Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-01-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

SPEAKER REED is famous amateur
photographer.
THE Torrens land title system is now
In force in Chicago
JAPAN has \ written history extend
ing over $500 years.
THERE are nearly twenty thousand
people at Cripple creek.
The only bird hospital in the coun'
try is said to be in Chicago.
A LANCASTER IN. H. man sold 100
silver dollar for S55 the other day.
MR.. WHISTLER, the painter, is now
burning his attention to TYPOGRAPHY.
THERE are over 500 pieces in the $l5,.
900 set of china used at the white
house.
AGED Kate Selbert, Of Lebanon, Pa,
was fatally burned by falling upon a
candle.
IlELDEN, in the district Of Limburg,
Holland, has 1000 inha bitants and l07
saloons,
A TENNESSEE murderer, aged rs, has
just been sentenced to 90 years i'm
prisonment
john RUSSELL. YOUNG, of Philadel
phia, is collecting materials for life
of Gen. Grant
WHEN a rounder disturbs the Saliva.
ton army meetings at Newton, Kan,
he gets 30 days on the rockpile.
THE steamer Helen, laden with no..
ooO bushels of Kansas corn, sailed
from Galveston for Belfast recently.
"A HEAVY stick upon which he pro.
posed to hang hog fell and killed
Henry See at osceola, Tioga county,
Pa.
ELEAzER SMITH, of Alexandria, aged
ninety-nine, is New Hnmpshire's sim
gle surviving veteran OF the war ci
1912.
G. l.. MAeEE's 100000 gift for a
Pittsburgh zoo will be expended for
buildings The city must buy the me-
nagerie.
THE Del Mar district in Nevada has
now an output from one mill of 500,
900, which will soon be increased to
$500, 900.
A RAW egg. first woll beaten and
then added to cup of hot coffee,
makes a palatable and strengthening
beverage.
BLOOD in its natural state contains a
surprising amount OF pure air, amount
ing to nearly scven-eighths of its en-,
tire bulk.
TIE jails in Connecticut are in O
overcrowdcd condition, us result Of
the recent crusade on the tramps in
that state.
Mrs. 'rArcorT, of West Hartford
Ct, celebrated her lO5th birthday
Christmas. She is the oldest woman in
Connecticut.
TIE output of the Leadvilie camp /.
now over 1900 tons a day, which il
much larger than it was at the sam,
time last year.
TIIE order OF Kings Daughters, or
ganized nine years ago in New Yorl
city by ten women, now has member
ship Of 100000.
A METAMorA farmer who lost nearl,
hundred chickens from cholera
stopped the epidemic by giving tn,
fowls rock salt.
DION, France, has poplar tree will
record that can be traced to 722 A. D
1t is l"2 feet high and IS feet in circum
ference at the base.
ST. LOUIS hotelkecpcrs denounce TIN
story that they will raise their rate
Il - - hi ino
national convention.
VICTORIA MISUNDERSTANDING, VIII
started the fashion of clipping wit
coachmen, is now in st. Joseph's con
vent, in Rutland, VT.
THE smallest bird is species o
humming bird common in Mexico an
Central America. 1t is not quite s
large as bluc-bottlc fly.
COLUMBUS, Ga, has broken the rec
cord. A man was convicted and fine
the other day before the recorder 70
not returning an umbrella.
TIE rope by which he was bein
lowered into 3Q-foot well at Altoona
"a, broke and John Ager fell to tn
bottom. fracturing both legs.
BAKER, one of the most fertile cour
ties in Georgia, has no railroad, telt
graph or telephone lines within il
border, nor has 1t a newspaper
THE largest nugget taken out TIL
season in the Yukon region, Alaska
was from Robert Wesley's claim o
Glacier creek. 1t weighed saai
THE census of Germany, just con
pleted, shows the population Of TIL
empire to be 5l,75s. 364, an increase {
a,3o9, s04 during the last five years.
LECTURER gave utterance to tn
following: "All along the untroddc
paths of the future we can see the hiC
den footprints of an unseen hand"
CONAN DOYLE has arrived in Cair
and the Sphinx, published in that cit.
says the most conspicuous part of h
baggage consisted of four cricket bat
CANTERBURY cathedral is the large
one in England its extreme length
.s.545 feet, and that of St. Peters, Lo
don, 5l9feet Salisbury is the highe
spire in England, it's altitude being A
feet
POLICE COMMISSIONER ROOSEVELT,
New York, has accepted an invitatic
to be the chief guest and princip
speaker at the Union League club
banquet in Chicago on Washington
birthday.
ALvYRUs PANeBoRN burned n farr
er's barn near Ithaca, Mich, bccau
he had to pay for n window gla
broken through spite. lie has BET
sentenced to prison for FIVE years +
the job
THE mother of Lewiston your
man, who objected to his going to c,
on his girl, recently burned up his be
suit of clothes. lie put on pair