The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conccits Picked From
Here and There.

Nine. Diaz, the wife of the Mexican Presi.
dent, is woman of great accomplishments.
and was educated in New York.
The handsomest girl in Woods county,
Ohio, has been the cause of six fights and
stabbing ARRAY thus far this winter.
Vermont, which had almost 100000 chill
dren In her common schools in 1910, has
now less than 70, 600 children in them.
The Empress of Austria makes good
bread. All Queen Victoria's girls were
brought up to do needlework and make pies
md buildings.
Rev. DR.. Furness, of Philadelphia, re.
Gently married bride for whose mother
and grandmother he had performed the
same ceremony.
Twenty medical practitioners died in Ma
Piles, out of 1870 engaged In attending cholera
patients under the White Gross Society dur
ing the recent epidemic.
Mr. Hamilton Fish spent $17 900 year.
Mr.. Eyarts ss12, 900, and Mr.. Frelinghuysen
10000 over and above their salary whilo
holding the Office of Secretary of State.
Two years ago a man In Maine received
legacy Of $40, 900, and the other day he
paid out his last nickel for whiskey and
rolled into snowbank to freeze to death.
There are at present sixteen locomotive
works in the United States, besides the
shops owned by the railroad companies,
Five men can turn out IN engine in year.
An immigrant from Kansas arrived in Los
Angeles, Cal. recently, having travelled the
entire distance with his family in two
horse wagon. He was four months on the
road
Colonel Chester, who delivered to Senator
Edmunds the electoral vote of Tennessee
the other day, is ninety-four years old, and
was an active Democratic politician in An
drew Jackson's palmy days.
The San Bernardino (Cal.) iadler do
scribes mammoth dam being constructed
10 convert Bear Valley into q reservoir, at
q cost of over $4,000. Over 1 500 barrels
Of cement have already been usetl. The
reservoir will cover about 1000 acres, and
the water on an average will be about twelve
feet deep. continuous stream of about
1000 inches of water will BIO drawn from II
during the dry season.
Canvas Bugs and, presumably, canvas
clothes used by men in wet work can, il is
said, be made as imperyious to moisture as
leather by stepping them in decoction of
one pound of oak bark with fourteen pounds
of boiling water, this quantity being su(fi-
cient for eight yards of stuff. The cloth
from which the bags ARE made has to soak
twenty-four hours, when it is taken out,
passed through running water. and hung
up to dry.
The Christian Indians on tho Onondaga
reservation, near Syracuse, have long re-
VOTED against the tribal system Of govern
ment by hereditary chiefs, and have Al
length prevailed upon pagan members O.
the tribe to join with them in numbers large
enough probably to effect a complete over.
throw Of the government of the chiefs A
committee has been appointed to go to Al
bany and Washington to secure the endorse
ment of the Legislature and Federal Govern
ment.
Turkeys were 6rst introduced into Eng
land in the time Of Sebastian Cabot, from
America. They were found in this country
running wild in large hocks by the first set.
tiers, and the pioneers, especially in the
Middle States, found them handy game,
easily captured, and furnishing luxurious
food. They were domesticated without
much difficulty. For over three hundred
years the turkey has held the position of
king of table poultry, and his aristocracy
seems In fair way to continue in on un.
broken line.