The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, FRncies and Conceits Picaed From
Here and There.


Here and There.
There are $50, DOC, 600 tons of coal vast
piled up in the anthracite regions.
4 human life is lost for every so, 900 ton
OF coal mined in the anthracite regions
A natural bridge has recently been dis
covered in the Tonic Basin, A. T., which
Is 200 feet long, 500 feet wide, and ITO fee
high.
Virginia girl who advertised in Dako
IA paper for husband has received 119
letters in reply.
The seal of the Southern Confederat y
gas thrown in a we'll at Abbeyville, s. c.,
which has since filed up, and all traces of
X lost.
Milk contains all that is required by tie
tody, and the best proportions of mineral
matters; is less irritating than other foods
and better digested.
A hard-hearted tramp not only stole the
coats ana caps of the pupils of a school at
la Grange, Ind, but made away with
twenty-six luncheons.
man in Orland made wager that he
could smoke ninety cigars in two hours. He
failed on the ninetieth, which made him
sick.-Sacramento Record
million dollars, it is said, will weigh
one and two. thirds tons in gold, 25 tons in
subsidiary silver coin, 264 tons in standard
silver coin and 100 tons in nickel.
"Oaida has become the champion of
she peasants of Europe. and in public let
her she calls upon the world to witness that
the poor Italians eat grass and wear one
hemp shirt year after year"
A South Carolinian this summer bagged
10000 lunches of grapes in paper covers.
The fruit was perfectly protected from rot,
and ripened perfectly, but it was too tender
10 be shipped long distances.
The quantity of sumac gathered liz Viz
gina this year was very large. Some poor
men have made as high as $500 by gather
ing the leaves of shrub that reee' we'd no
attention till since the close of the war
While the average proportion of churches
to the population in the United States is one
church to every 5i6 people, it is in Boston
one to 600, in New York one to 2, 400, in
st. Louis one to $500, while in some wards
it is but one to every 5000.
The Messrs. Drexel-three OF them--in,
herited ss12, o00,0 600 from their father. the
Philadelphia banker. They pay rent fol
and largely contribute to the support OF 1916
families. This does not compass the full
measure of their benefactions.
Senator EYarts usually writes his speeches
out in full, and then, going into a room by
himself, he says them over until he is a per.
feet master Of their elaborate periods. He
is failure ayn five minute, off-hand speak
or. He is ponderous or nothing.
Don't show me any moro of your impu
dence!' exclaimed the irate shopper to the
salesman; don's let me see your face
when come in heren "Yes'm," he re-
piled, with an ingratiating bow; is there
anything else you would like to look at
mem ~ Force of habit he couldn't help
it, you know.
Mrs Stanford, wife OF the California
Senator, supports four kindergarten schools
in California three in San Francisco and
thc oticA ~ aAShW AWN thV R'oi"kc ~
tendance of pupils reaching five hundred
She practically manages the work of these
institutions and is deeply interested in the
methods of the teachers and the progress OF
the pupils
The richest woman in South America is
lsadora Cousino, of Santiago, Chilli. The
people call her the Countess of Monte Girls
to, and she traces her ancestry back TO the
days OF the conquest She inherited from
her husband millions of acres, millions OF
money, fiocks and herds, coal, copper and
silver mines, fleet of iron steamships,
smelling works and railroad, all yielding
der an income of several million year.
There are not ten men in the country to-
day possessing $4,000, 600 who ever earned
them. That sum could never be earned,
for life is too brief for it to be done. The
enormous fortunes have either been gained
by some sort of monopoly, which is modi
fed form of stealing, or by stealing out
right. Somebody has been robbed when a
man in his own lifetime, beginning from
nothing, piles up SO, 200, 0OO.- Washington
Mercury.