Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-01-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

this country in 1876.
FRANCE is worth, all property con.
sidered, $s,0O0,00O, 900. ra
AN electric road from New York ia
Chicago has been proposed.
TRACES of the bicycle are found as
FAR 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 IS per cent of the value of the real
estate. @
The czar 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
S17.22 year
LORD EBUBY, born in 1901 and created
baron in 1856, is the Oldest peer in the
house of lords. EEftT
The free mail matter delivered with.
in the last twelve months amounted to
$1,000 600 pounds.
The Krupp gun exhibited at the
Worlds fair cost 1882, 900 for casting
and transportation. .~
The population of Italy is very
dense, there being go people to every
square mile of territory.
MISS LOUISE IMoGEE Quincy, the
poet, is a candidate for postmistress at
her home in Auburndale. ettF&
CALIFoRNIANs 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 bet, in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. EMELINE ALDRICH, pensioner
of the war of 1872 died at Riverhead,
L. l., recently, aged 1O1 years.
MASSACHUSETTS has more incorpor.
ated cities Of more than TO- 600 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. @t'N A
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, &C.
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, "
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 a day 1t will disap-
pear within month.
A SEATTLE meat market company
hires local mandolin club Ito perform
during the sale of meats and poultry"
on special market days
A WOMAN in Portland, Me-, deposited
$500 in savings bank in 1854, and has
seen the amount grow to s1,26s by the
accumulation of interest. m
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 high 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 IS, 900. In 1890 it was
$4,000, 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, ant
only gave her ten dollars of it.
ALUMINIUM, the new metal of which
such great things are expected ,ant
which now sells at seventy-fve cents {
pound, is soon to be put on the marke
at forty-five.
THE iron lighthouse exhibited at the
Worlds fair is to replace the Waaclxaacl
beacon, near Sandy Hook, The new
tower is s6 feet high, 80 feet taller thar
the present one
YOUNG women of Germany have /;
superstition that, if they bury drol
of their blood under rose bush, it will
ever afterward insure the experiments
pair of rosy checks.
Few Americans are aware thai
Queen Victoria is a Clergyman. Sht
has been prebendary of St David
since 1887 and is the senior prebendar,
of the English church.
THE annual yield from the cottol
crop of the south will average $500, 900,
300, says Gov. Northern, of Georgia, t,
which may be added So, 900, 900 for oil
cake and hulls from the seed.
New YORK furnishers of mems cloth
ing are making an effort to emancipat
their patrons from the shirt that goe
nm over the head bv OFFERING for sale