The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceifs Picked From
Here and There.

There are ten Irishmen on the Pacific
slope who own between them $41s, 900, 600.
Ok, Or, All and Pc are four post offices in
the United States whose names contain only
two letters.
About "a, 900 900 of American money is
invested in wild animals, not including ele-
plants and Socialists.
There are in this country at present, ac-
cording to estimates, very nearly, if not
fully, 1000 skating Kinks.
Patents in Mexico cost from $40 to 1900,
according to the ideas of the Office there ms
10 the importance of the invention covered
speekled trout come up in the water OF
some artesian wells in Nevada. The sup
position is that they come from subterranean
lakes.
Attorney General Garlands Arkansas
house has name which should acquit its
owner of fashionable leanings; it is Homi-
ny Hill.
For seven years Woolwich mechanic
made circuit of half q mile twice per day
rather than pass q powder arsenal. The
other day he learned that it had been empty
for eight years.
A California judge has decided that man
cannot recover damages from the parents
who elected him from their house for
frightening their baby into spasms while
attempting to kiss it.
A young lawyer of Sylyania, Ga, went
through that town the other day driving a
portion of his first law feo-a yearling steer.
The fee consisted of So in money, u stack
of fodder, silver watch, an old SOW and
tie yearling.
tame raven stole ring from woman
in Milwaukee. She had placed the ring
upon bench while washing and the raven
carried it of to some secret hiding place.
The woman brought suit against the owner
of the bird and the judge has decided that
he must pay the value of the lost ring.
The Louisville Commercial says " A
very eccentric old man of Jasper county
died and left the whole of his property to
be used to the best advantage by parties
named in the will in bringing before the
puhlc generally the outrageous habit of so
many men here of eating with the knife
when the fork should he used
quick witted druggist recently extin.
guished fire in an Iowa church in n novel
manner. The fire was raging in the floor
under the ioists, and no water was Mt hand.
He quickly mixed up a pailful of common
IA. in, ~, ,1.,l, ~, \ -
down. Sufficient gas was generated to i'm
mediately extinguish the flames.
1t is said that Queen Victoria fulfls the
biblical description Of taking up her bed
and walking when she changes her resi-
dence. 1t appears the Queen always sleeps
in q wooden bed of particular shape and
made up in special way, and whenever she
goes to a strange place bed and its furni.
ture are despatched from Windsor for he,
use.
The manufacture of watches In Switzer-
land is almost exclusively confined to the
French-speaking cantons of Geneva, Neu-
chetel and Vaud and to Bernie Neuchetel
manufactures about 100000 watches
year, worth on the average $40 each while
in the Vaud about 5000 persons are en-
ployed in making watches and musical
boxes. In the canton of Berne there are
l3,O0o men and women engaged in watch
making, and their labor is estimated to yield
$4,000, 900 per annum.
Portable electric lamps are coming into
use" says an electrical writer. "A Skriv-
amor primary battery is placed in the lamp
standard, and the glow appears on burner
similar to that of oil lamps. The battery
consists Of packet of chloride of silver, two
thin zinc plates and weak solution of caus-
tic potash. This produces a light OF twelve
candle power, and will burn for twenty
four hours, at the end of which time there
is no waste of the elements, but tho chloride
of silver becomes converted in silver aHd
needs reviyifying.n