The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-07-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conccits Picked From
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been invented. This will give mothers more
time to devote to crazy quilts, repouse work.
and other useful household duties.
The streets of Detroit, Mich, are illumin.
ated by electric lights. Seventy-two towers
are maintained, the cost of the light for q
year having been nearly $10o, 600.
Savannah, Ga, calls herself the Queen
City of the South, y but the title is disputed
by Charleston, Atlanta, Louisville, and New
Orleans, who refuse to do her homage.
Another tomb has been uncovered in
Egypt it contains G, 900 mummies. Hither-
to oil these ancient worthless have kept
mum, and even now somebody else has to
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An iron pot containing 5000 Spanish dol
lars, was found by farmer in Cumberland
County, Pa, few days ago in hole where
q fox had taken refuge. A sly fox must
originally have buried the treasure.
Boston, according to the Nep England
Farmer, consumes from 10000 to 10000
pounds Of oleomargarine and other imita-
tons of butter per week. Very little spuri-
Gus butter is now sold in the markets Of
New York.
The number of horses in the United States
in 1884, according to latest official statistics,
is IL, l60, 6S3 showing an increase over
1883 of 331 SIT head. The number OF
mules in this country is now estimated at
1,914, 126.
A Chinese doctor is practicing upon the
sick at Deadwood, Oak. He has n large
number of patients from the surrounding
region, although tho mortal remains of
many are returned by express 10 their sor-
rowing friends.
1t is asserted that the medicinal properties
Of the hot springs at Gilroy, Cal, have
been increased by the earthquake in March
last There Is q greater flow of more strong.
ly impregnated water, the temperature Of
which has been raised ten degrees
The streams employing in Tulare Lake,
CAL, are swafming with fine perch which
farmers find it profitable to throw out of tie
water with pitchforks and pack away sailed
into barrels. Two mon easily load wagon
with the fish in tho course of an hour
The streets of Washington resemble
tulip bed in bloom just after A o'clock every
afternoon when the various departments
have disgorged thor thousands of clerks.
Gay toilets, new fashions, flowers, feathers
and furbelows give bright appearance tc
the crowd sa.
Opposite st. Louis, in tho Mississippi
River. foats an island which has been drift
ing down stream for the last twenty years.
Its area is about 100 acres, and it moves
quietly along ut the ratio of eight inches a
day. So far II has advanced q mile from
the position it occupied twenty years ago.
A ton of wedding cake was recently dis.
tributed among the yorkingmen md thor
families connected with large iron foundry
In Pennsylvania. The daughter of the
owner OF the establishment was happily
married and this great cake offering was one
of the methods Of testifying tho fathers
Joy.
John Bull always obstinate in opposition
TO innovations, has refused SO far to adopt
the shirt which opens in the back. A recent
number of tho London World reports the
miseries to which society men constantly
expose themselves by tho untimely giving
way of the shirt-fronts and the consequent
display of woollen undergarments.
The Grand Canon of the Colorado is a
most wonderful transmittor of sound, the
fact having been only demonstrated since
tho advent Of the railroad. Tho rumble of
q train of cars over the bridge OF the Needles
Is distinctly heard on quiet day at point
eighty-four miles distant, and the report of
The sunrise gun at Fort Mojave is plainly
distinguished at El Dorado Canon, ninety.
six miles away.
Western lumbermen report that the pine
forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Min.
nosota begin to show signs of exhaustion.
In the States named the shortage of produc-
ton last year footed up 1000 600 feet
and tho quality of the logs has teteriorated
in recent years. Wastefulness is tho charac
tcristic of lumbermen, and they are now
beginning to reap the fruits of their past
improvidence.
Philadelphia physician says there is
much exaggeration in what is written and
otita Hpoet tito pohititioi VI NtteF uittt ar Dy
the bodies Of the dead Earth is great
deodorizer and when bodies are placed in
it they gradually decompose, and all septic
and poisonous matter are removed. The
slow process of combustion goes ON in the
grave. The gases that escape aro seized
upon by other forms of life
The Toledo (O.) Bla7s believes that silk
growing soon will be of more Importance to
the country than cotton growing. This in
dustry may be most profitably conducted in
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ken
lucky, and Tennessee, where the mulberry
tree is indigenous, and where cotton can no
longer be produced in competition with the
fat lands along the Mississippi, nor cereals
be grown SO easily as in Kansas, Nebraska
and the Great Northwest.
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