelphia in
1864.
TEXAS has ten state farms on
which convicts are worked under con-
tract.
HANS Won BUIow's body will be
brought from Egypt to Gotha for Gre
nation.
Mr. B. F. GREGG of Liberty, N, G.,
has an anvil ETA years old. 1t weighs
500 pounds
None zinc is reported to be produced
In Germany than in any other country
IN the world.
THE first factory for the manufacture
of white glass for houses was estab
iished in 1880.
THERE are al schools of theology in
this country, with $50 professors and
$3.50 students.
The Chinese claim to have possessed
the art of enameling metals from al
least 1000 B. C.
TIE cooper's craft was first employed
among the wine growers of Italy about
the tenth century.
DURING the tenth century the Sara
Gems had seventeen universities, Cor.
dovo being the chief.
A NEW YORK man attempted suicide
by drinking carbolic acid because hi,
wife talks to much"
MILE. CoRALIE BRANCH, a dancer al
the Paris opera, has died, leaving $780,.
600, earned by dancing.
The king of Portugal has just ef
fected an insurance of 100000 on his
life, with English companies.
THE development of irrigating canals
In the west is shown by the fact that
Wyoming has 5, 900 miles of them.
In Mongolia, Asia, there are no no
tells. Monasteries, however, are mum,
erous, and always accommodate trav
elers.
VIM. II. MORTON was elected the Other
day for the forty-seventh consecutive
year as town treasurer of Salmon Falls,
N. II.
AN official report shows that Kansas
has paid during the past four years
100000 (s176OO of it last year, for wolf
scalps
The United States has produced, in
The forty-four years ending with 1883
$4,000, 900 ounces of gold and 700, 800, oot
of silver.
THE school board of Vert township,
Columbiana, county, O., has closed all
the schools because of the diphtheria
epidemic.
THE mines of the world produce every
year $4,000, 600 tons of ore, coal, etc,
of which the United States produces
l60, 900, 900.
A LONDON jeweler maintains pearl
fishery of his own in west Australia,
where he employs 800 men and 90 sail
ing vessels.
Mr. STANDBY, of Carrollton, Mo. be.
came so involved in the embraces of q
folding bed that he had to be released
with an AK.
Two physicians Of the Paris museum
of comparative pathology claim to hav,
discovered cure for snake bites by
incubation.
THE copper smelling works of Great
Britain are so complete that ores from
all parts of the world are sent thithel
for reduction.
A SILVER spoon owned by MIRA T. A.
McNeel, of McRae, Ga, has been in the
possession of her family for about two
hundred years
JUSTICE BREWER, of the United States
supreme court, is in charge OF the Bib.
class in the First Congregational church
of Washington.
The greatest record ever made by
any mine was that of the Comstock II
1874, when S23, 900, 900 Of gold and silver
were taken out
BELGIUM is the greatest zino-produc
ing country, yielding in 1883 1873, 00'
tons; the United States produced 80, 0O'
in the same year.
INMATES Of English prisons are EN-
ployed in picking oakum, making Goa
bags for the navy and mail bags for thu
general post Office.
THE tallest trees Ia the world grow
In Australia. They are species o
marsh gum and some are said to ex
coed 800 feet in height
AN egg of the grea. NIX sold in Lon
don for $1,000. the other day. Their
are sixty-eight of these eggs in tn,
world-two in America.
AN exciting boxin g contest between
two blind men is novelty In sparrinl
matches reported from England.
took place at Lambeth.
THE annual value of the minera
products of the United States is $685.,
0oO 900; of Great Britain, $50, 600, o0C
OF Germany, E25, 0O0,000
w. c. HYER, of Greenvillc, S. c.. ha
invented an apparatus for automatic
ally Keeling up fire hose that will be Q
great benefit to fremen.
Miss MABEL RANDOLPH, the frs
woman to hold the position, has jus
taken her place as official stenographe
OF the New York senate.
So MANY sparrows have been kille
at shooting matches in Bucks county
Pa, that the farmers expect to b
largely rid of the little pests
THE Victoria lily, of Guiana, has