Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-09-06
CURRENT TOPICS.

VuEES vSoToRIA's favorite dish is
boiled beef and cabbage
IuRPENTINE is baisam which flows
from some varieties of pine.
A HAILsloRM near Fargo, N. d., is al
legged to have done $500, 900 damage.
The Dollar Savings bank, of Kansas
City, has gone into voluntary liquida-
ton.
JERSEY cranberry crop promises to
DC exceptionally large and good this
year.
CAMPHoR is contained in the wood
and the root Of the camphor tree of the
East Indies
GUTTA percha is the milky sap of the
lsonandra gutta percha tree of the
East Indies.
JUDGE REED, OF Brockton, Mass, re-
Gently fined farmer S2S for running
into bicycle.
MISS GERTRUDE VANDERBILT received
$4,000 worth of bouquets at her com.
ing-out party.
The International Geological con
yress at London has adjourned to meet
IN Berlin in 1896
VIM. G. WHITNEY has ballroom in
which the panels of pink Italian mar.
BILE cost $1,000 each.
ROSE CoGHLAN is in trouble. She
must give up her rents to satisfy a
mortgage of $4,000.
BERLIN, by census just taken, has
i,6l6.3S1 inhabitants, 10000 less than
had been estimated.
IN the English army soldier is
trummed to church just as he is to
drill or dress parade.
SIX cows and two horses owned by
Peter Doremer, OF Evansville, Wis,
were killed by lightning.
AT the Burden-Sloane wedding there
were 100 millionaires, with the aggre.
gate pile of 81, O00, 900, 0O0
BANK burglars got but seventy-fve
cents and some beneficial exercises out
OF the Bank of Corder Mo.
The female of the common mosquito
lays $50 eggs, which hatch in a period
OF from seven to nine DAYS.
THIS years election will cost New
York city about $3.50, 0OO over II, zoo
election officers being required.
BY his own confessions, Henry G.
Clark, aged II, of Chelsea, Mass, has
set fires that caused $50, 900 loss.
The completed census gives Superior
Wis, a population of &C. 176, an increase
OF nearly 1875 per cent. over 1890.
CHICAGO and Milwaukee are to be
connected by an elevated bicycle road
A toll of ten cents will be levied
LIGHTNING struck flock of sheep re
Gently belonging to II. V. Watts, Al
Lydon, Mich. Nineteen were killed.
BEATRICE HARRADEN claims that she
has received from all sources but $65t
for her "Ships that Pass in the Night.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBIES Mrs. Craigle
has been elected president of the So
ciety of Women Journalists of London
The navy department has decided
to punish officers guilty of lending
money at usurious rates or winkine
at it.
TWENTY governors, with their stats
have promised attendance at the dedi
cation of the Chickamauga Nationa
park.
AS A result of improvements on tn,
Seine that river is now navigable TO
steamers of 1000 tons burden as far a
Paris.
OREGON has just passed law agains
fishing in the Columbia river on Sun
day. It's intended to give the salmon
rest
GEO. VANDERBILT has spent IS, 600, go
on his country seat in Carolina, an,
expects to spend as much more in fur
ni.hing.
A CARELESS Chicago motorman OIL
the west division street line ran into
funeral procession, nearly killing tw,
persons.
WITHIN twenty miles of the SUNNI
of Mt. Washington fully 10000 NOR
people can be accommodated thai
could 20 years ago.
Miss DODGE Gail Hamilton) is slow
ly improving in health. Friends VIII,
have seen her recently say thpt she i
in excellent spirits.
The deer are checker than crows il
northern Maine. Farmers can't driv
them out of their oats, and they seen
obliged to feed them.
AT the Glen Summit hotel, in Penn
sylvania, the other day, three gentle
men named King, Queen and Ace reg
istered Mt the same time
A NEW measurement of Mt Adams
Washington, finds it to be 1902 fee
high. If this is correct the peak is 10
feet higher than Mt. Hood.
TIE princess of Wales has tired Q
big sleeves and has discarded ther
without any appreciable effect on tn
prevailing fashion, however.
THE river Thames is from 500 to 1,5O
feet broad in London and seven mile
broad at the More. 1t is navigable II
miles above the London bridge.
MADDER is the root of an herb-lik
growth. 1t is ABBOTT the size of lea
pencil and much longer. 1t is cleaned
dried and ground. 1t is dye stuff.
The treasury department expects
(. heavy increase in the internal revenu
receipts the Last of the month from tn
withdrawal of whisky from bond.
CHAUNcEY DEpEw, when asked by
friend for a pass for the latter's mott
er-in-law, CONSIDERABLY sent rounC
trip pass, good for three days only,
NEARLY $500, 900 is the amount oil
tanned from the bicycle tax this yea
by the Frenc5 government, the nun
Der of machines declared being ju.
under 100000
The Oklahoma man who has been
Kansas soliciting aid for drouth suffe
ers is having his heels trod on by al
other man asking aid for Oklahom