The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-09-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fnncies nHd Conceifa Picked From
Here and There.


Raising frogs is new California industry
A good many black mussels are caught at
Cape May.
Out of 1,025 voters registered at Walla
Walla, W.T., 400 are women.
At Ashland, Pa, and vicinity, water is SO
scarce that it is sold OF eight cents per gal
Ion.
There are $50, ZOO, 600 women and girls in
China, nearly all of whom are uneducated
and ignorant.
Seventy-five thousand acres OF timber land
in the Sierras have been purchased by Mich.
gan capitalists
A man who lives on Indian Farm, Lewis
county, w. Va, is but seventeen years old
and his bare feet measure thirteen and o
half inches long.
In Saline county, Neb., two weeks ago, n
woman closed her husbands eyes on Mon
day, buried him on Wednesday and mar
ried his successor on Friday.
A young gentleman, speaking of young
beauty's yellow hair, called it pure gold
II ought to be-" quoth the bachelor II
looks light eighteen carrots"
A Stockton, CAL, girl, now engaged in n
breach of promise suit, wrote in one OF her
letters that she would rather marry yellow
dog than the defendant.
1t requires the annual slaughter of 100,-
900 elephants to keep the world supplied
with ivory. England alone uses up the
product of $4,000 elephants, or 1900, 900
pounds.
lady at Cape May, who was accidentally
thrown from q dog cart few days ago, lost
in some manner every article of jewelry she
had earrings, bracelets, rings and every.
thing.
Only two of the Delaware and Hudsoni
employees submitted to the tests for color
blindness proved unable TO distinguish sig
nals and one was an engineer on the most
important train ON the road.
Prince Bismarck recently told Russian
diplonatist that he had decided nevor again
to use tobacco in any form, and that he re-
garded cigarette smoking as extremely nox.
ious and ridiculous to boot.
According to the assessment just com.
pleted Boston has property valuation OF
$685., 40i, 900, of which $4s5, 975, 500 is rea
estate and $lS9, 429, 100 is personal, total
gain over last year OF $2,74s,0o0.
There is n school at Sweetwood, Ga, a
remarkable peculiarly OF which ia that of
seventy-one pupils, each and every one OF
whom is related to the teacher and to each
other. Only one Of the scholars is over fifteen
years of age.
Papa, is 1t nice TO make remarks about
peoples dress" "Certainly not, darling
what did you ask that for ?" Nothing
papa only mama said my dress was awful.
ly shabby, and wondered why papa hadnf
noticed it long ago"
French scientist who says he has in
vestigated s, 400 shocks of earthquakes at
tributes them, like the tides, to the inlu.
ence of the sun and moon. The interior
sea Of fire, he argued, is subject to the same
laws rs the surface sea of water.
There are," says the Paris National,
''in France s6,ooo,0o0 of human beings
who work hard from morning to evening
and do harm to no one. There are besides
In this country 800. 600 rascals who rob and
murder and who pass by the name Of The
army Of crime"
A gentleman, in apologizing for language
used, said, 81 did not mean to say what ]
did, but the fact is that, as you will see, ]
have had the misfortune to lose some Of my
front teeth, and words slip out of my mouth
every now and then without my knowing
It,"
Petrihed human eyeballs are the nobbiesi
tnings in the way Of watch charms at Lima
Feru. They are relics of the times of the
incas, the process of preservation having
been lost and being undiscoverable to mod
ern science. The eyes are yellow and hold
light like an opal.
Railway Maxims. Delays are dangerous.
A train in time saves nine. There is no
place like home the difficulty is to &c.
there. Do not halloo till you are safe. A
railway train is tho thief OF time. The great
charm of a railway accident is, no matter
how many are killed and mangled, no one
is to blame.
The Lake of Constance, in Switzerland,
Ia bounded by five countries-Australia,
Bavaria, Switzerland, wurtemberg and
Baden. Now, as each country reokons its
time after its capital considerable confusion
exists along the lake, which is often annoy
ing to tourists. A tourist on one of the
STEAMBOATS,, before dropping letter in the
box, has to ascertain carefully in what coun-
try the mails are deposited, SO as to put on
q proper kind of a stamp. The difference
between Swiss and Austrian time amounts