Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-02-09
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Clay county, Kan.
STRAWBERRIES are reported to be in
bloom at Lexington, Ga.
In Paris the undertaking is monopo
LIKED by the city government
The traffic in secondhand shoes is
regular business in New York
FRsT-cLAss fare for twenty-five miles
on the new Congo railroad costs $40
The practice of ringing the curfew
bell is still in vogue at Fayetteville,
N. c.
THE Tartars take man by the ear
to invite him to eat or drink with
them.
THE Eskimo Bulletin is the only jour.
nal now published within the Arctic
circle.
Mr. ASK keeps tavern at Oxford,
Kan, where you may always get good
Find"
The Oldest peer in England is Earl
Grey who Y almost ninety-two years
. THE total value of the war material
of the French army amounts to nearly
$500, 900, 900.
AN albino robin Is claimed to have
recently been seen in the vicinity Of
Ogelthorpe, Ga.
MoToRMEN who ring gongs with their
feet get peculiar pedal malady which
they call trolley foot"
STEPHEN j. FIELD is the oldest mem.
Der Of the United States supreme court
lis age is seventy-seven.
+ THERE will be two eclipses of the sun
during the year, but both will be In
visible in the United States.
THE Hollanders are the greatest tea
and coffee drinkers, using 24O ounces
to the inhabitant every year.
The original MS. of Walter SCOTS re-
view of Maturin's novel, Women" was
sold in London lately for $50.
THERE is said to be two terrapin
farms in the United States, located al
Mobile, Ala, and in Maryland.
New YORK state hasn't any debt but
New York city owes enough round
500, 600, 900 or soto make it up.
They are remembering in Italy Mas
zinis prediction that "Crispi will be
the last minister of the monarchy"
"MARcELLUs REDToMAHAwK" and
"He Vets IT. are two Indian brothers
on the government payroll out in Kan
saS
FLORENCE ZIP and Elizabeth Jones,
H., %
Holman, Ind. Florence was knocked
out.
The McFall (Mo) Magnet men tions
the fact that woman named "Whistle
Breeches'' was in town on Christmas
day,
AN uncut copy of the first edition OF
Gray's "Elegy," published in 1857 at
sixpence, was sold lately in London for
$3.50.
TINS November Nuremburg will cele.
brate with a great national festival the
4OOth anniversary of the birth of Hans
Sachs.
A MAN was called hypnotist al
4 Pittsburgh recently and wanted to
fight without looking at the dictionary
at all
THE smallest coal burning locomo-
tive in America is the work of G. d.
Young, of Denver. 1t weighs but 23s
pounds.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY fat rabbits
were given to the poor of Wichita as 4
result of days rabbit hunt by an Odd
Fellows lodge.
THE court of appeals Of New York
has decided that fishing in that state
ON Sunday is an unlawful and pun
ishable offense.
PHILADELPHIA, which owns and oper
ates its own gas works, has reduced
the price of gas from $1.bO to 81 pei
1000 cubic feet
THE physicians of Brussels have re
Gently banded themselves into union
pledged not to accept any fee below 6
certain fixed sum.
THoUaH no survivor of the battle o.
Waterloo is now alive in England
there are six in France to whom the
government pays pensions.
A WOMAN slipped on the sidewalk a
Lewiston, Me-, one day recently, ant
fell upon her pet dog, breaking its back
The animal had to be killed.
THE youngest crowned heads are tn.
little queen Of the Netherlands. who Il
thirteen, and the king of Spain, who Ii
seven and one-haf years old.
THE annual message Of Gov. Brown
of Maryland, was finely and copiously
illustrated with pictures of public
buildings of which 1t treated.
ALFRED MoANDREws was killed by 6
train at Greenville, Pa This Is the
third son of Mr.. McAndrews killed OF
the railroad within two years.
The Field Columbian museum a.
Chicago has been enriched by the pres
entation of $50 cases of Japanese good.
and many exhibits from other lands.
A New YORK victim of the cocaine
habit has been sentenced to the peni
Tertiary for year for forging doc
tors name to a prescription for cocaine
REFORMED church preachers of thu
Lehigh valley, at meeting in Allen
town, Pa, declared that "Santa Claus
entertainments in churches are irrever
emit
A TOPEKA man who asked his wifi
what she thought of his three days
8 beard was told to let 1t grow TO
mercy's sake and get it out of his sys
tenn.
THERE is bold ridge of gray vol
canic mountains in the Cape Verd
islands, the crest of which is said t
form an exact likeness of George Wash
ington
A PORTLAND (Me,) young woman
had a rather queer experience the othe