The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.
Poultices of tar applied to the soles of the
feet are commended In Georgia as q cure
for rheumatism
At least four incorporated towns In Colo
RADIO are at an altitude of over two thousand
feet above the sea.
An effort will be made in the Washington
Territorial Legislature, now in session, to
repel the Woman Suffrage law.
A coroner's jury at Virginia City, New,
found that man came to his death from
gunshot wounds inflicted by pistol.
An Irish officer, giving orders to a senti-
nel, commanded him not to stir foot, but
to walk up and down, and gee what he
could hear.
A.witness, who was being examined in
divorce case OF Laurens, Ga, was asked to
tell the maiden name of his wife, but was
unable to do So
1t is stated as fact that Sir Robert Cot
ton rescued the original Magma Charta from
The hands Of tailor, who WINS on the point
Of cutting 1t up for measures.
To burn like paper Is one of the most
familiar and universal Of SMILES, but there
has just been built in Breslau a freproof
paper chimney fifty feet in height.
The corn-canning industry in Maine has
fallen of very greatly during the past two
years, the amount packed in the season OF
1885 being less than one-half the amount
packed in 1888
A Hibernian Senator, speaking ON the
subject Of preventing suicide, said 1.-The
only way I can conceive of stopping the
business is to make it a capital offence,
punishable with death"
The petriRed skeleton of whale over
thirty feet long has been discovered by an
,flcer Of the Coast Survey on range Of
mountains in Monterey county, Cal, over
$500 feet above the sea level
The museum of st. Petersburg possesses
bank note which is probably the Oldest in
existence. II is of the Imperial Bank OF
China, issued by the Chinese Government
and dates from the year 1889 b. G.
Country Girl Undressing robast tramp
Why don't you go to work !? Tramp
Cooking hungrily around)-I would II ]
had the tools. Country Girl--What tools
do you want 2 Tramp--Knife and fork.
A willow farm in Macon, Ca, produces
about ton Of switches to the acre, COM
manding, when dried, $500, and as the
leaves and bark sell ct twenty-five cents q
pound baled, the enterprise pays better than
cotton.
Uncle-Well, Dick, what do you want
now? Dick-Oh, want to be rich. Uncle
Rich, why so? Dick-Because want to
be petted. Mamma says you must be pet
led because you are rich-but it's great
secret, and mustn't tell.
An old English farmer, intent on making
ais will. was asked by lawyer the name OF
his wife, when he gravely replied. Well,
indeed, I really don't recollect what it ia
We've been married for upward Of forty
years, aud I've always called her my OLD
woman"
Massachusetts, registered over six thou
and insane persons in her asylums and
hospitals during 1885, an increase of tive
hundred over the previous year. The an
nual cost to the State of this form OF relief
exceeds $l.O00,0 900, not reckoning the
$3.50, 900 Of interest ON the value OF the
buildings, DC.
On the spelling day of the late English
election for the Hexham Division, a nono-
geaarian and ccntenarian recorded their
votes. The one was Mr.. John Clayton, of
the Chesters, formerly Town Clerk Of New
castle, and the Oldest solicitor in the king.
dom. He Is now ninety-six years of age
The other was Mr.. John Saint, who is stated
10 be in his 1881 year.
Prince odescalchi. who has just died in
Rome OF the age of eighty, was much adj.
dicted to sport in his younger years; in tho
latter part OF his life economy became his
ruling passion. On his last visit to London
be purchased twelve dozen tooth brushes,
and showed them to his friends in the exu-
berance Of his delight at the smallness of
the price at which he had obtained them
at Wholesale.
An explorer Of Chaldtean records has re-
Gently sent collection of tablets to Eng
land, which proved to be the contracts of n
mercantile firm for seyera, generations. On
close examination it was found that every
document was dated with the month, year
and day of the reigning sovereign. and thus
acomplete chronology has been secured of
the kings from ACKNOWLEDGMENT to Darius
Hydaspes. ono of the periods in dispute
among Biblical critics.
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Foot Prints 10 the Rocks.
Some stir was made about year ag< by