The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-07-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here md There.
Vessels lying at Washington are nightly
visited by river thieves, and police squad
to guard property interests on the river front
is demanded.
Not far from Cheyenne, Wyoming, light
ming recently struck the house of man
named Edwards, and his wife and child
were instantly killed.
There are probably / 600 Chinese railroad
laborers buried between Spokane Falls and
Helena, Montana. They are inferred in
shallow graves and in various places the
collins are visible.
A man In Georgia is reported to have
been bitten by rattle-snake, but while his
friends sought doctor the mosquitoes got
to work upon him so vigorously that their
poison acted as a counter-irritant and saved
his life.
The family of the postmaster at Cheviot,
o., was poisoned the other day drinking
coffee which was purchased for pure article,
but on analysis was found to contain great
deal Of copperas. After undergoing much
suffering the unfortunate people finally re.
covered.
White rainbows are the latest celestial
appearances which are reported as having
been seen OF Virginia City, New, the local
chronicler, with remnant of truth in his
description Of these extraordinary rainbows,
admits that they did not describe a complete
arc of circle.
One of the latest geological announce
ments is that if no new coalbeds are dis
covered, the present visible supply of this
mineral will be exhausted in less than II 900
years; or, to be perfectly exact, in 1885
years. This information may be important,
but it will not terrify this generation to any
great degree.
In Washington all able-bodied prisoners,
sentenced to the House Of Correction, are
compelled to work at street grading and
upon the roads in the public places. The
parti-colored clothing and ball and chain,
in tho case of those who have attempted to
escape, mark the prison laborers as ON OK
ample of terror to eyil-doers.
The Shoshone Indians held their annual
sun dance lately at Wyoming and one In
dian died from the effects of his self-imposed
torture. The endurance shown by the red.
men on these occasions is something mar
yellous. For three days and nights they
dance continually without taking one par
ticle of food. The scene is represented as
being siekening.
During n severe thunder storm ct Rich.
ield Springs, lightning struck in four diff
ferent places. One stroke tore ont about
half of one end of the railroad depot.
Another killed on OK in the street The
third entered the shoe store of Losee & Co.,
aud exploded with report like that of a
small cannon. The forth splintered several
telegraph poles.
Spring Indians on exhibition in Baltimore,
in II fit of frolicsomeness the other night
threw n lamp-lighter down from his ladder.
His joke was not appreciated, and at this
he showed resentment, striking his victim a
tremendous blow. His arrest followed and
an Indian Summer will be passed in Jail.
A remarkable instance of vitality reported
from New Orleans was presented in the case
of negro peddler who was shot through
the right temple and lived eight days after
receiving the wound. A post-mortem OK
animation revealed the ball lying at the
base of the skull on the left side OF the
head, showing TINT its course had been
diagonally through the brain.
The illiteracy of the nation, says the Pro
gressice Age, is not among the matters we
are proud of. OF the $1,000, 900 persons
over ten years of age, more than 100000
cannot read and over 1000, 900 are unable
TO write OF this 6,0o0, 900 more than hall
are colored and q large proportion of the
balance belongs TO our foreign population
But the facts are still far from creditable.
Turkeys are found TO be more effective
slug destroyers in tho vineyards of Southern
California than human beings. 1t was MOI
always possible to get laborers for this kind
of work, and the vines had often suffered
greatly, until the gallinaceous fowl showed
his ability in this direction. The turkey
not only cleans off the sngs, but feeds him
self at the same time, thds practising two
fold economy for his owner
The love of the sen may never be eradi.
Gated after man has fairly settled down to
q sailors life. This was illustrated lately
in the case Of Captain Chester A. Ball, of
Bath, Me-, aged seventy-four years. His
ship was wrecked few months ago, and
he returned to his home with the intention
of living the remainder of his years upon
the ample store of money which he had
laid up for his declining days. But life or
shore soon possessed no zest for the veteran
seaman and day or two since he slipped
away from his relatives to Rockland, where
bn abinped for another cruise