Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-12-13
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on his dictionary.
NEBRASKA railroads are suffering
from a car famine"
CIDER brings four cents gallon In
some Connecticut towns.
DEAN FARRAB will visit Palestine
this winter and lecture in Jerusalem.
In the cities. of Massachusetts, e25,.
7a0 men have registered and 2607:
women.
OCEAN steamers of the frs. class
each consume from; 100 to 320 tons OF
coal a day.
A VERMONT trapper has just received
an order from Montreal party fol
1000 live skunks.
HARRY CLARKE, aged II years, Of
Bellaire, o., fell from tree and dice
two hours later.
ID. RANKIN has brought 5000 heaG
of cattle from Texas to feed on his big
farm near Tarkio, Mo.
FREMONT temple, Boston, is to be
furnished with 1000 perpctually free
seats by contributions.
An Auburn (Me) school teacher ha.
been administering punishment to hel
pupils with an electric battery.
A CAKE of soap weighing 1,0O(
pounds was one of the features All !,
big food exhibit in Chicago recently.
The dedication of the Meade an6
Hancock statues at Gettysburg bat
tlefield has been postponed until June
1896.
PRESIDENT FAURE, of France, al
though he has always frowned upon
dueling, is himself an expert swords.
man.
WHILE walking in her Sleep, Mrs.
Henry Hcrzog, aged SO, of Albany, N.
Y, fell from the roof and was badly
hurt.
ONE Winthrop (Me.) young man il,
raising mushrooms for the Boston mar.
ket. His farm is said to be in his stable
cellar.
ABOUT 100000 young shad were lib.
Grated into the waters of the Connect.
cut river recently from the hatchery in
Essex.
AN eighteen.months-old boy of Mrs.
Patrick Dolan was drowned at Mt.
Pleasant, Pa, by falling into tub OF
soap suds.
IN Middle Smithfleld, Pa, there is a
chestnut tree that measures nineteen
feet in circumference four feet above
the ground.
FoRTY-sEvEN thousand tons of tea,
valued at over $1,000, 600, have been
received at Tacoma, WASH, from China
md Japan this season.
The oldest known apple tree in thi.
country is in Cheshire, CT. The seed
was planted lao years ago, and the tree
still bears few apples,
OBSERVATIONS recently made on q
criminal beheaded in France proved
that the heart beats continued for six
minutes after the AK fell.
RICH gold discoveries on Harley
creek, Mort, caused a great rush Of
prospectors, and the new camp has
been named Johannesburg.
AN eminent English doctor, already
well off, had between $3.50, 600 and $500,
900 left him by a patient. The next
of-kin is disputing the will.
On account of local opposition the
monument to- John Brown, which it was
proposed to erect at lIarper's Ferry
will not be built at present.
THE Portland police recently founG
a prosperous rum business being con
Quoted in house which had been quar-
antined because of diphtheria,
MoNTANA's percentage of divorces
to marriages during twelve months re
gently ended was 14.26. There wer,
22S divorces granted during the year.
LOUISE MICHEL has scheme o
founding home in England for politi
cal refugees from the continent out o
the profits of an American lecturin,
tour.
For AZ positions as male teachers il
government primary schools Their,
were ! $50 applicants in Paris last yea
and for 81 places as women teachers
1i39.
THE remains of an Indian chief, will
all the paraphernalia, were Dug up a
Good Heart, Mich. There were silve
bracelets and rings and beads of pur
amber.
The strangers who so up the railwa,
to Vesuvius, in spite of the long jour
ney eight hours there and back an,
the high price (al), number about 10, 90
yearly.
The headlights from the locomotive
engines on Maine railroads attract tn
deer from the forests, and numbers o
the animals are being killed by tn
engines.
SWISS newspapers report that tn
number of American tourists VISITING
that country this summer is one-thir
larger than it was at the same tim
last year.
The Bald Eagle mine at Snow Dam
alaska, is making for its owners
profit of 81, 600 day with four-stam
mill. Some of the ore runs up to $50
To the ton.
FIVE horses belonging to Wesle
Ford, of Pittsfield, Pa, escaped fror
pasture and were killed by the evenin
pa ,senger train between Pittsfield an
Y,mngsville.
BICyCLlNG has risen to such favor O
Vassar this fall that the halls of tn
entire lower floor of the main buildin
are flanbed with bicycle racks. Mos
Of the faculty as well as the student
ride.
MRS. RUDYABD KIrLrNa attends to a
of her husbands correspondence an
carefully guards him against would-b
intrudcrs. He is said to be the mos
anapproachable literary man in tn
world
UP to October 1 roads entering q
Chicago had contracted this year fo