The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-05-19
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE.
BY A SPECIAL REroRrER

OOntflnlte HOWeFS IOf MbihoIiuu Days
Belvidere has now but one licensed
hotel.
By the way, What has become of the
peach crop?
Flowers for ,Memorial Day will proba.
bly, be plenty.
Tom Dempsey is happy. He has just
received legacy of $4,000 from the
old country
Love is blind, but not so blind but
that it car see when the parlor gas is
burning too freely.
1t is said that all the pensions paid by
the Government come from the tax on
whiskey and tobacco.
A man feels pride in being spoken
of as one of the Oldest inhabitants,
but a woman never does.
The merry oyster has shut mp his lit
tie shell and settled down for a quiet
Summer. lie has earned vacation and
deserves sunny holiday.
Kid bed spreads, made out of the
backs of discarded kid-gloves and the
gaunilets of long ones, have cast crazy
patchwork into the shade.
Numerous dwellings, in town are re
ceiving coats of paint and various decora-
tions aud improvements. Paper-hangers
and painters are kept busy.
Rev. Father Connolly, of Bordentown,
paid visit to this city yesterday, and
was warmly greeted by his former par
ishioners and many friends.
Improvements have just been added
to the front of Gandey's hardware house,
81 Bridge street, under the supervision
of Contractor Johnston Holcombe.
Red promises to be q more popular
color than yellow has been the past sea-
son. The fashions are red gowns, red
slippers, red stockings, red feathers, etc.
The amount of school money appor-
toned to each child of school age in all
districts having seventy pupils and up
wards, for the next school year, is
So. 036.
There is young lady in town who
keeps book of all the things she ought
to buy, but cannot afford to wear. We
presume this book is her ought buy.
ography.
Next Sunday evening Major G. A.
Angel Post, No. 20, g. A. R.. the Wo.
mems Relief Corps, No. IL, and Com
pany c, N. G. N. j., will attend the NJ.
E. Chnrcll.
The smiling face of Deputy Sheriff
Hart, of Doylestown. was seen in town
on Tuesday last. He was kept busy in
shaking hands with his many friends on
this side of the Delaware.
Herbert d. Van Solver, of this city,
spent Sunday last with the printers of
the Democrat Advertiser, in Pennington
including his brother Chetwood and
Will A. Abbott. Report--A grand good
time.
The black bass season opens on May
Both, after which you are at liberty to
take them with hook and line, il you can
persuade them to take the hook. 1t is
unlawful to catch bassIwith net at any
time Of year.
A bright little youngster OF New Hope
was quite unruly the other day, when
his mother declared she would run away.
"All right, mamma" said he; ego
ahead. I'll run after you, and boiler,
Get there, Eli IL"
At the Penna. r. r. station in this
city the platform between the main
building and the telegraph office has
been considerably enlarged, the lawns
and plants nicely arranged, and other
improvements made.
1t must be great consolation for the
lazy to find 80 many urgent sermons
against the evils of overwork in the
newspapers of the day. The tramp will
soon begin to regard himself as the only
wise man in the community.
The county debt last year amounted
to 1920, 900. This year the debt will be
near $3.50, 600, the increase being due 10
the expenses Brought on by the cyclone
in the line of damages to bridges, build-
ings, &C., in the upper end of the county.
Cleveland and Bayard were in con.
sultation for some time in this city on
Friday last. (The consultation was in
relation to advertising, and the gentle
men were Mr.. Cleveland, of the Mikado
Opera Company, and Jos. E. Bayard, of
the REooRD.)
Roscoe Conkling says that the small
est country newspaper is worth more to
its country subscribers in one month
than its price for year. and does more
for its neighborhood for nothing than
many a high official does for his munifi-
cent salary"
This is the season when every dog
cat and chicken should be hoppled.
They are responsible for many hard
words, especially when one arises in the
morning to find a newly made flower
bed. or garden spot, trampled and dug
ont by vagrant animals.
The Iowa Judge who decided that
every man is bound to tell his wife
where he spends his evenings is again
reminded that no should except the
man, or ratlier the sort OF men, who
don't know always where they have been
and consequently cannot tell.
Chief Engineer Van Solver, of the