The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-04-07


Here and There.
Mexico is about to enter into active COM
petition with Cuba as . tobacco growing
country.
Kansas is considering law to punish
the malicious wrecking of train with
death.
Mrs. Sarah Davidson, of Lower Boulder,
Mon, shot bear and with the bounty re-
ceived for it paid for sewing machine.
The Austrian forests chiefly furnish the
wood for musical instruments, particularly
violins, guitars, mandolins and zithers.
"f man can keep his teeth until after
middle age,p says the London Lancet, he
may generally count on keeping them to
the end Of his lifen
Ordinary everyday English speech en-
ploys only about 1900 words, according to
stenographer who has made careful eY-
animation Of the matter.
A Californian has plucked his twenty -ons
ostriches and sold the feathers for $6, 900.
The ostrich industry 10 booming on the
Pacific coast.
The vitality Of widows astonishes the
Pension Bureau. There are now on the
rolls the names of 1929 women, widows
of soldiers Of the war of 1912.
= The total wealth Of Great Britain, accord
ing to the returns made June 80, 1886, was
&4S,600, 600, 900, which gives about 81
GAG 10 each inhabitant, which is consider
ably above the per capita rate in the United
States.
There is an old superstition prevalent
among the river men of the West thai the
name " Washington" is in every sense an
unlucky one for steamboat, and that one
SO christened, whether wholly or in part
is sure to be burned, blown up or sunk.
Railway men complain of the weight Of
the passenger cars now built, and show by
figures that m engine hauls between fiys
and six pounds Of dead weight for every
one pound of paying passenger weight,
reckoned when all the seats are filed
A missionary says that Japanese Chris.
tians are so eager for religious instructions
that the same audience will often listen to
several sermons in succession, each one
nearly an hour long, with only an intermis-
sion for tea after the trial.
stsnuous attempts are making in England
to counterfeit the influence Of 81 gin palaces .
by coffee palaces" and with considerable
success. The Birmingham Coffee House
Company has declared a dividend of ten
per cent. for the last year. It has twenty
six coffee houses.
The Northern Railway Of Russia is using
peat rs fuel to . great extent, and saves
half the cost of wood or coal by the opera
ton. The peat is found chiefly near Mos
COW and Is cut mostly by steam machinery,
which can penetrate 10 a depth of twenty
feet from the surface of the bog.
Somebody has taken the pains to figure
out that the United States produces enough
innber each year TO load 1,42S, 5s1 railroad
cars, each carrying 1000 feet. 1t is also
stated that this would make train $500
miles long, or about one-third around the
world.
In the competitive examinations of China
poetry is essential for official candidate o.
each man being required to write poem Of
twelve lines attaining certain standard Of
excellence. Any student who fails in hi,
rhymes is considered incapable of govern
ing q prison or province, or of holding
any other State Office.
In tie Smithsonian Institute at Washing
ton is the small nugget of gold, littl
larger than q pea, that FIRST mot the eyes O
John Marshall in the sawmill raceway q
Sacramento, and was the beginning OF thos
discoveries in California that have adde
nearly 1880 0oO; 900 in gold to the world
stock Of the precious metals.