The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-06-25
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Facts. Fancies and Conceits Picked FROM
Here and There,

Facts. Fancies and Conceits Picked FREE
Here and There.
A lady was talking about going into hal
morning, and her little daughter listene
attentively for while, and then exclaimed
Mamma, are any of our relations hal
dead p"
g Some day in the hence l hope to b.
sermated," says Kate Field. But Kate il
very superior person. Your ordinary
young woman is satisfied to be ice-creamated
in the now.
A timid woman left the gallery Of
the House of Representatives in a greai
hurry and much affrighted the other day
The Speaker had announced that the calen
dar should be cleared. She understood him
to shy gallery" and fed.
Mr.. N. G. George, at meeting Of the
London Athletic Club, recently ran ten
miles in 81 minutes and 20 seconds. This
was marvellous performance, being six
seconds better than Deerfoot's record, which
was widely doubted at the time ii was made.
Judge Richard Ried, who killed himself
because Kentucky society turned against
him for not fighting duel with the man
who horse-whipped him, was typical Ken.
tuckian in appearance. He wore heavy
mustache, long beard low-cut vest, turn
down collar, and no neck-tie.
Texas forty years ago was practically o
desert and the handful of settlers lived en-
tirely ON game. To-day there are more than
100000 cattle, sheep, horses, mules and
swine in the State, and the cotton crop last
year was worth more than the cotton crop
of the whole United States in 1843.
Adam Shelby. boy nine years of age,
discovered washout" on the railroad
near Page City, Mo-, few days since. The
little fellow made fire of brushwood, and
stood at the point of danger for several
hours, thus ayerting a calamity which would
otherwise have happened TO passenger
train.
Camels utterly wild may be seen on the
desert lands at the head OF the Gulf of Cali.
fornia, where thoy find congenial home
and multiply steadily. These are remnant
Of herd which many years ago was i'm
ported by the Government to act as beasts
OF burden for the army in New Mexico and
Arizona.
Straw rides are the rage just now in New
Orleans. The requisites are moonlight
night, spanking team, big wagon stuffed
with fresh straw, and q pleasant party OF
young men and women. Everybody sits
on the wagon floor, and married woman
Is crowded in somewhere to play the part OF
chaperone.
Henry Hulsner, young German, of
Savannah, Ga, sent barrel of potatoes to
his father, in the city of Hanover. The
stupid German officers seized the potatoes,
put old Mr. Hulsner under police suryeil-
lance, and magnifed this act of filial kind
ness into Socialist plot to introduce the
Colorado beetle into the empire.
Think of book 81 pounds in weight. 4
inches thick, and 81 by 80 inches In surface
dimensions. Aponderous ledger Of these
proportions has just been turned out Of the
Government bindery for the use of the
United States Sub Treasurer at New York.
The kind of machinery by which it is open.
ed and its leaves turned over is not men.
toned.
Joaquin Miller rs authority for the asser-
ton that the negro will steal in order to
crafty his generous impulses to bestow
food, clothes and cheap jewels upon his
friends, but that no case OF defalcation has
been known among the colored people who
hold positions of trust in the banks and
Government departments at Washington.
Indeed, negro defaulter is an unknown
quantity throughout the United States.
The late Caleb Cushing once remarked to
a company of friends that when he was
practicing law in certain town he had the
chair used by visitors nailed down to the
door four feet away from his desk "What
on earth did you do that for ?" was the
query. "Well, everybody in that section
was extremely confidential and was also ex-
tremely fond of fried onions and Holland
gin. 1t was a move on my part of hygienic
self-defence."
There Is q wonderful petrihed forest near
corrizo, in New Mexico. The petrifed
stumps, limbs, and, in fact, whole trees lie
about on oil sides. The alton of the waters
for hundreds of years has gradually washed
away the high hills round about, and ths
trees that once covered the high table lands
now lie in the valley beneath. Immense
trunks, some of which will measure five feet
in diameter, are broken and scattered over
a surface of 800 acres Limbs and twigs
cover the sand in every direction. There
are numerous blocks or trunks of this petri-
fed wood that have the appearance of hav.
ing been just cut down by the woodmana
axes, and the chips are thrown around on
the ground so that one instinctively picks
them up as he would in the log camps Of
Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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