The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fascies and Coneefts Picked Fism
Here and There.

In Suffer county, CAL, they use steam
whistles to brighten wild geese off the fields.
A horse thief was recently hung by yigi.
lantes In Montana, and the verdict of the
jury was " death from exposure"
The BARRIERS of Macon, Ga, have been
successful in their effort to have an ordi-
nance passed prohibiting Sunday shaving.
Since 1859 1874 persons have lost their
lives in climbing the Swiss Alps. OF these
eighty were tourists and forty were guides.
Kerosene taken internally failed to kill a
Berlin woman. She tried to commit sui
eide in that way, but only made herself
temporarily unconscious.
An experienced vocalist has, it is stated,
during fourteen years cured any number Of
cases of obstinate cough by prescribing the
free use of raw oysters ns diet
The trade in patent medicines amounts
to about $22, 100000 per annum, and Of
this $40, 0Oo, 900 year is spent in adyer-
Using. There are 5000 kinds in the
market.
London has sixty-seven hospitals, with
6,588 beds, and SO, 493 patients are received
annually. The number of out patients
treated during the past two years exceeds
100000.
Tho people of Langell Valley, Oregon,
catch wild geese by soaking wheat in alco-
hol and leaving IL for the geese to feed
upon. The birds become drunk and are
easily captured.
Here is encouragement for school chill
dren. Walter Graham, student at the
Seward, Neb., High School, has not been
absent nor sardy for a single day in fom
years and half.
According to the report Of the Surgeon
General, there were only two cases of yario
loid and one of smallpox in the United
States Army last year. Vaccination WINS
carried out with great regularity.
A Park county Qnd.) man, who has
buried three wives and was divorced eigh-
teen months ago from the fourth, presented
himself before clergyman at Tuscola, H.,
q few days ago and WINS married to comedy
woman some fifteen years his junior
A family in Cambridge, Mass, have had
their house overloaded several times to dis.
cover cause for the nausea and sleepless
ness with which they had been affected
Arsenic dust from the friezes with which
the rooms were decorated has been discov.
cred by chemist to have been the cause.
Young wife, new to marketing You may
send n saddle of mutton for dinner Butch.
er-Yes, madam what kind must it DO I
Young wife, thoughtfully--Well, as my
husband is away and there is no one in the
house but mother and myself and the two
servants, you had better send side saddle,
think.
l3G, 108, and their average size IL 100 acres
OF this land about one-half Ia under cult.
walton. The value Of the farms is put ai
1898, 000, 900 and the value Of their gross
annual product is reckoned at $3.50. 600, 900
The number of men engaged in agriculture
is 1876, 1903,
Remember those chickens you sold me
Saturday p Certainly "spring chick
ems, weren't they ?" ''Of course. What
was the matter with them s'S' Oh, nothing.
The springs were all there /; only ! wanted
10 tell you that the next time want pair
with rubber springs. Wire springs are Too
rich for my blood"
A farmer was fined 800 and sentenced e
sixty days. imprisonment in New Haven 70,
selling diseased COW to butcher. Thu
farmer, who admits the sale, appeals III,
case to the higher courts, holding that tn
butcher is the man to punish, as he knew
what he was buying, and the law could no
prevent the farmer from getting what h
could for his property.
Opium eaters appear to be unfortunate il
their attempts to find royal road out o
their habit. Those who sought o painles
cure In cocaine, found the cocaine habi
worse than the opium, and quite recently
case is reported In Paris of man suffering
from " The paraldehyde habit" which he nc
quired while subduing his mania for MOI
phine.. Paraldehydc was introduced int
medicine in 1883.
A remarkable cavern, half mile il
length, has been discovered in Keney coun
ty, Texas. The ceiling varies from 100 /
200 feet in height The largest chamber
800 feet wide and the ceiling It's feet hig
In the centre. The stalactite formation
are grand and beautiful. One feature Q
the place is cascade twenty feet high
formed in pure white limestone.
There is an old colored woman living O
Dry Creek, CAL, with her son, who has Of
rived at the extraordinary age Of ITO years
She can walk around without support an
has good appetite. Her eyesight is almos
gone. It is said that this aged woman look
every year that she is credited with, nm,
could tote good-sized child around durinl
the Revolution.