The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-02-27
miscellaneous Jottlngs.

TUESDAY, Mafcn lztn.
The Board Of School Trustees meet
next Wednesday evening.
Stammering is the latest reported re-
suit of cigarette smoking.
The regular meeting of the Board Of
Excise will be held next Tuesday ev.
ening.
New steel rails are being laid on the
Belvidere Division at and near French.
town.
A bill before the Legislature gives
Sheriffs Eve cents milo for serving
writs.
II General Washington had lived he
would have been 1877 years old last
Friday.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Common Council will be held next
Monday evening.
Governor Green's successor will have
the appointment of q Prosecutor Of the
Pleas for this county.
Powhattan Lodge, 1. o. o. f., Of
Ringoes, enjoyed on oyster supper on
Tuesday evening of last week.
A masked sociable was held by num-
Der Of ladies and gentlemen, at Gymua-
SUM Hall, last Friday evening.
1t cost the township of Kingwood
1895 to clear the snow from the roads
after the blizzard in March last.
Tramps will be glad to learn that DIR.
Pasteur, of Paris, has written that the
bite of healthy dog is harmless.
The Point Pleasant Delaware Bridge
Company has declared dividend Of
$3.50 from the earnings of the past year
The friends of Alex. Ashton enjoyed
teTapin supper at his saloon, on
Church street, last Wednesday evening.
Home Lodge, K. of p, of French
town, celebrated its twenty.fifth ami
versary on Tuesday evening Of last
week.
Everybody was delighted at the re.
ception held by Company G, at their
armory, on the evening of Washington's
birthday.
Mrs. Chas. M. Updike, of this city,
having bought property near the turn
pike tollgate, in New Hope, will remove
there this week.
Captain John Shields, OF Pennington,
has been elected delegate from the State
to the National Convention Of the G. A.
r., at Milwaukee.
You can keep apples from rotting by
storing them in cool, light place.
Children will also help in preventing
them from going to waste.
Never sign a paper without reading
it; and il, after reading, you do not I'M
derstand it, have it thoroughly explain
ed before you put signature to it.
The cold snaps are worth many mil
lions of dollars to tho people generally.
Think what the price of ice would have
been next Summer il IL hadn't been for
this weather.
The proposition to repeal the charter
OF tho town of Clinton is looked upon
as an outrageous piece OF business and
is being vigorously opposed by heading
citizens there.
The office at the Byram quarries WAS
destroyed by fire on Wednesday morn.
ing of last week, including the books
and other property in the building
Loss about $500.
The latest thing in cigarettes is the
valuable addition OF small bottle of
cachous which comes with each pack.
Even this does not entirely abolish the
horrible fumes Of the filthy habit.
The directors OF the Union National
Bank of Frenchtown have placed an
electric gong in the building, which is
intended to give an alarm whenever, by
day or night, burglars may make raid
upon the bank.
Petitions are now in circulation in
This county asking the Legislature to
amend the crimes, inns and taverns act
so as to raise the LIMIT of sale from one
quart to five gallons. The object is to
10 away with the quart business.
Gentlemen of the jury" said coun.
'el in an agricultural case, "there were
hirty.six hogs in that lot--thirty
want you to remember that number
shirty.six hogs--iust three times the
humber that there are in the jury box"
Little Sadie Rupell. living near Mount
Pleasant, although but six years of age,
las pieced bed.quilt containing two
hundred and twenty-five blocks. She
las also pieced three handsome rugs,
md can outline much better than many
yrown.up persons.
Moses Paxson and Lewis g. Paxson,
Executors, will sell personal property at
public sale, on the premises lately occu-
pied by Amos G. Paxson, deceased, in
solebury township, Bucks county, Pa,
IN Saturday, March I'd, commencing ut
O'Clock, p. M. See advertisement.
Notice has been issued by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company that here
after any corpse shipped over its lines
shall be accompanied by health permit
showing it to be free from contagion,
and that one first class ticket, full fare,
will be required for a corpse, no matter
what the age or disease may be.
Among the novel entertainments got.
ten up this Winter by Bucks county (Pa.)
young people are Rainbow Teas"
" Bachelors Meets. Mush and Milk I"
and "Toast and Cheese socials, and
an Eclipse Surprise Party" where the
eclipse consists in trying to kiss the
right girl in the dark. The surprise
comes in when the kiss lands on the lips
Of the wrong girls.
Housekeepers should buy nothing