The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-06-16
sTgesIs OF INTEREST.


Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked
From Here and There.
Non-residents own 4,007, 401 acres Of
Michigan lands.
Maine still pays out about S3, 900 year
bountiss for bears killed in the State.
Santa Anas famous cork leg has just beer
presented to the State of Illinois by sol
dier who served in the Mexican War.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
not employ men who are over forty-five
years of age.
The scissors grinder who sued n man in
Napa, Cal, for twenty five cents for services
won his suit. The costs were SIT.
BARRIERS near Mono Lake, California,
whose water is heavy with salts of sodium
and borax, use it as n natural shampooing
water, to the satisfaction of their customers.
patent has been granted in Russia for
lucifer match that can be used an indef-
mite number of times, the wood being i'm
pregnated with special chemical solution
that will allow of such reuse.
Floating bricks are made of a very light
silicious earth, clay being sometimes added
to bind the material together. They can be
made SO light that they will float ON water,
while their strength equals ordinary bricks.
Alcoholic liquors can be made from any
substance that contains saccharine matter
already formed by nature, or from any sub
stance that contains tho constituent ele-
ments that can be converted by some
artificial process into the saccharine princi-
pie
dog belonging TO II. Bruce, of Aurora,
ILL.,, is the mother Of six puppies. A cat ut
tempted 10 steal them away from her.
After quarrel the two animals effected a
compromise, by the terms of which each
took charge of three puppies and ia now
rearing them.
The Russian Government has been plant
ing trees for half century, and in ono
province has seven plantations, ranging in
size from $4,000 to 81 900 acres each. The
result is that many sections, once too arid
for agriculture, now have abundant rain
falls.
In the hope of making Cinnamon more
truthful as witnesses the Chinese oath, which
consists in the witness cutting of the head
of chicken when he promises to tell the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, is to be introduced in the San Fran
cisco courts.
The learned DR.. Fisch, of Vienna, has
computed that there are Il, 000, 900 dogs in
Europe, being one dog for sixteen men, and
very properly observes that there can be no
possible use for such an enormous number
of the canine race. No wonder that hydro
phobia is becoming an everyday disease.
The average Rhode Island farmer, says
Providence letter, depends for living on
carting the rocks from his land to the city,
to be sold for seventy-fivs cents O ton.
Rocks are about the only crop many Of the
farms yield, and it has the advantage of be-
ing perennial, and can be always gathered.
The chief tree planting now carried on in
Washington is that of anti-malarial trees
along the streets near the river and along
the low lands. Malaria is great incon-
yenience in Washington, and trees that
absorb oil the moisture and drink in the ma
laria from the atmosphere ise useful to the
city.
The other day farmer sent to the Gov
eminent Redemption Office box of burnt
paper, saying it WINS SIC, 600 which he want
ed repaid him. The charred paper was all
tumbled together, but an expert soon dis
covered it to be nothing but common writ
ing paper in which few % bills had been
burned and mixed.
Not long ago $75 horse was stolen at
Pomona, CAL, and in the course of three
months was sold and resold half dozen
times. The first owner found the animal
aud brought suit against the last purchaser;
he sued the one who sold him the horse,
and the hitter sued another man who had
owned the animal. There was as many
suits as there had been owners, and in all
about $500 WIS spent in the litigation.
The American hen is not doing her duty.
There are l6, 600, 900 dozens Of foreign hens
eggs brought into this country every year
free of duty The American hens must
scratch round, says Now England paper,
II they are 70 avoid the reproach Of allow
ing tho egg industry to be crushed by the
competition Of the cheap pauper fowls Of
the effete monarchies Of the Old World.
With incubators to help them. the Ameri-
can hens ought to make better record.