Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-03-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

BRET IIARTE has volume Of poems
nearly ready for the press
NEW York women spend more OF
dress than any women in the world,
ONE man in Maine owns It's, 600 acres
of timber lands-l27 900 in Aroostook
county.
Mrs. TYNDALL is said to be making
good Roadway with a biography of her
husband.
CuDAny BRos., of Chicago, have pur-
chased 100000 worth of oil lands near
Decatur, Ind.
MICHAEL. McCooI., New York sa-
loon keeper, is known as 1.-The King Of
Hclfs Kitchen"
TIE best corks come from Algeria
There are $500, 900 acres of cork forests
in that country.
SUPPLYING orphans with mothers is
a new branch Of the life insurance
business in Maine.
OMAHA ranks as the third stockyard
in the country. 1t receives about two
million swine annually.
STEEL ship has been constructed in
Cardiff, with the standing rigging, as
well as hull, all of steel.
THE bicycling people are figuring on
selling 100000 machines this year at
an average price of 500 EACH
SENATOR DAVIS, of Minnesota, is a
great boolSworm and knows all about
rare editions and literary gems.
NJ n. n.
fined heavily for using quotation from
the Bible at the head of an advertise
ment.
SENATOR STEWART, of Nevada, and
Carl Browne, late of Coxey's army, are
now running paper devoted to free
silver.
M. OIsHI, managing editor of jap
anese newspaper, has arrived at San
Francisco and will make tour of the
world.
ALL the members of the Vanceboro
(Me.) board of health are quarantined
on account of scarlet fever in their
families.
THERE is a piano tuner in Oklahoma
who, when there are no pianos in sight,
tightens up barb-wire fences for the
farmers.
THE official directory of the Roman
Catholic church in the United States
puts the membership of the church at
0,410,7
FRANCE has new and higher in
come tax, SO graded as to rest lighter
az /,
children.
The women Of Baltimore provided
over $42O,000 toward endowing the
medical department of Johns Hopkins
university. At
Mr.. Son, Corean minister at Wash
ington, has made good impression al
the capital in spite of the fact that he
has lost his queue
GREEK papers say that the German
emperor will attend the Olympic games
this year. He will go to Athens from
the island of Corfu.
The ice business is booming on the
upper Mississippi; 6O4 carloads were re.
Gently handled in one day between Bur.
lington and st. Louis
THE earliest coinage of Rome dates
from the fourth century, b. G. The
coins were cast bricks of metal, weigh.
ing four or five pounds.
Mrs. BOWMAN AMEs, of Blanchard
Me-, has shot a large deer and trapped
five foxes near her home this winter
without aid from anyone.
FIVE generations of one family are
living on homestead at Bardtown, Ga
The head Of the family, w. o. Cherry
has 1856 living descendants.
In Russian Poland all trains must
stop at every station until the chief Of
police Tor gendarmerie) of the place
gives permission for their departure.
JOHANNA, the chimpanzee in Contra
park, New York, is very fond of liquors
of any kind. Port wine and whisky
are, however. said to be her favorites
CLARENCE CURTIss, of Kansas City, ha'
in his possession copy of the Balti
more Advertiser of August 20, 1878, il
which Washington advertised land fol
lease.
VIM. NIvEN, mineralogist of New
York has recently discovered a tourma
line crystal worth $3.50 in the road bee
OF the new speedway along the Harlem
river.
"THE Blue Bells of Scotland" wa
written by Annie McVicker, daugh
ter of Scottish officer of the British
army. She afterwards became Mrs
Grant.
HENRY w. SAGE, the benefacto
whose birthday Cornell recently cele
brated, has given that university a
different times sums amounting to 81,
$4,000.
A MASSIVE Quincy granite monumen
has been erected over the grave of Gen
Abner Doubleday at Arlington, Va, b,
his former comrades of the First Corp
association of the Army of the Poto
mac.
PopE LEO XIII. recently gave the fol
lowing advice to a famous Italian
preacher, Father Zocchi Write arti
cles for the papers. People read Their
who never go to hear sermon
preached"
RUDYARD KIPIING was asked recent
ly whether he enjoyed writing poetr
or prose most. He remarked that tn
pleasure of creating poem was tn
highest intellectual delight he had eve
experienced.
CAPT. VIM DAVIS, who has just die
in Millville, Pa, at the age of n, eli
COMMUNICATED the, globe three times
and for three years and nine month
was one of the crew of the old frigat
Constitution.
In the New Years procession at KC
.iigsberg, in 1858, a bologna sausage e2
hibited by the "butchermen" was 81
faet in lenuth and was carried on TIL