The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-04-09

Interesting Facts Called From Here ind
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The work of leyelling the Confederate
Notifications around Athens, Ga, has but
recently been begun.
The American bell punch has been dls-
carded on the London tramways. 1t was
considered nuisance and failed to prevent
the peculations of conductors.
Tbs costliest dog collars, generally worn
by pngs, are Of gold and silver set with
diamonds, opals, rubies, emeralds and other
jewels, the initial letters of which spell out
the name of the wearer or its fair owner.
go Mr.. Moses Boyd, a conductor on the
Boston and Providence Railroad, has been
employed in that capacity for forty-tlree
years He had charge Of the first train ON
that road, and Is said to be the oldest con.
auctor in the country.
respectable couple in Belmont county,
Ohio, who had been married forty years,
the husband being seyenty-eight and the
other day on account Of incompatibility.
The Judge gave them talking 10 and sent
them home.
High license laws seem to be having the
desired effect in Nebraska. Since their
adoption the cities of Omaha and Lincoln
have lost half their saloons, while the de-
crease in the smaller towns is said to be
still greater. 1t costs 81 900 for a license
in cities and $500 in villages.
All the old envelopes, newspapers, wrap
pings and scraps of paper which accumulate
in the Treasury Department at Washington
are carefully saved in what is called the
waste paper room. All this refuse is sorted
out by men and women, and sold TO one
firm in New York. The receipts amount &c
quite handsome little sum
There are at the present time over fifteen
hundred sawmills in the United States
making lumber, but the statement is made
by journal devoted to the lumber interest
that there are not now in all of them n
hundred first class flers and sawyers, while
there are over a thousand millmen who are
willing TO pay first class men all the wages
they ask.
II is stated that dark haired women arc
preferred to blondes by marrying mea
10 uphold this theory, Chicago physician
has recently published statistics showing
that in the area covered by his researches,
blondes are generally admired by poets and
painters, but brunettes more frequently
capture the wedding ring than do their
light-hnired sisters.
People who have any reason to think
that they get short weight when buying
their coal can make sure In regard to the
matter by having coal bins in which they
can measure it. The following rule will
hold good as to the difference In sizes of
anthracite coal One ton of nut will
measure SO cubic feet one ton of small
range, 3Ss one ton of large range, 800
one ton Of egg range, Al.
Baseball making is one OF those quiet
industries which attract little or no atten-
tion from the busy world, but prove un-
usually remunerative to those engaged in
them. Last year over 5000, 900 balls were
manufactured in this country, and, as the
makers have now larger number OF orders
than ever before, II is estimated that 1000.
GOO baseballs will be knocked into the great
nowhere the coming season.
The business of detecting crime in Lon.
don is admitted to DO badly DONE The
precincts Of the Savoy and the Thames en-
bankment are not safer now than Honnslow
Heath was in the days Of Jonathan Wild
One hundred and twenty-four persons dis
appeared in London last year OF whom no
trace has been found and eaeh week mum.
bers of dead bodies known rs q stiff uns,n
are brought in by the toile:s of the Thames
with marks of violence on them.
Grants old headquarters at Milliken's
Bend, Miss, is one of the places thrown
out by the relocation of the leyee some
miles back Of ii. Tho river has encroached
till the old levee has dropped in and now
the high water is over the plantation and all
around the houses from which the opera.
tons against Vicksburg were directed. The
graveyard above, where cofins used to be
seen sticking out of the bank a couple Of
years ago, has all caved into the river. The
new levee is full half mile back of where
the old one was.
Senator Sherman's home is in Mansfield,
Ohio, the town In which he was born, and
Of which his wife is also native The
Senator spends only part of the summer
there, but his wife stays there at least six
months in the year, and is quite popular
among the townspecple. Mrs. Sherman
was daughter Of ex-Lieutenant Governor
Stewart Of Ohio, ono of the wealthiest men
in the county, and the Mansfield people
say that when young John first began to
pay attention to the pretty Miss Stewart he
had quite struggle to overcome the pa
rental objections.