The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.

The mean elevation of this country above
the sea is 1900 feet, and the average rain
fall is 90 inches.
The ties and wood fuel used by the rail
roads of the United States cost annually
about S25, 100000.
A house an hour is built in London, and
an ayeage of ten people a day, including
Sundays, are damaged by cabs.
A Juvenile farmer, eight years old, who
ploughs almost as well as his veteran father,
is claimed by Henry county, Ga.
At the end of 1884 there were 285, 900
miles of railway in the world, which would
make a line from the earth to the moon,
with 35, 600 miles TO spare.
OF the 900 postmasters' reports which
are sent to the department at Washington,
the second best, in point Of style and &C
curacy, is said to be lady's.
COW attached to the gubernatorial man,
sion at jefferson City, Mo-, having beer
MIXED five years by convicts now refuses to
allow anybody in citizens dress to approach
her.
Charles, Samuel and William Robinson.
each asserted to be seven feet eleven inches
tall, and four sisters, averaging six feet two
inches, make up the tallest family in Knox
vile, Iowa.
The banking firm of Rothschild, in Lon
don, employ women exclusively as coupon
counters, and experience shows that they
are for more reliable and intelligent than
the male employees
The six children of Kansas man have nc
names, and he proposes that they shall
choose names for themselves when they are
old enough. There will be trouble should
all the children happen to want TO name
themselves after their pa.
The railroad bridge over the Pot,
River Mt Harper's Ferry is the Gretna Green
of clipping lovers from all the country round
about. More marriages take place ON this
structure in a year than in any church il
Virginia. West Virginia or Maryland the
:hree States that meet at this historic noun
tain gap.
The Boston police and fremen are nov
regularly instructed and examined on emer
gency subjects, and the instances recorde,
Of splints carefully adjusted before the sui
ferers were conveyed to the hospital, o
hemorrhages arrested, and of resuscitatioi
from drowning, afforded evidence of tn,
good that is being accomplished. Officia
records of such cases are kept at the police
stations
Manufacturers or wood mosaic assert thai
they have found by experiments that hard
maple on end is from four to five times as
durable MS marble and equally as durable
as the hardest backed tile. 1t is reported
that two end-wood floors were laid in the
elevators of public building in Chicago,
,bout fifteen months ago, and That the floor,
are in as good condition as when first laid.
although each elevator carries from 200 tt
1000 people daily.
A good joks is told on a sheriff OF south
Georgia county, who went out in the country
10 " level " on mule, but being told thai
the mules great age exempted him from
levy, the sheriff retraced his steps to town
In reference thereto. He found that mule
age was no bar to levy and went back
and found that the mule had disappeared
the owner having availed himself of th,
interim in running of the animal
The average public speaker says in OF
hour what if printed, would fill ffteer
octave pages. If the ordinary conversation
OF one day Of persons in private life be esti
mated equivalent to four hours CONSECUTIVE
speaking, man says in one week what, i
printed. would be ON octave volume of 32
pages. In one year he speaks fifty-two sucl
volumes, and in thirty years he would hay
An extensive library of 800 volumes. |
isa matter of rejoicing that the talk o
society is not thus printed and perpetuated