The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Coneeits Picked From
t=l Here and There.

<-sotsi rHhcies ana C0nceits Picked From
Here and There.
Two hundred and forty-one DEGREES were
issued from the divorce courts in Philadel.
phia in 1884.
Next to California, Kansas is the largest
wheat producer of the States. The Inst
crop is probably in excess of 10000, 900
bushels.
The statistics of Ia Gloucester fisheries
show that during the past year I6 vessels
and 131 men were lost, leaving so widows
and &C fatherless children.
An old attnche of the Washington Capt.
toll says that in former days professional
speech-writers used to get from 800 to $3.50
from Congressman for good grafton.
The cholera epidemic has cost Italy owe,
1856, 900 in actual expenditure, without
reckoning tho loss of the annual tourist har
vest, which is estimated at above $780,.
900.
1t is said that there are a hundred hot
springs within half mile of the town of
Glenwood, in Garfield County, Col. One
of them forms pool several hundred feet
long. which is used for bathing.
. just year ago." said New Hanp-
shire man, "my brother dropped dead on
this spot of apoplexy. Tom was -" But
at this point he went to join his brother,
dropping dead of the same ailment.
There is not mile of railroad not q bank,
not telegraph Office in Calhoun County,
H., though it has a population of about g..
000 The typical resident is said to be part
hunter and part farmer, with decided
leaning to leisure.
There is a cattle queen named Rogers near
Corpus Christi, Texas, who owns 40. 900
cattle, aud is worth 81 900, 900. She is the
financial agent of the ranch, keeps the
pocketbook aud oversees the stock, while
she sends her second husband to the Texas
Legislature.
The happiest policemen in the world are
thought to be in Mexico. There are never
any fires everybody goes TO bed early and
ladies' do their shopping in close carriages.
A revolution is the chief necessity for
policeman, and to prevent revolutions
policeman is stationed at every street corner
When ex-senator Stewart built his pic.
turesque castle in Washington some dozer
years ago he tried to persuade the other
Senator from Nevada, Senator Jones, to
build there too but Mr. Jones said he didn't
want foreign mission, and preferred life
in town. Now the region is built up most
handsomely, aad land there is worth ten
dollars foot.
1t was during Madisons term that the Ex-
scutiye Mansion got the name of being the
White House. After being burned by the
British the walls of the building, which are
Of freestone, were much smoked mp. To
cure the defect, when the honse was rebuilt
the walls were painted white. They have
been left painted white since, hence the
name White House.
General Grant was about the only one OF
.he well known men who failed last year
who have seriously suffered Mr. Willard
was not left quite hopeless Mr.. George /.
Seney manages TO exist on the property he
gave his wife Mr.. Fish lives in the cor.
geous apartments he previously occupied
in the Mystic Flats; Mr.. Ferdinand Ward
is in Jail, but he is in comparative luxury
there, aud his family are not suffering.
The will of George Gardner, of Boston
and Beverly Mass, n millionaire, leaves the
bulk of his property in the hands Of trus-
tees. They are directed to pay to his wife
each year 1.16l Troy ounces of pure gold,
and in addition, if she wants it, $4,000
cash. It is said TINT when the will was
made this quantity of gold represented his
gife's exact weight. The remainder of tho
income of the estate is TO be divided among
his relatives.
A California paper, the Orevlle Mercury,
is responsible for the following remarkable
tale: A man engaged near Hurleton late
ly in filling up an old mining shaft found
that thousands of swallows had built their
nests and made their homes in the shaft,
aud they few out in great numbers as he
shovelled. After working time he went
home, but returned the following morning.
No sooner had he begun his work than out
tie SMhlio"S INV III looou ho W"o
startled by a cold Shiny, wriggling snake
falling upon his back. He supposed it came
from bush near by, but, on looking up,
beheld cloud of birds holding snakes in
their claws, which they were trying to lei
fall on their enemy 1t is needless to say
he gathered up his pick and shovel aud fed
from the spot
W. E. CARTS, Secretary Il the Central
and South American Commission, writes
from the City of Mexico to the Chicago
Inter-O csan What Mexico needs more
than anything else is u good hotel. 1t il
about two hundred years behind the times
IN this respect. This city has five railroads,
r splendid streetcar system, telegraph wires
TO all the world, telephone service with
700 subscribers, 6 daily newspapers, and
any number Of weeklies electric lights, the
best bath houses in America, but not one
decent hotel. The Hotel Iturbide, which
occupies the CID palace OF the Emperor Of
that name, is gorgeous affair on the out
side, with any amount of romanesqus cary.
ing and magnificent pillars, but hollow
mockery within. The rooms are large an6
lofty, but the furniture is in state OF H.
inevitable decay, and the beds are simply
Thin cotton mattresses spread upon board.
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