The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Canceits Picked FIom
Here and There.

Over 100000 widows have applied for
pensions.
The champion widow lives in Iowa. She
sees that the graves of eleven husbands are
kept green.
There has been about 80 .OO0, 900 invested
In Montana ranches during the last four
months by New York capitalists.
rock weighing three and one-half
pounds was thrown up by an artesian well
ON farm near old San Bernardino, Cal.
Texas editor complains that the num-
Der of marriages is ridiculously small in
comparison with the time squandered in
buggy riding.
A cent of 1897 has been sold within a
year for $11. Debtors in this vicinity APP
pear to be holding on to their money in the
hope of realizing premium on it.
One hundred and fifty pounds of pure
gold and q basketful of rubies were among
the valuables of the dowager Queen of
Burmah before she was removed from
power.
An umbrella loan society is to be estab.
lished In Berlin. Branch offices will be
opened all over the city, where members
can obtain umbrellas in case of a sudden
shower.
The banking firm of Rothschild in Lon
don employs women exclusively as coupon
counters, and experience shows that they
are far more reliable and intelligent than
male employees
The bridge on the Baltimore and Ohio
road spanning the Susquehanna river will
be one of the largest an9 most remarkable
structures of Its class in the world It will
be 6,346 feet in length and built of steel
The whole of Siberia, with 10000 of
population, hos only two newspapers and a
bi-monthly of geographical society. The
city of Harkoff, with 10000 inhabitants
and university, has only two dailies and
two monthlies.
Prince George, eldest son of the Prince
Of Wales, and heir apparent to the British
throne, is represented as very bright, in.
telligent lad, who has been very, strictly
trained by his father. The young prince
Is popular, fond ola joke, quick but not
studious, apt but not painstaking.
Why, Mary, have you como back to be
hired girl again? l thought you left us
to get married and have house of your
own" So I did, Num-" We'll, what
have you come back for ?" well, yo see.
mum, Johns done purity well, an we KEEP
hired girl, too, and I'm kind o. tired Nv
the way of life. Thought I'd like to come
back an be boss agin for WHILE"
In the absence of Ere alarm system they
have habit in Texas towns Of summonina
the people by general discharge of reyol.
vers. As this method has some dangers
local paper remarks that when another fire
breaks out, it hopesahe citizens will "try
to remember and fire their pistol bullets
into the ground. II was positively dan
gerous Monday night. We know of one
house from which two bullets were picked
out next morning.
npon which hotel cards are printed, should
not be returned to the mailing Office unless
such envelopes have written or printed
thereon the words return to " in addition
to the hotel card. The proprietors OF hotels
should omit the usual return request from
envelopes supplied to guests, and the guests
should designate what disposition should b
made of the letters sent by them in cas-
they cannot be delivered.
Carrying building material around til
globe Is uncommon, but that is what is be
ing done with the stone for the Flood man
sion In San Francisco. One of the paper
there recently noticed the arrival of tn
ship st. Paul, $50 days from New Yorl
with 351 packages Of cut brown stone 70
the Flood mansion" These stone are al
cut, dressed, and marked in the quarry il
Connecticut, and when landed are place.
directly in the structure as marked by til
architect.
In the past thirty years the average o
mans life has improved 6 per csnt.--fron
4i.9 to 43.9 years. and of woman's life !
per cent, from 41.9 to 45.2. OF every
thousand males born at the present day a.
more will attain the age of thirty-fve thar
used to be the case previous to 1871, and
every thousand persons born since 1877!
will live 2,700 years longer than before
This Is due to civilization, and especially I
improved sanitary methods, which is adding
to the average Of human life at the rate Q
nearly ten years in every century.