The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-07-26
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Interesting Rnets Called frssn Here ana
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New Orleans is experiencing building
boom, over So, 500, 900 having so far been in.
vested in new Buildings the present season.
The Virginia Agricultural College has
154 students, and is making both ends meet
after ten years of small attendance and
annual shortages of 80, 500.
According to German statistics crimes
and misdemeanors in Prussia have increased
at the enormous rate of Ill per cent since
1871. In 1880 alone the number of prison.
ers rose by nearly $1,000.
When man says he is miserable SIM
ner II you take him at his word and tell him
you agree with him he will well, it's on the
whole better not to do it till you get on the
other side of the fence
The world does not accept statement
without verifying it. We are told that the
way of the transgresAor is hard, and p-ett,
nearly every man In the community Is tryinL
to find out for himself just how hard It Is.
THE American xvoman Suffrage Associa-
ton have sent Mrs. Margaret W Campbell
as their agent for six months to Nebraska, to
aid in securing the adoption Of an amend
ment which will give suffrage to women on
the same terms as men.
Between the forks of the San joaquin
and Kings River, in California, is living
and moving glacier of clear blne ice, one
mile long, half mile wide and 1870 feet
thick, which travels about ten feet a year
northward.
"A preacher in Tennessee tried IL estab-
fish a church in which there should he ON
members who used tobacco or any beverage
but water, and his only congregation was an
old woman who chewed slippery elm and be-
lieved in catnip tea for measles.
--"My frens," said the officiating clergy.
man at the marriage of two colored persons
near Cincinnati, few Sundays ago, "my
frens, it am Serious ting to get married,
specially when bofe parties is orphans an
haint got no PARENTS to fall back on, az am
dc present case"
Out in Madagascar Sunday school chill.
dren, instead of spoonful of ice cream and
nudge Of cake ON festival days, get silver six
penses and pieces of roast beef to carry
home. At one place on last parade day
there were $500 children in line, and ths
beef of sixty fat oxen was distributed among
them.
"A beyy of little children were telling
their father what they got at school. The
eldest, Reading, spelling and definitions"
And what do you get, my little one 7" said
the father to rosy-cheeked little fellow,
who was at that time slyly driving tenpen-
ny nail into the door panel. "Me2 Oh, I
gets readin', spellin' and spankin's.n
-" Well, my little girl, !" said New Haven
gentleman to friends .preciousest," "aren't
you going to sing for ?" "No, sir. Tn
not singer" "Now, l thought you were
little singer" ooh no. only sing to my
dolly" "But I'll be your dolly" YOU'RE
too big. I guess sister Jennie wouldn't
mind If you was hers. She said you was
.just splendid" Sudden rafting Of the
uisues I'm Nrse-v -
busy.
The Rev. s. J. Dillon colored. of Gin
cinnati, made pastoral call on Mrs. Gaines,
aud accepted an invitation to remain TO sup
per. He went up stairs to brusn his hair,
and Mrs. Gaines remembering that the sum
Of $39 Yves in that room, thought il discreet
to go up and lock the trunk which held the
coin But she did not act quickly enough.
After the minister's departure she missed the
money. This time she moved with celebrity
and he was arrested with the plumber in his
pocket.
Charles Newalls mind always ran upon
farming but neither on the Atlantic coast
nor in the Mississippi Valley could no ever
do anything for himself. After rolling
around the country for several years he
struck out for the Pacific coast. His adven-
lures were numerous. In 1877 he reached
The Pleasant Valley, Washington Territory,
with fifteen horses and re in money. His
ranch of 1000 fertile acres now brings him
in the gold by the handful,
"A family recently arrived in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, from Texas, having made the
trip by wagon. The journey was made in
six weeks. The day before starting mat
ronly hen owned by the family Matched ont
thirteen promising chicks. The lady, not
desiring to leave the brood behind, loaded
the hen and chickens on the wagon and
started for this city. The family arrived all
right, not single chicken having been lost
on the journey. The chickens are now pref
ty well grown and have every appearance of
having stood the trip admirably.
DIR. s. B. Crocheron, an old resident of
Natchitoches La, has in his possession one
OF tho three original copper coins struck of
and submitted TO General George Washing
ton for his approval as a national currency.
On one side is wreath surrounding the
words "one cent" and around the border
"Unity Of States" bearing the date "17S3."
On the reverse side is medallion head Of
Washington, with the words Washington
and Independence" The coin is the genu-
inc and original then stamped Its adoption
was rejected by Washington with the re-
mark that "ths was the peoples country
and not wasbington's"
Odd Scotch gentleman sitting in 10
ronto cara young lady enters, and makesa
rush for the topmost seat The car starts
rather suddenly, the young lady lands on the
old gentlemans knee, blushing, and exclain-
ing, sob beg your pardon" Old e.:
{" Dinna mention it, lassie; I'd rayther haze