The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-06-24
ITEM S OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conccifs Picked From
Here and There.

Here and There.
Friction matches are now made tk the
rate Of "a, 900 per minute.
Glucose is about three-fifths as sweet as
cane sugar.
The total length of the submarine cable
now in use is quoted at 1000 miles.
Statistics show that in Massachusetts since
1857 pneumonia has grown almost twice as
fast as the population.
traveller through the South writes that
white men are seldom seen working in the
fields, the negroes doing the work.
man out West was offered plate OF
nacaroni, but declined it, declaring that
they couldn't play off any billed pipestems
ON him."
man in Savannah has chewed plug on
one side of his mouth for twenty years. He
has now quit, for the reason that the side
Of his face on which he chews is completely
paralyzed
The general prevalence of neuralgia OF
the head and face among women ia now
charged to the absurdly diminutlve hats and
bonnets prescribed by fashion. The British
Medical journal sounds the alarm.
Northern Italy has become marvel of
fertility by the system Of irrigating canals
which yield 220,000 gallons Of water per
second, distributed over $500, 800 acres.
The engineering works are conducted ON
vast scale; and every drop of water is uti-
hzed.
Mystery gold," composition of plati-
mum, tin and copper, which stands ordinary
acid tests and is said to weigh ,es much MS
pure gold, 10 in favor in Englaifd for articles
OF jewelry, and has been availed of by
counterfeiters for the manufacture of soy.
sreigns
The phrase printers devil" owes its
origin to the fact that the first errand hoy
employed by William Caxton, the first print
er, was the son of gentleman of French
descent named De Vile, or Desille and the
name thus came TO be applied to printers
apprentices.
The sons of Ave of the most prominent
shoe manufacturers in Germany are now in
this country employed in different shoe fac
tories, their object being to study the besI
features of the American methods of shoe
making. 1t is reported that more German.
are coming here for the same purpose.
Prof. @. v. Riley, the entomoloeist of the
Agricultural Department, says that the
country will soon be visited by two great
broods of locusts, of the seventeen and
thirteen-year varieties. and that this will be
the first time in 22l years that they have
appeared in conjunction. The injury they
will infict will probably be confined to fruit
trees.
In Washington street window, Boston,
are five pair of shoes which look rs il they
had been made for MS many giants. The,
are thirteen inches long by Ave wide, anG
are manufactured of stout pebble grair
leather. The order Tor them came from
Nashville, Tenn, and they are said to be in.
tended for mother and four daughters. =
Boston Adrertiser.
Philadelphia has quite number of rich
colored people. John Mckee, real estate
dealer, is worth $500, 900. Vim. Still has
acquired $500, 900 in the cml business.
Robert Purvis is worth $3.50, 900. che
widow - Henry Jones has $50, 900, which
her husband cleared as caterer Thomas
Boiling, -four merchant il rich. So is
VIM. G. Harvey, and several more colored
men in tho Quaker City are we'll to do.
The romantic town Of " Sucker Flat" Q
once lively and prosperous town in Califor-
MIA, will soon cease to engage the attention
OF geographers. The main part of the town
has been burned, and most of the dwelling
houses have been deserted or torn down.
Even the main street Of what was once 4
town has been mined away, and it is impos-
sible to get through with team. num-
Der of the deserted dwellings, are in good
condition, and still look pretty with their
flower gardens and creeping vines and roses
In Cuba two hours before paper is dis
tributed on the street copy must be sent
with the editors name, to the government
and one to the Censor. When the paper is
returned with the Censors Endorsement the
paper may go out to the ublic One of the
newspapers in Havana disregards the law,
publishes what 1t pleases and when 1t gets
ready. Every few weeks the government
fines the editor and suppresses the paper
The next day the paper appears under new
name. Its frequent brushes with the gov
eminent advertise it, and people buy 1t to
SEQ what new indiseretion 1t has committed.
The subscription price is S2a year.