The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-01-13
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dropped into the hold of the Leviathan the first
week of the year, 2 the second, the third, s the
fourth, l6 the fifth, and SO on, doubling each
week for the whole year, (52 weeks,) the entire
number of pins dropped would be 4, 5O3, 500, 627
37O,495; the weight of them (allowing 200 pins
the ounce, would be 628, 292, 1853 tons, or ton
mage enough to fully freight twenty eight thou.
\ sand ships the size of the Leviathan. n
y WHAT is the universe but hand flung in space,
pointing always with extended fingers unto
God
Mickey Free, the famous pedestrian, has Just
performed, at Allentown, Pa two astonishing
feats of pedestrianism which were accomplished
last Saturday. One was to walk one hundred
and fourteen consecutive hours; the other was
to walk so fast out of the town. that his creditors
could not overtake him.
Statistics disclose the unpleasant fact to
travellers intending to cross the Atlantic, that
there is one chance out of eight of their never
living to see the other side. For the last four
years. about 100, 900 persons have made the trip
all told. In that time three transatlantic
steamers have been lost with l,200 lives. For
the last twenty years the average loss of life is
about one in hundred
Somebody has written book on the art of
making people happy without money. We are
in condition to be experimental upon
Imagination is a rich drapery thrown around
all our feelings 1t is the poetry of our life,
LAGER BEER-A correspondent of New
York paper says that he made brief tour of
inspection in the Bowery on Sunday evening,
lately At the Volks- Garten, he was assured
by one of the proprietors that fifteen thousand
glasses lager had been sold that evening at the
single bar where he stood, and that the number
of glasses sold in the establishment up to ten
o'clock was not less than fifty thousand.
Mr. Groux, the man with the visible heart,
is in Philadelphia
A father was winding his watch when he said
playfully, to his lttleegirl, Let me wind your
nose up!" NO" said the child, II don't
want my nose wound up for don't want it to
run all day"
Socrates, seeing q scolding wife who had
hanged herself on an olive tree, exclaimed -
ooh, that all trees would bear such fruit !"
A LASTING PERFUME.-Among the curiosi-
ties shown at Alnwick Castle, in England, is
vase, taken from an Egyptian catacomb. 1t is
full of a mixture ofgum, resins, &c, which give
forth an agreeable odor to the present day, al
though probably fully 5000 years old 1!
The whole of the remaining victims of the
Gouldy tragedy" have recovered, except the
servant girlwho is still at the New York Hos
pital, and is slowly improving.
The Chinese women adopt foreign fashions
much more readily than the men. tits not un-
usual sight, in San Francisco to see Chinese
woman navigating the streets under full press of
crinoline.
Mr. Ten Brooks winnings on the English
turf, in stakes" during the late racing cam
paign, were$l5,7 45 His bets " were probably
far more.
Mr.. Ericsson, of the caloric steamship memory,
is at Schenectady, N. Y, applying calorfc en-
gines with success to printing presses.
A CONTRACT has been made between the Union
Coal and Oil Company of Maysville, KY, and
certain parties at Boston, Mass, by which the
former agreed to furnish the latter two thousand
gallons of the crude coal oil per day, during the
next two years
LIBERAL. Twelve of the parishioners of the
Rev. Montgomery Schuyler, [formely Of Buffalo)
at ST. Louis, presented him with $4,000 on
Christmas.
Capt, Reed, who fought the celebrated battle
on the privateer brig Armstrong, in the port of
Fayal, is in Washington.
The Mobile Register announces the death of
Charles Fisher, the New Orleans Piaayune's
first private correspondent, and popular and
pleasing writer.
THE State of Arkansas has not single tele-
graph wire within her borders A project is on
foot for establishing one between Memphis and
Little Rock
THE Columbus (Ga. Times hoists the name
of Governor Wise for the Presidency.
THE SLAVE BRIG Echo was sold at Charles
ton, 9th instant, for $4,000 cash.
In SWEDEN man who is seen four times
drunk is deprived of a vote at elections