The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-07-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Facts, Faacies and Conceiss Picked
Frcm Here and There.
Clinton, Lenawee county, Kan, has nine
people whose combined ages foot up e5s
years.
Buffalo gnats have appeared in such num-
bers at Memphis that they almost amount te
plague,
In Montgomery county, Kan, numbers
of cattle and hogs have died from the effects
of hydrophobia.
A swarm OF bees captured freight train
at Fairbury, Neb., one day last week, and
held it for over IN hour.
John N. Weyman, one of the best bar mill
rollers in Pittsburgh, has just fallen heir to
property in Germany worth $3.50, 900.
1t is estimated that there are over $1,000
square miles Of swamp land east of the Mis-
sissippi River that might, by draining, be
made profitable farming land.
A young lady who has suffered from
box smashing" has had her trunks cover
ed with flannel this season, having heard
that flannel is good chest protector.
A horse belonging to J. I. Kennedy, Of
GAINESVILLE, Ga, recently coughed up
twenty-five cent piece, which had, in some
unaccountable way, found Judgment in the
animals throat.
Are you pretty we'll acquainted with
your mother tongue, my boy ?" asked the
school teacher of the new scholar. " Yes,
sill" answered the lad, timidly; "ma jaws
me good deal, sir"
A twenty-year-old boy, while hunting
near Grants Pass, Or, was bitten by rat
tesnake on the hand. He tied a thong
about his arm as tightly as possible, hurried
home, drank whiskey, and still lives.
The orange crop of Southern California
is estimated at about 500, 900 boxes. The
crop of Florida was estimated, before the
freeze, at 100000 boxes. The foreign
crop received in the Western States is likely
to reach 1000, 900 boxes.
Streator, Ill.,, has q cat that delights In
killing snakes; but she nearly met her
match the other day when she tackled big
garter snake. It coiled about her body, and
the two rolled around on the ground until
the teeth and claws of the cat got her the
victory.
Ten-year-old Nancy Taylor, of Grant
Iowa, reads with the book upside down, anG
writes with inverted characters, beginning
ut the right side of paper or slate. She say
that everything within three feet of her eyes
seems upside down. AT great distance hel
sight is normal.
A Chicago jeweler has invented self
winding watch By an arrangement some
thing like the carefully balanced lever of
pedometer, the watch is wound by the mo
ton of the wearer when walking. A wall
of seven minutes will wind the watch TO o,
for forty-two hours.
More than $50 ship loads of firewood ar,
landed annually in the port of London, Civ
ing support to 100000 men, women ant
children. In making the half-penny bun
dies of wood G250,O00 is paid annually il
the shape of wages, 10000 persons bein,
actively employed in the work.
In the German army salicylic suet is nov
used universally for foot sores, sores iron
riding, &c, and is found much more satisfac
tory than the salicylic powder which wa
formerly employed. The salicylic suet i
composed of five parts of pure salicylic aci,
and ninety-eight parts of the belt muttol
guet.
In a Moravian graveyard at Greensbor
ough, N. O., the married women are burie,
in one square, the married men in another
in still another square the maiden ladies
Then in two other squares are found ON on,
side the boys and on the other the girls. A
the head of each grave is q plain white mar
BILE slab, and the same care and attention Il
given to each.
girl from Bath, Me-, had scarlet fever
while at boarding school. She recovered
and went home, and trunk containing
clothing worn while she was ill was put
away in the garrett Six months afterward
two little children playing in the garnet
opened the trunk and took out some of tho
clothing. In week both were taken very
sick with scarlet fever and ono died. No
other persons in the neighborhood were i'll.
Fred and Willie Gerster, aged 0 and II,
tired of their home in Cincinnati, so they
packed a big basket with provisions, stole
B3 and pistol from their father, and set
put to see the world. And they saw it for
three weeks, sleeping in barns, selling news
papers, and backing boots in Dayton and
Toledo, and were in fair way to become
thorough tramps when the advertisements
of their frantic father led to their appreAen-
sion and return TO the parental roof They
say that they have had all the trampine
they want.