The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, FaBciss and Conceifs Picked Fro
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One rich man in Chicago pays $40, 900 q
year for pew in church.
rheumatic Michigander has been cured
by liberal use of horseradish.
A man never realizes how much he In.
in his head until he gets q cold there.
One Arm in Germany has made and sold
5000, 900 thermometers during the last we
years.
The ladies adorn their bonnets with sky
larks, but plain larks are good enough for
The men.
The colored employees of Georgia rail-
road struck recently because of the appoint
ment Of one Of their own race as foreman.
In Paris it costs 80 to cremate a body,
and this includes coal and labor with an
urn thrown in. In Milan it costs only
h.4o, but they give no urn or chrome.
An uptown man sent twenty five cents to
learn how to make $50 week OF home
working on q capital OF 81 and received the
following printed slip: Fish for fools,
rs l do"
Says the latest late obituary.: "He
was firm believer in the dignity of labor
and an effective speaker at meetings Of his
group OF Anarchists, but his wife did not
support him by keeping boarding house.
Peter Henniman, Norwich shoemaker,
Induced Joseph Hickey to go to Germany
with him to hunt up n mythical estate.
Hickey paid the bills, and Henniman visited
his relatives. Hickey has returned home
disguised.
The hardest thing in the world to plense
is woman. Mr.. Young, of Wabasha,
Mimi, locked his wife into the house
Mr.. Potts, Of Pepin. Wis, locked his wife
out of the house. Now both women have
sued for divorce.
All wood is not buoyant in water. A per-
fectly dry stick from any one Of some six
teen species of trees growing in the South
srn and Southwestern States will sink. One
Kind (the Florida ironwood) is 80 per cent
heavier than water.
Mrs. Marshall Field, of Chicago, gave n
party in honor of her sevsnteen-year
sons birthday. It was Mikado ball, and
the decorations alone cost $40, 900. or more
than ten times as much as ii costs to cos
tune solne Of the Mikado companies now
prancing around the country.
A Waterbury man relates the experience
OF guest at Saratoga hotel recently.
After two days board the guest packed up
and asked the clerk for his bill. Fifty.
four dollars" was the bland reply Fifty.
foura Guess again, young Teller. I've
sot more money in my pocket than that
A Philadelphia attorney had case the
other day before Justice OF the Peace in
Montgomery county. When he had finished
arguing the J. p. calmly said: "Mr.
Blank, I must say that you are a very agree
able man, but don't think you have had
much experience in the law" The lawyer,
all the same, Is one Of the most noted and
most successful at this bar.
W. R. Williamson, being held up, robbed
and bound by California bandits near
Colfax the othor day, complained bitterly
as the robbers we're making of with his
300 and said il was pretty mean to leave
man without cont. "That's so.n said
the chief Of the gang. :" Here's q coupl,
Of hve-dollar pieces. It isn't every robber
that would do as much" And putting the
money in their victims pocket they disap.
peared.
An English stage manager is said TO have
invented a method of preparing stage army
without the use of too many supernumaries.
He had eighty wax heads carefully modelled,
and these were fitted on dummies Of wicker
work clad in suitable uniform or armor.
Each supe" in the company carried two
Of these figures attached to q sort of frame
work, so that it seemed as If three warriors
wore marching abreast. As this army
marched past with all the paraphernalia of
war the audience was completely deceived.
The Mechernich Lead Works in Germany
claim the chimney championship, by virtue
Of the structure 440 feet high, including
eleven under ground, which it has just
erected. The lower part of the chimney is
thirty-four feet square, up to the height of
about thirty-four feet; then it becomes
octagonal and finally cylindrical, its exterior
diameter at the top being eleven and one
half feet and its interior ten feet. Hitherto
the St. Rollox Chemical Works near Glas-
gov have claimed tho champion shaft, with
q record of 434 feet.