The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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Texas win have an available school
fund of $1,000 600 this year.
"A Kentucky man has for clock weights
two pint bottles filed with whiskey.
"A married wonan's foot race was one of
the attractions at a Methodist picnic near
Berlin, Wis
"A physician says alcohol has killed
more people than yellow fever. Well, dos-
tor, more people have taken ii.
-" Mean ~ she cried. " My husband is
the meanest wretch in the world. He won't
give me the least excuse for complaining
IAN Arkansas bridegroom caught the
bride IN mis- arms, at the conclusion Of the
ceremony, and tiislocated two Of her ribs
with violent hug.
Professor schiG, the vivisector Of Flor.
ence, has used up more than il 900 dogs IN
his experiments and il order tc a!lsTes their
their vocal cords.
lin Chicago the other day policeman
saw an infant fail from the third story Of i
house. Running quickly to the spot be
caught the child in his arms and restored It
safe to its careless mother, who had left Il
to play at the window.
The number of schools in France where
the system Of savings bank had been
adopted was 16, 494 at the close of last year,
against 1872 at the beginning. The aver
age number of depositors was twenty.on
per school, against seventeen the year be-
fore.
"A minister who had just married
couple felt indignant when the bridegroom
gave him fee of only half a dollar, but
smiled grimly and said Never mind !;
you'll only have to pay lawyer $40 for un-
doing what have DONE"
"A sad, strange accident lately befel
man in La Grange, Fla. Charles Heard had
shot water turkey, and not knowing the
vicious character of the fowl when wounded,
went for his game. II showed fight and
plucked out one of Mr. Heard's eyes in the
encounter.
The Concord, N H., Monitor tells of
clergyman in Nashua who has attended,
during the past two years and half, over
eighty funerals, and adds that "more than
half of them were members of his church. n
Mighty queer church that, whose member
ship is composed of funerals a
"A jeweler has long dunned lady Of
fashion for the amount of his big bill, but in
vain. When he rings the bell the footman
says politely, but firmly, Sir, the Countess
receives only on Tuesdays" u don't care
when she receives" thunders the irate and
iongsufering creditor, what I want to
know is the day that she pays on,"-From
the Fgenck.
While sitting in the crotch of tree
saving of limb, William Hardey, of Sag
NAV; Ala, met with singular accident.
just as the limb fell, the crotch split and
Hardey fell into the opening, where he was
clamped as If in a wise. His ribs were
broken, and he was released with great difi-
Guilty.
"A Clergyman dwelt in quiet rural dis
trict, where laziness is apt to grow upon a
man. One day his excellent spouse re-
marked to him at breakfast, Minister,
there's bit of butter ON your neckcloth I"
"Weel, weel, Janet, my DEAR" slowly re-
sponded tho worthy pastor, when get up
it'll fa' aft"
My wife, said Wigglesworth, els one
of the most economical women ever saw
Whenever / smoke cigar in the house she
makes me blow the smoke on her plants tc
kill the bugs, and stands ready to catch the
ashes which she uses for tooth powder,
while the stub that 10 left shc soaks in water
and treats the flower pots to Turkish bath
with it." tal ~
The male inhabitants of New South
Wales appear to be in sad condition. A
great number of them lind IL to be physically
! impossible to procure wives. According TO
a report recently issued on hepopulation OF
that colony, no less than 70, 900 women are
required to equalze the sexes. The other
Australian colonies require about the same
number in proportion to their population
Mount Allison College, in Sackyille,
New Brunswick, on one of the most charm
ing sites in the lower provinces, is the first
Canadian College to confer the degree A. 3.
on woman. Harriet Starr Stewart is the
fortunate graduate, and she delivered tho
best Grafton Of commencement day, arrayed
in cap and gown. The college is under tho
control of the Wesleyan Methodists, and is n
worthy institution of learning.
Buckingham county, Va, has somo-
what curious industry. Within an area of
ten or fifteen miles there are about forty dis
tilleries engaged in manufacturing oil from
sassafras root Each mill gives employ
ment to three hands. They use on On aver
age 1000 pounds Of root per day for each
mill, and turn out one to one and o half gal
Ions of oil weighing ten pc ads to the gnl-
Ion. So that forty distileries consume daily
$4,000 pounds of sassafras root make about
fifty gallons of oil, worth about $3.50 a
gallon, and thus earn 1925 per day.
---Twenty-seven years ago Mr.. David
Filler, who lived near Keezletown, Va, built
dairy and placed in it two yellow suckers
as pets. Mr.. Eiler has been dead for o
number of years, but Aunt Harriet, his wild,
ow, still lives, and during all these years she
has carefully fed and cared for her pet fish.
Ono of them died several years ago, and the
last one gave up the ghost only q few days
ago, after having lived in the dairy twenty.
seven years. The Ash was about eighteen
inches long, and had become go tame that Il
was not the least frightened by the ap.
proach of its mistress with its food ~
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FISHING IN A Com TiF DIN Colo,ada
is a ten-acre field VIII III is simply q snbtes-
rpnean Lake covered with soil about eighteen
inches deep. On the soil is cultivated, a
field of corn which produces thirty bushels
to the acre If anyone win take the trouble
TO Dig hole to the depth Of a spade handle
Re will find that it win FIJI with water, and
by using hook and line fish four and five
inches long may be caught. The fish have
neither scales nor eyes, and are perch-like in
shape The ground is black mari in
nature, aud in all probability at one time
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