The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fnncics and COnceits Picked From
Here and There.


The United States uses three times as
much paint as any other country.
When q visitor at the Carlisle Indian
School asked young Cheyenne girl if she
was member of church, she answered {:
:" Not much just little"
Recent statistics on the comparative long.
evity of the sexes show that under fifteen
years there are more boys than girls, but
over seventy-fve years there are more wo-
men than men.
Seven thousand little girls in the Phila-
delphia public schools are being taught once
fortnight to sew. The plan is the enter
ing wedge of the industrial system into the
Philadelphia public schools.
1t would take 100, 900 ships of 900 tons
each to carry the freights transported by
the railroads of the United States in one
year alone. With all the talk of the English
carrying trade, that nation has but $4,000
ships, with an Average tonnage of 283 tons
EACH
A great English authority once declared
that no good girl would have more than
three proposals-the first she would be too
inexperienced to understand what was com.
ing to pass; o second offer might happen
without her fault, but the third time she
must be forewarned, and unless she meant
to accept the man she ought to save him
the pain of refusal.
The pride Of Savannah, Ga, is her beau.
tiful shade trees, but they have been dying
in such large numbers during the past few
years, and particularly during several
months past, as to excite apprehensions in
the minds of many citizens that in o few
years they will oil have entirely disappeared
and the squares and streets will be left with
out protection from the sun.
The locomotive Ell Gobernado, built at
.he railroad works ct Sacramento, has been
sent down to the Tehachipi Pass. This is
the largest locomotive in the world. Its
weight is considerable more than 100 tons,
and 1t has ten large drivers, five on q side
It was named after Governor Stanford. Its
length was 50 great that it projected through
the doors at both ends of its stall at the
round-house
The white Pine of West Virginia, although
not as valuable as what formerly camo from
Michigan and Wisconsin, is yet better than
the average of what those hard-pushed for.
ests can now turn out. 1t grows on the
higher and rougher parts of the mountains
above the line where deciduous trees flour.
ish, and in situations where the direct ray
of the sun do not fall very long in the day
The natives call hemlcck spruce pine.
determination of the wolf is not consider
ed possible on the continent of Europe
Many neighborhoods have been cleared n
one time or another, but after some years
of quiet it is found that the wolves have
gathered again from all quarters. There is
in fact, q steady migration of the brutes
from Siberia upon Europe. Asiatic species
are constantly identified in the yosges and
in the Pyrenees. The eradication of thii
plague must be begun in China.
A crooked piece of timber rushing fou
hundred feet down chute into Lake Supe
rior instead of taking, after striking tn
water, tho direction that straight sticl
would have done, shot out sideways ant
struck raft on which number of mel
were at work, cutting off the head of one o
them as If done with knife. From Their
1t flew and struck yawl, in which were th
captain Of the rafting tug and two mon
The captain was crushed and instantl,
killed.. There are few moro hazardous oc
cupations than numbering, to Judge from
the long weekly list Of serious casualties
which the lumber journals contain.
A larger business is done by telegraph
companies in the United States than in an,
other country in the world. Over 40, 900,
600 messages were sent last year. Grea
Britain sent nearly $4,000, 900, Franco 26,
100000, aud Germany 100000 TIL,
total for the world was 153, 200, 900, fully
one-half being sent in English-speakinl
countries. Germany has nearly as many
telegraph offices as the United States al
though 30 much smaller in area, and doing
less than half the business. Great Britain
on the contrary, does large business Will
comparatively few Offices. The Canadian
Dominion claims moro telegraph Offices il
proportion to population than any othei
country.