Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-11-29
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VI receiFinB SIX bicycles.
GOLD mining in the state of Nevada
is more active than ever before.
The summer season at Monte Carlo
has been the worst in it's history
The average daily attendance at tn,
Atlanta exposition thus far is 10, 900.
CALIFORNIA has produced sweet
scented violet the size of large pansy
LEADvILLE is now shipping from
10000 to $4,000 tons of ore per month.
LEAD PENCILS" are a misnomer.
There is no lead in their composition
SEVERAL Oklahoma attorneys have
divorce agencies in New York and Chi
cago. tS t$4
A NINETEEN-YEAR brother oil
Melba has developed good tenor
voice.
GEN. MILES favors The use of BIZ
cycles and horseless carriages in the
army.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND, who has been
seriously i'll, is restored to health
again.
THERE is one Christian minister for
every 900 of the population in Great
Britain.
The Anaconda Mining Co. of Butte
Mont, is mining 1900 tons of copper
ore daily.
JUDY, started as a rival in London to
Punch, twenty-six years ago, died the
other day.
THE upper Ohio river is within two
inches of the lowest stage on record
nine inches.
A MELON growers convention has
been called to meet at Albany, Ca,
November 90
The proprietors of the great wheel
at Earl's court, London, are drawing
SIS, 600 day.
AN oil we'll that spouts 1000 barrels
a day was.struck on the Jacob Baker
farm, in Scott, O.
A FEW placer. miners at Osceola,
New, have taken out about $1,000 in
the past three months.
CnIoAGo's health department will
make stringent rules to prevent the
sale of horseflesh as beef
A SPLENDID black eagle, measuring
six feet from tip to tip Of wings, was
shot near Manistee, Mich.
A SYNDICATE has secured oil leases Of
land near Huntington, w. Va, and
will make exhaustive tests.
SIMS REEVES at seventy-three has
come down to the variety stage being
now engaged at the Empire.
JAPANESE heroes are not decorated
with useless medals, but with watches,
engraved with an inscription.
EMPEROR WILLIAM travels about with
los uniforms and two tailors and one
presser to keep them in order.
1T costs four times as much to gov
ern American cities as is spent for the
same purpose in British cities.
JUSTICE WHITE, one of the most port
ly members of the supreme court tri
bunal, has taken to the bicycle.
THE recent census figures show thai
in ten years 143 townships in Massa
chusetts have lost in population.
THERE are nineteen different Ian
guages spoken in Shenandoah, Pa.
and this in population Of 1s, 900
GEN. MILES has rented the large
house in Washington owned by Medi
cal Director Kindlcberger of the navy
MAX O'RELL returns to this coun
try next month. He has more lecture
engagements on hand than ever be
fore.
A TwO-wHEELED motorcycle, invented
by n Racine Wis., man, made an al
legged speed of fifty-seven miles al
hour.
- THE breaking of a Brooklyn bridg,
motor cable delayed traffic two hours
and compelled 10000 people to wall
across.
BENNINGTON, VT, farmers are selling
their potatoes six bushels for one dol
Ter, which is the lowest price yet re
ported.
The tale of school of blue fish tow
ing boat out to sea is a welcom,
proof that the age of the fish story i
not past.
DWIGHT DELNo, of Easton, Mich, ex
hibits two potatoes, smooth and sym
metrical, that weigh two pounds 81,
ounces each.
In some of the prohibition countie
of Georgia contraband whisky is bein,
put up in tomato cans and sold TO
canned fruit.
The number of pupils enrolled in tn
University OF Michigan is 2,70s and tn
prospect is for more than 1900 befor
the year closes.
A PbACARD in cheap restaurant il
Chicago says Don't fee the waiter
He makes more than the boss and ha
halliday off,"
AMONG new inventions is tin ca
on the top of beer bottles, and it
taking the place of the rubber cork an
ircu thumb lever.
THE people of Quitman, Ga, dom
take kindly to water. There are onl
twenty families who are patrons OF tn
water works there.
THE acme Of politeness was reache,
bya mining superintendent who poste
placard reading: Please do not tnm
bic down the shaft"
A PURE white crow was caught o
Toxada island, Is. G., few days age
TWAS taken from nest in which wer
several black crows.
A FAMILY in Greenock, Pa, nav
Z been poisoned by eating timed sal
dimes. The case is being fully invest
gated by the authorities.
SERUM treatment has been applied
syphilitic patients in the Moscow mil
tary hospital by DIR. Vievorowski wit
very satisfactory results.
IT is claimed that the assessed valu;
ton of nrnnertv In the sin ole state c