The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancfes and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.

Here and There.
The latest wrinkle in handkerchiefs is to
have the border exactly match the color of
the dress.
Nearly 10000, 900 eggs are shipped across
the Atlantic to this country, chiefly from
Antwerp and Hamburg, during the summer
months of each year.
George Washington, of Mount Vernon,
vas once presented BY a Fairfax grand jury
for not keeping his roads in order" The
| since.
| Two 9 or 10 year old boys have arrived al
jamestown, making the 5000 miles from
Norway alone in good shape, with the aid of
caps labeled " jamestown, Oak" st Paul
| { Hmm Globe.
| According to q French medical journal
the mortality of children brought up on
the bottle is frightfully large. The NOR
tality of children who take to the bottle
after having been brought up is also sort o.
soaring.
People who send letters have a way of
writing "Ky." and N. Y" so nearly alike
that the mail of Kentuckians and New York.
srs gets mixed. 1t is always best to write
she name of State in full on the envelore.
-Louisoilie Courier Journal.
A passenger from Nebraska was on the
train that was demolished by the cyclone
near Sioux City, Iowa. As he emerged from
the debris he was heard to mutter +" Well,
this is something. The first mouthful of
fresh air since l left my native State."-
Peoria (IA.) Transcript.
His wife is the only person that believes
all the lies q man tells.-,St. Louis Post
Dispatch. Wrong, as usual His wife is
the only person who processes to believe all
the lies man tells. Between the two state
ments vast gulf Of feminine skeptieism is
Indianapolis Journal
Call girl chick and she smiles call
woman-a hen, and she howls. Call young
woman witch, and she is pleased call an
old woman a witch, and she is indignant.
Call girl kitten, and she rather likes it !;
call woman cat, and she'll hate you.
Queer sex, isn't it Red Bluff Cal. } Neaos
Two Irishman named Moore, living ut
Cavan in the greatest poverty, have sudden
ly found themselves possessed of o large
fortune. 1t seems that their half-brother
emigrated to Buenos Ayres some forty years
ago, and has just died leaving ESQ, 900,
three-fourths of which he has beqneathed
to his brothers, after deducting some trifling
legacies
Two illustrations of how men will moi
/" let well enough alone are given in the
Arlington (Texas) World. One was where
plaintiff, having secured 1875, 900 verdict
against railroad company was dissatisfied,
and got only six cents on the next trial.
The other case was that of a man who was
acquitted Of murder, " and went the same
day and got married.
The old cry of the Southern cotton plant
er has been but slightly varied. In ante
bellum days it used to be ''plant more cot
ton to buy more negroes, and buy more
negroes to plant more cotton" Now the
cry is "plant more cotton to buy more
mules and corn and meat, and buy more
mules and corn and meat to plant more cot
ton. - SdodnnGh (G1.i Times.
An exchange tells the workingman re-
proachfully that strikes in this country cost
$4,000, 900 in single year. But it forgets
that the strikers may have gained six mil
lions worth of good sense by their expert
ments, and that If they did not the defcien
cy was made up in the useful knowledge
gained by fool employers. Strikes are bad
but there is no cure for folly except expert
ence.-Alta- California
1t is difficult to say what constitutes beau
ty in women. The Sandwich Islanders es-
innate women by their weight. The Chinese
require them to have deformed feet and
black teeth. A girl must be tattooed sky
blue and wear a nose ring to satisfy South
Sea Islander. African princes require their
brides to have their teeth fled like those of
saw; and thus goes the world, the critic
ron of beauty differing according to latitude
aud longitude.
Professor Spencer f. Baird, in an open
letter urges those whose drinking water is at
all suspicious, to boil it, especially now that
we are threatened with cholera epidemic
this summer. half hours boiling will, he
says kill all germs of disease that may be
in the water. 1t will not destroy mineral
poisons, but it is effective in dentroying all
organic impurities. Had this been resorted
to in the early stages Of the Plymouth, Pa,
epidemic, he says there would not have been
50 many deaths. There is no water, how
sver apparently pure as 1t may be, that
would not be made more wholesome by
boiling before drinking it.-Neso Bedford
Standard