Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-04-20


Whiskers, of Oregon.
SAM JONES defines Negro as col
ored man and niger as "a black ras-
cal that steals chickens"
A MARINE CITY Mich man carries
nm old-fashioned English bulrs-eye
watch that is l29 years old.
The examination lists for entrance
to Cambridge university shows that
there were 6, 900 candidates.
A MEXICAN paper announces that
there is not an average of one fire g
month in the City of Mexico.
HENRY PETTITT, the English play.
wright who died recently, left an es.
tate valued at about $3.50, 600.
VIsooUNTEss AoKI, the wife of the
newly appointed Japanese minister tc
England, is German woman of noble
birth.
A NEwsBoY in Pittsburgh has bank
account of &c. 0OO accumulated entirely
on newspaper sales during the last ter
years.
TWENTY-FIVE Chinese of New Haven
are boycotting Sunday-school because
the police raided the opium and fantar
joints,
ALMOST as much quinine was used
In the United States ten years ago al
now, despite the great increase in pop
nlation,
WHILE splitting wood in an attic In
rfirnacnfa tuo,,,n 10 ,raN Aaxup
hanging lamp and burned up the house
and $500.
A WOMAN 'held up two travellers
near New Orleans the other lay and al
the point of her pistol secured their
valuables
BRET HARTE resides with the Belgian
minister in London. He devotes all his
time to literature. He earna about SIS,
900 year.
A BILL of sale recently recorded in
Penobscot county, Me-, records the sale
of "a sorril mair' TO man land hii
airs forever"
THE horse George Frederick, winner
of the English derby in 1874 was sold
for thirty shillings recently in an Eng
lish saleyard.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Is paving her
main streets with brick and some OF the
side ones with cypress blocks from the
heart of the tree.
! THE pretty defendant In Long
Island city court manifested her graft.
tude for verdict of acquittal by kiss
ing each OF the jurora
A MEMBER of the Ontario Can leg
islature recently advised the govern.
ment Ito insert the pruning knife, nc
matter whose OK is gored."
THE celebration of Fast day has been
abolished in Massachusetts, and April
10, the date of the battle of Concord,
has been made a public holiday.
ONE of the Oldest seats of learning in
Europe, the University of Valladolid,
celebrated recently it's sixth centen
nial as an established university.
PROF. HUeo MAsTERBERe, the EN-.
inent German Investigator of mind
phenomena, Is to give course In
psychology at the Harvard summer
school this year
DR. A. CONAN DOYLE is an enthusi-
astic cricket player, and is one of the
most jealous supporters of the gamo in
Norwood the suburb OF London, where
he makes his home.
A YOUNG man in Jacksonville, Fla,
is in great danger from having swal-
lowed his windpipe. 1t is of silver,
and is lodged somewhere in the tubes
leading TO the lungs
A PUP of Mexican breed, born in the
home of S Goldsmith, Of Chicago, says
q dispatch to the Boston Journal, lis
but an inch and a half long and weighs
less than two ounces"
Miss IONA EIBENsoHUTz, the young
pianist, now in London, is only twenty.
two years of age. She was born in
Buda Pesth and made her debut in vi
emma before she was six.
ONE of the reasons which Mrs. Jose
phine Marie Whitney, of Marlborough,
n. Y, gave for wanting to be divorced
from her husband is that he fed chew,
ing tobacco to the baby.
A HORSE suffering with CHAMBERS
sneezed in the face of California
woman recently. She was taken sick
soon after and died in spite of tho very
best care and medical attention
BARON ALBERT RoTHscHILD recently
received a prize for amateur photo
graphic work, and he at opce sent a
check for $4,000 for the use of the
next Amateur Photographers exhibi
ton.
IT is said that Mrs. Williams Belts,
the new woman deputy United States
marshal at Cincinnati is the second
woman 10 receive such an appointment
The first one IS now in service in Okla
homa territory.
THE only relative of Kossuth living
In this country is Mrs Louise Rutksy,
widow of the dead patriots sisters
younge Il son, Albert Rutkay. She Ii
an American and lives in Brooklyn.
A KANSAS woman has applied for ~
Injunction to prevent her lover fros
marrying another woman Some Law
yers claim that she is entitled to II, 81
the defendant promised to marry her.
Henry ARovcuERE says that larg'
proportion II he cheap goods sold IL
England and marked made In Ger
mauyr arr manufactured Ia prisonI
there The sane is true OF the good
ssn, 10 this countrF