The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-28
TENS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Faneies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.

Facts, Fnneies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.
Mrs. E. d. E. N. Southworth il in hel
sixty-ffth year, and engaged upon her sixty
fifth novel.
/. is estimated that $50 boy babies have
been named after Grover Cleveland since
his election.
A father and son are under sentence o.
death in a Louisiana prison, and for sepa
rate and distinct murders.
In a tax suit the Supreme Court of Wis
consin has decided that telephone lines come
under the act authorizing the construction
of telegraph lines
Forest Mcneil made balloon ascension
at West Point, Ga. on Christmas day. The
balloon soon descended rapidly and he fell
into the Chattahoochee River and was
drowned.
There are more applicants for enlistments
in the army at the recruiting office in Phila-
delphia than can be received, many of the
applicants being men of families. 1t is all
owing to the hard times.
The population of the United States is
now reckoned at 57,700, 1000, and ms the
average increase is , per cent, exclusive of
immigration, in couple of years or 50 more
we can boast of sixty millions.
r. II. Stoddard says that Hawthorne was
never well paid, as literary payment is
understood now, even in the fitness of his
fame. He remembers the novelist once
showing him an order from publisher of
SO per printed page for story.
A New York school commissioner, Mr..
Devoe, thinks children should not be adj
mitted to school until they are 6 years old.
Deficient accommodation is his reason, but
many enlightened people believe that for
health reasons children should not be forced
into school until of that age.
A tragic lynching occurred at Clayton,
N. c., recently. Two negroes arrested foi
burglary and an assault en- clerk in a store
were taken from the lookup by masked
men, carried to the bridge over the Neuse
River and, with arms and legs pinioned,
dropped into the water forty feet beneath.
The Springfield armory shops will turn
out more rifles than ever before since the
war, the average being no day. Last
years product was 81, 900, and the product
the year before was $1,000. Tue amount
of work depends on the amount of the APP.
preparation, which is about $40, 600 year.
/" Has Burlington n very intellectual con-
munity7 ?" asked the new minister Intel
lectual, parson? Well should construe.
There's three dancing clubs on North Hill,
two skating Kinks downtown, four bowling
alleys ON Main street, weekly hop ut the
South Hill barn, and school house ON
West Hill. Intellectual parson? Town
Jest runs to brains"
There was large boiler of scalding water
over q fire in the yard, and several black
children playing near it. Suddenly shrill
voice was heard from inside the shanty ::
"You, George Washington, keep away from
dat ar biler. Directly You is gwine ter up
set de biler and scald yerself to def, and
when you is, you'll be de fuit one to say
'Twasn't me, nanny"
Hiram Price, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, recently remarked: There are
100000 inhabitants in Washington, which
Is the capital of this great nntion and the
central point Of its refinement and culture,
and yet there is more drunkenness and
crime here than among the $50, 900 Indians
who are sayages, aud have never felt the
elevatipg influence of our modern ciyiliza
ton"
The late President Peck, OF the Terre
Haute and indianapolis Railroad, used twice
a year to walk the entire distance between
indianapolis and Terre Haute, carrying on
his arm peck basket in which he put any
piece of iron he saw lying near the track,
pieces of spikes, coupling pins or shackles.
When his basket became weighty he would
dump the contents near the track for the
section men to gather.
Captain L. A. Bartlett, of Washington,
who has had much intercourse with the
Japanese, says The French are always
act down as the poltest nation on the globe.
have always wondered why they are nj.
lowed to rob the Japanese Of this title. The
AAShih"u nuaNiiy cOileS Oh breeding 0nI
is studied The politeness of the japanese
is born in him and is natural The latter
accommodates himself more readily thar
any other nationality to the forms, custom,
and usages of modern civilization"
Travellers out on the Rcd Hills, says tn
Hamilton (Tex.) Policy, have often shud
dered at the sight of horned toads, which
are as numerous as blackbirds. The ugl,
creatures are as much dreaded as rattle
snakes, but Chinaman put III all summer
and this fall gathering them. Recently Ii,
made shipment of 1000 of the toads to
San Francisco from which place they will
be sent to China. The toads are there con
yerted into various kinds of medicines
which sell very high. For the cure of hill
and fever they are said to be the fines
things known.
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