Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-08-02
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ton on steel rails has appeared.
MARK BANKS, cashier of the Green.
witch (Ct.) savings bank, is 90 years
old.
BUTTERwoRTH, famous in football,
failed to pass his final examination at
Yale.
A RIDING and bicycle academy, to
cost 1921, 500, is to be built in New
York.
THE latest lie comes from Oklahoma.
man down there has tree that bears
Tomatoes.
HIERoNYMUs LoRIN, the famous poet,
philosopher and critic of Germany, is
totally blind.
X. M. lands, Secretary Gresham's
private secretary, has returned to his
law practice in Chicago.
THE Michigan Peninsular Car Co. has
received an order from the Rock Island
for two hundred new cars.
SUNDAY vender of ice cream was
acquitted at Youngstown, O., of VIC
lating the Sunday labor law.
IT is estimated that fully $4,000 al.
ligators have been killed in Florida
during the last twelve years.
HENRY KIHa of Boston has begun a
suit to recover 100000 acres of land in
West Virginia and Kentucky.
ONE hundred guests were invited to
q Lincoln county (Mo.) wedding, and
the festivities lasted two days.
NEW lingo political party has been
formed in Canada, which has for its
motto, Canada for Canadians"
GEORGE MEREDuTH's readers and ad.
mirers will learn with pain that ne has
become almost completely deaf.
A THIEF stole from ex-Congressman
WE. Mason, of Chicago, the $500 watch
presented to him by employees of the
house.
AS London increases in size its health
improves. The annual death rate has
recently been as low as 1873 in the
thousand.
CONNECTICUT convicts are not
afraid to ask for what they want
Twenty-Five of them in bunch re-
quest pardon.
EToN, the most famous of British
public schools, now has 1,019 students
Among them are four earls and seven
eldest sons of peers.
THE great Hamburg Ger grapevine
which was planted in the year It'll,
and is now 6C5inches in circumference,
is the largest in the world.
ONE of the natural curiosities OF Stan
wood, Wash, is a blowing" or breath
ing" well, which exhales immense
quantities of noxious gases.
BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO, has fewer
saloons this year than for many years.
The Dow law tax returns show 81 as
compared with 1O4 last year.
The best amateur musician in Paris
is said to be Princess de Polignac, form
erly Winnaretta Singer, daughter OF
the great sewing machine man.
BISMARCK has. according to the Hun.
garian general, Turr, cost Europe
during the last twenty-five years no
less than 1875, 900, 600 francs (Ss5,.
BOO, 900, 0O0)
PRINCE WALDEMAR, OF Denmark, has
one distinction which no other mem
Der of the Danish royal house can
claim-he has no throne and no pros.
pect of one.
AN organ-grinder in West Adams
street, Chicago, has baby-carriage
attached to the music box in which the
little one rests as the mother trundles
her about the city.
LOUIS MCCARTHY and Bow Harding,
cousins, were drowned in Harvey's
lake, near Wilkesbarre, while water
ing team of horses, which took fright
and threw their riders.
A SIGN put in the Philadelphia troll
ley cars a few days ago requests pas
sengers to 'remain seated until the
car stops, and then get off in the direc
tion the car is moving"
WATSON STEPHENSON, of Marinette
Wis, shot the largest bear ever killed
in those parts, He weighs over 1,OO'
pounds, and was bagged on the head
waters of the Thunder river
New ORLEANS is going to have new
line of steamers to Colon. The boatl
will stop at the most important port
Of Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Mica
ragua and Costa RIGA en- route.
The powder used in big guns il
queer-looking stuff. Each grain is
hexagonal. prism an inch wide and two
thirds of an inch thick, with hol,
bored through the middle of it.
w. f. LEvENsALER's lobster pount
at Waldoboro is one of the largest OIL
the Name coast 1t incloses six ant
one-half acres of water and has ca
pacity for storing 1876, coo Holsters.
CAToosA COUNTY, GEORGIA, claim
the unique distinction of not having
drug store within its boundaries
From this fact the residents argu
that it is the healthiest part of tn
state.
THE average heighth of man i'll tn,
United States is five feet ten and hal
inches, in England five foot min
inches; in France five feet four inches
in Belgium five feet six and a quartz
inches.
THE vast millions of the Guinness
family have all come from few hur
dred pounds and the energy of on
Irish family who three generation
ago, were in what is called a humbl
position. ~
A RAILROAD train was recent
stopped near Rheims, France, by tn
number of caterpillars that fell on tn
railway The rails grew too pasty an
slippery for the wheels to adhere unit
cinders were thrown on them.
THE Oldest company concerned wit
commerce, in the strictest sense of tn
word, is the Hudson Bay Co., forme
with charter granted by Charles /