The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-06-04

Here and There.
Illinois has 255,741 farms, Ohio oar, 1876
and New York 241 ,058.
There are 419 type settlers, besides mp
Prentices, in the government printing Office.
A Kentucky hunter took twelve coons
and eighteen gallons of honey from one tree
The Post Office Department uses every
gear $50, 900 worth Of ink for stamping and
sanceling letters.
1t is said that 5000 boys and 1900 girla
under thirteen years of age are employed in
Chicago factories in violation of the law.
A Georgia man compels his daughter to
eat onions every night for supper, and at
ten P. M. that household is sleeping peace
fully
The latest use devised for paper is the
making of carpets. A Connecticut man is
reported to have taken out patents for pro
cesses by which beautiful and substantial
carpets can be made of paper at very low
prices.
Chicago man borrowed ladder from q
painter to do little painting. While he
was at work the ladder gave way and he
fell, breaking one of his ribs Thereupon
he sued the lender of the ladder for $500
damages for lending him an unsafe article.
In the Garfield School, at Centreville,
iowa, boy drew revolver on his teacher
because she proposed whipping him. The
young woman not only took away the revolt
yer, but chastised him thoroughly, and then
had him taken before justice, who fined
aim $5. a
A narrow gauge railroad is being built 10
the top of Pixies Peak, in Colorado. Six
thousand people climbed to the top of the
mountain last year, and with the aid of the
.ailroad it is believed that SO, 900 will make
the ascent this year The road will be fin
isSed soon.
Berrien county, Ga, has g crank who
has not slept in house since the war He
carries his entire wardrobe with him, as
we'll rs his pantry and kitchen utensils, and
spends the night wherever darkness may
overtake him. He never reads newspapers,
saying That to read the Bible as it should
be requires oil of his time.
The current production Of gold for the
worlds use has been gradually diminishing
for the last twenty-six years. Thus in 1857
she worlds production of gold was estmat
I'D at little over $145, 900, 900. From that
lime the supply has gradually and very uni
formly diminished, until last year the pro-
duction was about $103, 000, 900.
The manufacture of needles md PIN
constitutes one of the most fourishing in.
dustries in Germany. The eight manufac
tories of Iserlohn alone consumed, in 1882,
no less than 600 tons of wire, employing
also working force of some 800 male and
female and Juvenile operatives, besides
seven steam engines and four water wheels
of $50 horse power.
A North Carolina man whose house was
demolished by tornado afterward found
his watch hanging on o small limb Of tree
that had blown down in the yard, the chain
wrapped several times around the limb. II
was ticking away as If nothing had happen.
cd. Another man who always kept n gun
at the head OF his bed was found shot
through the body and the gun lying neaI
him empty.
Few are, perhaps, aware, whose attention
has not been specially called to it, how large
business is done in autographs in Wash
ington. The pages of the United States
Senate consider the collection of those Of
Senators one of their perquisites, and fire..
quently receive, it Is said, as much as $1C
for carrying an autograph book through the
chamber while the Senate is in session and
securing the signatures of Senators, 8g
There is tunnel on the Nashville, Chat
tanoogn and st. Louis Railroad called :" The
Kissing Tunnel" because lovers kiss their
sweethearis while riding through it. Tn.
fortunately this tunnel is to be laid bare and
so 1t will lose its NAME The road, how
ever, will get rid of one sort of passenger
IN this way--the young man who gets on at
the Chattanooga depot and rides to the
Decatur depot to tell his sweetheart goodby.
Near Big Creek Church, on the line Of
Clarke and Oglethorpe counties, Ga., is q
large hewn stone, Weighing many tons, tina,
is upheld by four pillars, at height suffi.
cient to permit man to walk beneath. 1t
is evidently the work of hand, as the tops of
the pillars are chinked with smaller stones
to level the slab. The first settlers found
It there and have always called it the Elm
dim Pulpit" gentleman who has seer
this stone says it is one of the greatest curl
ositics in Georgia. An embankment encir-
Giles 1t for o mile that was evidently thrown
UP for fertilization. Some one has sunk
hole beneath the slab in search of buried
treasure. 4t