The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-04-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and COnccits Picked
From Here and There.

From Here and There.
1t takes $50 bushels of potatoes to make
ton of starch"
A man at Des Moines, Iowa, canvassed
the city for funds with which to push his
suit for divorce.
As many as 2S5 love letters are offered in
evidence in breach-of promise suit before
an Indiana court.
There are still public lands open to settle
ment in nineteen States and eight Territor-
les, at prices ranging from $l.25 to $3.50
per acre.
The States which have the greatest num-
Der of post offices are Pennsylvania, with
3,716; New York, with 3,0S2, and Ohio,
with 1920.
1t has been determined that 8, 100 pounds
of corn product, including grain, cobs and
stalks, is equal in nutritiye value to 1912
pounds of hay.
A Nevada man, who lives near Winnie
mueea, is looking for his house, which some.
body has stolen outright. He offers $3.50
reward for the arrest of the house thief.
A Chicago man had in his stable fine
harness and buffalo robe, and valuable
bull dog to guard them. An enterprising
burglar came along and stole harness, robe
and dog. OIL He
An aesthetic Worcester horse will tear any
cheap blanket that may be thrown over il
into shreds, but seems immensely pleased
when covered with one that IL costly and
beautiful
Mahogany and other rare and valuable
woods are dug up from some muck beds at
Pensacola, Fla. They have been examined
by experts who assert that the specimens
examined are fully 5000 years old
Prohibitionists in Marathon Iowa, went in
orce to a drug store where whiskey was
sold, destroyed thirteen packages Of liquors,
forced the druggist to pack up and ship
away the rest of his goods and close his
store.
Beavers ON Fall Greek, near Wellington,
Kansas, have cut down 100 trees, some OF
them eighteen inches in diameter, foated
some of the logs nearly mile down the
stream and built complete dam across the
creek.
Paper is about to monopolize another
branch of industry, which is no less one
than the making of gentlemen's headgear.
BY a new process of manipulation, hats,
more serviceable and finer than anything
now in the market, are made of wood pulp.
ing in flexibility.
The minute hand of the clock ON est
minister Abbey is sixteen feet long and the
hour hand nine feet. They weigh about
hundred pounds each and are kept in mo-
ton by weights proportionally ponderous,
the hands and appendages, in all, weighing
about u tons. In recent snowstoim in
London this clock was stopped, the handa
being impeded by the snow.
The manufacture of alcohol from wood
has increased rapidly within n few years,
and it is said to be used largely for patent
bitters, ginger extracts, and other alcoholic
compounds whose strong favor makes it
unnecessary to use better quality of
duct, and sometimes gives rise to serious
disturbances of the brain and nervous
system.
Great injury may be done to plants in the
is more often the cause of failure than not
enough. The condition Of the plant may
be easily ascertained by knocking on the
side of the pot with the knuckles II it
gives forth y hollow sound the plant needs
water, which, when given, must be given
thoroughly. Constant dripping of small
quantities of water does but little good.
The population of london now exceeds,
it is said, every other city, ancient or mod
ern, in the world. New York apd all its
adjacent cities combined are not equal to
two-thirds of it, Scotland, Switzerland and
the Australian colonies each contain fewer
souls, while Norway Seryia, Greece and
Denmark have scarcely half 80 many. Yet
at the beginning of the present century the
population of all London did not reach / :
600, 600
The last report of the statistician of the
United States Department of Agriculture
states that the American draft horse of the
future, by the introduction of famous Eu.
ropean breeds, is to be a heavier and strong.
er animal than heretofore. Sheep husbandry
is in deeper depression than any other ami
NAL industry of the country, the last annual
decrease in number being about two million.
With all stock except sheep the number has
increased, but the aggregate valuation this
year of farm animals is less than that of last
year by something over 800, 600, 600.