Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The French government owns about
half the railroads in France, the whole
of which are valued at So, 900, 100000.
Lord Falmouth's celebrated horse
"Wheel of Fortune" only three years
old, has already Yon for her master $685.
800.
Anew York barber derives quite an
income shaving dogs. He gets from
fifty cents to ten dollars a canine Gus
toner.
There are four hundred and thirty
four Chinese business houses in San
Francisco, and twenty-five of these are
druggists.
Five miners in Nevada tunnel re-
fused to abandon a comrade who had
been overcome by gas, and were all
suffocated.
A tight-rope walker exhibiting at
Virginia City, New, droppeda boy whom
he was carrying across a rope, and the
lad fell fifty feet, receiving fatal injuries.
The first American paper mill Of which
there is any account was owned by Will
liam Rittinghuysen, and was built in
1890, in Rox borough, near Philadelphia,
on a stream called Paper Mill Run.
The first export of apples from the
United States to Europe was made in
l845, and they brought six and eight
dollars barrel. That country now re-
ceives 80, 600 barrels of American apples
per year.
Fare well, my own!" sang the man
who took his sweetheart into fashion
able restaurant, handed her the bill of
fare and then slipped out Of the back
way and left her to settle the bill.-SGlens
Sst'lbeGDl.
What is your nameP'' asked teacher
of boy. My name is julie, I" was the
reply; whereupon the teacher impress
sively said, "You should have said
Julius. sir.'n And now, my lad"
turning to another boy, what is your
name?" Bilious, sir"
The large railroad companies keep as
careful record of locomotive and its
performances as ship owners do of an
ocean steamship. The Pennsylvania
railroad does not repair one if the cost
will exceed SO, 900. The engine is tllen
marked as dead ON the record, and is
either sold or broken up.
Vaccination appears to have untold
terrors for the country folk of Germany.
A woman of Mellenberge, who was re-
peatedly notified to submit her child of
eight months to the operation. and was
threatened with arrangement in court
if she did not comply, jumped with the
baby into the Fulda. Both were drowned
An excellent invisible ink for postal
cards can be made by diluting sulphuric
acid with fifty times its volume of water.
A slightly acid fluid is the result. which
does not injure a quill pen. The mes
sage is developed by holding the card
over any convenient fame-that of gas
or spirits for example, or by laying it on
a hot plate.
The fastest run on record of a steamer
was that of the Durham, from Table Bay,
Cape of Good Hope, to England; 5000
miles in eighteen days, sixteen hours, of
actual steaming, an average Of 1871
knots an hour. 1t is far easier to run
5000 miles in nine days than 5000 in
eighteen days, because OF the extra
weight of Goals that must be carried.
The X club is a society of nine dis
tinguishcd Britons-Sir John Lubbock,
Mr.. Herbert Spencer, Sir Joseph Hooker,
ProIs Tyndal1, Frankland. Busk, Hux-
ley and Hurst, and Mr.. William Spott-
iswoode. The invitations to the club
meetings are very odd, displaying mere
ly the letter X linked to the date of
meeting, thus: "X-9." Sometimes
but rarely-the wives of the members
are permitted to grace the feast, and
then the card reads: "XxYVS-9.n
Prof Huxley and Mr.. Spottiswoode are
reported to be the life and soul of these
hilarious meetings, the only member who
approaches them in vivacity, being Mr..
Herbert Spencer.