The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fnncies ard Conceits Picked From
Here and There.
The United States has IS, sol 1905 mich
COWS.
The Nebraska Legislature has passed
law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to boys.
A hay crop of two and half tons to the
acre will carry off AGO pounds of mineral
matter.
There are about one hundred and sixty
Mormon churches in Colorado, Idaho, and
Arizona.
The largest prune orchard in the world is
situated one mile from Saratoga, Cal, and
contains 16, 900 trees. 1t was recently sold
for $72, 600.
The widow of George Mccullough has
sued several citizens of Cotulla, Tex, fol-
lynching her husband. She demands $780,.
900 damages.
Five per cent. of oil cancers are situated
upon the tongue. The average duration of
ration, 10k months; with operation, 16
months. In some cases, after operations,
the patients have lived for from two to five
years, or even ten years. Medical Record.
The teacher asked the small boy the ma
lure of his fathers occupation. He hest
tated and seemed reluctant to answer.
Come, Johnny, you must tell me your
fathers business. It's the rule" Yer,
slowly came the reply. "He's thu
bearded lady in the Dime Museum three
times a week."
Maine paper says that Bath boarding
mistress surprised one of her boarders, who
was learning to play on the banjo, by re-
duciEg the price of his board on the ground
That his singing and playing had frightened
away oil the rats. The compliment has dis
up the practice.
Photography is rendered so easy by cleo
tricity that one may be photographed un.
known to oneself. The other night, ut the
Observatory, the President of the French
Republic was not aware that more than s
dozen photographs had been taken of him
until the soiree was nearly over, when he
was given an album containing them
The bounds of the proposed public park
at Niagara includes oil of Goat Island, the
Immediately above the American Fall, and
the shore boundary beginning at Port Day,
nearly opposite the end of Grand Island,
continuing northward to the pier of the new
international Bridge, including Prospect
Park.
In India it costs more to get married thar
to die. Expensive presents are bestowed
and the parents of the bride are often i'm
ooyerished for life by the dowry which they
give the bride. When great wedding takes
place troops or beggars and priests appear
md they must not be sent away empty
handed. At recent marriage, 10000 PEG.
pie were sumptuously fed and presented
With clothing and money.
The Turkish woman is superstitous in
.he extreme. She believes in charms. She
will not live an hour bereft or her three.
cornered bit of leather which encloses the
mystic phrase that is potent to ward off the
evil eye. She distrusts Tuesday as the
mother of ill-luck, and will not celebrate the
birthday anniversaries of her children, OF
even record the date, lest some magician use
it to cast spell against TIE child.
An appalling list Of diseases which arise
from repeated minute doses of lead was
given by DR.. Wynter Blyth In lecture.
Paralysis, collie, govt, rheumatism, kidney
disease, blindness, and insanity may all
come, it seems, from drinking water with
lead in it. Under these circumstances, a
simple test for discovering the presence of
lead in water may well be useful. 1t con-
Sists of adding little tincture of coohineal,
which, if there be the least trace of lead in
the water, it will color it blue instead OF
rose.
Two Liverpool detectives, named Byrn,
and Smythe, had a discussion some months
ago in which Smythe decried the incompe
tency OF the modern detectives. Byrne re-
torted that he could run down the smartest
criminal on earth. A heavy wager was made,
and Smythe was given ten days start He
took the next steamer for this city and visit
ed number Of places registering at various
hotels under different aliases Byrne fol-
lowed, and after reaching New York en-
ployed some of the best detective talent in
the country. For some time all traces of
Smythe were lost, until recently he was run
down in Reading, Pa.
Special letter trains between London
and the North are to be introduced from
July L. Instead of night mails being con.
yeyed, as at present, by fast trains also car.
rying passengers they will be sent by
special express leaving London at $3.50 p
M, taking no passengers, and completing
the journey TO Perth in eleven hours, the
quickest railway travelling in the world.
These trains will be used for the through
letters to Scotland, North Wales, and Ire
land, cross and local letters being sent by
the ordinary ' limited mails, which will
also take supplementary correspondence
Fifteen years ago the journey by limited
mail from London to Aberdeen-542 miles
occupied sixteen hours. Now it will take
thirteen hours and twenty-four minutes, al
mean speed Of forty-six miles per hour,
allowing for stoppages.
$780,
Getfiav Accti,uate ed In