The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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From Here and There.
The best thing to take before singing
breath.
The great trouble with buzz-saw is that
1t mover wears false teeth.
The government loses 81 100000 year
in the smuggling of opium.
The cost of running locomotive Is said
to be little more than twenty cents mile.
The Dshebel Naibo, an Algerian noun
ain 800 feet high, is slowly sinking into the
aarth.
The continents of the earth have ON aver
age height of about 800 foet above the level
Of the sea.
An English superstition Is to tho effect
that If a robin die In the hand the hand will
always ttemble.
It is thirteen hundred years since the first
house in Edinburgh was built; Glasgow is
Of an equal antiquity.
A recent novel has this passage: "And
with both arms clasped tightly about her
slender waist he stroked her hair fondly."
The prisons for military offenders in
Great Britain and Ireland are six in num-
ber--three in Ireland one in Scotland, and
two In England.
New York and Brooklyn consume twenty
enc per cent Of the malt liquor Of tho
Union. The total consumption in the
Union for 1886 was Is, 6i2, $40 barrels.
A new torpedo boat, recently built BY
Yarrow h Co., has attained tho remarkable
speed of "a 27 knots, or 27.66 miles por
hour. This il believed to be the fastest tina
ever reached by any steam vessel.
Some of the native regiments of the hate
King of Burmah bore curious titles such as
"The Auspicious Braves" " The Rlephan-
teeS,s "The Royal Glory Achievement"
md 1.-The Forty Daring Companies.
The belief Ia worry common that red finn
mel has some special value because Of it
color, but the belief is without foundation,
and any other color where the flannel Is OF
the same quality Is equally efficacious.
81 wish, Mamie, on your way down town
this afternoon, you'd stop somewhere and
order some fish for dinner tonight" "What
kind shall I get, mamma p "Black bass,
Of course, child aren't we in mourning p
In Carter Lane, st. Paul's, London, NJ
cid building which occupies an area OF
about $40 square feet has just been sold for
the gum Of fS,350. This Is Of the high
rate of xA3s, 900 per acre, on about $40 pc,
foot.
The correspondence Of tho differca
British Government Offices Is conveyed free
Of postal charge, amounting ycarly to q
weight Of 100000 ounces tho snnua
cost Of which, II charged, would approach
100000.
Between nine and ten millions of edibl,
birds nests are imported into China ever.
year to be made into soup. The great por
for the traffic is Canton. The edible birds
nesss cost ten shiliings an ounce, some aft,
Of them going to pound.
It " said that there are at present OF thu
various German universities no fewer thar
157 professors between the ages Of seventy
and ninety. OF those i22 deliver thei
lectures as usual. The Oldest is the veteran
Elvenich, who Ia now In his ninetieth year
When the superintendent of certain
penitentiary said to q newly arrived convict
"You have the privilege Of working at ON,
trade you prefer" the prisoner replied
"Pd Hike to keep on driving cattle" An
other In the same institution wanted to be {
sailor.
"Old Deacon Smith Is pessimist," re
marked an Oakland man to bis wife, In the
presence Of his precocious son, who OK.
claimed: Why, father, what lie p
" What do You mean, SIR :" Numbered the
fathsr. ~ say he ant; he's Methodist /;
that's what he is"
In consequence Of illegible writing.
printers sometimes sadly pervert the
authors meaning. Avery popular authoress,
speaking of her heroine as enjoying more
Indulgsnoes than usually fall to....the lot of
her SEX" wrote the sentence SO badly that
It appeared as usually fall to the lot of
horses"
A travelling show struck hard luck re-
Gently in Texas town. Among the curl
Osities was On alleged Egyptian mummy,
upon which the local coroner insisted on
holding an inquest ct q cost OF twenty five
dollars, just one dollar more than was
taken In at the door.
Mamma, what's hereditary" asked
Bobby laborously tripping over tho sylla-
bles OF the long word why, it is--it is
anything you get from your father or me-"
replied the mother, little puzzled for o
definition suited to his years. Silen ce Of
two minutes. Then ma, he asked, "s
spankin's hereditary"
In the parish books at Prsstwich, under
i736, the following entry occurs: 1T is
ordered that thirteen shilings year and q
pew coat every other year be given TO
Georeo Grmshaw for his trouble and pains
In wakening slsepers in church, whipping
out dogs, keeping children quiet and ORDER
H. and keeping ye pulpit and church walk