Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-03-13


THIS year is the tercentenary of the
birth of Describes, the father Of mod
ern metaphysical speculation.
c. T. NELSON, of Arlington, Tenn,
has an ll-months old Newfoundland
dog which weighs 1870 pounds.
SIR JOHN CHRISTOPHER WILLouaHBy,
now prisoner in the Transvaal, is the
author of three books on Africa.
AT Great Falls, Mont, electric pow.
err is SO cheap that all public and do
nestle work is done with its aid.
The council passed an ordinance
prohibiting any person in Chicago
from owning more than six dogs.
THE Anthony mo Bulletin has an
office crib to accommodate readers
who want to pay their subscriptions in
corn.
GREAT BRITAIN owns Q, $40, 900 square
miles of territory in Africa, an area al
most equal to that of the United
States.
The English fire insurance compan.
les do big business. Fire insurance
in London alone amounts to $780,.
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A COTTON factory running 500 spin
dies and costing about 100000 will be
one of the new enterprises of Jack.
son, Ga.
AN authority on cats says that blue.
eyed cats are always deaf and that
white ones are afflicted in the same
manner.
A LAMP exploded in C. Violet Ma.
lotte Wilson's library, Chicago, and
destroyed several of her poems of
passion"
BRITISH officers in Dublin must wear
mustaches, by order of Lord Frank
fort de Montmorency, the general in
command.
AN old Negro named Peter Dorsey
died at Tallahassee, Fla, who claimed
to be about one hundred and forty
years old,
JUDGE c. w. SMITH, of Stockton, Kas
keeps the salary of court stenographer
in the family by appointing his wife to
the place.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, is great mule
market Over $500 of the long-eared
animals have been sold in that city
since fall.
Corn and hay are the two most i'm
portant farm crops in the country
$5G7 500 600 and 5000, 1856, 900 respective
ly, last year.
A BURLINGTON (Vt) man wha was ar
rested the other day for stealing CUR
was sentenced to three years in the
state prison.
A CoLoRED pastor in Texas demand
ing his salary is reported to have said
"Brudern, | can't preach heah ans
boa'd in Heb'n!''
The new coal deposit at Blackwater
Mo-, 10 miles south of Marshall, begin
four feet from the surface and is from
80 to 40 feet thick.
PRINCESS HELENA, of England (Prin
cess Christian, of Schleswig- Holstein
is writing book of etiquette for WON
en- in good society.
DESPITE its feminine name, Affection
Wis, has the distinction of being tn
only town in the country without on
woman inha bitaut.
CITIZEN DoBBlNs, of Birmingham
Ala, has gone to Houston, Tex, T.
search for swindler to whom he pai
$4,000 for gold brick"
Mr., GLADSTONE, it is noted, is no
much bothered at Biarritz this year
He is out of Office and so, writes Wis
itor, he is hardly noticed.
AT the funeral of Mrs. Elizabet
Kelley, at Ceredo, w. Va, her tire
daughters were in attendance, age
respectively 70, "a and so years.
SOUTH CARoLiNA's house of repre-
sentatives has passed a bill assassin
damages in So, 900 against each count
in which lynching takes place.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, who claim
to be descendant of the great nav
gator, was sent to Jail for the allege
theft of leather at Shamokin, Pa.
ONE trapper in Hougtonville, VT
can show for the seasons work tn
skins of 1000 skunks, 175 foxes,
minks, 200 muskrats and 100 coons
MARION BUTLER, of North Carolin;
80 years old on his last birthday, is tn
youngest man in the United State
senate since the time of Henry Clay
BRpGEpoRT CT, has the only orth,
dox Russian church in New England
which was dedicated year ago b
Bishop Nicholas of San Francisco, an
now has Membership of about $50.
THE popular toy in Paris this winte
is the American monkey in red CO;
and green waiscoat who climbs up
string In the French capital it h;
had immense vogue, and in Londol
too, where it sells for SO cents.
A MATCHMAKER of the Pays-de-C alai
France, will shortly exhibit repea
ing watch, which actually tells Il
hours instead of striking them. YC
press a button and Immediately tin
photograph tells its wee little tale.
PAULINE LUCIA, the opera SINCE
who has dropped out of public MOTIF
since her retirement from the sta,
seven years ago, now lives in Vienn
and is said to be as handsome al
graceful as ever. There is no prob
bility that she will ever return to Il
stage.
The presidents and professors
about score of western colleges ha
requested passes of the railroads ru
ming out OF Chicago, on the grouI
that they can influence students
travel over certain railroads in goir
iasand from college. Their reques
~. Sheen refused.
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