The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-01-18
srRAY BITS.

It win take $4,000 to break up the Great
Eastern, which was sold recently for $50, 900.
A blind man In Buffalo has just passed q
law examination and been admitted TO the
bar
Two hundred thousand infants under 2
years old are believed to be farned out in
France.
An Ohio man has been charged with max
ing love and becoming engaged to three
sisters all at once.
Phylloxera and raildew have so damaged
| the French vintage that the yield will be
$500, 900 heetoliters less than last year.
There is such boom in the Argentine
Republic that Buenos Ayres has become the
dearest city in the world to live in.
The price of pedigree Shorthorn cattle has
dropped in England from an average of $3.50,
which it reached few years ago, to $l35.
The cold was so severe in Monterey, Mexico,
recently, that a circus proprietor had to build
fire around his elephant to keep him from
freezing.
Deawodod, d. T., has all anti-fat society,
tho members Of which pledge themselves to
abstain from eating anything that will add
TO their corpulency.
A bit Of Chinese philosophy runs as fol
lows: Observe not the stranger in thy melon
patch too closely. Inattentoh is often the
highest form Of civilityp
Residents Of Rapid City, D. t., have sent
for lot of quail for the purpose Of stocking
that region with the birds. It is believed
they will Withstand the rigors of tho winter.
At tho mouth of the Congo there is re-
II T..at ID h.
mouth of the river it is ,452 feet deep, and it
can DO distinctly traced for 100 miles out to
| sea.
| In order TO Introduce railroads into Mo-
rocco the king of Belgium has devised the
| ingenious scheme of sending tho sultan a
complete railway train with a lot of rails as
| q present.
| The new Mexican law which provides that
| the 18th of July each year-anniversary of
| the death of Benito Juarez-shall be a day of
| public mourning has been published and gone
| into effect.
Hereafter nopermits will be granted in the
City of Mexico for bull fights on week days.
This order has been given because hundreds
of workingmen neglected their daily avoca-
ton in order to go to the bull ring.
A sleight Of hand performer in Thomson,
Ills, while giving an exhibition, presented a
loaded cigar to Frank Potter of that town.
When the cigar exploded it burned Potter's
mustache, eyelids eyebrows, one sido of his
face and one of his eyes.
A Connecticut woman has embroidered the
words and music of ssHome, Sweet Home
on a linen sheet which is on the s'spare room
bed. Her guests have not decided whether
the hostess means to indicate that they must
feel at home or had better go home.
In Liverpool, England, play entitled
s..Who's the Lunaticf was recently enacted.
Before it was finished half the people In the
audience were shouting: .'rhe author, the
authorrI When he blushingly appeared ne was
greeted with roars Of laughter and cries of
Hes the lunatici''
Five Paris firemon, on lark, captured a
countryman's wagon load of hay on public
street, and, after turning somersaults and
going through other athletic exercises upon
It. began TO throw the bundles OF hay ct one
another and at others The police arrived
about this time and ended the fun
The finest house In Washington is that of
B. H. Warder, on K street. It cost $400, 900,
and looks like Venetian palace. 1t has a
bathroom Of white marble, and in one of the
bedrooms there is an apartment walled with
mirrors, so arranged that one can see every
part OF himself without turning his head.
There were lynched during the year 1887
IN the United States no fewer than 12S per-
sons. OF the various states and territories
Texas leads the list with fifteen lynchings,
and Mississippi is entitled to second place,
with fourteen to her credit. All the victims
were males, eighty Of them being negroes.
Saxony and Thuringia are the home and
| paradise of dolls The annual production of
| dolls stockings alone in Saxony is 5000
| Dozen Thousands OF shoemaSers find con-
slant employment in making dolls shoes.
The export Of dolls to England, France and
America is very large, and increasing every
year
The Boston and Maine railroad has just
awarded its prizes to the station agents who
have taken the best care Of their station
grounds and made the best floral display.
Three prizes OF $50 each went TO the agents
at Atkinson, Madbury and Kennebunk,
There were four $50 prizes, seven 500 and
three S15.
A Montgomery (Ala.) groceryman circu-
lated tho report that he had found 1880 in
bills hidden away among the cobwebs in
corner of his store, and there was consider
able interest around town to know who had
left it there. After several persons had an
nounced themselves as claimants, he quietly
informed them that 1t was Confederate
money.
An Englishman named Hughes, rendered
splenetic by unrequited love, committed sui
cideat Bologna In a most determined man
ner He drank a small bottle Of whisky
mixed with strychnine, then locked the doors
and windows, made fire of charcoal, and
finally cut the artery of his left wrist. A
loaded revolver which he had lying on the
table became supernuous after that.
The little village of Aberdeen, o., which
lies Just across the river from Maysville, KY,
has in the last quarter of century become
widely known as the Gretna Green of the
west, and it is estimated that more runaway
lovers are married there than in any other
town in the world. In thirty years at least
10000 clipping couples have been made happy
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