The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-11-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked Fro
Here and There.


The Rev. Thomas Thomas, of Fayette-
vile, Ark, is ia years old.
Pompeiian paper, mottled as If with the
danipness of eighteen centuries, is the new
est thing in Paris stationery.
Artificial eggs-both the yolk and white
made of Indian corn -four and enclosed in q
plaster of paris shell--are said to find a
ready sale.
Elijah Pate, though eighty years old,
caught and slew deer near Montezuma,
Ca, the other day, his only weapon being a
pocketknife.
One of the large English war vessels, the
Resistance, is to be coated with India rub
Der to q considerable thickness to see how
that material will repel projectiles.
In q household in Buncomb county, N.
c., a large dish of peanuts has been placed
on the dinner table for dessert every day in
the year since the lady Of the house took
fancy to the nut thirty years back.
The deaths in Europe from smallpox are
said to be 60, 900 annually. The mortality
is almost wholly confined to civilians, as
owing to constant vaccination and revacci-
nation the armies are almost wholly free
from the disease.
For the last ten years, Emanuel Hunt.
noted fox hunter, in Bibb county, Georgia,
has called the people of his neigborhood to
church by blowing silvery tira-lira +" ON
bis hunting bugle. He also gives matin
call at SUNRISE melodiously stirring the
sluggards of bonnie Bib.
Sockabesin Swassin is said to be the rich
sst Indian in Maine. He is the hnndsomesl
man on the Island of Oldtown and one OF
The most intelligent, He is a lineal descend
ant of the Baron de Castine. There are
many educated Indians on that Island, and
they live verv much like their white neigh
bors.
Tho great granite building for the State,
War and Navy departments Is approaching
completion. II covers four and a half acres
Of ground, and win cost about $40, $50 900.
The only wood about it is in the floors laid
over the stone for comfort, and in the doors,
which are of mahogany, hung in iron cast
ings
The general average of tho human pulse,
though the exceptions are numerous, may
be put ut birth at 140; two years, 100 !;
from sixteen TO nineteen, so; at manhood,
70, and old age, so. Two men are spoken
of at eighty-seven whose pulses respectively
were 20 and 80. II is reported of one man
that his pulse was never more than As and
tl,at l,,s q Fatl -,
In Ogden, Utah, curfew law has been
adopted. The bells are sounded at eight or
nine p. NJ, according to the season, and
after that hour boys or girls under sixteen
years Of age, unless accompanied by par
emit, guardian or a friend, or provided with
permit. are liable to arrest for misdemean-
or. A similar law is in operation in sacra-
mento, Marysville and a,'~sa, w., md in
Keno, New.
Although no dogs can catch full whisk-
s.ed, fan-tailed jack rabbit, yet dogs soon
learn the coyotes trick, and one will chase
after the rabbit, while another, who has
found out that the long-eared animal always
come back TO the place from which he start.
ed, lies in wait, and as the painting and
tired rabbit nears the home base he pouncea
upon him and gathers him in.-Portland
Oregonian.
Two tiny boys with good voices and
clever mimicry have been singing ON West
ern railroad trains. They said to sympa-
thetic questioners that they were working
their way alone from San Fransisco to New
York, and one passenger estimated their
receipts in single day OF $40. He also
discovered that they had manager and
treasurer in the person of their father, to
whom they slyly rendered mp the money.
A boy in California school remarked
that the teacher had red hair. He was
whipped to make him retract, but he in.
sisted that he could not tell lie, and he
had the utmost confidence in his judgment
Of color. The woman declared that she
would beat him to death unless he changed
the word from red to auburn, ana he abused
his conscience to that extent, but afterward
took the case to the trustees, who sustained
him aud dismissed the bright-headed
isher.