The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and CoBceits Picked From
Here and There.


Rabbits damage Australia to the extentot
$4,000, 600 per year. fo
Illinois has 222, All farms, Ohio 957, fs9
and New York 241, 05s.
A talent may be perfected in solitude; a
character only in the world.
The exultant exclamation of the chiropo-
dist; 81 came, | saw, corncured."
Psychologists have discovered that Cleo
patra's nose was short, saucy and'snub.
A man never realizes how readily children
learn until he begins to buy school books
for them.
A philosopher says Latin is " dead Ian.
guage when an inexperienced drug clerb
fools with it. @
The Vermont legislature is said to have
passed bill to do away with hanging, pro-
viding for the execution OF murderers by
electricity.
The people of the highest position and
greatest importance, as o rule, make the
least trouble, says wise hotel clerk. Paste
this in your hat.
Out of about 900 cases of sunstroke noted
in New York the past summer, at least $50
turned out to be DRINKS. Old Sol gets
heap Of unmerited censure
Sorrow itself is not SO hard to bear as the
thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts
that work no harm do terrify us more than
men in steel with bloody purposes.
OF the 100000 widows in India under
nineteen years of age, prohibited by law
from marrying again, 200, 900 are less than
fourteen years old, and $4,000 less than
nine.
Oh, don't propose to me here :" ex-
claimed young lady, whose lover was
about to pour out his ayowal as they were
riding by corn field, /" the very corn hns
ears
They must make very desperate love in
Chicago An individual there squeezed his
girls hand SO tight that he crushed ono Of
the finger joints. And she never whimper-
ed. And he is old. But he is also rich.
On being asked lately why ha did not
give up business, Baron Alphone Roths
child replied that it would take me
twenty-five years to settle my affairs suf
ficiently to enable me to withdraw from the
Arm"
A very good test of \ room is to consider
Would it look pretty in q picture % 10
find this out turn mirror upon the different
parts and see the effect. This will often help
one to correct and rearrange anything that
may be wrong. co
Recent statistics as TO the employment OF
women in England reveal the fact that there
are 347 female blacksmiths who actually
swing the heavy hammers, and ., 1893 women
employed in Matchmaking, who make nails
for horse shoes.
Score one for the American woman abroad.
Dispatches from Paris state TINT at the
opening of the italian opera season in that
city the Americans unquestionably out
stripped their sisters Of the Old World in
good looks and gorgeous array.
The petriHed forests Of Arizona have
been purchased by company who are max.
ing the wood into table tiles and other orna.
mental articles. II Is said TO be driving
onyx from the market, being susceptible OF
much higher polish and moro durable.
great deal of talent is lost in this world
for the want of little courage. The fact
is that, to do anything in this world worth
doing, we must not stand back shivering,
and thinking of the cold and the danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well
as we can.
A wonderful chasm has recently been dis.
covered in San Luis obispo county, Cal.
An adventurous explorer was lowered into
it to the depth of A 900 feet without finding
any bottom. The sides of the clAsm nrt
covered with magnificent cream colored
stalactites.
A Philadelphia upholsterer, who foolishl,
kept his stock of round-headed steel pins il
his mouth while carrying on his work, ha,
just been discharged from the hospital
During two months stay in the institu
ton, about half the number of pins WORKED
their way out through his back The other
have not been heard from.
If hogging is still carried on in the Brit
lsh navy, though only applied in cxceptiona
cases, custom far more barbarous is extan
in the French army in Africa as means o
punishment. The " Crapaudinep consist
in tying the patients hands and feet, plac
ing him on the stomach, and leaving hin
for hours exposed to the fierce rags of Oh,
African sun.