The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.


A blind Pittsburg beggar who died .
few days since had over $5, 900 in savings
bank
Within four years past, in Tazewell, Rus
sell, and Washington Counties, Virginia,
1900 men and 8, 900 horses have been en-
gagged in the walnut lumber trade, bringing
into these counties 81, 500, 900. One walnut
tree realized 5000.
Fey have not only adopted but are en-
forcing the full ton ordinance against
the Brooklyn coal dealers. One day the
officials weighed all the coal they found on
its way to buyers. Not load was honest
varying from l IT'S to 1850 pounds.
Franklin was married at 81; Mozart al
l5; Byron, Washington, Wellington and
Bonaparte OF OF; Peel at 32 Wadsworth
at SO; Wilberforce at 49,; Luther at AZ;
Addison at A, and old Parr, for the third
time, at 1902. While there's life there's
hope.
Sixty tons of rock are reported to hayo
fallen from the Natural Bridge in Virginia
the other day, with deafening roar, but
the curved lines of the bridge were not dis
turbed. This is said to have been the first
fall of rock from the bridge since it was
struck by lightning in 1889.
A deaf family in New Hampshire has
been traced back to the fourteenth century
in England, and in all that time has regu-
larly shown succession of deaf mutes In
Maine there is family in which there are
ninety-fve deaf mutes, all of them connect
ed by blood or marriage.
The Grow Indians of Montana have lately
given way to civilized usages in the dispos-
al of their dead. They have abandoned the
burial platforms on which the remains of
the departed were placed, and have adopted
ordinary modes of interment. The infu-
ence of the missionaries and agents has eff.
fected this change.
A singular example of method in madness
was afforded in Yorkshire recently rail
way signalman went out Of his mind sud
denly, so far as those about him could judge
and departed from the scene of his duties
Before doing SO, however, he had put all
the signals at " danger" and thus rendered
an accident impossible.
A plan is on foot in North Carolina Ia
drain the swamp lands of the State by con.
vict labor. There are vast tracts of land
which need only drainage to make them a,
valuable as any arabic or pasture land il
the State. Hundreds of convicts will be
available for the purpose. South Caroline
would like to try the same plan.
A farmer on Russian River, CAL, tel
years ago owned ono hundred acres O.
wheat land, from which he derived an mn
nual profit of 81 900. He cut ii into five
acre tracts and sold it TO hop and fruil
growers. Now the same one hundred acres
supports eleven families and yielded this
year profit of 1872, 900, single acre pro.
ducing 5000 in plums.
In the lead production of different coun
tries Spain holds the first place, the amour
reaching some 100, 900 tons in one year. O,
one-sixth more than America, which comes
next on the list, while Germany follows
with 10000. OF Spain's total production
some 81, 200 tons are derived from one dis.
trict, that of Linares in which more thn1
800 mines are registered.
Dr. Malins, in o recent lecture at Bir-
mingham, said that the brain requires twelve
hours Of sleep at four years old, gradually
diminishing by hours and half hours to ten
hours at fourteen, and thence to eight hours
when the body is full grown and formed.
Goethe, in his most active productive pc.
Rod, needed nine hours, and took them /;
Hant--the most laborious Of students-was
strict in never taking less than seven. Nor
does 1t appear that those who have syste.
matically tried to cheat nature Of this CHIEF
right have been in any sense gamers Of time
for their work. It may be paradox, bul
is not the less truth that what is given t.
sleep Is gained to labor