The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-08-29

Isle for the Speakership is waxing warm
and the Kentucky candidate ems to be
getting the worst of it.
Bismark's official organ has been Civ.
ing utterance to an ominous growl against
France, and all Europe is quaking with
a fear of great war.
1t has been stated that the increase of
the Orthodox wing of the society of
Friends in America has been $4,000 from
1872 to 1882 -" Salem (N.J Standard
All decent people have come to the
conclusion that there is too much gam
bling at Long Branch. No less than five
/ gambling houses are in full blast, in
/ open violation of the alleged local laws.
1t seems to be the fashion with every
newspaper scribbler in the country to
sheer at and decry the Rev. Joseph Cook.
The reason probably is that Mr.. Cook is
man of ideas and brains. This is an M.
pardonable affront to mediocrity.
After the first of September Postmaster
Pearson, of New York, will forward the
principal foreign mails by those steamers
which make the fastest time, on the day
the mails are scheduled to leave, regard
less of contracts with regular mail lines.
A fashionable woman at Newport, long
noted for her social courage aud eccen.
| tricity, attended dinner party to which
she had not been invited The hostess
made the best of it, but oh how she
talked when the unlimited guest leftl
Seventeen millions of acres of public
land were sold by the government last
year, nearly the whole Of it in the West.
The number of immigrants to this
country last year exceeded the popula-
ton of any of the New England States,
except Massachusetts,
| A correspondent of Maryland paper
writes that the parings of cucumbers,
strewn around places infested with cock
reaches, will drive them away. They
eat thereof and die. 1t can easily be
tried by any one troubled with these
pests.
The following expressive poetic prose
was found on the interior of box-car ON
the Pennsylvania Railroad " Barns and
box-cars are my bedroom, rob o hen
roost when can; take q shirt off clothes
line, I'm the kind they spread on land.
Counting ties is my occupation, hunger
gives me many cramp; work and are
no relation, I'm Pennsylvania tramp
In Dakota wheat field of 90, 600 acres,
Uncle Rufus Hatch recently started 100
American reapers just to open the eyes of
the continental noblemen who are on their
way to his great park. 1t was the biggest
astonisher that ever came before their
eyes, and it WASN'T good day for Amcri-
can agriculture, either.
The steam heating company which tore
up the streets of New York To lay it's
pipes, blew mp citizens and froze ont
subscribers, has now gone into bank
ruptcy with the placid statement that
it's engineer was incompetent, and that
it proposes to take up the entire system
of pipes and do the work all over again.
Mr.. w. G. Conant has an interesting
article in the September number of the
Century Magazine, in which he con
/ tends that New York will in time, be-
come the final world metropolis. He
! presents some facts to show that the
/ world seeks New York instead of New
j York seeking the world. In other words,
the commerce. finance and general traffic
of the world centre in New York, eager
to obtain footing in its ever-busy
marts.
This is stoty about the Vanderbilt
iamily. Iney were slttinS on notei plaZ-
"a at Saratoga, when somewhat over
dressed lady approached and claimed his
acquaintance The Commodore rose and
talked niiaoiy WIN her, wniie MS WIG
" Father said the young lady, as the
Commodore resumed his seat, didn't
you remember that vulgar Mrs. b. as the
woman who used to sell poultry to lis at
home?" Certainly, responded the
old gentleman, promptly, land ! re-
member your mother when she used to
sell root beer at three cents n glass over
in Jersey, when ] went up there from
Staten Island, peddling oysters in my
boat
oo ,,;, ,,;,,lo, po,,,,,,;oo, o,o,..a
ar, $3.50 Co.. tsaa 1855
0 So - 49, taa,.asonoa mo- ~ r.
Sna 9, " sfm,s,oa ILL., saiani,,oJ Ia,
. .'si,E ;.'1a..aat ~ L;a -, 80 -"
nnmhar Of c;t;Zans signed a statament
that "Mr Rradv aIwoya when no fell
IKE IL, pupnciy IN saloons, sausfed
ms appetite ior spurious liquors, ana
that even TO day ne controls ms appetite
IN that direction that during his term
OF Office, which lasted seven years, he
never hurt saloon keeper that he
acted opposite to the wishes of the fan
tics, who insisted on strict observance
| of the Sabbath and that he IL neither n