Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHAckERAY's signature to his sketches
was n pair Of spectacles
BATH church fair advertlses 'liv.
ing pictures" as an attraction.
ANOTHER cargo of Negroes Is being
made up in Atlanta for Liberia. H
NEW comic opera, with William
Penn as Its subject, is threatened.
The marquis Of Lorne's new opera
VIII soon be published in London.
CONCORD, N. H., is blessed with no
less than twelve Shakespeare clubs,
HE crater of Etna is quarter of a
mule high on a plane three miles
across.
Mrs. JACOB WILET, of Hanover, Pa.
dropped lighted lamp and was burned
to DEATH
The body of James G. Blaine will soon
be removed from Washington to Au.
gusta, Me.
GOING to pot" is reminder of the
days when boiling to death was q legal
punishment of PARTICLES. IVY p
go TO the dickens" is popular alb
oreyiation and corruption of Ego to the
devilkins,H or little devils,
SO MANY birds and monkeys crowd
the telegraph lines of Mexico at night
tha'o copper wires are used.
ITO be in brown study" is COR
ruption of brow study, study attend
ed by contraction of the brows.
THERE are now IS, OOO 900 worth Of
one-cent pieces in circulation, and the
call upon the mint is still for more.
The Bob's Bar Oil well, on Little Crab,
near Hartman, Tenn, is now flowing
20 barrels per hour, or $50 barrels per
day.
THIEVES broke into the Central the
alter, Bethlehem, Pa, but were put to
flight by band of Indians showing
there.
AT Cedar City, Mo-, fragment of
rock thrown by a blast in quarry
killed a Negro standing 100 yards
away.
IT is reported that the Standard OIL
Co. will abandon it's Cleveland (O.)
Offices as headquarters for the incor-
pQyation.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT has just re-
'ceived thirteen cases from Italy con.
tanning vases for his summer villa al
NEWPORT.
AS dead as herring" is an express
sion arising from the fact that herring
ssie very quickly after being taken out
of the water.
WILD horses have increased to such
an extent in Queensland that the ami
mails are being shot, with view to re
duce the numbers.
PoET LAUREATE AUSTIN is said to bt
so much annoyed at the criticisms pass
ed upon his official verse that he con
templates resigning.
The family of James b. McTaggart
of Brooks, Me-, is remarkable one, il
the fact that the father and seven som
are all railroad men.
The finest tomb in Great Britain il
undoubtedly that of the duke of Hamil
ton, in the grounds of the dukes seat
1t cost over 81, 900, 900.
A HUGE electric fountain is to be tn,
feature of big dry goods house nov
approaching completion in the shop
ping district of New York
FROM seven railway passenger sta
tions to two within a decade is appar
emily to be Bostons notable record il
settling the terminal problem.
THE full name of Commissioner Booth
'of the Salvation army is Evangeline
not Eva, as she has been called by tn
newspaper press of this country.
THE Diamond Oil company, with
capital Of 800, 000, has been organizes
at McMinnville, Tenn, for the purpos
of drilling for oil in White county.
THE annual report Of the superin
tendent Of the Detroit house of correc
tion just issued, discloses the fact tina
during 1895 that institution earne,
$35, 200. @
CURFEw bells are to be rung in Oma
ma and Lincoln, Neb., warning children
under Is years to remain in their home
after eight p. m. in winter and nine il
summer.
WHILE coughing violently Miss Mel
lie Wright of Delhi, N. Y, elected
tooth from her lungs, and her health
which had been very critical, is i'm
proving. Sd
MIcHIeAN's Oldest practicing ply
sician is DR.. VIM. Sprague, OF Cold
water He is 90 years old and ha
practiced in that town more than hal
century.
JUDGE SLACK, ,-f San Francisco, ha
dismissed the suit of the executor
against the will of the late ex-Senato
Fair and the children have withdraw
their contest.
THE citizens of Louisiana are goin
to erect monument in Stonewall cen
etery at Winchester, Va, in memory c
the confederate dead of Louisiana VIII
are buried there,
THERE is man &c years old in tn
Montgomery county pa alms-hous
who boasts that he has never done
days work in his life and he says h
that he never will.
A TORPEDO boat was successful
transferred by rail from st. Peter
burg to Sebastopol a little while ag'
and number of others will now /
sent in the same way to the Black Sc
feet. sa. \ Az. IA gs s8
THE Higginson brothers have struc
1t rich in their mine about seven mile
up Summit canyon, near Provo, utal
According to assays, the ore carrie
5000 ounces in silver and S45 in gold
the ton. VS. %r N
Az AN acknowledgment of Quee
victoria's hospitality to his son a fe
months ago, the Ameer Of Afghanista
has just sent her presents valued I
100000 pounds sterling.