The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here mud There.


Facts, Fancies and conceits Picked From
Here and There.
Only ten tunes were known in New Eng.
land in the first ninety years.
The oldest man in Leonardville, Neb., ID
the tallest, the heaviest and the richest.
The number of recruits to be called out
for the Russian army and navy this year is
100000.
An Austrian artillery lieutenant committed
suicide lately by shooting himself with q
large cannon.
A Georgia man tried to cut the cords in
the feet of his daughter so that she could
not imperil her soul by dancing.
Chile pays bounty Of $5 head for the
scalps of condors, but the birds are so shy
that il does not pay to hunt them.
Grape plants are to be taken from this
country by the Austrian Government, in the
hope that fresh vines will resist the destroy
ing insects.
So large o colony of Japanese reside in
Vienna that Buddhist temple is to be
erected there. The decorations and furni-
ture will be sent direct from Japan.
The Governor General Of Alsace-I Lorraine
gets $45, 900 year and o splendid resi-
dence. The Office is vacant and will prob
ably be given to member of the royal
family.
AT Kalamazoo, Mich, there are thirty
commission houses engaged in the sale of
celery. The result of last years crop was
$165,Oo0 to producers and $780, 900 to
dealers.
Gray uniforms were given to several Brit
sh militia regiments, greatly to the displeG-
sure Of the amateur soldiers, who have just
boon Modified by return to their beloved
scarlet.
London dealers in birds received, when
the fashion was at its height, single con-
signment OF 80, 900 humming birds, and an
other OF one time received $4,000 aquatic
birds and 300, 900 wings.
Over $4,000 pairs of shoes were sent out
by the English Government to the 5000 or
10000 men who took part in the Nile expe-
lition, and yet the officers are still making
complaints thar the army was shoeless
Work in Russian factories is by new law
forbidden between eight o'clock at night
and five in the morning. 1t was not out of
regard for the employees, but with view to
lessening overproduction that this has been
done.
In Rio Janeiro is a large and gloomy con.
vent in which the wives of soldiers are CON.
fined during their husbands absence. The
barbarous custom is sanctioped by age, and
ono woman has been confined twenty-five
long and dreary years.
The new water works Mt Bismarck, OAK,
are estimated to cost S100, 900, and will not
be completed this year. The water of the
Missouri is to be pumped into n reservoir
LA feet above the business part of the city,
which will carry it to any building.
II is estimated that for this season the
sales of Irvine for elf-binding harvest ina
chimes in De Witt county, ILL.,, will amount
to not less than 40, 900 pound 8, or 90 tons,
at a cost of &c, 400.
At Berne, in Switzerland, large Bengal
tiger escaped the other day from menag-
erie. Instead of escaping at large, however,
or attacking any human being 1t contented
itself with killing large Newfoundland
dog and guarding the body until it was. re-
captured.
The Peruvians nre peculiar people. TIL,
roofs of the dwellings are always perfectly
fiat, and among the common people are used
as barnyards and henneries Very often a
COW spends all her days ON the roof of her
owners residence being taken up when
calf and taken down at the end of life MS
fresh beef. In the meantime she is fed on
Stops from the kitchen and bundles of
alfalfa, the South American clover, which
the Indians bring in from the country on
their own shoulders or on the backs of
mules. Chicken coops are more common
on the roofs Of dwellings, and in the thiekly
populated portions of town your neighbors
cocks waken you at daylight with reminder
of st. Peter.