Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-10-18


at Altoona, Pa, by telephone pole
falling upon him.
THE colored people of New York and
brooklyn are about TO erect a hospital
for their own race.
MORE than half the entire cultivated
area of Great Britain is now occupied
ny permanent pasture.
The strength of t average horse is
estimated to be equal to that of seven
and a half average men.
A CROW, the pet of Belfast Me-
FAMILY, has acquired the habit of at
tending church regularly.
JONI DUNN, who has just died as a
Zulu chief, leaves seventy coffee-col-
ored children behind him.
THERE are three species of dog that
never oark-the Australian native dog.
that of Egypt, and the Persian desert
dor.
A FISHERMAN at Clinton, Mo-, recent.
lily caught thirteen-foot water moe.
casin snake on hook baited with a
frog.
CHICAGO last year paid SO, 334, 333 for
teachers Salaries in the public schools
and $l,074,0S5 for new buildings and
sites.
No one is wholly worthless. A mans
, skeleton, nicely articuiated, will sell
for $40, while woman's skeleton will
bring $50.
MAARTEN MARTENS shows wisdom
In adopting nom de plume. His real
name is J. NJ. w. Wander Poorten-
Schwartz
BosToN's new census brings the pop.
ulatlon close up to the half-million
mark. The gain in ten years has been
above 100 900.
HE largest tombstone in the world,
rough block of granite, marks the
last resting place of Henry Scarlet of
Epson county, Ga.
IRAMPs arriving in Laramie are
locked up in the city Jail over night
and hired out to ranchmen for haymak-
Ing in the morning.
FUNDS to move John Browns fort
from Chicago back to Harper's Ferry
have been subscribed and the removal
will take place soon.
GEORGE O. CANNON is an accomplish.
cd linguist. His latest achievement is
the translation of the entire book of
Mormon into Hawaiian.
QUICKSILVER poured in glass will
not fill it to the brim, as it forms
convex surface, and is higher in the
center than at the brim
A GAME protective law just passed in
Missouri provides severe punishment
for any one convicted of killing a doe
deer in the next five years.
lT will cost New York 5000, 900 this
year to provide free education for the
children, and SO, 500, 900 of the amount
Will go for teachers salaries.
THE success of the Tennessee Centen-
NAL exposition is assured There has
been no trouble in securing the funds
necessary to carry on the work.
ORION SPADE was killed at Rittman,
o., by the explosion of a cartridge
which had become caught in his gun,
and which he was endeavoring to force
out.
UNDERGROUND London contains 1000
miles of sewers, $4,000 miles of tele-
graph wires, $500 miles of water mains,
1920 miles of gas pipes, all definitely
fixed.
Mrs. 0. w. CHAMBERLAIN, of Deca.
tur, Mich, has clock 12o years old,
which ticks away as truthfuily and
tunefully as it did in revolutionary
times.
GERMAN veterans decorated the graves
OF their fallen comrades in France with
the German flag, but the colors were
promptly removed by the French au-
thorities.
DR.. CONAN DOYLE is an extremely
systematic man and pastes over his
mantel piece a table of the principal
things he intends to accomplish each
half year.
COMPETENT authorities assert that
the American-made silk hat is superior
both in material and finish to any
ether hat of the kind in any part of
the world.
The Alabama lumber companies and
turpentine distilleries who cut govern
rent timber are to be sued for the val
ne of the trees, which is estimated at
aearly 100000.
CAsnToN, Wis, has a cave about ten
by fifteen and five feet high, in which |
snow and ice remain all the year
round. The walls and floor are still
covered with ice.
MRS. HELEN M. BARKER one of the
officers of the national w. c. 7. u, en-
joyed the privilege of having her bag
gage searched for liquors and cigars
while in London
A NEW woman at Tulare, CAL, Ia
running the engine for a lumber mill. |
She is manager of the whole mechani-
cal outfit, and repairs the machine
wht necessary, as we'll as running it.
CERTAIN Hanover (Mich) man felt
SO Jubilant over recently experiencing
religion that he published card in the
county papers telling what nasty,
drunken brute he used TO be and what
: nice fellow he is at present
MARSHAL OAKLEY, of Madison, Wis,
allowed prisoner to escape at Eau
Claire. Mr.. Oakley left the prisoner
on the depot platform while he went
to purchase a ticket When he re.
turned the man had disappeared.
A MoHAMMEpAS widow of Bombay
started on.s pilgrimage to. Mecca re.
Gently, taking her jewelry with her
After landing atJeddah she was forced
to marry q Turkish soldier whom she
had never seen before and who disap. |
peared in couple OF DAYS with all hei
property.
CHARLES NJ. FouLKE, Of Washington,
has the finest collection of tapestry in |
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