The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-09-22
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ITEMS on INTEEkEsr.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked
From Here and 'rhcrc.
Parts of speech. THE lips.
The standing armies Of Europe cost an.
nually $4,000, 900, 900.
One person in every thirty five in England
and Wales is pauper.
Dakota farmers run stovepipes into then
grain stacks for ventilation.
There are 1888 organized gold and silver
mining companies in the Black Hills.
The red, white and blue Of the Union
Jack are the colors adopted by the English
Unionists
"0f late years." says Mrs. Darlington,
my physician has taken to confounding
his own physics"
A Chinaman accused of murder at San
Francisco had ON q coat of mail at the time
Of his arrest that cost $500.
A Venetian superstition is that if a
stranger dies at hotel the numbers of his
room will be lucky in the next lottery.
A Philadelphian says there are at least
fifty women in that city worth fortunes of
$500, 900, and a dozen who are million
aires.
The entire expenses of over one hundred
students at Amherst College the past year
averaged less than 800, vacation expenses
included.
The ancient college of William and Mary,
in Virginia, is in moribund condition
Next to Harvard it is the Oldest college in
this country.
newspaper in Japan; now there are two
thousand, large majority of them using
Roman characters.
A city clergyman in Lewiston, Me-, did
outside missionary work on Sunday by I'LL
ing bad place in the sidewalk with stones
10 keep his people out Of the pitfalls.
A unique umbrella divice deserves to be
adopted. 1t is patent window to be
placed in the cloth, so TINT the traveller
can see ahead and avoid disastrous coils
ions.
crusade against baby carriages Is being
prosecuted by an English medical mnn
who attributes much OF the infant mortalit,
from diseases of the brain and lungs Il
exposure in carriages.
John Gust married We'll, Edith, no,
do You like my wife? Little Edith--Oh,
amt scared bit. John-Why should yo
be scared, Edith? Little Edith -Mothe
said she was a perfect fright, but | ain
afraid of her.
A thirteen year-old bootback rode 30
miles on tho truck of n passenger cor unde
the car itself. The noise and dirt combines
burst the drum of his ear, and his cscap
from death is considered miraculous as b
inches from the track.
A short time ago a mans leg, stockings
and booted, was found near Woodhous
Junction. II TRANSFERRED that a man ha
been killed ON the line near Manchester
his leg torn from his body and carried b
the engine o distance Of for forty-sevel
miles before being realeasod.
The meanest man halls from Indiana
Three years ago Benjamin Smiths, of Utica
left his wife and home without any expla
nation. Recently he returned MS suddenl
as he left and was welcomed home by
generous wife. The next day he borrowe
all the money his wife had and again disar
peared, leaving her in poverty.
A Warkworth (Ontario) minister prayo'
one recent Sunday morning as follows =
Lord bless our servant girls who are de
tanned from joining in the worship 0
Thee by the sleeping Of their masters an
mistresses-'
Three Russian peasants who insulted
images at Kieff were first sentenced b
twelve and fifteen years hard labor, bu
that has been committed to the loss of a
civil rights and deportation to the furthes
confines Of Siberia.
First Stranger-You are a professions
man, are You not, sirl Second Stranger
No, sir. First Stranger beg pardon.
judged from your thoughtful air that yo
are professional man. Second Stranger
ran four aces up against straight flusl
last night and I've been thoughtful eve
,ince.
An immense quantity q jewelry is no,
made from thin layers of gold alloy upo
ingot of brass, formed while it is hot. o.
the ingot cooling it is forced between stes
rollers into long ribbon, each part Of whic
is of course still covered with the goo
alloy, incidentally thin, but which wear
for years, and can be moulded into an
shape.
In the year 1892, and in Central Russi
alone, e., exclusive of Finland, the dis
trict of the yistula, the Caucasus, tn
government of Orenburg and Libra, Their
occurred no fewer than As, 044 great fires
in which 1874, 1886 houses were consumed
,ausing loss of 9s, 112,i42 roubles. An
he like is repeated almost every year il
that unhappy country.
To kill one fly in March is estimated {,
be as good work as killing $500, 900, 00'
in August, the increase and multiplication
of the fly population being figured q
follows One fly on the Goth of March il
represented by 800 on the Gath of April
by 800 times 800, equalling 10000, ON tn,
2sth of May by 81 900. 900 on the I'd o
July and by 9,1oO, OOO,0OO on the sth O
August.