The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-11-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked Fr0m
Here aud There.

htEU anu AhUTts
Holdupn is the name of new post,
office in Arizona.
The gathering and curing of sumac is a
big industry in Virginia.
Rice birds are canned and shipped from
Georgia to Northern markets.
st. Louis man wants divorce because
bis wife makes him say please"
There are 1 100000 cattle roaming over
the ranges of Colorado, valued at $40, 600.
900.
Husbands are scarce in England. There
are 100000 unmarried women in England
and Wales.
Thirty million dollars have been invested
in new buildings in New York during the
past six months.
1t is estimated that Is, 900 mules are sold
In Atlanta every year, at cost in round
numbers of about $4,000, 900.
A Cincinnati jury being unable to agree
In criminal case, tossed up coin, and
the prisoner was acquitted by their de,
uision.
- A Pennsylvania woman has been sent to
prison for horse stealing This comes from
opening the professions TO women.--JerseD
City journal.
The women and girls of Massachusetts
own nearly half of the entire deposits in the
savings banks Of the State. They have tt
their credit Gilt 1882, 1899.
A society belle who spent the season at
The White Sulphur Springs, Va, directed
her energies to the collection of four-leaf
cloyers, and, as result bagged 100 OF
them.
Insanity increased in this country over
1870 per cent. from 1870 to 1880, but the
cause was not altogether base ball and
bicycling. A small share of itmay be credit
ed to drink, panics and private misfortunes
7Detroit Free Press.
4 4 After half dozen persons had died in o
Ane. looking dwelling house in Washington
an investigation was demanded, and II was
found that the plumbing had been done
withouta single trap. The owner saved
about Sl2 by leaving them ont.
1t is said that in Chicago, within space
Of forty acres, including the site of the new
Board Of Trade, there is being piled more
stone, brick, and iron, in the shape of tall
buildings, than can now be found on any
q Mher forty-acre plot of the earth's surface
NJ N. Foster, farmer living near Hay
wards, CAL, has hog which spends his
time with flock OF geese. Every day when
the geese go into the pond for their accus-
toned swim the hog plunges in at the same
time, and remains as long as the geese do.
bank of earth cayed in on laborer Of
Kansas City, and while three or four mel
In the crowd We're trying to figure how long
it would take to dig him out the rest waited
He ought to have lived, according to the
figures, forty-fve minutes, but was dead
when they reached him in forty-three
Much of the good that is done to con-
sumptiye patients by sea-yoyages, says a
writer in Casselfs Magazine, depends upon
the fact that the oceans ozone is the best
disinfectant, and contains fewer germs than
that on land. And / must say this, that Il
patients could take oil home-comforts with
them to sea, they would assuredly return
healthy and strong from a long cruise
that is, II they departed with any life in
them worth speaking about.
While the eucalyptus or Australian blue
gum tree destroys malaria and keeps of
mosquitoes in marshy soil, ii has no such
effect on dry soil. The difference is es-
cribed by a German scientist to the fact
that the tree is constructed to act rs an
evaporating machine, and only does its work
In marshy land. A feature of the tree ia
Its adaptability to different climates, ii be-
Ing now grown in almost every civilized
country where frosts do not occur.
The latest surveys of the tract proposed
to be occupied by the great inland sea to be
created in Northern Africa under the au-
spices of NJ. De Lesseps, indicate that this
now arid region was once covered by large
estuary of the Mediterranean which was
cut off by a prehistoric upheaval of the
coast, laying the foundation for the slow
conversion into desert that has since taken
place. Traces of the ancient watercourses
have been discovered and followed for
leagues.