The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conccits Picked From
Here and There.


Here and There.
There are thirty elephants in this coun.
Try, ranging in value from SO, 900 to $780,
900.
The richest man in Portland, Oregon,
began life by buying calfskin on credit,
tanning it and selling it for $40.
An English company purchased 10000
head of cattle and so, 900 acres of land near
Fl. Worth, Tex, for $3,500,000.
The California Legislature has passed q
bill appropriating $40, 900 to build hotel
for travellers in the Yosemite Valley.
A piece of needle which entered the foot
of Boston street car conductor fourteen
years ago came ont of his arm the Other
day.
A train composed of two cars OF gold bull
lion, three cars of silver, eight ears of silk
and four cars of tea recently passed east from
California and Colorado.
Every penitentiary in Texas is provided
with kennel Of three or more fierce blood
hounds for the purpose of hunting and cap
turing escaped prisoners.
A Holland syndicate has purchased about
$4,000 acres in the counties of Renyille,
Kandiyohi, and Chippewa, Minnesota, to
be settled by immigration from that country.
Providence man slapped strangers
face for staring at his wife in street car,
and he was beginning to feel himself hero,
when the car stopped and little girl helped
the g impudent" fellow off. He WAS stone
blind
A statement was recently published that
horsefesh is being sold in large quantities
TO the poorer inhabitants of Manchester,
England, under the name of beefsteak, and
further, that many of the slaughtered horses
were believed to be diseased.
Engineering in China has achieved nota
BILE triumph in the bridge of Lagang, ovel
an arm of the China Sea. The structure il
Ave miles long, built entirely of stone, has
300 cubic arches, seventy feet high, tn,
roadway is seventy feet wide, and the pillar
are seventy-five feet apart.
A new Indian school and farm are to b
located at Grand junction, Colorado. Con
gress appropriated 1926, 900 to BIO expende,
ON buildings, on condition that the peopl
would give l60 acres of land for farm pur
poses, which was done. The location select
cd is about one and quarter miles iron
the town.
There are but few instances recorded o
Heath from falling meteoric stones. II i
stated that loss of life resulted from hrg
fall in Africa; that about the year 1921
many persons and animals were killed tina
1911, about five o'clock one evening,
priest was struck and killed, and that still
later, in 1860, monk was killed.
The Bangor (Me.) Commercial! relates tina
Aman in that section lately received severa
hundred dollars back pension. He has quit
large family and had been very poor Tn
first thing he did after receiving his none,
was to buy trotting horse, harness
wagon, and tho usual amount of boots
hoods, and other horse trappinss.
A new tanning agent has been discovered
II the arizona Gazette ia correctly informed
The statement is made that tanner @
Tempe, Arizona, two or three years ago dis
covered plant which carried large pro
portion of tannin, and which, when used Ii
the manufacture Of leather, gave extri
weight to the product. The plant is of an
nual growth, Indigenous to the deserts an,
dry uplands, and is known to the Mexican
and Indians as "gonagra." 1t has roo
somewhat longer and more scraggy thai
the cultivated beet, though resembling it il
appearance.