The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-05-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Faucies and C0nceits Picked From
Here nnd There.


Gardening is practically taught in more
than 1000 primary schools in France.
Not one warehouse has been built in
Alexandria since the English bombardment
Fredericksburg, Va, is urged as an eligi
BILE site for the proposed Confederate Sol
diers' Home.
new geyser ! as been discovered in the
basin east of the Yellowstone and ten miles
south Of the petrifed forest.
An unnecessary formality: +" Did yon
present Charley TO your father ?" No; ]
didn't have to. he gave himself away be-
fore had chance
A child recently born in Bangor, Me-, is
OF the fifth living generation of its family.
Its great-great grandmother is eighty-fye,
its great grandmother is sixty, its grand
mother forty-one and its mother twenty
years of age.
The sword General Washington wore
when he resigned his commission at Annnp-
oils, and which the Government thinks of
purchasing, now in the possession of Cap
tain Pegram, of Baltimore, is dress sword,
with rapier blade and leather seabbard.
Getting sohd with the dog Do you
know the Jacksons ?" asked lady of
young man who lived in the neighborhood.
mo, I'm not personally acquainted with
all the members of the family" he replied,
" but | always speak to the dog at the front
gate as go past.'
Heretofore Colorado, with its high noun
tain ranges and dry, arid lands, has been
considered only mining State, but irriga
ton is gradually opening up rich promises
for agriculture. In 1882 the census returns
state that 1,128,5s5 acres of land were
under cultivation.
M. Fulguieres statue of Gambetta has
just been finished in Paris. The statesman
stands erect, the right arm falling and the
hand resting on map placed on cannon,
while the left hand is raised in gesture as if
pointing In the direction of the unseen
enemy. At his foot is the outstretched body
Of soldier.
The evils Of sleeping cars may be seen in
the case of a man named Hardy, who awoke
from his dreams while journeying through
Mississippi, and thought the car had jumped
the track. He lifted window and sprang
out. When found, he had only broken his
shoulder though the train was running ut
twenty miles an hour.
A very painful accident happened to
Mr.. Smith, at Newport, the other day. He
had been deaf as post for years, but be
had fall, and last Sunday he heard ever,
word of the Sermon" This is nothing 10
the fall of our Oldest prosenitor several
thousand years ago, as consequence of
which his descendants have heard sermons
ever since.-Boston Globe.
. What dreadful old nuisance that wo-
man is" said Maxfeld Bean to young man
at party the other night 81 she talks me
to death" Sir p sold the young man,
will inform you that that woman you
speak SO disrespectfully of is the mother
that bore me-" +" Well I'm sorry, but
that's no reason why she should bore me-"
said the confused Bean.
A few days ago. while John Firth, son
Of Joseph Firth, was rabbit hunting with
his dog on the farm of Ira Williams, in
Sampsel township, Livingston county, Mo-,
rabbit was run into hollow tree. The
dog began digging at the hole where the
game had entered, and when the boy came
up he discovered that the dog was throwing
out great many round pieces of some.
thing, which upon examination and cutting
with knife disclosed yellow metal re.
sembling gold. The boy, thinking he had
unearthed banana gold mine or some
thing equally rich, gathered up all the mug.
gets, which numbered upward of 200, and
carried them home. There were two sizes
OF them, the larger pieces being about the
duplicate of $2.50 gold piece, while the
mailer ones were the exact pattern of the
81 gold piece.
The old home of judge Black, near York
Pa, Is kept just as he left It, In the library
even the lead pencils with which he was
accustomed to write with his left hand lie
on the table, just as he laid them down, no
change being made in the furniture, except
that picture Of the Judge Inns been put
on the wall and bust, as yet only in plas.
Ter, has been placed on temporary pedes.
al. The last book he looked into wat
Curtis (" Life of Buchanan" and tn,
rough edges of the leaves, which he tore
apart by running his thumb through them
for he never would use paper cutter show
how much Of it he had read. He had not
opened that part which related to himself at
all. Tho chapter which he had hastily torn
open was that headed, Death of Mr.. Bu-
chanan--His Character as o Statesman, a
Man and a Christian