The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-24

Louis Kossuth's bonds, issued while
the famous Hungarian was in this coun.
try, are kept as curiosities in many fam
lilies.
st. John vociferously denies that the
Democrats paid him for his campaign
performances. Oh, then he did their
work for nothing. He isn't as smart as
we thought he was.
New Jersey is one of only ten States
in which the Post Office receipts for the
last fiscal year exceeds the expenditures,
and ranks fourth of the ten, having an
excess over expenditures of S142, 517.
The Directors of the Masonic Temple.
Trenton, announce that they are ready to
rent the stores and rooms in that build
ing, which will be completed on the first
of April.
About 8, 600 watches are made in the
United States each day, and the annual
output of the world is 100000. The
average life of a ''ticker' is five years. A
European hand worker turns out 40
watches year, but the American
machine-worker makes 100.
Old coffee and tea pots that begin to
impart disagreeable flavor to their con
tents may be made as sweet as new by
putting water in them, and then dropping
some live Goals in the water.
The Trenton Battle Monument Asso-
citation has decided to have a $50, 900
structure, towards which they will ask
Congress to give $25, 600, and the State
$l2, 500, the balance to be raised by sub
scription.
The latest disciple of Orator Burchard
lives at Washington. He is an OK. con-
federate officer and was once hard drink
er. Having tried Rum and Rebellion,
and being determined to make his allitera-
tive experience complete, he has just
married Catholic.
The great strike of ), 900 shoemakers in
Philadelphia has ended, after the loss of
$50, 900 in wages to the men, and three
times that amount to the employers. Tho
basis of settlement is mutual concessions
which might just as easily have been ar
rived at before the strike began.
No Southerner expects any Rebel war
claims to be paid-no, of course not.
Yet nine bills to pay just such claims
were offered in the House of Representa-
tives on Monday, and referred to the
proper committee.
Bad drinking water given to few
cows owned by single farmer in Aver
shire, England, caused an outbreak of
typhoid fever in three hospitals, and the
illness of 104 patients. The germs of the
disease were transmitted by milk.
The spot where the gunboats lay when
bombarding Vicksburg is now bank of
sand, the course of the river having
changed materially, and it is feared that
the city will soon be left inland, the old
bed of the stream close to the bluff hav.
ing become stagnant lake.
The untidy, dirty appearance of griz
ely beard should never be allowed
Buckingham Dye for the Whskers will
readily change their color to brown or
black, at discretion, and thus keep up
your reputation for neatness and good
looks.
The Gloucester County Temperance
Alliance has almost unanimously adopted
a resolution repudiating the St. John po-
litical movement and declaring its pur-
pose to carry on the temperance cause
through other agencies. If the temper
ance organizations of New Jersey should
generally pursue such course as this
they would soon undo much of the mis-
chievous work of the political cranks.
Tho custom Of giving Christmas gifts
grew out of very old religious rite.
When it was the rule to have shrines in
almost every house and at given points
along the highway, it was customary to
lay upon the shrines sums of money for
the poor, bouquets and written benedic
tions. Travellers priced tho last, and the
poor wero very grateful FOR the first
The bouquets aud triiles were tenderly
| regarded by those to whom they were
given after having served as votive offer
ings to some saint. Then there was some
thing so sacred about them that they
were not given careessly and unmeaning
ly, and they were priced accordingly. A
faded rose, a leaf or trifling trinket was
priced just rs highly as a gem. 1t was
not the thing ITSELF but that which il
suggested that was priced