The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-11-08
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intere~fi-z Facts Caiied from Here and
There.
An Atlanta hotel keeper excites Curl
osity by offering to purchase 10, 600 rats.
"A petrifed fish was found Mt n depth of
ffty-fve feet in digging q well at Planking-
ton. Dakota
Twenty women of Iowa won some Joe
cream by remaining together for an hour
without speaking word.
An immense garfsh attacked a man
who was at work in Flint River at Mon
teznma, Ga, and he only escaped, badly cut
and wounded, after a severe fight
"A young couple of Toronto were en-
gagged to be married the other day, but the
Lady became offended Mt something done by
herlover, discarded him and married nm ex-
lover the day after.
A man near Hartwell, Ga, has fire now
Kept alive from The chunk he had when he
began housekeeping, over forty years ago.
The tax on matches doesn't trouble him.
he has the heat as well as the light of other
days.
-The girl who sings to an admiring com
pany in the parlor lyon must wake and
call Inc early, call me early, mother DEAR
is the same creature who expects her mother
TO make the fire, get the milk, and bring her
breakfast up to her room,
An Iowa merchant turned savage mas
Till into back room of his store where two
thieves had secreted themselves, and lock.
ing the door, awaited results. The dog
when released was unframed. but the men
were nearly dead.
1t is suggested that the wire fences
which bound a multitude Of Western farms
might be turned into telephone connections
ut small cost, to the great social advantage
OF lonely wives whose husbands are AWAY
from morning until night sze
"A large black snake appeared at the
door of james IIardemans house, in Mari
rtta, Ga, the other day, lis head erect and
tongue darting forth defiance With one
blow of club Mr.. Hardeman laid the vic
ious reptile dead. when two live mice ran
out of its mouth
English corrected: "Pa, arc we going
to have any galvanized iron on our new
honse ?" Any what? " Any girlvan-
lied iron % Galvanized, you mean, don't
youf" Yes, pa; but teacher says we
mustn't say gal it's girl ~, iso,aspi9ae
t0mie,.Joufnaf.
"A contemporary asks: I" How shall
women carry their purses ID fiqshale tic
thieves?' Why, carry them elrpty NTH.
ing illustrates a thief more than to snatch a
woman's purse, after following her h;,lf q
mile, and then find that it contains nothing
but recipe for sriced peaches and tode,
photograph of her grandmother s4 -
Governor Foster says that il costs OHIO
S3,ooo,ooo u year to support its poor, and
that $1,000 900 of that is directly chargca.
BILE to the liquor traffic. The entire saloon
interest in the State pays less tlian $500, ooC
in taxes, leaving the rest of the taxpayers to
foot the Balance Of the cost Of free trade in
intoxicants.
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--Jnstiee, .no, rs the Irish magistrate 10.
marked to prisoner araigned before his
dread tritapd. pursues with leadcn heel,
but when nhe &rikes she strikes with q cast.
iron toe, has toally overtaken the man who
borrows" umbrellas and forgets to return
Z them. He was arrested in Tennessee, til,
other day, for his misdemeanor, tried fount
II ID.
year. ~
An interesting II not creditahle story re.
gardina Garibald has appeared in an italian
newspaper, and accustomed more or less
comment in Italy. The story asserts that
the great general was killed at the battle OF
Aspromonte twenty years ago, aud has since
been personated by man whose resem-
blance to Garibaldi had been widely known
and wondered at before that period
A citizen of Marietta, Ga, captured a
young alligator the other day and tenn
porarily deposited him in the chicken coop.
An old rooster came up and discovered the
intruder. He peered at the alligator very
intently aud then ran off as fast as his legs
could carry him. Presently he returned
with flock of hens and chickens, and the
whole gang gathered around the coop to
view the prisoner. It was as good as cir
,us for them.
The. rustic moralist does not always
take kindly to the ways of his city cousin,
but he occasionally gets of shrewd remark
at his expense. A short time ago, a young
nm fro, tfxy xyh -.
faultless suit and pair of shoes which
tapered to point in the most modern style,
was visiting in rural district bright lit
tie four-year. old boy looked him all over
until his eyes rested on those shoes. He
looked at his own chubby feet aud then at
his visitor, and then looking up, said /:
Mister. Is your toes all cut off but one ~
The California forests are being sacri.
feed for leather. One of the handsomest
trees in the State is known by the name OF
chestnut oak. 1t furnishes the only native
bark suitable for tanning leather. The
leather business has been unusually good
for the last two or three years, and the con-
sequence is says the San Francisco Bulletin,
that over large districts this beautiful tree is
slashed down for the bark. The trunks are
peeled and then left to decay. Great open.
ings are made in the forests and the sun is
let in. eyaporating the moisture so rapidly
that these trees do not propagate. The re-
suit win be that this immense waste will
only terminate with the destruction of this
tree and the decay of the fallen timber.
y One Of the last flowing oil wells struck
In Warren county, Pa, is 1895 feet deep.
That is a long way down into the bowels