The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-09-01
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WEDNESDAY,, SEPT. 1, 1886.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Facts, Fancies and CoMceits Picked
From Hero and There.
There are said to be 1000 Americans in
London this season.
The Australian colonies are all legislating
against the Chinese.
Venezuela has been favored with blue
and rose-colored hailstones.
There are several towns in Montana
without single unmarried woman.
Japan has population of $1,000 900,
but has no less than 10, 900 paupers.
The first silk hat is said to have been
made for French sea captain in China,
fifty years ago.
A Johnstown Pa.) woman has been sued
by neighbor for the theft of pair of scis-
sors valued at ten cents.
Baltimore is enjoying a building boom.
Over ! 200 new houses are going up, many
of them palatial residences.
There is man and wife in White county,
Tenn, whose ages are the same-both
being born the same day, month and year.
A Rockland (Me.) dog, struck the trail of
hedge hog one day last week, and when
he returned home his owner pulled 600
quilts out of the dogs nose.
English railway companies have success
full cooperative banks of their own. In
one company the employees have deposited
over f227, 000--a remarkable illustration of
thrift.
A large cavo has recently been discovered
In the Orange range. forty miles north of
FL Paso, which in size and in the beauty of
its stalactites and stalagmites bids fair to
rival the Mammoth Cave.
A New Orleans dog, it is said, never
makes mistake as to the recurrence of
Sunday, and nothing will induce him to
leave the house or frolic ON that day. He
spends it in quiet meditation.
Rabbits are becoming 80 abundant in
portions of Colorado that it is suggested
that the Legislature offera bounty for rabbit
scalps, to prevent them from oyerrunning
and laying waste the country.
A deed covering thirty-three pages of
legal cap paper, averaging eleven words to
the line and thirty-two lines to the page,
thus containing IL SIG words, was recently
recorded in Mcintosh county, Ga.
Astronomy was first studied by the Moors,
and was then introduced into Europe in
1901. The rapid progress of modern as
tronomy dates from the time of Ccpernicus.
Books of astronomy and geometry were
destroyed, as infected with magic, in Eng
land under the reign of Edward vi. in
1862.
chicken was Matched near Upper San
dusky that had four perfect legs and four
wings. The legs were not grown together,
but they were separate and distinct, as were
also the wings The chick lived for severa
hours after being Matched out, and in fact
walked about. 1t has been preserved in
alcohol.
A pair of sparrows have built snt.r nes
in q freight car which travels between
Glasgow and Kilsyth every other day
There is q slight fracture ON the outside O
the woodwork, and the small aperture thu
made contains the nest with two eggs in 1t
The parent birds, ii il thought, aecompan,
the car on its trips.
Professor Treadwell, of Massachusetts,
has proved that half grown robin will
daily devour more than one and hal
times its own weight in oaterpiilars ant
beetles. A young brood cannot live OF
less than seventy or eighty worms a day
A single pair of sparrows will carry every
week to the nest 1900 caterpillars OF
beetles.
In Massachusetts city there is leading
church with young minister. Some o.
the congregation have thought that he lack
ed gentility, and recently there was n move
ment to get rid of him. The movement Il
get rid OF him is now dead. His opponent
have become warm admirers. 1t is an
nounced that he is engaged to daughter o
the richest man of the society.
Experiments are being made at McKees
port, Pa, in making steel pipe. Thousand
of tons of steel pipe have been made in tn,
finer grades at different tube works for us,
in boilers and machinery, but it is nov
considered probable by practical men tina
within o year all grades of wrought pip
for gas and water will be made of steel.
A little boy playing in an old log hous
at Richwoods, Mo-, lost marble throug
the floor and crawled under the house :
get it. He found there tin pail full Q
gold and silver coin. The amount prove
to be 81, 900. It was the property of d
old gentleman Of the place, who Lad hidde
1t there in 1884, and afterward, not findin
1t readily, thought it had been stolen.