Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-12-20
CURRENT TvPlcs.

ing from lnSomnla-
A STATEHOOD convention has been
called in Oklahoma.
THE cost Of running" the city OF
Chicago is sec, 600, 600 a year.
ELECTRICAL propulsion has been con-
tracted for on the Erie canal.
MORE than fve-eighths OF the steam.
ers in the world are under the British
flag
THE police board Of Jersey City Is re-
firing patrolman because they are get.
ting too fat"
SOUTH CARoILNA's new polltax is to
be 81 a year, and the age of exemption
will be 60 years.
RUSSIAN proverb: One pound Of
learning requires ten pounds of COM
mon sense to apply it.
PROF. MAX MUELLER can converse in
eighteen languages, but he can't find
anyone to practice on.
WASHINGTON boarding house keepers
smile again. The rural congressman
are arriving in that city.
BEER kegs holding honey and with
nails driven in are used as bear traps
in the state Of Washington.
SOME unregenerate scoundrel entered
the office of Toledo's chief of police
and stole that officers overcoat.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, whose
80th birthday was recently celebrated,
is learning to play on the piano.
The prince OF Wales receives on a
daily average between 500 and 600 let
ters, 200 OF which are of begging
character.
SIBERIAN peasants clean, stretch and
dry the skin OF the turbot for leather
bags, and as u substitute for glass win.
dow panes.
CHINA has war god to whom they
have burned incense from time i'm
mortal, and who has over three thous
and names.
The agents of the Pennsylvania
state department have seized 1900
pounds of olcomargarine at a Phila.
dclphia market
A New YORK boy, eleven years old,
received a Judgment of SIT, 500 against
street railway line the other day for
the loss OF a leg.
The gold product of British Guiana
in 1894 is stated by the director Of the
United States mint at 1875, 527 ounces,
worth S2,403,5 22.
A DAUIIN cap was thrown into a
stove at Shamokin, Pa, and the explo.
sion that followed tore off Mrs Wal.
lacks right hand.
No less than eight persons have COM
mitted suicide in an old Brooklyn
building since 1855 The house has re-
Gently been torn down.
THE new British dictionary of ma
tional biography will contain bio
graphical sketches of 1853 Smiths, Il
Smyths and Smythes.
IT, HOWARD and J. Maloney, two
young men of Green Bay, Wis, have
started to roll two beer kegs from
Green Bay to St. Louis.
Mrs. SARAH LEWIS, a widow, forty
five years old, worth 49,, 900, has elopct
from Raleigh, w. Va, with Charlie.
Jones, aged seventeen years.
A BRUNSWICK (Me.) farmer ha.
owned piece of real estate for III
years, and the present owners have tn,
original deed to prove its ownership.
A FAMOUS oak in Palestine is be
lieved by the simple peasant folk o
that country to have been planted by
Cain on the day before he killed Abel
Four women, sisters, who attempted
to give an entertainment at Cedar Rap
ids, Ia, were pelted off the stage will
a shower of apples, oranges and lem
ons.
STRIP New Haven OF it's houses and i
would appear forest. There arr
about $4,000 elm and maple trees il
that city, about one for every resi-
dent.
JEN JoT, converted st. Louis China
man, reports to the police that tn,
High Binders nave sentenced him t.
death for trying to make Christians O.
them.
THE State board of health of Penn
sylvania has passed resolution re
curing graves to be Mt least six fec
deep in populous and four in rural dis
tricts.
THE duke OF York is an ardent phila
telist, the duchess of Fife is an enthu
siastic amateur photographer and tn
Princess Maud of Wales has a passio,
for ivory.
AS A criterion of personal popularit
the princess of Wales may we'll res
upon the knowledge that 100000 0
her portraits were sold in Englan
last year
ONE morning recently deer
chased by seven fox hounds, rar
through the city of Augusta, below tn
state house, and escaped across tn
Kennebec,
THE relief fund for the explosion sui
ferers in Detroit has reached SO ,00t
net counting the receipts from tn
Sunday concerts, which will probabl
net SO, 500.
The, coming eclipse expedition c
Amhurst college will be in charge c
Prof. David +. TODD 1t will observ
the eclipse OF 1896 from the islam
of Gezo, japan.
ANNUAL bargain sale now going OF
don't go anywhere else to be cheated,
is the somewhat dubious way Ne,
York furniture dealer calls a,tentio
TO his wares.
On the side of the vans OF big stol
age firm in Brooklyn are the usual go
gcous pictures often affected by tina
trade, and the words, Our motto i!
Keep Moving"
REV. E. W, Kicker, Of the Free Bal
fist church of Lisbon Falls, Me, hi
conducted just 500 funerals. lie h;