The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts Fanries and Conceiis Picked From
Here and There.

Here aud There.
Maine paid bounty on $40 lears last year.
An eleven year-old boy OF Erie has hanged
himself rather than take medicine.
The little girl who called the ostrich the
bird with the bonnet tail put it about right.
Somebody says the average size of Aneri-
can families has decreased one-tenth since
1870.
Susan B. Anthony began life as school
teacher at IS month, and in fifteen years
saved $780,
There are SO, 779 organized militia in the
United States, and $685. SOC men available
FOR military duty.
twenty-five ex-confederate officers are in
the United States Senate, and more than
fifty in the House.
The Standard Oh Company, says the Ohio
State Journal, employs 80, 900 men, not in.
Guiding Statesmen.
The latest traffic OF the smugglers between
Buffalo and Canada is in dead bodies fol
G.naiian dissection rooms.
An Italian farmer is planting tract neal
Portland, Oregon, with Italian chestnuts
He is confident of success In their cultiva
ton.
The colored people Of Philadelphia have
purchased ground ON which to erect an in.
dustrial school for colored children at q cost
Of 100000.
Anumber of planters at Matamoras, Cuba,
have determined to use the molasses pro-
duced on their estates as manure, the low
prices falling short Of paying the expenses
of freight, storage, etc.
Handsome fortunes have been made in
the Kennebec ice business, but the man
who showed the Kennebeckers how to do
1t, who introduced Kennebec ice to thu
world and gave it its first boom, is to-da,
not worth q dollar.
The deepest gold mine in the world, say,
the Alta California, is the Eureka, in Cali
fornia, which is down 1890 feet, or 500 feet
below the level of the sea. The deepest
silver mine is the Mexican, on the Comstock,
which is down $500 feet.
ergo, four from Boston, and seven from
other American cities are said to be now
living in Canada. The majority of them
have taken up their residence in Montreal OF
its immediate neighborhood.
An Arizona editor having got his rival IL
jail for assault and batter, thus gloats owe
dim: Our qnondam contemporary Ii
lying as usuel-this time in jail. We un.
derstand that the saloon-keepers are NOV.
ing heaven and earth to get him out, MS
their business has fallen of since he las
been eooped. When he gets out, what a
thirst he will have"
The largest room in the world under enc
roof and unbroken by pillars is at ST. Peters
burg. II is GO feet long by $50 feet in
breadth. BY daylight it is used for military
displays, and q battalion can completely
maneuvre in 1t. Twenty thousand wa,
tapers are required to light it. The roof Of
this structure is n single arch of iron, ano
II exhibits remarkable engineering skill in
he architect.
A few days ago three Mexican horse
thieves were caught near Carrizo Springs,
Texas, by some rangers, and are alleged to
have been lynched. Some members Of the
band escaped and were pursued. The Next
cans started for the Rio Grande. Sheriff
Tomlinson joined the rangers with two OF
his deputy sheriffs and the pursuit WA
pushed with yigor. The Texans overlook
the Mexicans, who had been heavily rein.
forced by other members Of the band, and
battle ensued, in which a number were
killed on both sides.
An Atlanta, Ga, paper, giving an account
of Carl Schurz's recent lecture in that city,
says; He advocated good housekeeping
and said soda biscuit and bad pie would
ruin any mans stomach, and whom the
stomach 10 ruined the man is done for. He
related some interesting stories illustrating
the high esteem in which q good housewife
Ia held. One Of these was Bismarck's wife,
who carried the keys dangling by her
side, and he said that to q man Of sense
there is an attraction about a bunch Ct keys
which q bunch of diamonds never pos.
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