Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-11-01
CURRENT TOPICS.


California, with over 5000 trees each.
MADAM PATHS earnings ON the
stage are said TO have amounted to &c.
100000
HENRY q. BRYANT, of arctic and Lab
rador fame, returned this week from
Europe.
THE natives of India believe that ele-
plants have religion and form of
worship
CHICAGO is about to annex another
square mile of territory, known as
Ellsworth Heights
A GREAT many people believe that
the screeching of an owl indicates inn.
pending calamities.
A NEW HAVEN clock company has
just booked a single western order for
100000 alarm clocks.
GEN. LoNosrREET has gone to Phila-
delphia to see his publishers about a
history he is writihg r.
OVER GOO preachers in Connecticut
work for salaries that do not average
more than $3.50 year.
EDINBUR0m is preparing to celebrate
the centenary of the birth of Thomas
Carlyle next December
KRUpP, the great gun king has set
aside 1000, 600 marks as a fund for the
benefit of his employees.
AN inventory shows that Miller C
Lux, the western cattle firm, own over
$4,000, 900 acres of land.
THE largest wrought iron pillar is at
Delhi in India 1t is sixty feet high
and weighs seventeen tons.
MRS. ANNA WYLIE, of Wheeling,
shot herself while respondent over the
death of her husban and son.
in Dalmatia it is an exceedingly
suspicious omen for cat to sneeze
when bride enters her new home.
WITH an empty revolver Mrs. Mat
thew Bach, near Shamokin, Pa, fright
ened away three burglars and saved
SIS
In Wales 1t is believed that If any
one kills wren he will fall down and
break bone before 1.-The end Of the
year.
AFTER Brewer (Me) man had built
house for his lady love, she didn'i
like the place and now the engagement
is off
JOSHUA LEyERINGy the prohibition
candidate for governor of Maryland, is
one of the largest coffee shippers in the
country. al
In France there is an idea that il
a fisherman counts the 8sh@ he has
caught he will catch no more during
that day.
TELEPHONE charges in France are tc
be reduced to five cents for three
minute conversation within radius O.
fifteensmiless ~
LYDIA THOMPSON, pioneer of Englisl
blonde burlesquers, has reappeared il
public on the stage of the Lyric the
alter, London.
A CHICAGO religious journal advo
Gates head tax of 500 on every Amer
lean going to Europe to spend precious
American gold.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY is so indie
pendent and consistent that she refuse
to allow man to carry her travelling
bag Or bundle.
In the famous Garden of Olives at Je
rusalem there are eight fourishins
olive trees that are known to be owe
1000 years old
The largest sheep ranch on the Nortl
American continent is one of 10000
acres, lying4in the counties of Dimmi
and Webb, Tex.
IT is estimated that there is $500
bushels Of coal in the Monongahel
river pool near 'Charleroi, awaiting
rise in the river.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER is visibly i'm
proved in looks as q result of his vaca
ton in Maine. He spent most of tn
time in Sorrento.
PROF. OLIVER j. THATCHER, of tn
University of Chicago, has obtained
years leave of absence. He will spen
the time in Europe.
WHILE respondent over the death c
his wife, at Chicago, j. T. Glenn, In
vcntor of several railway appliances
blew his brains out.
BED quilts mcde of perforated sheet
of white paper are becoming very POI
ular in Europe, especially in England
Holland and France.
PITTSBURGH is not satisfied with mer
centenarians, but puts forward Ricf
ard Reddicks as man who has con
pleted his l30th birthday.
TIE largest steam shovelcr in tn
world is at work in the phosphate bed
of st John island, near Charleston,
c. ltweighs fifty-six tons.
The Judges of the Philadelphi
courts have taken to wearing gowns
and some Of the papers commend an
others ridicule the practice.
SIR CONRAD REEVES was the first m,
latto to be knighted. He is chief ju
tice Of Barbados, although of slay
descent on his mothers side
Two miners have found gold in tt
city of Athens, Ga. The digging fc
gold ina,,the city limits has caused
t-ks<n = L..
good dsafeof excitement in Athens.
Prof. G.. PLUMMER, of Tacoma, Wash
is authority for the statement Thu
there are hundreds of trees in tn;
vicinity upward Of 700 feet in height.
THE Australian government hi
fallen into line with, the European nj
tions> chat forbid public betting c
horse races except on the race cours
RuMon has it that a syndicate cor
posed OF Engfishmen and American
backed by the Rothschilds, will pu
chase the copper mines of New Me
icc. >
TuERE are twenty%one persons !
Montetcy county, Cal, who own mo-
than $1,000 acres of land each, The