Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

"S'S' S"'icu bdrlel' Romance o.
Surrey"
The largest cooperative creamery
N the United States is located at St
Adams, Vt.
Mrs. CRAioIE John Oliver Hobbs)
vas born in London, though her par
Fnts are Americans.
TnE monument of Gen. Hancock
VIII soon be shipped from Jonesboro
Me-, to Washington.
Our Of 1850 Europeans in Lagos, Yves,
Africa, twenty-three died last year,
death rate Of 1874 in 200.
THE Chicago Bible society will soon
begin the erection of a building in Chi,
cago to cost about 100000.
THERE is log jam in the Manistee
river in Michigan, Just now which con.
tains about 1000 600 feet of timber.
SIR ALFRED MoLoNEY, the governor.
general of British Honduras, has been
paying brief visit to New Orleans.
1T is said that two of Mr.. Edison's
children are called Dot and Dash"
after the Morse alphabet characters.
The big chimney of the new Edison
works in Paterson, N. j.. is the largest
chimney in that city, being 23O feet
high.
PROFESSORS in the boston university
law school have ordered students to
stop smokingin the building or leave
the. school.
THERE are nearly 100000 children
in school in. the United States, nearly
100000 in public schools, nearly 400.
900 teachers
AN explosion in the Chaplin mine, at
Iron Mountain, Mich, blew off Joseph
Bronca's head and fatally hurt Am
brose Cibani.
TIIE finding of the laceratcd body of
James Smith, prospcctor of Boulder,
Col, points to his being killed by a
mountain lion.
IN 1860 monster petrifed tree was
found in l'aker county, Oregon. 1t
was GG6 feet long and 60 feet in diane.
ter at the butt
In shooting one rattlesnalse at Ma
tanzas, Fla, Andrew D. Mcmillan, OF
Providence, II. l., was bitten by anoth-
er, and soon died
A NEW steamboat, just launched for
the Hudson river service, will cost
$1,000, 600 and be provided with engines
OF 200 horsepower.
A WASHINGTON county (Kas) jury
worked long time on a whisky case,
and finally voted that IL was sweet
cider" and let it go Mt that.
lIorE, Me-. has the champion absent
minded man. lie hitchcd his COW to a
stake and then put bell on her to
keep her from going astray.
A WE'LL on the I'annock reservation
at I.oise, Ida, has been sunk to depth
of no feet and the water in it is of a
temperature of 80 2-5 degrees.
TIE legal rate of interest in Georgia
is s per cent. A bill now before the
legislature makes usury felony when
more than IS per cent is charged.
A CnEsTERvnLE (Me.) couple recent.
ly celebrated their golden wedding in
the very house into which they moved
on their wedding day, fifty years be-
fore.
FRENCH matches, which are gov
eminent monopoly, are to be made
with red phosphorus, instead of white,
as it is less unhealthy for the work
men.
REV. |. M. GIBSON, Of Plattsburg,
Mo, says that the Lords Supper ought
to be a real meal and not n sham sup
per of crumbs of bread and drops oil
wine.
DAVID l.. PEARSON and his daughter
Alice, of New Buffalo, Mich, have gone
insane because they thought the recent
earthquake heralded the end of this
world.
STEPS have been taken toward put
ting a memorial tablet to Huxley in
Westminster Abbey, but it is unlikely
that the authorities OF the abbey will
consent.
A BAREFooTED tramp passed through
Fulton, Kan, one day recently. AS
sistance was offered, but he refused it
saying that he could steal what h,
wanted.
A MELANCHOLY sign at the Leaven'
worth Soldiers home is the cemetery
containing over eleven hundred graves
The home has not been in existence
ten years,
+. j. PALossETER. a brakeman on thu
Nickel Plate road, was blown from tn
top of train near Ashtabula, O., re
Gently, and received injuries which
caused his death.
THERE are at present projects TO
the construction by private companie
of over two thousand miles OF nes
railways under consideration by tn
Japanese authorities.
DURING the 900 years that the Peki
Gazette has been in existence $500 0
its editors have had their heads takel
off for having exceeded instructions
according TO lie Figaro.
JOHN II. CONVERSE, n wealthy loco
motive builder of Philadelphia, ha
just completed handsome missio
hospital at Miraj, India, at a cost t
himself of about $50 0)0
BECAUSE of an investigation whic
showed his men had done private wor
while being paid by the city, City Er
gineer ii. L. Eaton, of Somcrville
Mass, committed suicide,
AMAss of cells weighing 300 pound
clogged the water wheel which run
the electric plant of Riverhead, j. l.
the other night, and the town was Il
darkness for several hours.
MAYOR STRONG, of New York, whe
asked how he came to be called Co
Strong, replied that, in 1885, he con
maudcd one division of n bushes
mems parade and he got 1t then.
ETHER living Systematically cheap
Simpson county, Miss, or the pauper
there get poor board 1t costs I'll