The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, FRncies and Conceifs Picked From
Here aud There.

Here aud There.
Robert CARROTS new Baltimore residence
is TO cost 81 ,000, 900.
John Quincy, the Mayor-elect of Nor,
folk, England, is blind.
In some parts of Mexico precious woods
are SO plentiful that the natives build pig
styles of rosewood logs.
The song Nancy Lee was offered to
music publishers for 1875. 1t ultimately
paid its composer $2j, 900.
The Florida sponge fishermen have just
commenced the seasons business The nm.
nual yield is about $50, 900 pounds.
II is calculated that within thirty years
about 40, 900 lives have been sacrificed in
mines throughout the United Kingdom.
Washington has sixty miles of asphalt
pavement and Buffalo has twenty miles.
Berlin has taken up her wooden pavements
and is trying asphalt.
The prohibition movement is making a.
much progress in Louisiana, Texas and
Mississippi as In Georgia. 1t is, however,
strictly non-partisan.
Count De Lugival, a French nobleman,
aged twenty-six, has just been married TO
widow of seventy-two. Her fortune il
valued at 5000, 900 francs
OF the various kinds Of nervous and dys.
peptic ailments which medical men are con-
stantly treating, DIR. s. wilks, of Guys
Hospital, finds at least six due TO idleness
70 one from overwork
William Bender, of Cincinnati, recently
threw into fire package containing $40
600 in government bonds. He had been
drinking heavily and fancied some of his
relatives were after his wealth.
Our broom manufacturers arc bringing
broom corn from Chicago" says the Port.
land Oregonian. "There are two reason,
for this, viz. II won't pay to raise broom
corn in Oregon, and nobody here has time
willow farm in Macon, Ga, produces
about ton of switches TO the acre. COM
handing, when dried 5000, aud as the
leaves and bark sell at twenty-five cents a
pound, baied the enterprise phys better
han cotton.
The potato MAS first introduced into Ger.
many in 1855. Il was grown as an exotic
in Ga dens at Leipzig in 1647 During the
famine Of 1910 the use of the potato was
much developed. In 1882 Germany pro.
duced about 20, 000, 900 tons on an acreag.
of about 100000.
The rice crop Of the United States Is said
to average from 4O00 900 to 800, 900 barrels.
II is divided among the States about as fol.
lows; North Carolina, 10000 barrels
South Carolina, 100, 900 Georgia, $4,000 ;
Louisiana, 100000. It is also grown in
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas.
In recent discovery and seizure of an
Illicit still, few miles from Almont, Mich,
an ingenious device was found to prevent
the steam from betraying the presence Of
the still. The steam was led into brush
hemp near the outside Of the wall, where II
gradually condensed aud disappeared. BY
this device the still was in operation long
time before il was discovered.
A durable and weighty looking door il
now made Of paper. While 1t costs about
the same as wood 1t is much better, because
there is no shrinking, swelling, cracking OF
warping. II is composed of two thick pa.
per boards, stamped and moulded into
panels and glued together with glue and
potash, and then rolled through heavy
rollers. 1t is first covered with u waterproof
coating and then with freproof coating,
and is painted and vanished and hung il
the ordinary way.