The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-12-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies md Conceits Picked ri ON
Here and There.
The cholera has cost loss in the italian
revenues of $4,000, 900 and in the Spanish
revenues of 81, 625, 000.' 1t is an expensive
visitation.
Tho bread now baked OF Naples is of pre-.
cisely the same shape as the loaves fonnd al
Pompeii that were put in the oven 1000
years ago.
In 1884 there were seventy-eight miles of
railway on which the mails were carried.
In June. 1884, the number had increased to
117,160.
Statistics of the cattle industry show the
existence of 23,000,000 head in States west
Of the Mississippi River, gain of 60 per
cent. since 1880.
The population of the United States in
creases at the rate of so per cent. every ten
years. At this ratio there will be S8, 900, 600
inhabitants in 1900
The French military establishment now
has regular system of carrier pigeons,
covering the whole country. The longest
flight will be about ffty-four miles.
The title Your Honor" applied to
American judges, has been adopted in Eng
land in accordance to royal proclamation
as applied to country judges who hitherto
were neither lordships or worships.
Extensive as our public school system is
it is far from including all the children in
the United States. Out of school popula.
ton of 5000, 900 there are not moro than
10000, 900 who are now receiving an edu.
cation.
The degradation Of women in London ia
astonishing. Seven thousand of the II 900
arrests made in the great city for drunken
ness during this year wore of women. Often
there are more women than men before the
Police Magistrates on this charge.
A correspondent of the London Lancet
says that owing to the difficulty of obtain.
ing human skin to graft over FORMULATING
wounds, he is using the skin of frogs with
great success. Frog skin retains its vitality
for long time, and can be carried to
distant patient by the surgeon, in hispoclet
Paresis, giving away of tho spinal merry.
ous power, and finally of the brain, is now
the fashionable complaint among people
who live in whirl. The person attacked
has constant desire to put his hands in his
pockets, and the action is explained on the
ground that no is unconsciously giving sup
port to failing spinal integrity.
A remarkable cavern has just boon dis
covered on Cheat River, near Kingwood,
w. Va. A very small aperture leads to n
series of seven chambers, tho smallest of
which is seventy-fiye feet long by forty feet
broad and thirty feet high. Their forma.
ton is rock crystal, and exceedingly beau
tiful and the explorers believe they will
rival in grandeur the celebrated Luray cav
erns.
WILDER +. Storey late editor of Tho Chi
oago Times, just after Greeley's defeat in
1872, wrote singing editorial. lie sub
sequently, by special invitation, attended n
large meeting, where that editorial was de-
nounced for hours. He sat it out, uttering
not word, and only saying rs he left :
Gentlemen, I thought owned the Times.
think so still. Good night, gentlemen. n
The population of Nevada is steadily
dwindling The Carson Tribune estimates
that there are now not more than $4,000
voters in the State. In 1880 the total vote
was 16,611. Only one county has 5000
voters, and of all the others only three.havs
voting population in excess of 200 each
One county is credited with 200 voters only
and thcro are five counties whose combined
vote will not exceed $500.
Some thirty young farmers and bushes,
men of Arizona have sent one of their mum
Der East t, find wives for them. The agen
says: II have the photographs of the
members, and also have letters of recon.
mendation from the township officers. All
want now is to secure the young ladies
Their expenses to Arizona will be paid by
the Association Immediately, or, it they
prefer, they will be given the addresses of
the members whom they prefer, and cor.
dependence can be opened"
The expression painting the town red
comes from the other side of the Rockies
II means literally what desperadoes do whei
they ride into mining camp, shooting and
yelling their way in and yelling and shoot
ing their way out. The blood they draw
and the blood they lose reddens that set
Element. The business is the delirium o.
violence, frenzy and unreasonable destruc.
tivencss. 1t now means, under the mask o
metaphor, the horseplay Of jubilant parti
Fans, and equally indicates spectacular non
sense and exemplary drinking.
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