The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-10-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies md Conceits Picked From
Here and There.

Facts, Rancies md Conceits Picked From
Here and There.
Electrical headlights are now on the loco.
motives Of Western railroad.
In Genoa tho policeman wear silk hats
and carry silver-headed walking sticks.
ton of diamonds in the rough passed
through the South African post offices last
year.
The Indians at Devils Lake Agency, Da-
kota, have raised G0,00O bushels of wheat
this year.
Lady Lake is the name of body OF
blue water, shaped like pretty foot, down
In Georgia.
Twenty-eight States have adopted lawn
restricting the practice Of medicine to edu.
Gated persons
1t is estimated that OF least 10, 600 victims
of gas generated by sewers alone are slain
ieyery year in this country.
The cows at Key West, Fla, go about
labelled with the names of the persons for
whom their milk is exclusively kept.
parrot that can repeat the whole OF the
Lords Prayer, and do it, too, in Dutch, is
mentioned among current curiositos.
The newest thing in musical instruments
sa duplex strung VIOLIN" by which, it is
claimed, tone is produced equal to two
ordinary Instruments.
The Russian thistle, brought to this coun-
try by the Mennonites in their first impor-
Triton of seed wheat, is becoming 10 thickly
spread in parts Of Dakota as TO cause serious
alarm.
Pierce my heart with bodkin to make
sure that am dead" wrote rich French
man in his will, and then he dashed of
paragraph disinheriting every one of his
kith and kin.
French engineers have succeeded in find
ing water in the desert country of Southern
Tunis. At the depth Of more than 800 feet
they struck current which rushed forth
from the surface with such velocity as to
carry huge stones high in the air.
A firm at Georgetown, DEL, has O con-
tract to furnish 100000 wooden pie plates
with crimped edges, exactly like the tin
plates. The advantages claimed for the
wooden article are that it will not allow the
pie to burn nor the lower crust to become
soggy.
Four men dressed as policemen went
lately to widow of eighty-one in suburb
OF Vienna and demanded to see her paper
money, pretending that she was suspected
OF having false notes in her possession. In
her anxiety the woman gave the whole OF
her treasure TO the thieves.
The causes of separation between Geor-
gia husband and wife were that she had,
until after marriage concealed from him
the fact that her handsome teeth were false,
and that he neglected to tell her that he
snored in his sleep. They could not agree
to set one fault against the other
A man in n lonely part of Iowa had brain
fever in consequence of The death of his
wife. and on recovering conld not renem-
Der where he Ind buried her. During the
interval the three persons who had assisted
in the intcrment became scattered. Very
desirious of locating the grave, the widower
dug over most Of ten acre field before
finding the remains,
DIR. Sturtevant wishes that ii were more
generally known that English sp,rrows are
good eating. In n limited aud surreptitious
way they do duty as reodbirds in season at
city restaurants. But the sparrow is TOOTH
some whenever he is fat, which in all the
time. II hungry people understood this
there would be fewer sparrows, which means
diminished nuisance.