The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-05-05
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Facts, Fancics and Conceifs Picked
From Here and There.
Webster City, Iowa, is the proud piases-
sor of hen that lays eggs of a bright YER
million color.
1t is said that about 10000, 900 crowns
yearly are sent home to the fatherland by
Swedes dwelling in America.
One hundred and fifty persons have been
killed in Chicago during the past year by
being run over by railroad cars.
The United States have nearly three times
as many doctors as England, and nearly
four times as many as France in proportion
to the population. aS 8
In one year the people of this country use
about 150, 900, 900 steel pens. II placed in
line the pens would reach from New York
to Liverpool.
Some parts Of Georgia are SO infested with
deer and wild turkeys that the people have
to drive them out of the fields to preserve
their crops.
Lee county, Iowa, have taken out license
to marry. He Is eighty-one years old and
she is year younger.
A plucky fifteen-year-o girl grasped the
bride Of runaway horse in Sacramento
the other day, and quickly brought the ami
NAL to standstill.
Tha Nebraska City saloon keepers have all
signed an agreement not to sell liquor to any
man who Is known to have signed the tenn
perance pledge.
Harry Brownlee, Of Adair county, Iowa,
has eaten twenty-three big cucumber pickles
in four minutes, aud therefore claims to be
the champion pickle eater Of the State
A horse thief was hanged by lynchers the
other day in Arizona, and the local editor,
in describing the event, remarked I" Jim
departed this life with his accustomed lively
snap
The temperance party in the British House
of Commons number 300 strong, and havc
determined to organize. If they act to-
gether they can force their views on any
ministry.
Hot water is good for clocks as well as
human beings. An East Saginaw woman
boiled the works of q refractory clock for
two hours the other day, and since then the
timepiece has done good service.
In San Francisco, the other day, China
man artfnlly manufactured mole on his
chin, in order to make himself fit a customs
certificate upon which he claimed the right
Of entering the country. The dodge was
discovered 10 court
In Florida, with 66,7o8 children between
the ages of six and twenty -one years, which
is the school age in that State, there are g.
327, or more than 90 per cent. of the whole
number, enrolled in the public schools,
while in Maine, out of 212 800 children, be-
tween four and twenty-one years Of age,
only 145, 43S. or but 6S per cent. are en-
rolled.
Two littla Cleveland lads, whose father Is
in the Worlhouse and whose mother Is
dead, keep house alone, the elder doing all
the homework rs well as the average house.
keeper can do it. He says that before his
mother died she taught HIN housework,
saving that after she was doad she wanted
him to take care Of his father and little
brother.
It is not generally known that the Eng
lish Government are now In effect calf own
ers to very considerable extent, and that
there is department in London charged
with the feeding and healthy maintenance
OF large number of these useful animals,
from which vaccine lymph is derived. The
department is under the direction of Privy
Council official, who receives salary Of
f4oo year for his services.
A cherry tree stood in the way Of a Ger
man railway extension that is being pushed
at Niedealahustein, and the owner asked
about $500 for the tree. Experts were APP
polnsed' and ne then showed that u naa for
years yielded MN crops eacn Oh wnich SOFA
TOT sums elu'va'en. 70 me interest on 'ne
amour. na,nc a iney nnhi,y asreeu "
awaiu nun @ooo' anu 'he tree na' W 60
There Is an osier willow farm near inc
city OF Macon, Ca, ON which there are aoV,
ooo willows growing, besides oo,ooo sips
recently set out Inc Willow switches are
from TOUR 70 seven Ieet long NJ the emu VI
their bark by machinery, wiped dry and