The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-09-29
.,rErns OF INTER EST.


arEns OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancaes and Conceits picked
From Here and There.
Big, mouse-colored Danish dogs ar,
favored as pets in Paris now.
Spain will try to sell $50 100000 worth
of forests and bnild navy with the money
The 100 best books" controversy il
succeeded by contention as to the ten bes
horses.
Ohio lawyers are figuring to see wha
there is for them in the new liquor law o
that State.
Burglar (sternly)-"G Give me you
watchl" Funny Mr.. smalltop-" Witt
pleasures It's Waterbury," Burglar
" Well, then, your clothes go with it."
The pay of doctors in China is from five
TO ten cents visit, and they are kept ex,
ceedingly busy.
news stand in the national capitol adj
vertises " Dickens and Hawthorne's latest
productions"
The jealous rivals of Omaha, infatuated
at its prosperity, have taken to calling its
inhabitants Omahogs.
The latest word for the man who does not
toss banana or orange peels off the side
walk, when it is convenient, is banan-
archist. :.
Farmer Taft of Uxbridge, Mass. has a
pair of steers which he drives to harness,
and which have trotted, with four in the
carriage, four miles in half an hour.
India rubber Ia stretched at last. Its
rival is gum called tuno, from tree In
Nicaragua, that is so plentiful that the gum
can be produced at twelve cents pound
Judge Beer, of Ohio, is o candidate for a
public Office. His name should be printed
on the ticket without initials or title in
order to draw the largest ote.--Buriing-
ton Free Press
Nickels are so scarce In the Northwest
that merchants in Minneapolis and st. Paul
have written East to have several barrels
shipped to them, offering to pay all expenses
and two per cent. premium.
just before Congress- adjourned Repre-
sentative Herman complained Of malarious
symptoms :" Take k'neen," said friend.
Wolf, will" replied Herman, thought
fully. I've been taking qui-nine, but It
doesn't seem to do me any good"
New York barber has invented Z bar
bers bib" which is designed to abolish the
nuisance of swathing the neck with towels
and demoralizing clean collars. The achieve
nent is sheet OF rubber with hole in the
middle through which the victims head ia
pushed.
The defaulting Philadelphia treasured
who left a written confession of his guilt in
his desk when he ran away evidently did
not write it for publication, for the dis
patches say he wrote on both sides of the
paper 1t was published, nevertheless. This
shows how inconsistent some newspapers
are.--iSomeruiile Journal.
A Philadelphia detective is reported as
saying that bunoo men and that class Of
thieves rarely, if ever, approach red-headed
persons, because rcd-headed men, rs IA rule,
are quick tempered and ure apt to make con
siderable fuss as soon as they know TINT
they have bee- robbed, and Of all thingi
the bunco man detests fuss the most.
There is still living at Spring Creek,
Roane county, W. Va, Thomas Simon,
aged ninety-four, who was bugler for Gen.
eral Taylor in the Mexican war. The old
man is blind, but he still has clear mind,
md loves to tell stories about the old war
rior. He takes pride in telling how he used
TO carry letters from jefferson Davis to Mis-,
Taylor, and how he often drove Miss Tay
lor out in a carriage to meet jefferson Davis
who afterward married her.
Helen A. Blanchard, the daughter of Al
unsuccessful Portland merchant, failed as {
boarding house keeper in Boston, thcr
barely kept soul and body together by run
ming sewing machine in Philadelphia
clothing house, and then invented an over
seam stitch, and patent sweat band fol
mems hats, and with the money from thes,
successful inventions has bought back tn,
old Maine homestead, where the famil.
lived in the prosperous days Of the past.
Henry Donnelly of New Haven, hear,
cries for help coming from Mill River, rAi
quite distance OF full speed, reached the
water in time to see small boy sink fol
the third time, plunged in, breathless as h,
was, without removing even his shoes, failet
to get the boy at the first attempt, divet
again, and just managed to bear tho appar
emily lifeless body ashore when his strength
gave out. Donnelly was dragged out faint
ing, the boy was resuscitated, and so was
his mother, who had in the mean time arriv
ed and tainted.