The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-09
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Facts, Fancies nnd Conceits Picked From
Here and There.
cows horn five and q half feet long il
one of the curiosities of California.
The Supreme Court of Texas has decided
that will scrawled on candle box is Q
legal instrument
Miss St Pierre, a Tennessee heiress, il
devoting her fortune to the elevation of tbs
poor whites of the South.
The system of selling poor people by auc.
ton still prevails in Nova Scotia. The low.
est bidder gets the pauper.
Two Crawford county, Pa, farmers have
been fined $15 each for allowing Canada
thistles to grow on their promises.
In Louisville, few days ago, little girl
was so tadly frightened by boy wearing a
mask that she died on the following day.
The liquor and beer saloons of London,
If placed in row, would extend, q contem-
porary claims, q distance of seventy eight
miles.
Neither the Capitol nor the White House
is fire-proof, Notwithstanding the millions
that have been expended upon them to make
them SO.
The Sabbath is held in such great respect
at Thurso Scotland, that the cemetery 10
not allowed to be opened on that day. Even
burial is considered Dissertation.
1t is more dangerous to walk through the
streets of London than TO cross tho Atlantic.
Last year 1870 persons were killed and 2,05l
injured by vehicles IN the streets
Dried potatoes are being prepared in Ger
many in immense quantities for the German
fleet. They lose s. per cent. of their weight
in drying, and when used are said to be as
good rs fresh ones.
man living in Southern Florida last
week saw, for the first time in his life,
lump of ice. He put piece in his panta-
looms pocket to take home and show his
family, but soon took it ont again
Nevada State Prison convicts recently
prepared collection Of fine cabinet work
and natural euriosities and offered it for
exhibition at the State Fair, but the munag-
ers refused to allow it TO be placed on view.
Gomoyille, Cal, is town of some forty
houses and but one inhabitant Fergus
who saw the mining camp at its rise, al
its period of glory and ut its fall. His only
nsighbors are inst over the hill, in the ceme-
terry.
The diyining rod is still bel eyed in and
used in some parts OF England. II is said
to have been successfully used short time
ago in finding water on the premises Of
brewer, whore digging aud boring had
failed. Lid
The greatest European horse breeder is
said to be Mr.. oppenheimer, of Hanover,
who has an average of 600 horses in his
stables. 1t is noticed rs popularity in
German establishments of this kind that the
horses are all of one color, some owners
preferring chestnut, others bay, &c.
Large quantities of peppermint oil have
been consumed in Europe this year in the
treatment of cases of cholera, and many
producers of peppermint in Wayne county
think the market next season will DO the
highest known in America for yeah II Ii
said that thousands of pounds of pepper
mint oil are being held back by the farmers
with this expectation.
II the process illustrated by specimen
which has reached London from Norway ia
capable of general application, the work OF
florists in varying the hues Of their flowers
is likely to be made easy. The sender has
succeeded in making the ordinary ox-eyed
daisy purple by the simple method of water
ing it with water colored by red paint In
the same way white roses have been brought
almost to the perfection of the Marshal Neil
by the use Of saffron water.