The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-11-26
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Factn, Fancies md Conceits Picked Prom
Here and There.

Factn, Fancies md Conceits Picked Prom
Here and There.
Queen Victoria has nineteen granddaugh-
tiers.
London has a society TO promote window
gardening
The Emperor William is the oldest mon.
arch in Europe.
The preacher Sturgeon employs six sec
retaries.
One New York firm claims to make 50,-
900 ladies' cloaks in a season.
A Mr.. Davis, of Indiana, has had 231 law.
suits in the last twelve months.
Experts have pronounced South Carolina
tea, cured in fruit evaporator, equal to the
imported article.
The Prince Of Wales has a superstition
that his mother will outlive him and that
he shall never be king of England.
a California farmer has had to pay n fine
of $40 for knocking his hired man down
with bunch of grapes weighing ten pounds.
Dr. Hammond says woman's beauty de-
ponds on the amount and quality of the
beef and mutton she eats.
Young ladies at the West give combina-
ton silk quilts to church fairs and then
yield it to the most popular of their num-
Der, the one who has obtained the most
votes.
California is now sending the Atlantic
coast more wine than is imported from
France. II is estimated that last years
wine crop yielded the growers $3, 10000
In the rotunda of the Capitol at Raleigh,
N. c., is located a stone called Centre
Rock, upon which, if man squarely stands,
his words become inarticulate to those
about him.
Some thirty coal dealers in San Francisco
have petitioned the supervisors to detail
set of officers to patrol the city and weigh
loads of coal taken at random, in order to
insure honest weight.
II is thought that stained floors have had
their day, and that warm Turkish-and Per.
sian carpets will be used in short time
for all parlors and bedrooms. The carpets
are certainly the most luxurious, but the
ateined floors are decidedly the most health
full.
A Western paper gives this away 1t was
in an Illinois court. g Have you," asked
the judge Of recently convicted man,
anything to offer the court before sen.
tence is passed ?" No, your honor" re.
piled the prisoner; my lawyer took my
last cent"
A physician of Brighton, England, found
the plaoe SO healthy that he had never a
call. One sleepless night he invented a
scheme. He announced that tight-lacing
was positively beneficial to middle-aged
ladies'. Now he has more calls than he can
possibly answer
Thackeray was so full of gravity that he
would often dance and shout in the street
This might do in London, but il man were
to dance in the average American street
where the policemen are peacefully sleep.
ing, he would be arrested
A barber says that when lady's hair be.
gins to come out, as after fever, it is much
better to SINCE it off than to cut it. The
singing closes the ends and allows the hair
to devote all its energy to growing strong
rather than to increase its length.
remarkable example of the facility with
which deaf mutes read the motions of the
lips was given by a young lady of seven.
teen who is entirely deaf Her teacher
stood between the gas light and the wall,
thus outlining his profile distinctly. His
pupil stood behind him and read from the
shadow on the wall the words that he ut
tered
The Lancet suggests that the British agri-
culturists might make more use of sugar for
feeding and fattening cattle. Owing to the
glut in the market, the coarser sorts can be
obtained at an exceptionally cheap rate,
refuse molasses being quoted at one cent
per pound, and jaggery at very little more.
AT these rates, therefore, the farmer could
well afford to treat his beasts more literally
with saccharine additions to the usual food.
1t has been ascertained that sugar exercises
beneficial effect upon cows in regard to
both the favor and the quantity of their
milk. 1t also improves pigs, and sheep
thrive upon it when it is mixed with the
ordinary provender. All animals are par
tial to it, and in the case of horses, sleek
ness of skin is thought TO be produced by