Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-03-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

houM4 MA Is the highest taxed coun-
try in the world
JAMES WHITCoMB RILEY announces
his retirement from the lecture plat
form.
YvETTE GUILBERT has given up cy.
cling because it causes her TO forget
things.
THE population of Newfoundland has
increased from 10000 in 1796 to 202 ,00C
in 1891.
Miss BRADDoN was at one time an
actress, playing small parts in the
provinces.
ALL the Western Union messenger
boys in Lexington are to be equipped
with bicycles.
THERE is to be trans Mississippi
and International exposition" held at
Omaha in 1898.
TIE Chicago university is making an
effort to secure Paderewski for its con-
servatory of Music.
ALEXANDER FERGUSON and his sister,
of Frankfort. Ind, are aged respective
ly 1O3 and 1O7 years.
Mr.. Uni, the new ambassador to
Germany, pronounces his name as il it
were spelled "Yule."
The Lake Superior ice crop is now
excellent. Up to February IL there had
not been an inch cut
SWAPPING horses on the streets in
Kentucky is prohibited in bill now
before the state legislature.
A COPY of Audubon's birds of Amer
ica," with hand-painted plates, has
been sold in New York for 81, 800.
lIoT SPRINGS, Ark is squeezed into a
canyon with a range of mountains on
either side of the principal street.
A LATCm-KEY in his pocket saved
James II. Ushcrs life at Great Neck,
N. Y, the other day by stopping bull
let.
AN agent of the Liberian government
is organizing colonies in Texas, promis-
ing land and cattle to all who shall
cmgrate.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is arranging to pub
fish volume of theological essays. His
edition of Buffers writings is having a
good sale
Rev. L. II. EGeIEsToN, just elected
as school commissioner in Baltimore,
is the first colored man to hold the po-
sition in that city.
transforming was gracefully recog-
nized in llolton, Kan, the other day,
when the opera house" was sold for a
livery stable barn.
DR.. CARL PETERS, the African ex-
plorcr, will undertake new eXplora-
tion of Samoilan d in the interests OF
wealthy Americans.
MAYOR SWIFT, of Chicago, ILL.,, is ar
ranging for 100000 subscription to
dcfray the cost of the Southern States
exposition in that city.
A KANSAS editor calls everyman who
pays year in advance colonel" siN
months, major" three months, cap
TAIN" the others MIR"
They have had church squabble in
East Winthrop Me-, and out of it there
has actually grown a glorious revival
with 40 hopeful conversions,
MAINE paid last year 81 1862 in boun
ties for seals caught in the waters of
the coast of the state. The bounty i,
for the benefit of the fishermen.
Rosa BoNnEUR is "a years of age ant
still paints horses. There is grow
ing conviction, founded on statistics
that great painters are long lived.
A BANKER in Wales spends much o
his time and money in collecting doors
through which illustrious persons
passed at some time or another
TIE house in which Andrew Jack
son had his headquarters during the
period including the battle of New Or
leans was burned to the ground thu
other day.
VERONA is a pretty old Maine town
but it never had clergyman, a lawyer
or doctor living in its limits, and it i
the only town in Maine that has M
post office.
JUST now there is no name more un
popular in the Isle of Wight than tina
of the German emperor. The onl,
name that they give him there is 'Blus
tering Bill"
A POLISH woman, 104 years old wh'
saw the march of Napoleon and hi
army into Russia in 1872 and the terri
HE retreat of the survivors, is living a
Shamokin, Pa.
GEORGE MEREDITH delights in the &c
centricities of costume permitted t,
genius, and on all possible occasion
revels in the luxury of flannel shir
and corduroys.
A TELEPHONE has been placed in tn
Norfolk (Ct.) Congregational church
and those who are unable TO atten
church will be able to listen to the sery
ices at their homes
SIR JOIN MILLAIs' first picture wa
purchased by Charles Reade, the Eng
fish novelist Ruslsin said that it wa
not failure, but fiasco, and kicked
hole in the picture.
The Chicago common council commit
tie on schools has frowned on so-calle
"fads' and proposes to make a clea
$4,000 cut in the running expense
CT the school system.
The Authors club Of New York ha
lost several prominent members b
death recently-namely, Prof. Boyeser
Col. Thomas Il. Knox, Eugene Fiel
and Edgar Willis Nye.
A GROVE Of antique oak has oeen di.
covered in New Madrid county Mis-
souri,. Heretofore this valuable ms
terial has been produced almost excl,
sively in northern Minnesota.
AT Grenoble, the seat of the GLOW
trade in France n statue has bee