The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-08-22

The prettiest things in print-pretty
girls in calico dresses.
Daughters of Garfield and Hayes are
school. mates at Cleveland.
Gladstone has Confederate bonds which
cost him $1,000 600 during the war.
An orange tree that is bearing over 81
700 oranges is spectacle that is shown
curious visitors to grove at Waldo,
Fla. The tree is six years old.
Buffalo Bill is to guide the Earl of Dun
raven, Lord Vaudeville and some Hart
ford gentleman through hunting trip
in the Far West.
The American beauty, Miss Chamber
layne, is said to have the softest and
sweetest voice in the world, not to mem
ton her beautiful figure and face among
her attractions.
Lieutenant Switzerland, of the 56th
Regiment, is the largest man in the
British service. He is eight feet four
inches high and weighs abont 364 pounds
Miss Ditchen, young American lady,
made a great sensation ut a London
reception recently. She has facile
talent for initiating the sounds OF birds.
and has spent hours in the forests llst m.
ing to their notes. A Philadelphia pro.
fessor developed her faculty.
Luminous paint composed of powdered
oyster shells mixed with sulphur, which
after being roasted in Theoretically
closed vessel, when put in the sunshine
II H.. Ee.Il 40
Swiss to light their railway carriages.
There liz future for luminous paint.
II is surmised by the Brooklyn Union"
that Mr.. Shapiro, who claims to possess
manuscripts of Deuteronomy 2, 500 years
old. must be a linesl descendent OF Nine
Sapphira, whose sudden death is re-
corded in another manuscript OF some
what later date.
Il begins to look as though $25. 900
check drawn by Samuel ]. Tilden on the
Third National Bank, OF New York, soon
after Mandatory editorial on Tilden IN
the New York Sun, in October, 1870,
was being traced dangerously close to
Editor Charles A. Dana.
Mrs. Frank p. Carson. Of Evansville,
KY, has an apple which shows rem
arkable state OF preservation. Five years
ago Mrs. Carson tied the apple by the
stem and hung it up in her room. 1t has
remained there during this time, and is
now as sound us when pulled from the
tree.
The Virginia Straight-out Republicans
have adopted platform favoring a strict
adherence to Republican principles and
protective tariff, and endorsing James
G.. Blaine for the Presidency. 1t also
condemns the action of the Administra-
ton in aiding General Malone in the
Reputation OF one.third of the State
debt.
There are ample indications that Cali.
fornia will become great oil producing
country. The oil districts at present
known are at San Fernando, Comulos,
Little Sespa, and Santa Barbara. 1t
costs 81. 900 to put down California well
but after it is flowing it becomesa val
liable property. Illuminating oil is reach
ed at depth of 1000 feet.
Sir Henry Thompson, the London
surgeon. recognizes in fish combination
of ali the elements of food that the human
body requires in almost every phrase OF
life, more especially by those who follow
sedentary employment. To women he
considers fish to be an invaluable article
OF diet, but he scouts as complete fall
acy the notion that fish-eating increases
the brain power. 1.-The only action fish
had ON the brain was to put mans body
into relation with the work he had to
do"