Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-01-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

FRANCE is worth, all property con.
sidered, IS, 900, COO, 600.
AN electric road from New York ia
Chicago has been proposed.
TRACES of the bicycle are found rs
Tar back as the fifteenth century.
OVER Al per cent of all the property
in the German empire is mortgaged.
The annual increase of wealth in the
United States is over $35 per inhabit
ant
In Great Britain the mortgages aver.
age So per cent. of the value of the real
estate.
The car has presented President Car.
not with six magnificent thoroughbred
horses.
THERE are men in Connecticut who
make the hunting of rattlesnakes a
profession.
THE winter term at the Berlin uni.
versity comprises seven hundred courses
of lectures.
EACH pupil in the public schools Of
the United States cost on an average
S17.92 year.
LORD EBUBY, born in 1901 and created
baron in 1856, is the oldest peer in the
house of lords.
The free mail matter delivered with.
in the last twelve months amounted to
87,000,000 pounds. bE 80
The Krupp gun exhibited at the
Worlds fair cost 1882, 900 for casting
and transportation.
The population of Italy is very
dense, there being 27O people to every
square mile of territory.
MISS LOUISE IMoaES Quincy, the
poet, is candidate for postmistress at
her home in Auburndale.
CAL1FoRNIANs says that Boston gets
its beans from their state, and Texas
depends on her for potatoes.
AN old deed, dated July IA. 1926, was
filed in the county clerks Office at Al
bany, N. Y, few days ago.
GEORGE SHORTER, colored died from
the effects of quart of gin, swallowed
on a bet, in Washington, D. c.
Mrs. EMELINE ALDRIcH, pensioner
of the war of 1919, died at Riverhead,
L. l., recently, aged 1O1 years.
MASSACHUSETTS has more incorpor-
ated cities of more than 10000 inhab.
itants than any other state in the
union.
Dr. w. S. LEACH, the oldest physi-
clan at st. Joseph, Mo-, and before the
war the largest slave owner in the state,
is dead #r
THE greatest depth recorded of Lake
Michigan is $40 feet or about one-sixth
of mile. The mean depth is about
1876 feet
MULBERRY trees on farm near
Charleston, Mo-, are said to have re-
Gently borne fruit for the fourth time
this season.
PROBABLY the finest private collec-
ton of butterflies in the world is
owned by Barthold Nuemoegen, New
York broker.
Miss LoTTIE CRABTREE, the actress,
is in San Francisco for the winter, ac.
companied by her mother. Her visit is
due to ill-health.
THE freight on car of Oregon wheat
was thirty-two and one-half cents per
bushel to Chicago, where it sold at
fifty-eight cents
Two hunters went out in the woods
from Abbeville, Wilcox county, Ca, N
few days ago and bagged eleven pos.
sums in two hours.
IT is said that if wart is rubbed
with the pared surface of freshly cut
potato three times day it will disap-
pear within month. ss.
A SEATTLE meat market company
hires local mandolin club 'to perform
during the sale of meats aud poultry"
on special market days
A WOMAN in Portland, Me-, deposited
$500 in a savings bank in 1864 and has
seen the amount grow to sl,26S by the
accumulation of interest
The condor scars higher than any
other known species of bird, spending
nine-tenths of his life floating about at
hight of over three miles.
ALTOONA, Wis, lays claims to the
champion nigh kicker of the world.
His name is W. s. Stokes and he has a
record of ten feet six inches.
THE Chinese population of San Fran
cisco in 1880 was %, 900. In 1890 it was
$1,000. The total number of Cinnamon
in the United States is 100000.
A New YORK woman in her bill fol
divorce alleges that her husband wor
$4,000 playing poker one night, anG
only gave her ten dollars of it.
ALUMINIUM, the new metal OF which
such great things are expected ant
which now sells at seventy-five cents 6
pound, is soon to be put on the market
at forty-fve.
THE iron lighthouse exhibited at the
Worlds fair is to replace the Waackaacl
beacon, near Sandy Hook. The new
tower is 96 feet high, 80 feet taller thar
the present one.
YOUNG women of Germany have 6
superstition that, if they bury drol
of their blood under a rosebush, it viii
ever afterward insure the experimental
pair of rosy cheeks.
Few Americans are aware that
Queen Victoria is clergyman. She
has been prebendary of St David'I
since 1887, and is the senior prebendary
of the English church.
The annual yield from the cottor
crop of the south will average $500, 900,
900, says Gov. Northern, of Georgia, t.
which may be added s27, 900, 900 for oil
cake and bulls from the seed.
New YORK furnishers of mems cloth
ing are making an effort to emancipat,
their patrons from the shirt that goe
on over the head by offering for sale
shirt that goes on and buttons up lil,