The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

She's mine all the while
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
FacCS Fancies and Conceits Picked
From Here and There.
Tea shipments for England now cross the
Continent on the Canadian Pacific road.
A Florida trucker got twenty-five cents
from New York as the total returns for six
crates of beans
There is young man about twenty years
old in Athens, Ga, who says he lives on
thirty cents week.
An italian is said to have invented a lumi-
nous printing ink that renders it possible
for newspapers to be read in the dark.
The horse railway companies of Boston
employ 5000 horses and 1 700 cars carrying
100000 of passengers during the last
twelve months
Oregon pays a bounty of two cents foa
every squirrel killed, and one man was re-
Gently paid for 1876, 900 squirrel tails which
he had collected.
Men who habitually use intoxicating
spirits are more difficult to cure, if bitten
by a mad dog, than temperate men. So
ays the famous Pasteur.
The inhabitants Of Morocco, as well as
others along the north of Africa, blacken
themselves around the eyes to avert
ophthalmia from the glare Of the hot sand.
1t is said a Georgia Congressman will be
left at home at the next election for the
reason that the garden seeds he sent
to his constituents proved to be worthless.
Minneapolis was not smart this time II
published a directory which showed 40, 270
names. ST. Paul waited, and at once issued
new directory and showed up 49,35s
names
In England they have few electioneerine
bonnets, 50 that in the political contests the
fair friends of the voters, although the bal
lot Is beyond them, can show where their
sympathies are.
Charles and James Culbertson, of Van.
dalla, NO., killed 5000 field mice while
ploughing 100 acres of ground. The,
think there is now some hope of raising o
crop of corn.
The most extraordinary incident of alb.
sent mindedness is told of clergyman, who
forgot what he was about in the middle of a
prayer and sat down. In moment he arose,
and, pointing to the amazed congregation.
said, "Ohl by the way, amen"
The smokers in this country have to paw
the Government $4,000 600 annually for
indulging in the habit. smoker calls this
AN internal tax" while the anti-tobacco
citizen calls the other "an internal habit. u
An incandescent lamp which requires nc
vacuum in the globe has been invented in
Germany. The wire used is a mixture Of
conducting and non-conducting elements
the latter preventing the former from melt
ing.
A little negro, called Court" at Mar
shall, Mo-, whose father was soldier anc
was kllen in the war, recently received 81,
500 pension money. His first purchase wa
q $65 finger ring his second $500 hors,
and buggy.
A hat made Of human hair, and intended
for gentleman's wear, is one of the mos
curious contributions TO CHILEAN exhibit
ton. It was sent by Guatemala lady ant
the material came from the heads of he,
two daughters.
Whore are you going 2" she said, as he
husband started to go out at the end of the
first act. "oh, no place much" he re
piled nonchalantly; 81 notice the curtain
has taken drop, and thought little o
doing the same thing myself"
A young man at Halifax, Nova Scotia
who got his name ON the voting list by
swearing that he earned $500 year, wal
taken to task by his employer for telling al
untruth, when he retorted that he earnet
that much, though he didn't get it.
On the cocoanut, pineapple and melol
growing Keys" along the southwest coas
Of Florida great drought has produced
queer result. On some OF the Keys tn
watermelons suffer from frequent raid
made by raccoons. They eat up the melon
to obtain water.
A Scotch bicyclist left the Lands End o.
June 7 for run to John O'Groat's. II
made the first day 160 miles, the secon,
140, the third 105, the fourth LA, the fftl
1873 and the sixth 1854 total distance G
1856 miles, with q total riding time Of ST
days eight and half hours, beating tn
best previous record by seven hours.
The newspapers of the world, accordin
to statistics given by the German Secretar
of State, number "a, 900, with an aggregat
distribution of sos, 900, 900 copies; 1900
are published in Europe, $4,000 in Mort
America, IT'S in Asia, 800 in South Amer
ca; 16, 800 are in English, 1880 in German
$3.50 in French and l 900 in Spanish,
A table giving the price of gas in ninety
two of the principal cities OF the Unite
States shows total range in price of fror
ninety cents to 81 per 1000 feet TIL
lowest price is Wilkesbarre, Pa, and Vince
ing, w. Va, near the heart Of the COZ
regions, and the highest rules in Galvesto
and San Antonio, Tex, new places and fl
removed from coal.
That q youth can have passed year
Harvard College, and yet be ignorant ,
what every boy who has received q commo
school education is supposed to know, WI
illustrated last week in the question put [
one of his family by member of the ella,
of 1888. The young mans inquiry wa
"Why do they celebrate the 4th of July
Is it on account of the battle of Bunkt
Hill ?" This was said in all honesty an
ignorance.
The Dangerous Cigarette.
The great danger Of cigarette smoking
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