The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-06-03
ITEMS oF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceiis Picked From
Here and There.

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Leather wheels are made in France for
railway carriages.
The manufacture of broom corn tooth
picks is growing Kansas industry.
The number of mules attached to hearse
denotes the responsibility of funeral Of
Rio Janeiro.
Even in Dakota the farmers are growing
tired of grain farming and advocate mixed
husbandry.
A New Jerseyman has planted 200, 900
cocoanuts at Biscayne Bay, Fla, and will
increase the number to 900, 900.
No man, it is said, can enlist in the regu.
lar army of China until he has shown his
courage by having tooth pulled.
There are still twenty -four turnpike COM
panies in Lancaster county, Pa, most of
them doing profitable business and fifteen
of them leading directly into the city Of
Lancaster.
German colonists in West Africa have
infinitely examined the district of Angra
Pequena for minerals, and find that the
ground is rich in copper and lend, while
traces are also visible of silver and gold.
The New Orleans Picayune of May l is
printed on paper madc of new material
bagasse, the crushed refuse of the stalks of
he sugar cane. The paper is fine and
smooth with almost silk-like surface.
When the Governor of Georgia gives
State dinner, one course is always baked
possum. The Governor AYERS that roast
pig is juiceless diet as compared with pos
sum, and prophesies that 'possum breeding
is a coming industry.
Two boys were convicted at Virginia,
New, for filling the flues of the schoohouse
with paper, SO TINT the stoves would not
draw, and the rooms were filled with n
dense smoke. They were sent to iail for
three days.
After all, the French are the only really
progressive people. A man who entered q
theatre in Paris recently during the per-
Torrance and walked down the aisle with a
pair of squeaky shoes was handed over to
the police for committing disturbance.
He will probably plead insanity to prevent
being guillotined.
A lady not n resident of Lisbon, d. T.,
had house and lot there and the city or
dered her to build sidewalk by it. She
neglected or refused to build it and the city
constructed the walk and sent her bill for
300. She waxed wroth, had the house
torn down and taken away on the cars, and
she then informed the city authorities they
might have the old lot
Tho camphor laurel, native of China
and the tree from which most OF the cam.
phor of commerce is obtained, seems to have
been introduced successfully in California,
one tree in Sacramento having attained a
height of thirty feet The wood, every part
of which smells strongly of oamphor is light
and durable, but liable to injury from in
sects and much favored by onbuet makers.
The seven-year-old son of a wealthy resi-
dent of Taraton, Mexico, was kidnapped
recently, and the father was informed thai
the child would be killed If ransom OF
5000 was not deposited in certain place
within two days. BY accident the note to
The father was not delivered until too late
to negotiate with tho criminals. AT the ex-
piration of the second day tho father found
the horribly mutilated body Of the child in
his courtyard. The bows sister, aged 10
years, on seeing her brothers corpse, fell
dead. The father became raving maniac