The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-10-13

or myths and phantasieS have left him lone,
Steps down the angel Duty from her throne,
And takes him by the hand.
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ITEMS OF HNrElaESr.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked
From Here and There.
Bull fights cause the death of from 1900
TO 1000 horses in Spain every year.
A woman at Chico, Cal, postponed her
wedding because it was too warm to get
married
Households at Fargo, Dakota, are unhap-
py because housemaids are not to be had at
81 day.
A Canadian great-grandfather recently
was present at the christening of his one
hundred and seventeenth descendant.
The largest steamer ever built on the
lakes was launched at Buffalo last week.
She is built of steel and is 1928 feet long.
Why is this hat called wideawake ?"
asked curious customer, intent upon Sc
curing information. Because it never has
nap" answered the halter seriously.
prepossessing damsel feighteen, resid-
ing at La Fontaine, Ind, has brought suit
for 81, 900 against young Indian for breach
of promise of marriage. The red man
has property.
Saratoga has bill poster who handles
the broad sheets and the broad paste brush
with the skill of an expert. She is the
widow of former bill poster, and con-
.inues his business with energy.
Boys in barn at st Thomas, CANADA,
disturbed nest of hornets. They Mt once
attacked cat that was on the barn floor,
and stlng her to death before she could get
away.
This has been the greatest tobacco year,
in point Of receipts, in the history of Lynch
burgh, Va By the LIST of October, wher
the fiscal year ends, the sale will have
reached IS, 0o0, 900 pounds
J. E. Means, of Liberty, Mo-, has for
ty-year-old clock that's perfect barometer
just before rain the bell, usually of 4
clear and distinct tone, tells the hours in {
tone SO dull and mufiied as to be hardly
audible. 1t never makes mistake.
Mrs Pennington, walking near her home
on Fiye-mile Greek, Oregon, leading 4
three year-old child and carrying her baby
was attacked by big wildcat. She pulled
her revolver, disabled the beast at the first
shot, and then killed it with stick Of wood
The division Of labor and improved ma
chinery are doing away with the thorough
learning Of trades. When the present gen
Grafton Of shoemakers and blacksmiths ars
dead it win be hard work to find maj
who can make complete boot or make {
horseshoe and nails aud then shoe the horse
properly.
A Chicago woman who WAS ordered by
the Court to pay two judgments amounting
TO $2,s50, in gold, carried the money
which weighed about twelve pounds, int
the court room, and with the assistance
of the Court counted it in two piles which
were taken respectively by two claimants
A white convict recently escaped from a
gang working on the Georgia Midland
Railroad. A bloodhound was put on his
trail and afterward found manacled to 0
tree with the convict's shackles. Two new
dogs we're started after him, aud when they
caught him he made friends with them
and traded them to a negro woman for hi
dinner. lie has not been caught yet.
A peculiar sand, knows as "squcakinl
sand" is found Mt the boiling spring on thu
Ira Hill farm, in Dayton, Me. When rub
bed or pressed in the hand 1t emits succes
sion Of peculiar sounds 1t is very fine
and was at one time used in the water-powe
machine shop at Biddeford as substitute
for emery.
it Is said that in no part OF the world ar
oranges grown to such perfection or wit
more ease than in New South Wales. Anyon
with garden can grow few orange trees
the rearing Of which occasions far les
trouble than that of the currant trees Q
gooseberry bushes in an English cottag
garden.
The continents of the earth have an aver
age height of about 900 feet above the leve
Of the sea they may be regarded as q
elevated plateau occupying fve-sixteent
Of the earth's surface. The abysmal II
gions of the earth occupy eight-sixteenth, Q
one-half Of the earth's surface, and have a
average depth Of three miles beneath III
surface of the waves.
A Chicago newspaper tells Of a youn
Hoosier who, to show his experience on
typewriter, wrote love letter with 1t.
was fatal mistake. The girls brother We
q printer, and she could set type. Sl
went to her brothers Office and set up
cold type: "Dear Sir: am not TO |
wooed by machinery. enclose your ring
Please return my letters. Respectful,
-.n She worked that of ON proc
press and mailed it to the youth. 1t seem
on the face Of It as though he had q foi