The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-08-19

Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.
Mexico has over 13, 600 miles of telegraph
lines.
1t is said that out of every 100 female
school teachers seven marry every year.
The Southern Methodist Church proposes
to raise 1926, 900 for missions in 1885 and
1886.
Only eight of the 4,169 samples of milk
examined in Berlin in April were con-
demned.
Washington has 1886 licensed dogs or
more in proportion than any other city in
the Union.
Human blood can be distinguished from
that of dog by the microscopic, but il
cannot from that Of hog.
With 4,575 miles of navigable rivers and
1000 miles of canals, the French railways
encounter some competition.
killed in San Francisco during the past year
through the agency of cable cars, nc
cording to the records of the Coroner's Of
fee.
A committee of the British Medical As
ISOLATION is collecting information concern
ing the experience and habits of persons
who have attained the age of eighty or
over.
The phenomenon of red hail, the colon.
Ing matter, being difused throughout SOME
# Oh tha pth hait, xybtf
was lately observed in the English county
of Down.
BY the latest estimates the fisheries of
Great Britain are rated worth $50, 900, 900
annually, the United States second in the
world at $40, 900, 900, and Russia third at
6,250,000.
A tree growing in New Zealand proves
fatal to birds in singular way A gummy
substance is emitted from the seed vessels
and birds get so covered with the fluid that
they are unable TO fly.
A senshell was recently ploughed up on
farm in Wyoming, Mich. 1t is of the conct
shell form and is twenty inches in circum
ference. ProfessorStrong saysit was brough
there by the mound builders.
The rogues' gallery of Berlin has beef
increased during the last yenr at the rate o
Utmost one picture day, and 124 criminal
have been identified by means of the col
lection in the same interval of Time
A Gascon having made portfolio into al
umbrella, a Norman in order that he nigh
not be behind in ingenuity, made snuff
box in the shape Of pistol, and by mean
of q slight spring, fired the snuff up hi
nose.
If water from which every particle of al
has been extracted be heated above tn
boiling point il will not give off nnch steam
But if any rough-surfaced body be droppe
therein, the liquid win be Instantly con
verted into steam, with enormous explosiy
force.
The pneumatic postal service in Parii
lately completed, cost over $500, 900, an
the length of the pipes is over thirty-fou
miles. The charge for transmitting lettt
to any place within the Notifications is thre
cents. The service covers extreme point
about seven miles apart.
A curious historical document concernin
Panama canal exists in the archives {
Venezuela, bearing the date of 1850.
records that canal project was broache
in the reign of Philip II, and Flemish OF
gineers surveyed the territory and declare
the obstacles to be not insurmountable.
1t is stated that at the present time nearl
10000 acres of land are uncultivated
Berkshire, in the neighborhood of Lan
bourne, and within sixty miles of Londor
II has hitherto cost as much to convey cor
from Lambourne to London rs from Oh
cago to London, but it may be hoped thu
this state of things will be remedied by th
opening of new line of railway which wi
run through the district.