Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-05-04
CURRENT roplos.

PNEUMATIC tires have been put on
many baby carriages.
MADAGASCAR has flower that cmits
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 &c. 700 students.
LoNpoN's Young Women's Christian
association has membership of H. 600.
THE first medical school in the United
States was founded in Philadelphia in
a764
TEXAS has ten state farms on
which convicts are worked under con-
tract.
HANS Won BUIows body will be
brought from Egypt to Gotha for Gre
nation.
Mr.. B. T. GREGG, of Liberty, N. c.,
has an anvil 574 years old. 1t weighs
300 pounds,
MORE zine 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 $780,
THERE are 141 schools of theology in
this country, with CSC professors and
1850 students.
The Chinese claim to have possessed
the art of enameling metals from al
least 1000 Is. c.
The 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 his
wife talks to much"
MILE CoRALIE BRANCH, dancer at
the Paris opera, has died, leaving $780,.
600, earned by dancing.
The king of Portugal has just eff
fected an insurance of $500, 900 on his
life, with English companies.
THE development of irrigating canals
an the west is shown by the fact that
Wyoming has 1000 miles of them.
In Mongolia, Asia, there are no no.
tells. Monasteries, however, are mum.
erous, and always accommodate trav'
alars.
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
500, 900 (Sl7, GOO of it last year, for wolf
scalps.
THE United States has produced, in
the forty-four years ending with 1883
100000 ounces of gold and 700, 800, o0t
of silver
The school board of Vert township,
Columbiana, county, O., has closed all
the schools because OF the diphtheris
epidemic
The mines of the world produce every
year $4,000, 600 tons of ore, coal, etc,
of which the United States produces
100000, 900.
A LONDON jeweler maintains pearl
fishery of his own in west Australia,
where he employs 500 men and 20 sail
ing vessels.
Mr. STANDBY, of Carrollton, Mo. be.
came so involved in the embraces of a
folding bed that he had to be released
with an ak.
Two physicians Of the Paris museum
a>fo i've thn1o o1 t.4h
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 Mrs T. A
McNeel, of McRae, Ga, has been in tn,
possession of her family for about tive
hundred years.
JUSTICE BREWER, of the United Slater
supreme court is in charge of the Bibl,
class in the First Congregational church
of Washington.
THE greatest record ever made By
any mine was that of the Comstock il
1874, when 1928, o0O 900 of gold and silve
were taken out
BELGIUM is the greatest zinc-produc
ing country, yielding in 1888 1885, 00
tons; the United States produced so, 00
In the same year
INMATES of English prisons are EN-
ployed in picking oalum, making Goa
bags for the navy and mail bags for tn
general post Office.
THE tallest trees In the world grow
in Australia. They are species o
marsh gum and some are said to ex
coed 300 feet in height
AN egg of the grea. NIX sold in Lon
don for $500, the other day. Their
are sixty-eight of these eggs in tn
world-two in America.
AN exciting boxin e contest between
two blind men is novelty in sparrinI
matches reported from England. l
took place at Lambeth.
The annual value OF the minera
products of the United States is 1886
00O, 900; of Great Britain, ESQ, 900, OO(
of Germany, e25, 000, 900.
w. c. HYER, of Greenville, s c., ha
invented an apparatus for automatic
ally reeling up fire hose that will be c
great benefit to firemen
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
ut shooting matches in Bucks county
Pa, that the farmers expect to b
largely rid of the little pests.
THE Victoria lily, of Guiana, has