The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-11-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancics and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.

Here and There.
In Butte, Montana, maids and kitchen
girls are in demand at 800 week.
The State of California is spending $40,
600 for travellers inn in the Yosemite.
Cotton seed pressed into blocks has jus
been put upon the market as kindlint
wood
Forest culture in Dakota has led to til,
appearance of birds that were never before
seen there.
Custom and his kingly office oblige the
Prince of Wales to wear some seventy ode
suits of clothes.
A cats cries saved the lives of some hotel
guests in Atlanta, and gold band now
encircles the cats neck.
Rochester woman has been awarded
$4,000, the assessed value of her husbands
affections, which had been alienated from
her by another woman, defendant in the
case.
Progress now proposes to destroy the
Ludovisi Villa Gardens in Rome-a lovely
spot, with fantastic green alleys, groups of
Expresses and romantic outlook to the
Sabine Hills.
There are 1886 paper mills in the world,
which turn out annually 1904 ,000 600
pounds of paper. Half of this is used in
printing generally, while 600. DOC, 900 pounds
are used for newspapers.
Captain Pardon Tnpp, of Marion, Mass.,
has looked at life through the upcurling
blue rings of the contented smoker. Dur.
ing fifty years 18, $50 days. he has turned
$4,000 worth of tobacco into ashes.
Since California began to import ostriches
the Government Of the Cape of Good Hope
has imposed an export duty of $500 head
on ostriches in order to keep the birds and
the ostrich feather business at home.
A Partisan dentist, assisted by some twen-
ty men, recently cured an elephant of the
toothache, or, moro properly, tusk ache.
An ulcer was cut ont and cavity was
filled, to the final joy of the pain-struck
pachyderm.
In recent divorce case in England the
Judge decided that if man broke CON
tract OF marriage the woman was as much
entitled to damages for this breach as she
would be for breach Of any other contract
that was made with her.
Nebraska has now about 220, 900 acres of
growing forests, in which have been set
800, 100000 young trees. Besides these,
there have been planted over ~ 1000 600
fruit trees, over 2,500,000 grape vines, n
vast number of berry bushes and plants and
countless quantities of ornamental shrubs
An ingenious method of sheep stealing is
being practised in Oregon. 1t consists in
suspending a rope made into loop and
slip-knot from tree branch oyerhanging q
sheep path in the woods. The animals put
their heads in the moose and are held till
.he thief can come in the night and carry
away the game.
In the last century they really turned
criminals to some practical account in Eng
land. In l767 John Benham, under SEN
fence of death for burglary, was pardoned
under condition of undergoing the ampu-
tation of limb to test the efficacy of Mr..
Pierce's styptics.n The limb off, John was
4, be considered free.
One of the new members of the Georgia
Legislature kept quietly in his seat for three
hours on his first day in the House, and
then, timidly approaching a doorkeeper,
said, in. whisper "I-I-I-say, I'd
like to go out lift you don't k-keer. l.
won't be gone but about ten minutes"
The doorkeeper let him out.
There are said to be carried of from the
toil pounds Of lime in 25 bushels of oats
and 10 pounds to SO bushels of barley.
There are IS pounds of lime in tons of
clover, lao pounds in 25 tons of turnips
and 270 pounds in 0 tons of potatoes. Some
soils contain IN abundance of lime for 0
thousand years, while other soils require ar
occasional application of lime as ferti
lizer.
II is admitted that corn is the most i'm.
portant cereal grown upon this continent.
While wheat is only used by man, corn is
used by man, beast distilers and glucose
and starch manufacturers. While almost
avery part of the globe produces wheat,
none except the Danubian municipalities and
the south of Russia grows any corn of con-
sequence except what is raised in this coun-
try. America is thus without a competitor
In the production Of corn, and with ever sc
large crop it is sure to be all used up al
home and abroad before the crop of 1886 ID
planted.
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