The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies ana Conceifs Picked Frem
Here aud There.

Boston man has planted square mile
of Kansas prairie with trees, as specula
ton.
Buenos Ayres has $500 street lamps, 81
miles of paved streets, LOO licensed hack,
and AIS licensed express wagons, five
street railway companies, with 90 miles Of
track. carrying 1850, 600 passengers month.
ly.
The Maluva tree of Central India bears
flowers which are now being exported to
Europe for their sugar, of which they con-
tain more than half their weight. The tree
resembles the oak, and single specimen
sometimes bears ton of flowers.
A Spanish doctor, named Forino, has cal
culated that, supposing 300 cigars are rolled
in day, the movement of the fingers is re-
peated 274, 500 times in year of 200 work
ing days. This often causes professional
cramp, so-called cigarroller's cramp.
Thimbles lined with India rubber are now
employed, and are said not TO fall off so
easily as the ordinary unlined thimble.
They are also warmer to the skin, and free
from the metallic " rust which sometimes
takes the form of verdgris, substance of
poisonous nature.
When the King of Portugal was in Eng
land Queen Victoria presented Edwin Land
seer to His Majesty his a painter whose
works she had been collecting. "Ah, Sir
Edwin" exclaimed the king, delighted to
make your acquaintance. I was always very
fond of beasts.n
A forcible illustration of the weight of
the atmosphere was recently given by a
lecturer in London, who said that the air,
which scarcely appears to be matter at all,
is SO enormous in mass that it really presses
with nearly a ton to each square foot, so
that the weight of all the buildings in the
worlds metropolis, for instance is less than
that of the air above them.
Drunken men often meet with mishaps,
such as falls, blows or shocks that would
kill sober man. The reason of this inn
munity is that the nerve centres are SO much
paralyzed in the drunken man as not to be
affected by the shock of the fall, which in q
sober man would have acted upon them 30
violently as to stop the heart, arrest the cir
culation and cause instant death.
The throne of the Empress of Ruesia is
completely covered with plates of gold and
contains !, 500 rubies and 5000 turquoises,
besides many other rare and costly gems.
The throne of the Gar, known as the dia-
mond throne, is truly marvel. 1t is gen
orally conceded that Russia possesses more
precious stones than any other nation, q
majority of which were procured at the ex-
pense of blood.
An example of the extraordinary high
prices paid for articles of food during the
Revolution is recorded on leaf bearing the
date November 81, 1878, from the manifest
of the English ship William & Anne, which
was captured by one of Paul Jones' cruisers
In United States money the prices read as
follows: Flour, $50 barrel pork, 300
barrel peas $12 bushel rum, 1913 a
gallon; butter, 1925 pound.
An original and very clever method Of
smuggling was found out q short time ago
at Hull While unloading the steamer Eliza
beth, from Hamburg, the men came upon
several beams of wood. The end of one of
these was bent through coming in violent
contact with some other object. The Gus
tom House officer discovered that the beam
was hollow and filled with tobacco and
cigass. The rest of the beams, about eight
or nine, were also stuffed fuli with tobacco.
Silk culture was introduced in Georgia in
1872 and made some progress. Queen Caro-
line is alleged to have worn gown of
Georgia silk on o certain State occasion, and
Bayarian colony, near Savannah, appeared
to have produced quite good deal of raw
silk, as in 177l-72 it exported 1873 pounds
of raw silk TO England. In 1850 Georgia
produced 6,300 pounds of cocoons and 20,-
900 pounds in 1865. From 1850 to 1854
the same colony exported raw silk valued
at IS, 500.