Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-05-01
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DANIEL WEBSTER cared stray shillings
rs chore boy.
GEORGE WASHINGTON carried a chain
for surveyor.
NEW YORK has sent cargo of iron
bedsteads to Jerusalem.
The new liquor law of New York
rules out the free lunch.
Miss ALICE RoTHcHLD's collection of
roses is valued at $4,000.
JOHN NJ THURsToN, senator from Me-
braska, once drove dray in Chicago.
JOHN p. ST. JOHN intends to run for
congress in the Second Kansas district.
CusHMAN DAVIS, senator from Mime
sofa, drove his fathers team and guided
TIE pillow.
THERE is a street in Liverpool in
which nearly every house is occupied
by dentist.
SEATTLE points with pride to the re-
cent sale of a cargo of oats for ship
ment to Africa.
The Knights of Pythias contemplate
the erection of large memorial temple
in Washington.
FROM the Lost Chord" alone it is
said that Sir Arthur Sullivan has real
lied over 100000.
ONLY one-third of the children of st.
Louis could find seats even if they
wanted to go to school.
GARDNER Brown, rag picker, who
died recently in Newport, r. l., left an
estate valued at $4,000.
CoLoRED races never have blue eyes.
Their eyes are always dark brown,
brownish yellow or black.
DURING recent week the patent Of
ice "broke the record" by receiving L.
140 applications for patents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER when he first
began his ministerial career MIXED the
COW and did the stable work.
SIAMEsE worshipers hold the sacred
monkey tooth in even higher regard
than the royal white elephants.
In last parliamentary returns the
population of Ireland is stated as A.
7O4, 750, and the electorate as 729, 473.
SILK is the strongest Of all vegetable
'or animal threads 1t is three times as
strong as a flaxen thread of the same
size.
The Egyptians used pencils of col
ored chalk, and several of these ancient
crayons have been found in their
tombs.
ST. PETER was the name of an intox-
icated individual who was fined $7.s5 in
the Concord IN. H. police court re-
Gently.
PETER CoNKLING, of Mount Hope, N.
", who is 1O6 years old, has been sent
to the almshouse to spend his remain
ing days.
1T is said that Benjamin Ide Wheeler
professor of Greek at Cornell, is to sue
coed DR.. Hill as president of Rochester
university.
A MINISTER of Ceresco, Mich, has
bought a stereopticon, with which he
will in future illustrate his Sunday
night sermons.
THERE are more than 200 lakes with
the largest being 1000 feet above the
level of the sea.
IRON has for ages been a favorite
medicine. Over 100 different prepare
tions of iron are now known to the
medical chemists.
GUYS hospital in London is in tinan-
cial straits The prince of Wales has
undertaken to raise by subscription the
$2, 500, 900 it needs.
THE Canadian colony of Hebrews
founded by Baron Hirsch has collapsed.
OF the original 800 only dozen or two
are still on the ground.
AT the instance of Mr.. Cecil Rhodes
$4,000 was distributed among Jane
sons troopers on their way home in the
steamer Harlech Castle.
The state of Mississippi owns 5000
bales of cotton and has sustained loss
of $250,OOO by not selling during the adj
vance a short time ago.
A DAUGHTER of George A. Ward, of
Omaha, swallowed carbolic acid by mis-
take. Her father ran for doctor, and
on his return dropped dead.
LITIGATION between John d. Rookie
Teller and Rev. d. c. Potter, at New
York, led to a sheriff's sale of Taber-
nacle Baptist church effects
Mrs. POTTER PALMER reports that
the tenth annual charity bail in Chi
cago yielded SIG, $50 for the cause. The
expenses were SO, asa and the receipts
S2O,249.
SIR JULIAN GOLDSMITH, who left about
81, 100000 to his daughters, has done so
ON the footing that if any of them mar
ries a gentle her share is to be reduced
to half.
A WOMAN has just been appointed as
sistant professor of English in the Uni
versity of Michigan. She is Miss Ger
trude Buck, a daughter of Judge Buck,
of Michigan.
REV. DIR. BENJAMIN w. BACON, pastor
of the Congregational church of Oswe-
go, NY, has been appointed instructor
in the New Testament in the Yale di-
vinity school.
WM. ORDwAY PARTRIDeE's equestrian
statue of Gen. Grant, which is to stand
in Bedford avenue, opposite the Union
League club, Brooklyn, will be un-
yelled April 25
DR.. EDsoN's aseptolin treatment is
being administered to two consump-
tive convicts at the Connecticut state
prison, under the supervision of the
prison physician.
Gov. MORTON, of New York, has APP
proved law requiring medical stu
dents to attend an Incorporated college
for three years before applying for per-
mission to practice.
A CAR shaned like a bath tub. in