The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Faefs, Fancies and Cenceits Picked From
Here and There.

Facfs, Fancies and Conceiss Picked From
Here and There.
Boston has "a 900 female music scholars.
A Newton, Ga, man has paid for farm
with the melons of it.
An underground stream flows beneath the
city of Birmingham, Ala. IT is to be usee
for a sewer.
Birmingham, England, now has the larg.
est railroad station in the world. II is Just
finished ut cost of $2,000,000.
1t is difficult for show to hire hall in
any country town now. The rooms foii
amusement are all opera houses.
Judge Estes, of Georgia, has abolished
tbe practice of requiring witnesses and
others to kiss the Bible when they are
sworn.
A Paris company has submitted to the
Pope plans for lighting up the dome of St
Peters at Easter ceremonies with electric
burners.
Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, was
written by Thomas o Beckett, an English
actor, who in 1878 was teacher of music
Mt Philadelphia.
Some of the teachers in the public schools
of st. Johnsbury, VT, have been notified
by the school committee that attendance at
the skating rink will be considered equiya-
lent to resignation.
Dahomey takes the palm for ingenious
cruelty. The commander of the forces hay
ing been found guilty of high treason, he
was buried chest deep and then shot at by
:he Amazon regiment until dead.
A wooden Indian, stationed in front of a
Wilmington cigar store, killed man the
other day. As usual with Indian outrages,
the white man was drunk and assaulted the
Indian first, who promptly fell on him and
fractured his skull.
Would you like this bound in turkey n
asked the gentlemaniy book agent of his
rural customer for Scratcher's Universal
History Of the World" "Oh, no. was
the reply; mo use sending il clear ont
there. Bind it in New York"
Experiments with an electric tricycle. in
England have been so encouraging that $50
machines viii be built. They are run by
storage battery, carry two persons, and are
expected to run at the rate OF six miles an
hour on level ground. One of them is now
on its way TO this country.
An aeronaut named Price was half mile
high when his balloon burst, at Nevada,
Mo-, and for most of the distance he fell,
with awful velocity but the bag happened
to fill with air in such manner that the
descent was retarded for the rest OF the dis
tance, and the man was not fatally injured
A man visiting London went to church
and seated himself without hesitation in the
nearest pew. Soon the owner came in, eyed
the stranger critically, and then writing
My pew" on the fy-leaf Of n prayer-book.
handed the book to the intruder. The stran.
ger read the message, smiled beautiful.
smile, and wrote underneath " Nice pew
What do You pay for it?'
The Great Salt Lake, according to Elder
Cannon, contains enough salt to supply
America for centuries. All that is necessary
IN preparing it for the market is to drive to
the edge Of the lake with wagon, and
man with rubber boots ON can load it with
shovel. Tho salt lies on the bottom OF
the lake in small, coarse crystals. After
loading, ii is taken TO a grinding machine,
and after being run through it is fit for the
table.
The gold mined in the United States thiA
year amounted to $50 900 900 and the silver
10 $4s, 200, 900. In the year closing October
l. the mints coined s27, 932, 1874 in gold and
$29, 94s, 097 in silver, with $23 1875, $3.50 in
gold bars and &7,e3s,T2 4 in silver bars
Our metallic currency is estimated at $751;.
O00,0 in gold and $257, 00O, 900 in silver,
with sos, 000, 900 in gold and silver bullion
In the mints besides. During last year
about $l7 900, 900 in silver dollars was paid
out, making about 5000, 900 altogether
of that coin in circulation.