Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-04-03
CURRENT roPIos.



In the last 20 years
The Texas prohibitionists will put
out ticket this year.
SANITARY science is to be taught In
the Michigan public schools.
MASSACHUSETTS is going to erect o
monument to the memory of Ben But.
Ter.
LORD RosEBERY has the finest collec.
ton of Burns manuscripts in exist
ence.
New YORK, il Is said, has not In
creased the number Of its saloons In
nine years
JOSEPH BRETHERIcK and his son
walked from Texas to Florence, Ala,
IA four weeks.
THE saloonkeepers Of Murfreesboro,
Tenn, have agreed not to sell any liz.
uor on Sunday.
THERE were 40 more divorce cases
chan there were weddings in Fres-
no. CAL, last year.
THE general assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church will meet In
Memphis in May.
IT is proposed to amend the constitu.
ton of Mississippi SO as to provide for
an elective Judiciary.
The 18th annual exhibition Of the
Society Of American Artists will open
in New York on March 20.
A WESTERN KANSAS editor announces
that he will take anything on sub
scription Except parsnips."
The fact is disclosed in the vital
statistics Of Massachusetts that WON.
en- are longer lived than men.
JUST as burglars had broken open q
safe containing $4,000 in the Bank Of
Earlville, Ia, they were scared off.
The collection basket Of the Luth-
eran church at Altoona, Pa, was
robbed on Sunday last and $50 taken,
AT Yukon, Okla. recently travel
ing dramatic troupe got into aght
on the stage before the whole audi
ence.
THERE is Frankness In Franklin,
Me-, where society OF church work
ers has adopted the name 1.-THE Beg
gars."
MISS DELLA SLOAN, Of Brooklyn, N.
Y, locked burglar in her dining
room, yelled for the police and caused
his arrest
A BATH hunter has presented to each
of his eight children fat feather bed
stuffed with the plumage of the birds
he has shot
NEW HAMPSHIRE has CD, 36l mill and
factory hands, whose labors produced
last year ss5, ITO, $40 worth Of manufac.
tured goods.
QUEEN MARGHEBITA, of Italy, now
makes long excursions on her bicycle.
Her example is being followed by the
court ladies.
THERE is talk Of esta blishing steam
ship line between New Orleans and
the principal ports OF the United States
OF Colombia.
THE Russian soldier is more heavily
bur.lened than any other. A foot sol.
der in the army of the car carries
over 6S pounds.
YALE has secured about 10000 vol.
umes, constituting the bulk of an Eng
lish library, recently offered for sale
in that country.
EFFIE BAKER, 16-year-old school
girl of Chicago, eloped with youth
of 10, but repented In an hour and has
sued for divorce.
SOME of the farmers around Rock
mart, Ca. have commenced sowing
oats and blowing their lands in prep
aration for another crop.
THE Waycross (Ga. town council hal
passed an ordinance prohibiting boys
under IS years of age ON the streets
after 10 o'clock at night.
ALFRED AUSTIN receives salary o.
$500 year as English laureate ant
draws back salary from the time o
Tennyson's death in 1892.
THE courts of Missouri decide that ,
teacher has control over child from
the time it leaves the parent to the tim'
of it's returning, including the time t
and from school.
SENATOR JONES, of Arkansas, say
he is a pocr man. He has only beef
able to save $4,000 out of his salary
which amount he has used MS part pay
mcnt on his home.
AT forthcoming wedding in Port
land the groom will promise to love
honor and obey his wife, who is al
equal suffragist, and made her aft
anced agree to this
STEEL collins for the bodies OF thos
who die suddenly on shipboard are be
ing carried in some of the Transatlantic
liners The remains are placed in ther
and Theoretically sealed.
IT is said that Chicago dealers col
lect the scalps OF wolves and foxe
from various states and then smuggl
them into South Dakota, where Their
is n bounty Of S. a head
IT is said that the greatest work c
sculpture made by the late WV Stor
is tho monument to his wife, who
buried near the monument to Shelle
in the cemetery at Rome.
AN advocate Of the use OF horsefes
calls attention to the fact that no ies
is so healthy as that of horses, whic
are free from the tuberculosis of cattl
and the trichinosis Of hogs
COUNT MAGRE, the dwarf husband {
Mrs. Tom Thumb, has ordered b
cycle, His height is 80 inches and I'll
bicycle, which is to be made to orde
will weigh less than ten pounds.
THE common council of Chicago r
pealed the ordinance requiring sire,
cars to stop at the near crossing
Mayor Swift will probably sign tt
measure and the old ways will rule.
MADAME. DIss DE BARS suit again
New York city for the recovery of
alleged old masters, painted by spook
has been discontinued and the spoC