The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-03-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Interesting Facts Chilled From Here and
There.

Thcres
America supplies the world witt turpen-
tine. HB
Three female dentists have opened offices
in Chicago.
Two Oregon judges have resigned be-
cause they got only $4,000 q year salary.
There We're only nine accidents to trains
in 1883 in Great Britain by which passen-
gers were killed.
st. Augustine, Fla, is buying oyster
shells at twelve and one-half cents barrel
to improve her roads.
There are about $4,000 locomotive en-
ginos in the world and 100, 900 passenger
and 500, 600 freight cars. q ~
Over Ia, 600 men are now employed in
the construction of the Panama Canal.
The work proceeds rapidly.
The Mexican government has made a
contract for planting 1900, 900 trees in tho
valley of Mexico within four years.
Only 500 people died in Leadvile, COL,
last year and an undertaken, in On inter-
view, complains Of " dull business"
An eccentric individual in De Kalb
county, Tenn, committed suicide by cut
ting tree and then letting it fall upon him.
Ethan Allans sword, now in tho possess
sion of Mrs. Hopkins, of Detroit, Mich,
is offered to the State of Vermont for 81 900.
The New Duchess Of Westminster, wife
of one of the richest men in Europe, was
married in a dress of white foulard, costing
seventy-fye cents yard 3 F4SSs'E
new business in Florida Is the insur-
ance of orange groves. Several companies,
American and British, are prepared to
guarantee against frost and fire.
Within a few years past ninety schools,
with $50 teachers, have been planted in the
strong holds of Mormondom with money
from New England and elsewhere.
Western man has invented hens nest
with door TO It which closes when her
biddy-ship is engaged in her egg-laying
duties, but opens rs soon as she gets off the
nest and begins to cackle.
little child Of Rutland, Vt, becoming
searisd with the quarreling Of two younger
lhildren over glass of milk, exclaimed /.
What's the use of fighting forever over
nat milk? There's whole cowfull out in
| a. barn.
deorgia's Penitentiary now contains
l,s22 prisoners, tho largest number ever
recorded on the registry at one time. A
large percentage of the criminals is made
up of young negroes, among whom crime
is on the increase
| One reason why Detroit wife desires n
divorce is because her husband lied to her.
Before marriage he said he owned one
horse wagon and had $500 After marriage
he could only claim the wagon, and one
wheel was gone ut that.
In Philadelphia school for young ladies
il was found that of a class of forty-eieht
girls one could make bread, one knew how
to fry oysters and three knew how to broil
beefsteak forty -eight could embroider md
fotty-seyen could dance.
Tho Sheriff of phiinaei,,irln Is In M. obi
1ix. Tho law fixes his salary nt $l5. 900
but requires that il be paid out of the fees
of his Office. SO prosperous and moral wa,
the great city during 1883 that the fees OIL
the Sheriif's Office fell far below the aver
age, and Its chief finds, after paying fixed
charges out of them, that only SO, $50 il
left for him.
According to recently published statis
tics, there is village situated near Paris
where from 5000 to 5000 people are ON
ployed in making agate buttons alone, q
surprising number when 1t is considered
that in the year 1851 there were only 6,93a
buttonmakers, oil told, In England, OF
whom 1850 worked in ono town. Pearl
buttons come from Vienna principally, and
shirt buttons from Birmingham, while those
made from glass are produced in Bohemia.
The annual output in this country is valued
at about IS, 000,00o
The Chinese are desperate gamblers aud
in San Francisco the police track them 80
sharply that nearly all the lottery dens are
supplied with door of heavy boiler iron,
which Is closed when the players are en-.
gagged. While the officers are battering at
the door with sledges and cold chisels the
inmates quietly destroy or conceal oil owl
dences of Illegal games, and tho ministers
OF the law on entering con find no evidences
on which to mako arrests. However, ths
police during tho last year have caught
1900 persons in the aot of gambling md
the zines inflicted amouhs to $40, 895.
A farmer living few miles from Austin,
whose vito was troubled with an aching
tooth, decided to coma to town with her
for tina purpose Of having 1t extracted.
Tho PAIR took scat in the cars, and soon
after the train started the farmer walked
forward into the smoking Our, telling his
wife he would be back directly. While her
husband was absent, the conductor came
leisurely along, ticket punch in hand, and
approaching the old lady, reached over for
her ticket, whereupon the victim of tooth
ache opened her mouth, saying You
needn't mind giving me chloroform, doc
tor just pull il right out anyhow. I can
stand II, and whom John comes back ho'n
settle with yer."--Teras Siftin0s.
The Americen IN London.
It 10 curious and gratifying to note wha
q trademark the term American hal