The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Concsits Picked From
Here and There.

A youth at Santa Barbara, CAL, has beer
fined for practising on clarionet in bill
own apartments.
The Introduction of natural gas at Pitts
burg has reduced the quantity of coal con
sumed in that city 250, 900 bushels per day
The Earl Of Shaftesbury made the re-
mark, the other day, that I" If London did
not have its 400 city missionaries, II would
require 1000 more police"
A Kansas man who went to Washington
last fall and, with good Endorsements, APP
piled for a postoffics, il said to be saving
wood in the navy yard and trying 10 earn
enough money TO get home with.
The London Lancet says the cholera
swept of $4,000 people in Spain last year,
and even this great total is likely to be be-
low the mark, inasmuch as there was much
laxity in the keeping Of official records.
Elder Thomas Parker Dudley, who began
preaching in 1920, is said to be the oldest
Baptist minister in the country. He is
resident Of Lexington, Kentucky, 81 years
old, blind and very feeble.
Some years ago Canadian farmers used
Now they can sell such of these rails as are
seasoned for % much, in some cases, as the
land enclosed by them is worth.
The wages of farm hands in Switzerland,
exclusive of board and lodging, average for
males about $56.25 year; for females,
$20.50. In the United States the wages OF
the farm hands, including board and lodg-
ing, average from $500 to $3.50 year.
DIR. Van Gallhan has cured insomnia in
himself by bandaging one of his legs to the
knee with layers of wet calico and covering
these with sheet Of waterproof cloth. This
vessels of the leg were dilated and The
amount of blood in the head diminished,
and sleep followed.
The Austrian Government has made the
strange decree that no Austrian subject
shall henceforth receive passport for jour-
neying beyond the frontier without the OK.
press consent of his wife. The measure
has excited much oommotion, but the Gov
eminent refuses to give its reasons for the
step.
The village belle OF Chestervile, ILL.,, Miss
McBrown, Is the station agent, baggage
mistress and telegraph operator for the
Midland Railway at that place. and in I'D.
dition to this she finds time to run lumber
yard and q dairy, and has laid up modest
fortune. She doesn't lack for suiiors.
The amount Of capital invested in pot
teries in this country is now $8,000,000
and the value OF last years product was
about the same. Tho growth of the in
dnstry has been materially increased by the
manufacture Of jars and pots for decoration
by young women with the art craze.
An extraordinary feat in teleploning was
recently accomplished between st. Peters
burg and Boulogne, a distance of 2,456
miles. Conversation was kept up notwith.
standing rather high induction, The ex-
periments were made during tho night,
when the telegraph wires were not at work.
The Russian engineers hope to succeed in
converting by telephone over distance OF
l,665 miles.
The immense quantity of peanuts grown
In Africa, South America and In our own
southern states affords not only an article Of
food, but very large source Of oil produc-
ton. The seed contains from As TO so pei
cent. Of q nearly colorless. bland, fixed oil,
not unlike olive oil, and used for similar
purposes. 1t isa rare drying oil, which
changes but little by exposure to the air,
and remains fluid even several degrees cold.
or than 32' Fahrenheit. A great quantity
OF soap is manufactured from this oil, sume
OF the finest toilet soaps imported from
France being Of this material