The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-03-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies aud Conceits Picked From
Here and There.


Hay bunkers is the Southern California
name for tramps.
Indiana is building three new insane asy.
iums, and Wisconsin. Minnesota, and Mia
souri, one each.
John Bright says that in Queen Victoria's
Esign ENGLAND nd h4 "a & sa9rced $3.50 600
North Carolina is one of the original thir-
teen States, yet the largest city within its
borders has only 20, 600 population.
A Gramercy Park girls answer to the
current conundrum, " Will the coming man
work ?" is: g He will If / get him."
The largest gold nugget ever found
weighed las pounds. If you pick up one
weighing less than 140, keep quiet about it.
The famous shell road of New Orleans is
boulevard of almost snowy whiteness,
nearly two hundred feet in width and nine
miles long
Always go to bed ON cracker or o
crust of bread, says hygienic writer. No,
thank you. We have slept on crackers and
know just how they feel.
Eugene, ex-Empress of France, owns sew
eral houses in New York city, the rent of
which is q very considerable and acceptable
addition to her income, says an exchange.
How does he know?
Women constitute over q quarter Of Ger
many's agricultural laborers. In the last
census 1862, 348 persons were returned as
engaged in agricultural work, Of whom L.
230,080 were females.
Tennessee has 10000 square miles of tim
Der land which is as yet practically un-
touehed--a tract larger by 1900 square
miles than Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut put together.
The Chicago Board of Education have
abolished corporal punishment in the
schools and ordered the suspension of the
principal of one Of the high schools for tive
weeks for fogging pupil.
A Rutland, Vt, correspondent writes
"The pernicious habit of opium smoking is
increasing in puritanical Rutland, and the
habit is taking firm hold of some of both
sexes. Parties send to Boston for small
pellets or morsels of the drug"
The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says "a man
and family arrived here one day last week
the next morning he paid $3.50 for lot, and
that evening he had n shanty erected,
stove put up, and he and his family slept
in it that night This man was from Maine"
In proposing by letter to young lady an
indianapolis lawyer borrowed formula
from book on etiquette. The young Indy
learned the source of the inspiration of his
pen, and by way of reply used the formula
prescribed in the same book for dec!inn.
ton.
Harris Murdoch, who has just returned
from trip north, uses complicated words
since his return. Being in the opera house
with Miss Longman he snid ;, The accous
tics in this theatre are bad. Don't you
notice it :" No, don't smell anything
peculiar, replied the young lady
School teaching in Illinois; $50 you
didn't succeed very well with yonr school
in Illinois = No, had to give it up ut
the end of the first month"; Did You use
the blackboard much ~ No. II was too
about the room that wasn't .niled down.
Charleston, s. c.. is about to undertake
ME driving of the deepest artesian we'll in
he world. II will be driven In the main
part OF the city, and, as it is expected to
furnish 1000, 900 gallons of water day, II
is calculated, with two similar wells already
down 10 furnish sufficient supply of water
for the entire city for many years. The
new well will be 1000 feet deep, will be at
least six inches in diameter ut tho bottom,
and is to be completed by next August.
In the State Penitentiary in Richmond,
Va, five trades are carried on by the con-
riots, namely, blacksmithing. wood and
paper box making, shoemaking, cooperine
and tobacco manufacturing, and the effect
on these various trades has been disastrous.
not only by displacing free labor but by
reducing wages to nearly convict rates. For
example, for convict tobacco hands the State
receives 42s cents day, and free labor gets
only SO cents for ten hours work. This
state of things is greatly stimulating trade
unionism in that city.