The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceifs Picked From
Here and There.


Boston has over 800 charitable societies
The owls in New Zealand kill sheep, slay
ing thousands every year.
The crust of the earth is said to be only
one-ninetieth of its radius.
A 100000 labratory is to be built at the
Johns Hopkins University.
Thomas James, of Gainesville, Fla, is
the father of fifty-three children.
perfectly petrifed oak has been pre-
sented to the Kansas University.
An Indian and Chnaman are partners
in the stationery business at Nashville,
Neb.
Common prairie grass is turned into paper
at Quincy, Mo-, mill having been estab
lished there for that purpose.
The Japanese cats,eyes, which are now
fashionable ornaments, are the polished
hinge or thick knob at the hinge of pearl
oyster.
1t is related as singular fact that fat Men
never commit crime. 1t doesn't seem SO
singular when you reflect that it is difficult
for a fat nun to stoop to anything low.
During the fiscal year ending June 80 the
number of patents granted including re-
issues, was % 1928; of trade marks register.
ed, 1902, and of labels, 337, making total
issue Of "a ,357
Rabbits are 80 numerous in Tulare coun.
ty, CAL, and parts of Nevada, as to be
nuisance. In the former place the ques
lion of offering bounty for the scalps ie
oeing discussed.
The widest game in the world is the
Rocky Mountain ram. The animal is more
like the chamois than any other creature.
In Colorado law has just gone into force
prohibiting the killing of rams for ten years
10 come.
According to the Statistical Year Book
for the German Empire" the population of
Germany was, in 1872, Al ,228, 900 persons !;
in 1888 it had risen to At, 1862 900. In the
eleven years, therefore, the increase of the
population was A, 1874 900; and yet during
those eleven years there had been n very
large emigration from Germany.
A man who is seeking divorce from his
wife at Detroit alleges, among other griey-
ances, that she is in the habit of picking up
in the streets old nails and bits of old iron,
which she carries home and locks up in a
trunk; also that she gathers paving blocks
and nearly fills the house with them. He
attributes this to a misery disposition
John Thomas Hunt, for many years over.
seer of the weaving department of a print
mil staV md tlaA
in India cotton mills earn about IS per
month, on which they manage TO subsist
very comfortably, while strikers are there
unknown. Each overseer is paid high wages
and is furnished by the corporation with
two servants.
Recently the fortunate possessor of a
stone of ninety-two earats, valued at e125, :
o00 lent his diamond for scientific inyesti-
CATION. The stone was exposed for mn hour
TO the direct action of the suns rays and
then removed to dark ROOM For more
than twenty minutes it emitted light strong
enough to make white paper held near il
perfectly visible.
Glass buttons are chiefly made in Bo-
hema where children are largely employed.
The children get ten cents day, women
thirty to forty cents and men from forty to
fifty cents. Pearl buttons are almost exclu-
sively Vienna product, but shirt buttons
are made chiefly in Birmingham, which is
also the seat of the metal button trade. The
most extensive kind OF button manufac-
turing is that Of the Partisan and Berlin
novelties
fine example of the coach of the seven
teenth century is that OF the Speaker of the
House of Commons, at Westminster. II is
mounted on four groups of allegorical fig.
ures The framework Of the body is of oak,
carved with foliage and figures. almost de.
tached. Figures of the Virtues are placed
on the angles. Allegorical figures support
the driving box and the high standard from
which the body is suspended. The coach
is said to have been used by Oliver Crom-
well.