The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked Frota
Here and There.

Yale professors own over $500, 900 worth
of real estate in New Haven.
The most decisive battle in its results, OF
antiquity was Marathon, 400 B. g. 1t saved
Europe from being Orientalized.
The bridal gift OF California man to his
daughter was q spirited horse, in the fro,
riding of which she was thrown and killed
An epicurean doctor says that in order to
obtain the full favor of butter, the bread
upon which it is spread should be introduce
ed into the mouth with the buttered surface
downward.
Absolute prohibition prevails in nearly
one hundred counties of Georgia, and par.
tial prohibition in few more counties leay-
ing only % of the 1873 counties In the State
untouched by the temperance agitation.
The sun-spot fend will be in his glory
this summer. A whole belt of spots extends
clenr across the SUMS disk, and just coming
into view on the eastern edge is n cluster of
them that beats the record for size and ap-
parent activity.
A report comes from Knott county, Ken
lucky, that the Hall party, numbering 81,
and the Jones gang numbering IS, are all
under arms, and laying for +" each other
little family misunderstanding like this
ought to be kept out of the papers.
stork in Court Square, Memphis, at
tracts good deal.of attention. With one of
his wings trimmed he cannot fly and will
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Or leg. While standing 80 quietly he has
frequent chances to catch English sparrows.
He eats few of them each day.
A mountain explorer, just returned from
Asin, states that, during four months resi-
dence at height of Is, 900 feet above the
sea, his pulse, normally only SO beats per
minute, seldom fell below 100 beats per
minute, and his respirations were often twice
As numerous as at ordinary levels.
septuagenarian forger of Watertown,
Wis, was released from prison the other
day and immediately rearrested for forg-
cry committed just previous to his incar-
eeration, for which he had not been sentene-
cd. The man is poor helpless invalid
afflicted with rheumatism, and the Judge
sent him to Jail for four days only.
When chief dies in Sitka his wives pass
to his next heir, and unless these relics pnr.
chase their freedom with blankets, they are
united to their grandson or nephew as q
matter Of course. High-strung young ST.
washes sometimes scorn these legacies, and
then there is war, all the widows resenting
all sul ,aJ Iii,
The time of day is announced every day
at Woolwich, England, at one p. M. and
hale past nine p. NJ. by firing off blank
charge of powder from nine-p FOUNDER
bronze gun. Notwithstand ding this fact,
courageous little sparrow has made her nest
in one of the boxes of the carriage on which
the gun rests, and has Matched out five little
sparrows.
Among ether forms of animal life which
have disappeared from the earth is the sea
COW. This great animal, which hrs been
variously chased with the whales with wall
ruses and seals, and with elephants, was
toothless vegetable feeder, living along the
shore in shallow water, and often weighing
three or four tons. II was seen alive and
described in l74l, but in 1880 it appeared
to have become entirely extinct
In the South, if you do not know mans
name, you can always command respect
ful hearing by calling him Colonel" In
New England you are safe TO address any
one MS Professor" In Chicago every
body's front name is Say" In New York
City Boss !" will usually fetch stranger
to company front. But at Chautauque,
Ocean Grove and Island Park il you do not
address man as 90 Doctor" you are likely
to get an ecclesiastical cold shake The
Judge.
More than $500, 600 cattle Craze on the
green plains east of the Rocky Mountains
and their value is estimated at about $780,
100000. Nearly $1,000, 900 acres of this
grazing land, together with the herds there
on, are owned by English syndicates and
English noblemen. Life ON the ranches has
many attractions, but the particular hard
ship of which the ranch occupants complain
is that they never have any fresh beef.
There is beef, beef everywhere, but not a
pound to eat - Boston Post