The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-06-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Gonceits Picked From
Here and There.


Here and There.
One ostrich's egg is equal in weight to
twenty-eight hens eggs.
The wood clip of Oregon will this year
reach II 900, 900 pounds.
The Second Auditor of the Treasury has
45, 900 unsettled claims in the pigeon.holes
of his desk.
William Penland, the sheep king of Nor
row county, CAL, has 90, 900 head of sheep
and 10, 900 acres of land under fence.
In Rouen, France, there is an iron CHM
ney 279 feet high, which was riyited to-
gether and afterward lifted into place with
O crane.
A quarrel, which resulted in the death of
one of the participants, occurred near Johns
Island Ferry, s. c., recently, over piece
of bacon.
One farmer in Queen Anne county, Md,
has recently planted 1000 peach trees, his
orchard now containing $4,000 trees, cover
ing $50 acres. Twenty feet square of soil
is devoted to each tree.
Many-hued birds sold by q street peddler
in Marietta, Ga, the other day were beauti-
full and changed ownership readily. A pur.
chaser of one of these birds placed one OF
its bright tinted feathers in some hot water
and the paint came off.
After repeated trials penny dinners in
London and Birmingham are becoming sue
cessful, though it is admitted that, TO q great
extent, the children of the very poorest
classes are not reached. Half-penny din
ners are now being tried in Birmingham.
A poultce of garden leek leaves will, it is
said, cure the worse case of eorns The
leaves must be bruised and wrapped in
soft, thin cloth. Judging from some talk
we once had with travelling chiropodist
this is important information to not few
persons of both sexes. Augusta Chronicle
A theatrical manager was asked the prop
er pronunciation of drama. at depends
what part of the country one is in," he re-
piled. "In Boston I call it drawmah, in
New York drahma, in Philadelphia drama,
in Chicago drammer but in St. Louis, in
order to make myself solid with the citizens,
| have to talk about the draymy."
During the last 1870 years Russia and Eng
land have enlarged their possessions as fol-
lows: English annexations, 2,650,0
square miles; population, $50 900, 900
Russian annexations, 1912, 900 square
miles; population, II, 1876, 900, which shows
that England's annexations exceed those OF
Russia by l,00s, 600 square miles and 1884,.
865, in population.
A Philadelphia paper suggests that cook
ing be taught in the schools. Nothing is
more important than That the art of preparing
food should be more generally understood
than it now is. Many a family could 1.-Two
much better than it now does on a much
less expenditure if the cook was more skill
full. But, in considering the alvisability
of teaching cooking in schools, the fact that
there must be some limit to the variety OF
subjects treated in common schools should
not be lost sight Of -Psocidencs Star.
A letter describing the markets Of New
Orleans says that everything is sold by the
eye, and there is no standard Of measure
Nine-tenths Of the hundreds who sell in the
noted French market of the city do not know
what bushel or a peck is. They buy their
vegetables by the lot and place them on
little piles on tables. These piles are of
different sizes and prices. The buyer looks
at the piles and buys that which no thinks
is biggest and best. Sometimes buckets
and boxes are used to measure, but they are
of all kinds and shapes.
1t ia general complaint, made mostly by
people who do not know much of what they
are talking about, that society girls do no.
thing but eat, sleep, dress and firt. Many
of the alleged lazy damsels could tell diff.
lerent story, If they would, and Southern
papa comes to the defence of Southern girls
by saying that two New Orleans maidens
are doing driving business MS manufacture.
ers Of pickles. They began just for fun, '
but now they have jars made by the hun
dreds with their initials stamped upon them,
and have more orders than they can fill.
Some idea Of the immense amount of capt.
tai invested in the cattle business in Wyom.
ing may be gotten from these figures =
The Swan Cattle Company has capital OF
$4,000, 600; Union Cattle Company, 50,
600, 600; Powder River Cattle Company,
$1,000, 900; Searight Cattle Company, ST..
10000; Standard Cattle Company, ST.
000, 600; .lnglo-American Cattle Company,
$500, Converse Cattle Company, ST.
100000; Warren Cattle Company, $780,
900, and Carey & Brother, $l,000,0 900. In
addition there are numberless smaller COM
panies with capitals ranging from 100000
to 100000, besides scores of ranclmep
who run herds of 800 head and upward.
The dividends paid by the large colnp.pies
to stockholders range from TO - per yent
In some instances as much as 90 per cent
hos been paid.