The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-01-07
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Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
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Facts, FancIes and Concefts Picked From
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The Wesleyan Female College of Georgia,
created in 1888, was the first college for
women in this country.
Miss Mary E. Garrett, of Baltimore, aged
twenty eight, is reported to be the richest
unmarried lady in this country.
The first umbrella appeared in England
In the year TIT, but history fails to inform
us when the first umbrella disappeared.
Nearly $4,000 square miles of United
States territory are now owned by foreign
syndicates and capitalists.
A Duxbury, Mass. woman, seventy years
old, climbed tree the other day to escape
from some horses that frightened her.
The Mississippi and its tributaries repre-
sent about 1880 miles of navigable water.
way, capable of being permanently improy
cd and retained for commerce.
The most costly ocean trip is that from
San Francisco to Yokohama-$250. The
company declare that it is the best they can
ed their former profitable business.
A Philadelphia dentist says that in me-
chanical dentistry women can find profit
able and suitable employment. Mechanical
dentistry, it must be understood, is confined
to the preparation of sets of artificial teeth,
and does not include dental surgery.
The invention of wooden toothpicks is
now claimed by Maine man, ono Charles
Foster, of Buckfeld, who began the manu-
facture twenty-five years ago. The trade
has increased % per cent. during the last
three years and now amounts in round num-
bers to 5000, 100000 toothpicks annually.
strange disease has broken out among
the horses in the southeastern counties OF
Iowa, and has progressed with alarming
fatality where it has appeared. The first
indication of the disease is a loss of appe-
lite, from which the horse grows weak and
fails, without apparent suffering till the
death struggle, when the pain is intense
Five masked men took possession of {
train ON the Little Rock Mississippi Rivel
and Texas Railroad, five miles from Little
Rock recently, and, compelling the passen
gers to hold up their hands, robbed the pas
sengers and the express safe, the latter con
tanning about $4,000. Bloodhounds wore
put on the robbers tracks, and they were
traced to Little Rock and arrested. Three
Of them have been identified.
Probably no one has reached higher al
titude by balloon ascension than Professor
Jas. Glaisher, who, with professional aero
naut, made an ascension in England to O
height of 81 900 feet, or seven miles He
became insensible Mt the height of six miles,
and his companion, who was so nearly froz.
en- as to have lost the use of his limbs, was
obliged to pull the rope of the safety-yalve
with his teeth to descend
The g city of churches is Brooklyn N.
Y; the "city of masts " is London the
:" city of monuments is Baltimore, Nd. !;
the city of refuge" is Medina, Arabia,
where Mahommed took refuge when driven
the sun is Baalbec; the lefty of the
tribes is Galway, Ireland the residence in
1896 of thirteen tribes who settled there
the " cleanest city in the world " ia Brock,
in Holland.
The life of the Berlin bus conductor is
not happy one, 1t seems This servant of
one Of the wealthiest German companies
the shareholders of which have good reason
to call themselves blessed--works eighteen
hours every day seven days q week, bears
the full responsibility for every coin that
passes through his hands, and is heavily fined
for any irregularity. For this he receives a
daily pay of about 60 cents. Should the
bus conductor ever think Of going to church,
he pays his company for the privilege /;
should he fall i'll his pay is lost at once, and
as for his meals he swallows them, such as
they are, while waiting for passengers at an
omnibus station.