Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-01-26
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an indianapolis miller.
THE Pacific coast is fast increasing
In the output OF Goldfish
PALM leaves on the Amazon are from
thirty to fifty feet long.
The grip has caused many school
houses in England to close,
GEN. MILES says that football Ia
rougher than prize-fghting
AN explosion at the Abercorn col.
Iery in 1878 killed 300 persons.
FOOTBALL was crime in England
during the reign of Henry VIII.
A FRENcHMAN has produced leather
which looks and feels like velvet.
In many German factories corsets are
for hidden during working hours.
CHINA is manning a chain of forts ell
along her coast with Krupp guns
NORTH DAKOTA has several wheat
farms of 10000 to 10, 900 acres each.
STUDENTS at Yale represent twenty
seven states and six foreign countries.
ONE Of the curious laws of the Kor-
an forbids the faithful to read ro-
mnnceS
A CAT with EIGHT we'll formed legs"
is owned by Edward Franklin, of Ath-
ems, Ga.
ONE tree recently cut down in Tulare
county, CAL, was 33 feet in diameter at
the base.
A YARMOUTH North Wales) fisher
man caught $4,000 herring in one night
recently.
FIRST telephone company was estab-
lished in 1878, and applied for right to
lay wires
THERE are $4,000 idle working people
in Troy, N. Y, with a population Of
only 6l,Ooo.
THE largest theater In the world is
the Chicago opera house, which covers
three acres.
A DEAF and dumb barber was voted
the most popular man In Topeka at a
recent contest.
BRAzIL's diamond mines have yielded
over $4,000, 900 carats of stones valued
at 800, 900, 900.
PADEREwsKI when he is at the key.
board, earns money at about the rate
of SIS minute.
The only objection to American wheat
and flour in Germany is that they are
too fine and costly.
The receipts of American railways
from their passenger travel last year
amounted to s14O, 600, 900.
The smallest bird in the world is tho
'hy eater" of Cuba. 1t is one third the
kize of the humming bird.
SCULPTOR ERNST is suing the Garfield
National Memorial association for $500,
which he claims is his due
A GOOSE which is claimed to be thirty
six years old, is owned by a farmer
living near Ellicott City, Md.
MRS. MARGARET CUSTER CALHOUN, a
sister of Gen. Custer, has opened real
estate office in New York city.
SALT sprinkled on stove will coun-
teract bad odors arising from spilling
Or boiling over on its surface.
A NEGRO preacher in Darlington, N.
c., was set upon by two highwaymen,
OVER 10000 tons of buffalo bones,
representing 1900 900 animals, have
been exported from North Dakota.
A PETRIFIED cat was found in the
cellar of the Forty-seventh regiment
armory, in New York, the other day.
REDWOOD trees have remarkable vi
tally. In forest that has been cut
over the young trees start by millions
FORTY Ohioans, of the religion known
as Omish, are going to Triton, Ga, soor
to raise fruit on bO0-acre tract there
THE favorite course of study among
the Yale students this year is the con
stitutional history of the United States
JACOB HINES is dead from blacl
fever, near Wellsville, o. Four deaths
have occurred in the family in ter
days.
The sapphire which adorns the sum
init of the English crown is the same
that Edward the Confessor wore in hi,
ring.
A SWEDISH giant Is now before tn,
public who can lift whole orchestrs
that is playing on a platform for hin
to lift
POVERTY has driven Louis Kossuth I,
sacrifice his library-the work OF life
time in collecting-tor the paltry sun
of 1880
LOCAL kilograms are now being trans
mitted through pneumatic tubes II
most of the principal cities Of Grea
Britain.
JUICE MELVIN NJ GRAY. Of St. Louis
has given Drury college s26, 900 to on
dow chair of geology In memory o
his wife.
A SEDALIA (Mo.) man who had II Il
for the Missouri Pacific railroad to tn
tune of $4,000, has just compromise
for 81, $50.
A NEATLY printed swinging sign owe
Philadelphia door reads: "Solomo
Tailor Repairing Kliner and Dian
Neatly Done.
Union painters of Toledo, O., hav
started paper containing labor new
exclusively. The paper is called tn
Daily Wait.
Music halls are crowding out tn
Partisan theaters. The Eden theate
has applied for license to become
cafe chantant.
THE amount of gold coin in actus
circulation in the world is estimated b
the Bank of England officials to b
about sos tons
MRS HENRY e. ABBEY possesses tn
largest collection of photographs {
celebrities with autograph inscription
in this country.
PROF BELL, the inventor of the tel,
phone, has been graphing with asri'
locomotion in Nova Scotia, and, like a