Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-05-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

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Souri, CAROLINA is the Palmetto
stnte,n
IT is estimated that there are !, $780,
900 Irish III Australia. n
DOMESTIC servants in India nre paid
81 week, with board. 8bb
Cor" JOHN A. CoCKERILI carried $780,
900 insurance on his life. iE
MARyLANDERs are ''Craw-thumpers.r
n slang name for the lobster.
NORTH CARoLINIANs are called Tar
heels" from leading industry,
A CABLE line railroad has been PLAN
ned to the crater of Popocatepetl ei
CONNECTICUT has village with the
queer name of Upper 1singlass."
MEMPHIS is now connected with New
York and Louisville by telephone. <.
NEVADA has two nicknamess the
"Silver State" and the Sage Brush
State"
THE Harvard faculty propose to es-
tablish course in Russian in that in
stitution. HI
j. SCOTT HARTLEY is to receive $75,-
600 for monument to Jefferson for
New York.
A DEAF and dumb couple in Cleve-
land are fighting each other in the dit
vorce courts
THERE are more unemployed persons
to be seen in New Zealand than in Ire-
land or Scotland
A POLICE judge at Minneapolis, Kan,
has had only one case before him in the
four years he has held office. A.
A LONDON syndicate has secured the
right to bore for petroleum over a large
area of country in Australia. IL
JENKINS MUNTFoRD, of Chicago, has
collection of metal keys numbering
over eight thousand different speci-
mems.
The Massachusetts, state census
shows total population of 2,5oO, 1913,
the females exceeding the males by
1000.
The Stansill mine in North Georgia
bids fair to prove a bonanza. At 81
feet the ore assays $50 gold and Sl.5O OF
silver. Ntl
The big rattlesnake at Greenwood
garden, Peaks island, Me, has just
completed an unbroken fast that lasted
a year.
THOMAS HAGGERTY, IS years old, OF
PeekslSill, N. Y, swallowed q lump OF
chewing gum and now he is dying OF
appendicitis
PRESIDENT KRUGER, of the lransyaal
republic, has been offered largo sun
to come to America to lecturc,on South
African affairs. gs&l
A COMPANY with capital of $1,000
900 has been formed for the purpose Of
building "A railroad to the glaciers 0.
Mount Tacoma. .
A COUPLE of Middletown CO.. hunters
recently had great luck. While out
they found litter of eight foxes, which
are worth S24 in bountics.
THIEVES entered the stable of the ex
ecutive mansion at Jackson, Miss, ths
other night and stole two horses he
longing to Gov McLaurin. it
A DEPARTMENT of comparative pa
thology will be added to the Harvard
medical school,, q Boston merchant hav
ing endowed it with 100000. N
THOMAS MORAN, New York police
man, died and left an estate Of $4,000
which is now being contested for by al
army of relatives and strangers
Ten thousand people visited tn
South Kensington and Bethnal Greer
museums in London on the first Sunda,
on which they were thrown open.
The most ancient lock of whose form
and construction there is any certain
knowledge is the Egyptian, which ha
been in use upward of 1000 years. h
A GERMAN journalist has invented az
electric whip for the purpose OF tralEl
ing wild animals. The sting Of to-
new whip is said to be very effective.
THREE new industrial plants are be
ing put up in Birmingham, Ala The,
are bolt and nut works, snuff and 10
bacco factory and a cotton seed oil mill
L. II. HovEY, the tennis champion .
the United States, was married TO Mis-
Sara Sanborn at Newton Center, Mass,
by Rev. DR.. Alvah Hovey, on April q
DURING the last year 72,g4j, s95 coin
were struck at the Australian mini
the gold ones being valuel at ifS, 500
62t, the silver Fl ,l96, 1853 ard tho br'onz
$40, 905. rilS
OXFORD and Cambridge have no,
rowcd together little more than u
nx.fn a
third of mile to the good In the toti
distance. && 2
The discovery of human skull in
good state of preservation by well d.,
gers at depth of 40 feet beneath
solid, four-foot vein Of coal isattrac
ing good deal of attention at nickii
son, N. ID. t{i lF
\ The quantity of bananas sbippe
from West Indian and adjaoout port
into the United States now ,atnount
to 100000 or l4,OOo, 800 bupehes III
nually, valued at considerably ov,
$40, 200, 900. M
ONE of the candidates for Office
Sumter county, s. G., has PAINTED Il
buggy silver hue to show his view
IN the financial question. One do,
not have to ask where he stands aft,
seeing that team,
JOHN w. MACKAY has awarded Al co
tract for a mausoleum to cost SaSl0
to be erected over the remains Of h
son, who was killed in France by alta
from horse. A Louisville iilm 5
cured the contract .l (
A New HAVEN young lady has I
markable throat. She has a whisiAiI
larynx and can whistle without tho u
of her lips. Few cases of this kind "a
ever known. #tII