Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-09-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

a population of OIL, 900
The oyster men say they are going
TO have big and luscious crop.
A HORSESHOE magnet will lift load
three or four times as great as bar
MAGNET of the same weight will lift.
BROOKLYN has just expended $3.50, 900
in l40 acres of ground for new park.
THERE are 2l3 centenarians in France,
ofwhom 66 are men and l47are women.
The two children of Kansns man
are named Lord Wilson and Lady Will
son.
THE number of suicides in the Ger
man empire is not far from 10000 a
year
The japanese use paper towels and
napkins and wrap their packages up in
cloth.
In is claimed that the Standard Oil
Co has secured control of the Kansas
fields
ALICE LoNeFEILow, daughter of the
poet, is an expert landscape photog-
rapher
PHILADELPHIA has social organiza-
ton known as the Anti-Trilby Joyous
Jolliers.
ABOUT thirty thousand Indians are
now engaged in stock raising and
farming.
BRET HARTE's new books, Clarence
and I'm Hollow of the Hills" are an
nounced.
PAUL DU CHAILLU is about to start
for Russia in order to study the life of
the peasantry.
BEFORE he won renown as a poet
Joaquin Miller failed as miner, law
yer and editor.
RHODE ISLANDS new state house,
costing $1,576,oo is to be built OF
Georgia marble.
HENRY BEssEMER, the steel king
absolutely refuses to give his auto.
graph to anyone
JOHN H. YAKEY a commission mer.
chant at Washington, drowned himself
to get out of debt.
THE principal rivers in Polk county
Mo-, are the Potato and the Sac. These
should go together.
A MAN in Hannibal, Mo-, tried tc
hang himself, but his wife for some
reason cut him down.
ZELLA NtCoLAUs has brought another
suit against George Gould, this time
for $50, 900 for assault.
FRANCE now claims that in the event
OF war she can put an army of 1000,
900 soldiers into the field.
THE serial rights to Mrs. Humphrey
Wards new novel have been sold to the
Century magazine for $4,000.
SAVANNAH, Ga, is excited over new
vine, which has flower like the bod,
of goose and which smills like gar
bage.
THERE is one EARNED man in Geor
gia who can pillow, jerk and goad ;
mule, swear and smoke a pipe all a
once.
The maximum age assigned to thu
pine is 700 years; to the red beecl
245, to the oak 410, and to the ash Ia
years.
A CANNON ball fred from one of tn,
great Krupp or Armstrong gun
travels at the speed of 9,ss7 feet pc
second.
"CoRIoLANUs," which Henry Irving
will bring out next fall. was last pro
duced in London in 1860 by Samue
Phelps.
THE commission appointed to stud,
leprosy in India has reported that tn
disease, instead of spreading, is on tn
decrease.
HALL GAME, the novelist and play
wright, is in very poor health. 1t j
rumored that he is afflicted with con
sumption.
GEN. RoCHA, who was convicted O
murder at the City of Mexico for kill
ing his man in a duel, will demand
new trial.
BEARS are said to come to the hotel
in Yellowstone park, and, according t
the report of the commandment, anus
the guests.
OF Mr.. Surgeons sermons 2,S9
have been printed, and an average O
about $4,000 copies of each sermo
have been sold,
NEW ENGLAND cotton manufactur
ers, representing an aggregate capita
of $500, 100000, will meet at Atlanta
Ga, in October.
M. CHAssEPoT, the inventor of tn
rifle on which the French relied /
their war against Prussia, is now keer
ing hotel at Nice.
In Europe Denmark is called tn
universal Henncry." The export
of eggs from that country averag
1l1,000, 600 annually.
FLAMES and currents of very hot al
are good conductors of electricity. A
electrified body, placed near a fam,
soon loses its charge.
ABOUT $50 descendants of Balza
Young and wife held reunion nea
Negley, o. Six generations from seve
states were represented
OBSERVATIONS recently madeIo
criminal beheaded in France prove
that the heart beats continued for 81
minutes after the AK fell.
REV. DR. MINER Il, RAYMOND, tn
Oldest teacher in the west, has jus
celebrated his eighty-fourth birthda
at his home in Evanston, Ill.
Mr.. SPoFroRD, the librarian OF cor
gress, was appointed to that place
1864. He is probably known to NOR
public men than any other official i
the United States,
A CURIOUS burial custom exists in Al
sam. All corpses are lowered from tn
roofs with ropes, it being contrary t