The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-01-03


on Sunday and carried off $4,000 worth
of lumber.
3. Ii. Rauch, associate editor of the
Maueh Chunk Democrat, has undertaken
the novel task of translating Rip Van
Wrinkle III Pennsylvania Dutch.
The Alta Californian says No figure
Of speech could draw so vivid contrast
between Dives and Lazarus as the naked
figures of arithmetic, comparing the FIVE
million-doliar incomes of the kings of the
stock market and the fifty cents day Of
the poor who live under the shadows of
their palaces
There is man at Piety Hill, New, who
is followed wherever he goes by COW.
Very likely the ANIMAL takes him for Fred
die Gebhart, Oscar Wilde, or some other
calf.
Kate Fields Cooperative Dress Asso-
citation store in New York, has gone into
bankruptcy. Too much sentiment, pro-
badly, and not enough hard headed bust
ness tact.
! Oscar Wilde shook the dust Of this
| country from his feet and sailed for Eng
land on Wednesday. He was gracious
enough to admit before departing that his
/ visit to the United States had been in
many respects failure.
/ 1t is said that there are over two dozen
applications for the post of Minister to
| Spain made vacant by the resignation of
Hon. Hannibal Hanlin, among them Gen.
Robson of this State, whose friends, it is
understood, are urging his appointment.
1t is said that Mr. William Stiles, of
Sussex, has a pledge of support from of
the 12 Republican Senators for Secretary
of the Senate, which will secure his cleo
ton. Senator Gardner, of Atlantic, it also
believed to have sure thing of it for the
Presidency of that body.
/ Mr.. Ross b. Winans and family, of
| Baltimore, moved this week into their
new mansion, which 200 men have been
engaged in building for full year past,
at a cost of nearly 100000. The house
is seventy feet square, five stories high,
and looks like French chateau.
Newark has started new idea in the
way of charity. Each of the scholars in
the public schools were requested to bring
one potato on the last day before the
Christmas holidays. The potatoes were
to be given to the Home for Frendless
The donations from the scholars of two of
| the schools were Ten bushels of potatoes,
one barrel of apples, one.half bushel of
turnips, ene-half bushel of oranges and
lemons, one box of candy, one doll baby
from little girl, some cake and thirty
cents. Large donations were received
! from the other schools.
The new combination letter-sheet aud
envelope, and postal card, which have
been authorized by the government, will
probably be i'll circulation in January.
| The inventor of the com bination has re-
ceived an order for 0,000,0 900 of them !;
the price being $780, The letter sheet
is about the size of ordinary letter paper.
When written upon it is folded twice
from the bottom and once from the right
hand side, which makes 1t the size of an
ordinary envelope. The folding postal
card is half the size of the letter sheet.
and has only a gummed flap at the top.
The people of Union county do not yet
see their way out of the complications
arising from the failure of their Sheriff to
renew his bond in November as required
by law. He offered new bond couple
of weeks ago, but as the statute is per-
emptory as to time and place the Court
Governor has the power of appointment
TO fill vacancy, but there is no provision
in the law to enable the Governor to re-
ceive official information OF vacancy in
the Office as basis for his action, except
in the case Of vacancy caused by death
So he has done nothing. Meantime all
legal proceedings going through the Sher-
| ifs office are at a standstil, and it seems
/ impossible, since there are so many i'm
portant questions involved to settle the
matter without decision ofthe Supreme
Court.
The rapid development of this country
is all that iustifes the unprecedented rail
way construction of the present year.
/ The figures are indeed surprising. From
/ January l to November 1, 1882, there
were 0, LAB miles of new track laid, and in
| the month of October | ,08S miles of new
track were reported as having been laid
upon II main lines, making the railroad
mileage of the country in Octsber 81, 075
miles. The record of last year, which
was unprecedented, has been exceeded,
and it is doubtful whether in any year to
come the railroad construction Of this
year will be outdone. When all the re-
ports for the year are in they will proba-
I
railroad track laid in 1889. When it is
remembered that men yet living went in
stage coaches to points beyond Pittsburg,
Pa, the strides of American enterprise
seem wonderful.
I We suppose 1t is generally known that
1 the news sent from all parts of the world
| to the Philadelphia papers comes through
the New York Associated Press. The Of
/ a. A AZ. a. T., a
of the new marble insurance building N.
w. corner of 10Th and Chestnut, which is
| perhaps the finest structure in the city,
being built entirely Of stone and lion.
! The stair steps are of white marble, and
the sides Of the stairways of variegated
marble, something on the style of the
Capitol at Washington. The news coming
to the Associated Press office is written on
manifold tissue paper, and sent to the
newspaper offices. The Record has pneu :
matte tube from this office, underground,
and up into the editorial rooms of that
paper, through which its news is sent.
1t works satisfactorily, and it is possible
the other papers belonging to the associa-
ton may follow the example of the Record.
We publish this morning an interesting
account of a recent experiment in storing
/ tieC'Iiclty uiluef tne neW HetnOu invented
by Mr. G. +. Brush. The tests reported
seem to show that the current can be
transmitted to any distance by means of
high-tension dynamo without percepti-
BILE loss, and that after transmission it
can be stored in box from which it can
be drawn at will to run incandescent
lamps, BY means of meter, Mr. Brush
asserts, the amount of energy stored can
J ya n Of In ala f.,.
Their, that nearly ten lights can be fed
from the box to every one horse power
exerted at the steam engine. This is
about so per cent. better than any result
achieved hitherto. Further experiments
may be needed to establish these points of
advantage beyond doubt but Mr.. Brush S
invention is apparently great step to.
ward the solution Of the electric lighting
problem Tribune Of Thursday Tie 21st.
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