The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-16
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Facts, Faucies and Conceits Picked FrDs
Here and There.

Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked FrDx
Here and There.
They dig potatoes by steam now, tossing
ont 800 barrels day.
Arizona "agate wood is among the fash
ionable material for buttons.
A twenty-year Milwaukee girl earns $40 o
month tending switch there.
1t is reckoned that 300, 900, 0e0 is in
vested in cattle ranches in Butler county,
Kan.
It is said that 955 farms in Iowa are
owned by women and that twenty dairy
farms are managed by women.
The bones Of the average man only weigh
about twenty-four pounds, and yet some
people put on airs and steparound as though
they weighed ton.
Prohibition bar-room is the term applied
to place lately opened in Athens, Ga, for
dispensing hot tea, coffee, and chocolate, Of
cents glass.
They acknowledge the corn in Kansas.
They acknowledge the stalks to be fifteen
teet high, and they claim to pick the ears
on ladders. Tall corn or tall talk Detroit
Free Press
silver box, shut at a wedding in Hart
ford, Conn.,, the other day, is to be kept
under seal, like that of Pandora, till the
time for the silver anniversary, twenty-five
years hence
The cranberry growing counties of Wis
consin are estimated to produce this season
about l0o,o barrels, which, at an average
of IS per barrel, will aggregate $500, 900.
A pickle famine Is threatened this winter.
The present supply at the East is set down
At 10, DOC, 900, one-half only of what is need
ed for the Eastern trade. The Western crops
have suffered and heavy advances in prices
are looked for.
An Ohio farmer is q strong advocate of
the idea that apple, grown on certain soils
Keep better than on others. He says willoy
twigs grown on red clay do not keep well,
but his trees on yellow clay bear fruit which
keeps till after harvest
One of the best preyeatatiyes against lice
IN the nests of sitting hens il tobacco refuse.
sneh as the sweepings of cigar factories. By
the use OF such, with coal oil ON the roosts
and the frequent busting of all parts of the
poultry house with insect powder, there need
be no fear of lice.
The Importance and value of the tobacco
crop in Virginia are shown in the statement
that Lynchburg pays more revenue into the
United States Treasury on the single article
OF tobacco than any one Of the New Eng
land States pays on everything it produces.
Louis Morris, of Athens, Ga, has n most
remarkable memory. . He will buy" says
the Savannah Ne,es. "a $4,000 stock ot
goods, and, without a single mark, can tell
exactly what each article cost. He will sell
a bill of goods, and year afterward, if tho
same customer comes into his store can tell
just what articles he bought and the price
paid MIR. Morris's memory has been fire.
quently tested, and never failedn
BY means of new machine, wood in.
tended for paper pulp is shaved off so finel,
that it is ready to go at once into the boiler.
The machine takes q log twelve inches il.
length, which it revolves Mt a speed of oot
revolutions per minute and sharp cutter
shaves of shaving 30 thin that it would
take $50 of them TO make nm inch, n nicety
Of execution which may be judged of by the
fact that 200 sheets of ordinary paper are
required to make an inch