Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-10-04
CURRENT TOPICS.


Gas was first employed as fuel in
1868.
BUCHANAN, Mich, has not vacant
house.
New York city has seven millionaire
editors.
THERE are $4,000, 600 clocks in thi,
country.
Miss VIRGINIA FAIR is an expert ven.
triloquist
CHARLES JAMES Fox was in parlia,
ment at 10
PAPER stockings of varied hues are
worn in China.
IT is reported that Senator David B
Hill keeps diary.
VicE-PREsIpENT STEVENSON always
reads his speeches.
THERE are eight white men to one
white woman in India.
THERE are 6,oO3 pieces in the modern
high-grade locomotive.
The great Cromwell left the Univer.
sly Of Cambridge at IS.
EMPEROR WILLIAM sits for his photo
graph about once week
GOLDEN eagles are rapidly increasing
in the Scottish highlands.
THERE are over 1000, 900 men under
arms in the British empire.
A LONDON restaurant serves its food
on electrically heated plates.
JOHN BRIGHT was never at school a
day after he was Is years old.
GLADSTONE was in parliament at %,
and at "a was lord of the treasury.
BARTnELEMY ST. HILLARE, the cele.
brated Frenchman, is now ninety years
old.
JULES VERNE, now seventy years
old, is still working five or six hours a
day.
LORD BACON was graduated at Cam,
bridge at 16 and was called to the bar
at 81.
PEEL was in Parliament at 81, and
Palmerston was lord of the admiralty
at 90.
IT is estimated that 5000 marriages
are daily performed throughout the
world.
NEARLY 5000 French soldiers are sale
to be sick in the field hospitals in Mad
agascar.
HENRY CLAY was in the senate of the
United States, contrary to the consti-
tuition, at 90
The eleven cables now in operation
across the Atlantic have cost upward
OF $40, 0O0 0OO
LUMINOUS paint is used to light the
cars on the line fran Luxembourg tt
Sceaux in Paris.
VENoMoUs snakes are somewhat un
comfortably in evidence in the Calcutt,
streets just now.
JIM Ten EYcK, 72 years old, and I
ferryman on the Hudson, has won ovel
200 rowing races
MANY birds which fly to perfection
swallows, for instance, have all thei
large bones solid.
A MULE in Mason county is said t,
have served the same master very faith
fully for 3S years.
JOHN e. HUDSON, president of the Bel
Telephone Co., is one OF the best Greel
scholars in America.
A MAINE mother has an old slippe
still in use which has spanked six gen
erations OF her family.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT has been pho
tographed on more occasions than an,
otherman in America.
ONE-HALF the money deposited daily
in the various banks in Chicago
placed there by women.
Rosa BoNHEUR at seventy-three j
painting large picture representing
fight between two stations.
IT costs four times as much to gov
ern American cities as is spent for tn
same purpose in British cities.
The recent census figures show tina
in ten years 143 townships in Massa
chusetts have lost in population.
LOVE DIVINE is the name of Negr
recently arrested at Lexington, Ky
for stealing wagon load of tools.
A HEN at Lawrenceburg is said t
have built her nest in tree thirty fee
from the ground for several years.
A. S. CLE6HoRN, of Honolulu, broth
er-in-law Of ex-Queen Liliuoxalan
is now in New York on his way t
Paris.
MRS. LOIS EAMEs WooD, of Worcester
Mass, celebrated her 1Olst birthda
last week She is still active and Wig
orous.
DIR. BUsHoD w. JAMES, the scien
list, writer and philanthropist, wi
soon issue book called Echoes c
Battle"
JOSHUA LEvERlNe, the prohibitio
candidate for governor in Maryland,
one of the largest coffee shippers in tn
country.
TIE Japanese method of lacquerin
is said to be at least 1000 years OLE
Pieces made ten centuries ago are sti
exhibited
JOHN ID. RoCKEFELLER, JR., althoug
only 81 years of age, relieves his fail
CIR of most of the cares of his grei
business.
ADRIAN S. HEWITT, the well-know
New York reformer, was professor {
mathematics at Columbia college fif,
years ago.
IT is said that of all parliamental
debaters to-day no man is less d.pen
ent on notes than is the marquis
Salisbury.
A MAN in Gilsum, N. H., while cleal
ing out raceway recently, found
gold ring which his wife had lost seve
years ago.
THE rate of transmission on Atlant
cables is eighteen words OF five lettel
each per minute. With the 'duple,
this rate of transmission is near
doubled.
NAlr-RITING according To n Erent