Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1896-02-07
CURRENT ropes.

IN ana about l'arls.
THERE are now thirty-ive murderers
In the St Louis Jail.
THE first Bible printed in America
was Eiots Indian version in 1858.
A DEXTER (NIe.) man recently shot an
nlbino partridge, with feathers tinted
in pink.
CHARLES PHILLIPS, a nephew of Wen.
dell Phillips, is the chef of restaurant
in Portland, Orc.
THE olive harvest in southern Cali
fornia began week ago. The crop is
. light one this year.
ABOUT 4o,oOO,Ooo pounds of prunes
were produced in the Santa Clara val.
ley, Cal, this year.
GUN springs are now tempered by
electricity in France. The process is
rapid and satisfactory.
A POSTCARD message has travelled
around the world in seventy days the
quickest time on record.
SEVEN new elephants arrived in
bridgeport, Ct, the other day, for the
ALL the telegraph messenger boys in
Macon, Ga, are now provided with hi.
cycles for use in their work.
A SQUASH weighing 1861 pounds was
the biggest Massachusetts, produced
for Thanksgiving this year.
THE forest reserve in Maine contains
1900, 600 acres and the special agents
to look after it number thirty.
liza well could be dug TO depth OF
forty-six miles, the air at the bottom
would be as dense as quicksilver.
PROVIDENCE r. ~ policemen have
been notified that they must become
tectotalcrs or they can't remain police.
men, &E
A GERMAN has invented an incandes-
cent lamp apparatus for showing the
interior of boilers while filed with
steam.
Il. G. STEDMAN, who has just. refused
professors chair at Yale, was dis
missed from that university when a
student.
ABE RoTTs, of Goodland, Kas, has
only four toes on each foot, but, as the
new baby has six, the family average
is all right.
WIN. L. WINANs, the we'll known
American, distributed $500 recently
among the ballet girls at the Alham.
bra, London.
THE house over which Mr. Reed il
called to preside is composed of PA re-
publicans, 10i democrats, populists
and silverite.
TEXAS cotton crop is smaller than
last years, but the total of all agri'
cultural products is, in value, consid
erably greater
THERE is a professional woman diver
in Gravesend, England, who otter
makes as much as S35 day in hel
strange calling.
THERE are at present in China only
1922 citizens of the United States
nearly half of whom are women; sol
are missionaries.
The consumption of coffee in Franco
has increased within thirty years from
one-half pound to three and one-hal
pounds per head. 4
p. d. ARMOUR, of Chicago, denies the
report that he is about to establish {
meat packing ablishment in the Ar
gentine Republic,
TIE first Sunday-schools were estab
lished by St Charles Borromeo, whc
has the largest statue ever made erect
ed in his memory.
WHEN George Tiffany, aged IA, o
Bridgeport, CT, tickled horse to Sc,
it kick, the animal kicked the top Of
the boys head off.
CONGRESSMAN CYRUS A. SULLowAY
of New Hampshire, will have no trou
BILE in catching the speakers eye Ii,
is 6 feet 6 inches tall.
TIE Akron (0) board of education
has decided to esta blish kindergarten
and training schools in connection will
their regular schools.
THERE is but one factory in Japai
where leather shoes are made. TIL
natives, except about the court wea
sandals of straw or wood.
THERE are 900 retail liquor dealers il
the state of Maine, according to in
ternal revenue statistics just issued
Maine is prohibition state.
TIE colored people of Providence
have decided to begin national move
ment for the erection of a monumen
to John Brown at Harper's Ferry.
Six hunters of Traverse City, Mich.
have this fall killed thirty deer, half
dozen wildcats and great quantity o
small game-rabbits, patridges and tn
like.
By buying off the collateral heir
for S400 900, it is alleged, the children
of the late James Fair, of San Fran
cisco, have practically settled the will
case.
ALMOST the only monument of tn
Roman dominion in Egypt, the fortres
of Babylon, at Old Cairo, is being tor
down to- make way for modern build
ings.
ELIZA FoLTz, of Akron, o.. ha
brought suit for divorce from William
Foltz on the ground that he hypnc
tized her into marriage, but never live
with her.
THE tunlSs of the walrus were tn
first ice anchors. The Instruments G
this description used by seamen in Arc
tic regions are modelled after the wa
rus tuslSs.
A PETROLEUM belt has been disco,
cred in Montanas new county, Carbon
1t Is near the hcadwaters of Butche
creek, a tributary of the Little Rose
bud river
For swearing in members in tn
house of commons the revised versio
of the Bible is used for Protestants, tn
Douai version for Catholics and cop