The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-10-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
facts, Fancies and Conceifs Picked From
Here aud There.


New York and Chicago now "speak as
they pass by They talk by telephone.
On an average between six and seven
hundred dwellings are burned every month
In this country.
There is enough water power in Georgia
10 supply 10000 times as many mills and
factories MS are now operated in that State.
The annual report of the United States
surveyors chronicles the discovery in the
Yellowstone region of remarkable order of
birds, which are furnished with teeth.
Columbia river salmon statistics show
that from the inception of packing in 1866
to the close of the season in 1884, there have
been packed G,310,G5s cases, worth T3t,-
$50, 900.
There are now $40 Young Mems Christian
Associations in this country, with q total
membership of 1903, 137. There are eighty
buildings and real estate in all worth 3d.
956,000.
The war upon wooachucks is backed up
by legislative enactment in New Hampshire
During the present season 81 251 have been
paid ont in that State for bounties on these
farm pests
According to the San Francisco Pindicd-
tor, paper in the interest of the colored
population, there are fifty colored persons
in the State whose estates run from few
thousands mp to S25o,ooo.
A society lady at the Gatslills boasts Of
III different costumes eleven trunks, two
poodles, and three maids. She also has u
husband, but she doesn't boast of him. And
we shouldn't think he would boast of her.
The Walnut Street Theatre Philadelphia,
70 years old, is tho Oldest theatre in Ameri-
ca. 1t was originally built in an outskirt /;
1t is now in the centre of wealth, life and
fashion. The building Of the theatre was
begun in 1908.
In Australia the use of opium is spreading
from the Chinese to the white population to
such an extent as to make legislation on the
subject necessary. 1t is proposed to pro-
hibit the sale of the drug in the colony ex.
cept for medicinal purposes.
Western journal mentions that an IN
sect which had lodged in mans ear, was
induced to back out of its position by plac-
ing light near the aural orifice This SIM
pie plan was successful after all the usual
means for dislodging the unwelcome visitor
had proved fruitless.
Step by step the leading food products Of
Europe are being reproduced in this coun-
try. Maccaroni is made by Italians in New
York, Neufchatel cheese by Swiss in New
Jersey, Sweitzer kase by Germans in Ohio.
Albert biscuit by Englishmen in Albany,
and cayiare by Russians in Harlem. Nearly
all OF these are exported to Europe and there
sold as domestic manufactures.
mammoth beehive has been discovered
in the bosom of the noted peak commonly
called Old Badly" situated in San Ber-
nardino county, California. The bees at
work in this wild mountain hive are almost
innumerablo aud they have in store q gigan
tic mountain of pure honey, which is esti
mated to be $50 feet deep and 200 feet wide
and contains more than five hundred bar
rels of the genuine article.
1t is not generally known that there is q
stone, called the centre rock, in the rotunda
of the capitol, at Raleigh, N. c., upon
which, IL a man squarely stands, his words
become inarticulate to those about him.
This is upon the authority of the Raleigh
Netcs, which adds that several gentlemen in
experimenting recently with this peculiar
stone, oil experienced its curious effect
Perhaps they were deaf and dumb.
In representing the wealth contained in
the sea, Prof. Huxley has pointed ont that
an acre Of good fishing ground will yield
more food in q week than an acre of the
best land will in a year. He also has drawn
vivid picture of " mountain of cod, 1870
to 1870 feet in height, which for two months
in every year moves westward and south
ward, past the Norwegian coast Every
square mile of this colossal column contains
100 millions of fishes, which, even on short
rations, consume no fewer than $40 millions
of behring's every week. The whole catch
of the Norwegian fisheries never exceeds in
a year more than half square mile of this
cod mountain and one weeks supply of
the herrings needed to keep that area of cod
from starving. The harvest of the sea is
truly inexhaustible.
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