The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts Pancies and Conceits Picked FroM
Here and There.

The average salary of college profess RS
in the United States is about 81, 500.
Philetus Sawyer, the richest man in tie
United States Senate, is distinguished fol
never having made speech there.
A comm ercial salesman says TINT more
cigars and tobacco are used in Washington
in proportion to population than in any
other city in the country.
Some observers in Mexico are encouraged
10 believe that horse racing will soon drive
out the bull-fght The horse sport was
unknown until two years ago, but is making
its way.
The statement is made that during the
past year 8, 900, 900 acres have been entered
in south Dakota, and that 100 post offices,
daily and 70 weekly newspapers have been
established
The life OF l 900 persons is now equal in
duration to that of ,070 persons previously,
and 1000 births will now keep up the
growth Of the worlds population as well ms
1910 births used to do.
A chicken with a clipped wing made sey.
eral Intellectual attempts to fly over fence.
An Irishman who witnessed the efforts OF
the g chick laughingly exclaimed Be.
CORA, she has defective few"
Governor Adams, of Nevada, happened
to overhaul an old coat the other day and
found $3, 800 in one of the pockets. He
had forgotten oil about the money. Re-
porters and editors are always doing that
sort of thing.
Only four out of the forty.six States and
territories are now trying to prohibit the
sale of strong drink. Five others have made
the effort and abandoned it. Eleven have
stringent excise laws, and fourteen have
never legislated on the subject.
There is a paper mill now running in
Delaware county, Pa, which manufactured
the Continental currency OF more than
hundred years ago, and afterwards furnish
cd the greenbacks that supplied the sinew,
Of war for the more recent conflict.
The approaching completion of the In
diana State House has developed startling
condition of things. The original appro
priation for building the structure was So,
900, but the prospect is that the cos
will be $136, 900 less than this amount
There is no blank SO blank rs the blanl
that appears before man when he gets NJ
in public assembly and forgets what he wa
going to say-unless IL is the blank whicl
appears before an amateur in skating rim
when his legs begin to spread and he don
know which one to follow.
J. G. Talbot, who was arresten at Chicag
for stealing 1000 books from the publ
library, proves to be dangerous cranl
Among the books when taken to the Polio
Headquarters, were found two internal ms
chimes, with which, it is supposed, he il
ended to blow himself up if his thefts WEI
discovered.
Anything more sad than n winter funer
in the little mining camps in the mountain
of Colorado it would be hard to imagin,
Generally the coffin, usually made of stair
ed pine of plain boards covered with n b
OF black cloth, is strapped to hand sic
and hauled to the burying ground by me
on snow shoes.
" II is evident, says the Chicago Times,
" that the owners of pine lands in Michigan
have at last reached the sensible conclusion
that pine stumpago Is too valuable to be
sacrificed by putting logs in the stream and
selling them minus profit. Standing pima
timber is worth much more than logs under
,,raoavk conditions
The richest silver mine at Leadville was
sold by tho discoverer for $40, 900, and dur
Ing the following year the two purchasers
made q million each from it. In the mean.
time the discoverer squandered his $40, 900
in prospecting, and the other day, home
less tramp, sough! q nights lodging in n
LeadYilie station-house.
The London Standard says the practical
applications of the electric light are advanc.
ing steadily, though slowly, more as u re
suit of financial and administrative Difficult
ties than Of any failure in the sanguino cal.
culations promulgated year or two ago
Several towns have been lighted within the
last twelve months but, on the other hand
Liverpool and Hull have resumed tina use of
gas. Az lighthouse iliuminant during fogs
it is now proved to DO infinitely superior tc
oil, and 1t has been proposed to light til.
banks OF the Suez Canal by the same power
ful means