The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Faneies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.


Liquid gunpowder" is the latest inyen-
ton.
Los Angeles, CAL, had watermelon
weighing 178 pounds, which was sent to
London.
A new wax Of value has been found in the
bark of the ocotillia, thorny plant of
Mexico.
Ninety out Of every hundred predictions
made by the French Weather Bureau last
year proved true to dot.
Scrap iron shipped from Portland, Ore,
to Hong Kong is turned into little razors,
with which the Chinese shave their scalps.
banknote in colors will be issued short
ly by the Bank of Scotland. The coiors
are put in so that no counterfeiter can call
photography to his aid.
Don't call man donkey, my son, be.
cause he won't listen to reason but polite
ly remind him that the man with the big
gest ears is the least inclined to use them.
There is fortune in store for the mil
liner who shall devise bonnet that can be
worn in any part of q church and always
present its trimmed side to the eongrega.
ton.
woman at Albany, Ga, having made
up her mind to burn up every counterfeit
presentment of herself, sent to point near
ly 1000 miles off for the last photograph
existing.
friend of the family asked an editor re-
Gently why he allowed his wife to beat him.
Well, what am to doa"' was the reply.
The doctor has ordered her to take plenty
Of exercise !"
Women tourists bring eastward from Da-
kota with them tiny punches of "sweet
grass, found on the prairies there. A bit
of grass kept in room over night lends it
in the morning fine perfume.
Danish writer speaks of O howell SO mig
cradle that 1t didn't know which way TO fall
and SO kept standing. This is like the man
who had such complication Of diseases
that he did not know what to die Of, and SO
lived on.
A Baptist church at Park River, in Da.
kota, has devised new scheme to raise
money. liberal member donated a large
tract of land to it, and the people got up
ploughing bee. Next season the church will
have 1000 bushels of wheat IL the weather
is propitious.
Many hooking birds are shipped from
Atlanta every season to the North and West.
The young birds are caught by the hundred
by small boys, who peddle them at fifty
cents each. They are kept in their native
CLINE until they are four or five months old,
aud then are sent by express to oil parts of
the country. A good bird, four months old,
is worth from 80 to Sc. They sing well
whom year old
The town of Briefly Hill, in the English
coal regions, threatens to disappear from
sight. olefts are opening in the streets, and
the people fear sudden engulfment into
the mining chambers which honeycomb the
ground underneath. The owners of the
pits have offered to sell them to the town
for fair consideration, and the Council is
now considering whether it is best to buy
them or, to use slang term, to let the town
slide.
1t is easy to make money by fooling folks,
II yon only go about 1t In the right way and
are not too grasping in your demands.
There is youth travelling through the
rural districts Of Illinois who presents him
self as lamp inspector. He enters house,
demands to see the lamps and when they
are shown him he lights them all, then i'm
medately blowing them out says they are
right, and charges for his inspection ten
cents a lamp. Had he made 1t fifty or
twenty-five cents his career would have been
short, but as 1t is he has gathered in the
ducats very merrily.
Tennessee man finds there are 3O0,O 900
worthless dogs in that State, which consume
food enough, II fed to hogs, to make 3d.
DOC, 900 pounds of bacon, which would be
equal to feeding meat to loo, 900 able-b bodied
men whole year. At ten cents per pound
the bacon would be worth $1,000, 900, and
II In silver would load down ninety-four
two-horse wagons and make wagon train
more than half mile long. Again, the
worthless whelps prevent farmers from keep
ing 1900, 600 sheep, the mutton and wool
from which would be worth SO, 000, 00O In
GLIDING the sheep annually killed, the whole
expense Of keeping the dogs of the State
amounts to the pretty sum Of so 900. 900.