The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-09-24
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Facts. Fancies and Co icelts Picked
Here and There.

beeyes on his various range
They are called bucket ne
people who come out Of ook
little "pail. "-PAil.iatu.
There are " singing fish" in ne Indian
ocean. They may be able to run over the
scales, but 1t is not often they reach "higt
sea- n---Noyq9S.01ou Herald
Some daring men go to Niagara TO shoot
the rapids" but we think their time would
be better employed il they went there to
shoot the haclsmen. - Yo1l6ers Statesman.
Tie young men al the seashore do moi
seem to be benefited by the change of air.
They are if anything, SO young lady
informs as freshey than eyer.-BoS0n Tran
script
IN Eureka, New, there is curfew law,
requiring all miners to be at home by 8
O'Clock Boys who went home at and z
before the law went into effect now stay out
punctliously until 8.
Germany makes bricks of cork refuse and
cement. They are said to be both light and
durable, and are not only used for some
kinds of building purposes. but as . cover
ing for boilers in preventing the radiation
of heat.
The bread usually eaten in Turin, Italy,
is yard long and an eighth Of an inch in
diameter 1t is called "grissini +" after the
phytGn who invented ii on hygienic prin-
ciplesSand is very crisp and exceedingly
palatable.
Mmpther with bad memory at Phoenix,
Arizona, recently forgot where she had put
her baby, and not finding ii Immediately,
raised hue and cry that the Indians had
stolen the infant. Half the town turned
out to search for it, and after time it was
found peacefully sleeping in the cradle,
where the mother had placed it.
A mammoth elephant of immoral pro.
clivities, belonging to circus, says the San
Francisco Post, went on o jamboree in
Idaho, and, showing no respect for the CON-
mon decencies of life or the rights of other
members of the caravan, attacked the Gagged
beasts, killing horses, breaking up carriages
and raising Cain generally. The expostula-
tons of 1000 people with shotguns and
pistols he treated with silent contempt.
The stage between wetherford and Ora
ham, Texas, has been again robbed. A
single highwayman, masked and fully
armed, having three navy six-shooters and
q heavy rifle did the job. He held up -four
passengers and the driver. He secured 1906
in cash, gold watch and chain, and fine
gun, and escaped to the bush. II is not
stated whether he disturbed the United
States mail. A posse is in pursuit of him.
The latest rage ct certain resorts is for
tan and freckles, and some manicures have
production Of this hitherto undesirable
phase Of young lady's complexion. At
FIRST moistened sand was used by the bellies,
and Freokle sand for sale here" was q
o6fbpicyous advertisement on the beach at
Long Branch. Fashions follies grow more
IuMsrous and more unreasonable every
Jeas. -No77istoaon Herald.
Pot fishing in some parts of Louisiana Is
now carried on by means OF dynamite
cartridges. Tho result Of an explosion ia 10
destroy every fish, great and small, within
rddius of thirty feet. Often one hundred
weight of fishes are killed at single blast.
Nosb&fer way could be devised than this Of
ertefnlinating the denizens of the stream.
It is an even more outrageous method of
doing damage than the salmon wheel on
the Columbia River, which scoop up every
thing that come within the reach OF their
buckets.
The tallest bird known to ethnologists was
found by Prof. Herbert in the lower eocene
deposits near Paris, France. 1t was over
twelve feet in height and could have bitten
mans head of as easily as woodpecker
can nip cherry. We cannot be too thank
full that this bird has gone out of fashion
and existence. Ladies would have wanted
to wear 1t on their hats, and men who sal
behind such bonnet ornaments in the thea
tres would be unable to see whether bal
let or prayer meeting were in progress OIL
the stage. -Norristoion Herald.
The late Mary Clemmer Hudson, of Wash.
ington, says the atlanta Constitution, was
one Of the most industrious literary women
Of the age. She once entered into three
years. contract with newspaper to furnish
one column per day upon any subject she
YVES required to write ON, and at the end Of
the three years she found that she had no,
failed for o single day to fu'f her task,
which included everytE W ok re-
views, political, soci 'g tsous
matter to advertising pa ~. said
that this experience cured ~ .al
peryersity that waits for the ,pur
creative moods.