The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-08-05
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1t is said that IS, 900 physicians arc needed
in European Russia alone.
It is said there are only about dozer
wooden houses in London.
1t is estimated that the railways In Ameri
CO employ, directly and indirectly, 1000,
900 men.
Bounties on wild animals to the extent o.
$4,000 have been paid by New Hampshir,
during the past year.
Miss Ella r. Kidd, of Keene, KY, has jus
completed crazy quilt which contains 100.
600 pieces and 94s, 688 stitches.
Sturgeon from Lake Ontario are said to be
manufactured into smoked halibut to as
great an extent as the real article
All the goose-quill toothpicks are import.
o from France and Germany. They come
in bundles of 1000 and are in four sizes.
A sanitary association formed on modern
principles was established two years ago in
Japan and now has over 5000 members.
To prevent boots from squeaking, soak
the soles well with linseed oil by letting them
stand in it on plate. This also makes the
soles resist water.
The long tails of the Shah of Persia's
horses are dyed crimson for six inches Of
their tips-a jealously guarded privilege OF
the ruler and his sons.
prominent chemist asserts that in every
100 pounds of green tea used in this coun-
try the consumer drinks more than half
pound Of Prussian blue and gypsum.
The largest business ever done by the
United States Patent Office, it is said, was
that of April, when there were $3.50 ap-
plications for patents and 800, $40 received
for fees.
There are SO, 900 blind persons in France
who are without other means of support
than begging France Is almost wholly
without asylums, either public or private,
Tor the blind
American shoe manufacturers are making
rapid inroads into the shoe market of Cuba,
fact which is causing shoe manufacturers
in Spain and the Balearic Islands consider.
Eble uneasiness.
At Lagang bridge has been built OF
stone over an arm of the China Sea. II is
five miles long, has 800 arches, 10 feet high,
the roadway is 10 feet wide and the pillars
ara distant rs feet from each other.
An accident in Melbourne foundry has
led to the discovery that plunging iron cast
ings into mixture Of treacle and water soft
ans the metal to such degree that it can BIZ
punched, bored and tapped as readily as
wrought iron.
A curious discovery was made recently
when lightning rod, which had been in
place fifteen years, embodied in soft clay,
was removed There was found attached tc
ii n solid lump of iron ore Weighing ninety.
six pounds, supposed to have been produced
by the conversion of the clay by the action
Of electricity.
1t is said that Australia has produced che
largest Photographic pictures in the world
taken by Herr Holterman, Of Sydney. They
are put up nearly 100 feet in length and
mounted on an endless band OF papel
strengthened by linen. One picture from
single negative was Ave feet by three fee
and was q fine specimen of the art.
A purer water supply and drainage system
were introduced into Calcutta in 1870, an,
during the next three years the choler
mortality fell off from 8, 4l0 to 1,075 per an
mum. Since 1876, however, it has steadl,
increased, although the water supply is still
in fair condition and the drainage as goot
rs in many European cities. 1t often rises
to 800 deaths per month during the sum
mer season, and in March of the present
year it was 56S.
Paris is cleared of rats by her Municipal
Council offering premium for their skins
Two years ago the premium WAS 80 per
1000, but II has recently been raised to 81
per 200 in order to get the city cleared OF
the pests. The rats are of the Norway kind
and breed four times year. The skins
when collected are sold to glovemakers for
four cents each, and 10000 skins are sale
to have been mado into " genuine kid >
gloves last year
There are now established on the coast OF
Great Britain 2S4 lifeboat stations. In the
current year there were 1854 casualties to
shipping around the British Isles 633 live.
and eighteen vessels were saved, in addition
to 1S9 lives by shore boats and other means,
where rewards were given, being total OF
1872 lives saved through the agency of the
society. During the year lifeboats were
launched 252 times. and no. one man of
their crew was lost
The Oldest house in Oregon is 465 years
old. About the time that John Hancock
and those other three or forefathers were
signing the Declaration of Independence.
says the Astorian, the top of this house,
which was then tree, blew or broke off.
Its present occupant, few years ago, dug
around the stump, trimmed it out, cut
door and window, and made habitable
room about nine by ten feet "tast beats