The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fnncies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.

Here and There.
A London dentist has invented an electric
lamp to go into the mouths of patients ant
illuminate the cavernous tooth.
The golden rules for cholera times, and
indeed for all other times, are to keep clean
lead q regular life ard never worry.
A Massachusetts woman who keeps On in
fants' home adyertises "pure milk ana
mothers love constantly ON draught.
Feathers were first used as headdresa
by Marie Antoinette, who tried their effect
from curiosity, was pleased with it and set
the fashion.
The population of the Chinese Empire is
officially announced as being $50, 1000, 900
souls. 1t was popularity believed to be
double as large.
1t is becoming 80 common TO meet bear
in the vicinity of Ida, Otter Tail County,
Mimi, that parents are afraid to send their
children alone through the streets.
A womans excuse for joining Ee Nor
mons was that it was better to be the fifth
wife of man who could support her than
to be the sole wife of the man who couldn't.
Tho Aleutian Islands, off the coast of
Alaska, are said to be excellently adapted
to stock-raising. The grass is luxuriant and
abundant oil the year round, and there is an
area of 5000 acres of good grazing land.
Sitting Bulls people are making a start
at farming on the Grand River. But In
dian farming is always crude, and the work
of the recently savage Sioux in this dreo-
ton contains only the germ of promise.
Although Baltimore is termed the "Monu.
mental City" there are really fewer monu-
ments to be seen there than in almost any
other place. The only monument of note
is that erected by the State rs u tribute to
Washington.
Horse stealing and cattle stealing have
been so frequent in Idaho of late that an
association of stoclsmen for mutual protec-
ton is discussed. One stockman has written
TO tho Shoshone journal that his losses by
thieves have averaged 81 900 in each of the
past ten years.
The woodchuck has fellen upon evil days
in New Hampshire. One selectman has al
ready paid bounty upon 80 tails, and this
poor member OF the marmot family is every.
where bounded to death by the youth of the
State who arc eager TO gain pocket money
by its destruction.
When n Mormon wife renounces the a,i-
thority of her husband sho is at once de-
prived of all means of earning n livelihood
To counteract tho effects of such n ruling il
Salt Lake City house of refuge for all the
women who may be brave enough to defy
polygamic doctrines.
Horse thieves have no mercy shown them
in Idaho. If they are caught short shrift
and noosed rope or q pistol ball are theii
certain fate. One such was found dead the
other day at Kuna, in the Warm Springs
district, lying in the sage brush. In tho
centre of his forehead was q bullet hole
and across his breast was pinned plaoard
with the legend horse thief"
committee of some of tho best sur
gcons in France has been appointed to
verify, at M. Pasteur's request, the success
of his incubation of dogs with rabies.
Twenty healthy dogs are to be inoculated
with the protective virus, and twenty more
to be kept uninoculated. The whole forty
are then to be bitten by mad dogs and the
results noted. The anti-vivisection societies
are furious, but the French people are not
squeamish in q case like this.
The National Monument at Washington
has now reached the altitude of 470 feet, or
within four feet of the height of tho tower
of Strasbourg Cathedral, which is tho high
est artificial structure in the world, with the
exception of the dome of st. Peters at Rome
and the Pyramid of Cheops BY the 25th
of August the monument is expected to be
500 feet high. The work will then begin
of putting up the stone, iron, and glass top,
which will carry the structure up to its ex-
treme elevation of 555 feet or moro. 1t is
to be finished ON tho LIST of November next
That the Indians are year by year becom.
ing more accustomed to civilized ways, and
are discarding many of their old supersti-
tious customs, is an encouraging fact. Els.
pecially is this observable on the reserva-
ton, where the children of both sexes show
themselves as good students in the schools,
and where the enlightened ideas of the
young people do not fail of good effect upon
their elders The entertainments given by
the Indian children in the towns contiguous
to the reservations in California and Oregon
are highly commended by the press of those
States as proving the great progress which
they have made in education from books
and in manual work.