The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-11-15
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Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1882.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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a Pittsburg firm is tuning out glass
iSsiahs to be used on fuiaiinre instead Of mar.
BILE.
dancing may improve your carriage
somewhat, but it's no valuable accomplish
ment for the horse Burkngton Hapke1e
"A Vi, 900 diamond was recently found
in the bed of crack near Albany, N. G.
Other large ones have been found in the
State.
-" Does your mother play cards 2, in
quired Billy of his chun. !, don't know, y
responded Jimmy, but She often plays a
lone hand ON me" -,-
a stone weighing eighty-fye pounds
recently fell ut salina Kansas and another,
eigar-shaped, fonr inches in diameter and
over twelve inches long.
Six hundred Iowa druggists have
agreed, in view of the danger of selling
alcoholic drinks, not 70 fill physicians pre-
scriptions for wine, whiskey and the like.
1t is reported that the subject of Nor
monism viii be brought before the British
Parliament. with view TO the prevention Of
Mormon proselytisin in Great Britain.
=" Total Deprayity was the subject of
the sermon of the Rev. Mr. Mcdonald at
San Rafael, Cal Will lie was preaching
it thief stole his laprobe from the buggy
in the horseshed
-"Ihe Republican oificeholders are
shaking their heads ominously," says New
York exchange. The Republican officehold-
ers here in Texas are afraid tc shake their
heads, for fear they win drop off, 7eras
SifEags.
The English sparrows introduced Mt
Salt Lake few years ago have multiplied
to such an extent that they are nuisance
aud have their habitation in every tree and
housetep in the Mormon Zion
Professor Renk, of Munich, has found
BY experiment that the air in the ground
under a house is constantly rising and pass
ing into the house about as deadly thing
as can happen when the earth is in a filthy
condition.
-" johnny said the teacher. "A lie can
be acted as well as told: Now il your
father shonld put sand in his sugar and sell
it he would be acting lie and doing very
wrong "That's what mother told him."
said Johnny
"A physician falls into fit while maxi
ing round of visits, and is carried into
drug store. . Send for DR. " says
somebody mo. no, not for him. says
ba Hv-tnf fl.,
rivals name; "if he brought me around it
would advertise him Ipaefer 10 die.r
-Dorgass Autz, Of Norwich, fell under a
moving train he was attempting to board
When the train passed Douglass arose, ,m-
injured, with his cigar in his mouth And
yet there are people who claim smoking to
be injurious. Ddn6Rsg Nefs
AT Birmingham, England, the officers
of the Health Department have established
telephone communication with the Borough
Hospital, three miles away, in order to les
sen the risk of the spread of infection by
friends visiting patients. They can learn
their condition at the health Office.
The census Of the world according to
It's religions has been figured ont by some
seosch statisticans. Its results are Pro.
testants, 10000, 600; Oriental Christians,
s0,0oo,000; Roman Catholics 200, 000, 600 1;
Jews, 10000, 900 Mohnmmedans. 10, O0o,-
600; Pagans, s0,0oo,000. sStN 81
The wine business of California is no
small item in the resources of that State.
About lo,000,000 gallons Of wine are pro-
duced annually, and about 100000 gallons
are yearly sent eastward, where it ia adorned
with foreign labels aud sold as an imported
article. The quality is said 10 be good, and
even some protested connoisseuis are
deceived when California wine is offered
them under the guise of well-lmown foreign
names
A canary belonging to lady in Du.
haque, on being given its liberty in room
one day, flew to the mantle, whereupon was
mirror. Thinking he had found mate,
ne went back to the cage and brought seed
to oier TO the stranger. Getting no salts
factory reply. ho poured forth his sweetest
notes, pausng now and then to watch the
effect. Finally he went back 10 his perch.
aud, with his head hanging, remained silsnt
therest of the day
The English are becoming pretty sick
OF the acquisition of the Island of Cyprus,
which Beaconsfeld accomplished They
had fondly hoped that in case of trouble in
the East the island would serve them as a
base OF operations, but that hope has van.
ished. 1t would cost too great snm to
render the harbor of Farnagusia available as
military station, while besides the coo.
600 paid the Snlhn it costs Great Britain
ff0,00o year TO hold the place. There is
no trade on the island and the people are
exceedingly poor,
DIR Lawrence A. Washington, grand.
nephew and nearest living relative OF him
who was " first in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of his countrymen," died
in Dennison, Teyas. recently. The deceased
was son Of Lawrence Washington, who
was the only brother of the first President
of the United States. THe was born in Win.
chester, Va, ON the 18th day of December,
1919, and educated at the University OF
Virginia. He received his medical education
1T bush Medical College, Philadelphia. He
leaves surviving him widow aud six chill
dren-three sons and three daughters
The salmon fisheries of the Pacific coast
have increased more than twenty.(old within
ten years, and last years product was nearly
100000 cases, worth 81, 0oo, 900. But the
result of this vast business is, that the south.
erly and more accessible rivers are becom-
ing fshed out, as the greed of the fishermen
has extended to the capture Of the salmon
which are on the way to their spawning
places. The Sacramento, and even the
seemingly inexhaustible Columbia are suffer-
ing from this cause. The more distant
waters of British Columbia and Alaska are
still bountiful, but they will be ruined in
their turn by such methods of fishing.
MUT.LAToIs - MEw-TILL-LATEgs. ~ :. I'd
Like to catch these mutilators,n llo said as he
held up trade dollar with rat hole in it
That's me exactly, remarked his friend as
he pointed to the corner of the bedroom,
where he had piled layers Of bootjacks, old