The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-03-24

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Facts, Fancies and Conceits Picked From
Here and There.


Facts, FancIes and Conceits Picked Frou
Here aud There.
An Indiana court is anticipating tn
pleasure of hearing 285 love letters
which will soon be read IN breach 0
promise case.
The consumption of tea per capita il
Great Britain for the year 1885 will be oyel
five pounds, while that for this country ii
only LIS pounds
colored man has just been made pas
senger agent by one of the Southern Rail.
road companies, an act that attracts no little
notice in that section.
supposed artesian well at Santa Rosa,
CAL, which was struck at the depth of forty
feet, proved to derive its abundant flow
from the city water company's reservoir.
The veritable cradle in which Thomas
Jefferson was rocked is said to have been
discovered in Bedford county, Va. 1t is
now about $50 years DID, yet is in very good
condition.
Maine has Beekeepers' Association of
ninety-two men and nineteen women, and
some 1890 persons are engaged in bee cul-
ture in the State, who took 1872 tons of
honey last season.
Gin Fun, Sacramento laundryman, has
joined the Anti-Coolie League, and posts
over the door of his waahee house the sign /:
THE Chinese must go. None but Mclean
man employed here"
10 coiJ that Draa;1nrk Dlo,nIoa1 s.;uon
away to charitable institutions 80 many
flowers from the White House conseryator-
les that he now has to buy bouquets to
adorn his own table.
A bill has been introduced in the Iowa
Senate prohibiting teachers members of
college faculties and all other persons con-
nected with education in the State from
using alcoholic and narcotic stimulants.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, declares
himself not only in favor of abrogating the
commercial treaty with China by which her
citizens may come here, but of passing a
law which shall drive out all Chinese al
ready here.
There are now Ill savings banks in Mas
deposits increased $12, 27s, 2G5.96, over a
million dollars month. During the year
the banks paid in dividends on deposits
$10,2s4, G6I.10.
There is house in Atlanta that has been
the scene of funeral of some member Of
every family that has occupied it year
since it WINS built in 1876 Five or six fami-
IT, l.o., H.. 1.
snid that the sickness in all the cases were
sudden.
The business of shipping fish to the
Northern markets is in q fourishing condi-
ton on the st. Johns River, Fla, and some
remarkably large catches have been made
during the season. One man during tie
last week in January shipped moro than
five thousand shad.
A Carroll county GA calf saw the cor
ner of a roll OF greenbaoks sticking out of
its owners vest pocket the other day. A
short time afterward he saw the calf MUNICH.
ing $40 bill, and feeling in his pocket,
discovered that sic and 80 bill were miss.
ing. The calf was killed and the $5 bill
recovered, but the $40 bill had been chewed
into doll rags.
A great red granite statue has been dis.
covered ten miles away in the desert near
Alexandria. in Egypt. 1t represents the
famous Pharaoh, who was responsible for
all the Egyptian plaques, and on one side
of it is statue of little baby, said to be
TINT of the next Pharaoh, who persisted in
his rash attempt to drive through the Red
Sea. 1t has been lying there 5000 years.
Writing of malaria in New England, DR..
Griswold says that among the zoe, 600 peo-
pie residing in the valleys of the Connect
cut River and its tributaries, there have
been 10000 or 80, 900 cases of malaria with
in the last fifteen pears. In some places
one-half of the population have been affect
ed in single season. Up TO 1870 there
had not been three cases year Of interlnit-
tent fever for upward of 200 years.
Lately, while an auctioneer was holding
forth upon the merits of piece of cloth,
one of the company expressed a desire to
have the goods measured, and to this re-
quest he of the hammer replied Ladies
and gentlemen, trust you will excuse me
in this matter, as my yard stick has been
mislaid tonight" At this point, however,
an elderly matron was heard to remark TO u
friend "'rhe man might use his tongue
instead"
Miner Tyler, of Prairie du Chen, swal-
lowed tablespoonful of laudanum on 0
wager for $40. When his friends arrived
with doctor to pump him GU" they
found him saving wood. On urging him
to submit to the pumping process he re-
piled, 9 Pm doing that myself" and sawed
away for three hours, in the meantime per.
spring freely. He then went home, slepl
four hours, got up, and went about hit
work the next day feeling just as well as
ever.