The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.


1t is q disputed question which is the
greater man, the hotel clerk or the baseball
pitcher?
The first electric railroad for public use in
America went into operation at Cleveland,
o. 1t is one mile in Length.
The area planted in tobacco in Bourbon
County, KY, has increased from ten acres
as many years ago to five thousand acres
this year.
The only big girl on ice to be met with in
the Arctic regions is named Floe and an ice
girl she is too but rather cold in her man.
uers and freezing in her embrace.
Paper peach baskets are being used in
Maryland. It is said they are no more sue
cessful than the old kind in preventing the
dozen big peaches in the basket from crawl
ing on tor. -Norristoaon Herald.
A raft of walnut logs, valued at $40. 900,
has recently reached New Orleans where it
will be sawed into boards and thon shipped
North, to be converted into sewing ma
chimes.
The editor is not the only man who is al
most badgered to death. In Modoc County,
CAL, farmer was attacked by nine badgers
recently and he was compelled to climb
tree to get out of their reach. --Teras Sift-
ings.
The city government of Chicago has gal.
lantly come to the relief of tired shop girls.
1t has passed IN ordinance requiring shop
keepers to supply feminine clerks with seats
upon which to rest themselves in the inter-
walls between serving customers.
Miss Knowles, of Deep River, CT, who
was in so poor health that her life was de-
SPARED of q year ago, began to gain upon n
diet of milk and fruit, which sho has con.
tinued exclusively ever since with good re-
suits
One hundred thousand dollars worth Of
frog legs are contributed yearly to the mar.
kets of the large cities of tho North from
the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay alone
The frogs nre killed with shot guns and
the hunters get for them about so cents &
dozen.
A Providence antiquarian of good memory
says that the last criminal whose ears were
legally cropped in Rhode Island went
through the operation on the 18th of DC
tober, 1882. The name of the man wa
Maibone Briggs, and his offence the passing
of counterfeit money.
The German religious sect known as tn
Dunkards--be sure not to put in the lottel
"r"-is adding to its numbers in some Of
the Western States. At recent camp
meeting of the denomination, held at Day
ton, O., these good people consumed sixty
fat cattle, ton of bread, 6,000 pounds of
butter, and 1000 pounds of coffee every
day.
In order to brighten off some boys found
in his orchard, Daniel Rooney, the Super.
intendent of st. Joseph's Cemetery at Troy,
discharged q shotgun in the air. The gun
racoiled, striking Rooney in the abdomen,
from the effects of which he died next morn.
Rooney was forty years of age and
L.. IS widow and two children.
Mr.. Morton Freeman, the Englshman
WHO appeared the other day before the Lord
Priyy Seal to argue in favor of removing the
restriction against the importation Of Wye.
ming cattle into Great Britain, is n large
proprietor Of live stock in tho Territory
named. His herds aggregate about $1,000
head, and his aim is to obtain the privilege
of transporting his beef to England through
Canada, either slaughtered OF on the hoof
Advicos from Lewiston, Meagher County
Montana, says that seven horse thieves are
hanging to trees at the mouth of the Mussel
shell River. Two men named Downe ant
Felix have been recognized among the mum
Der. The thieves are oil supposed to belong
to the Downe and Felix band, who have hat
their headquarters in that neighborhood
About twenty of Granville Stuart's cowboy
are out after another band that has mad
for the woody mountains. II they overtak
the horse thieves there will be another hang
ing. Over one hundred stolen horses hay
been recovered.
Cholera !" exclaimed an old Lexingto,
former. Great Caesar man, don't tel
me that this country is threatened will
cholera again ?" " Yes, it's got into France
and without proper precautions may roacl
America" It's terrible" he gronned
Why, last year lost four of the fines
hogs you ever see with the cholera !" " Blu
this is not hog cholera; it's Asiatic cholera
"Oh !" said the farmer, looking much re
lieved, !" was afraid it was hog cholera"-
Cleveland San.
The shipment of properly labelled chill
dren from Europe to relatives in this coun
try seems to be now of common occurrence
It is attended with little risk of loss of lif,
or property, and saves great expense TIL
last case reported is that of lad of tende
years, placarded "yictor Leisy, No. %
Croton street, Cleveland, Ohio" This small
package of living freight reached its desti
nation in sound condition all the way iron
Poland. 1t could speak, of course, its nativ
language, but this fact did not add an lot
to the ease of its transportation.
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