The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-08-28
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 30. 1889.
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Twenty-three per cent of the white
girls of Alabama who are fifteen years
old and under twenty-one can't write
their name.
Summer resort landlords say that
people are more inquisitive than ever
about the heAlshfulneSs of situations
and the parity Of water.
JoAa Starr. ct Pike County, Georgia,
Killed two evils on Hcwder Greek.
some time ago. one of them measur-
ing Fifty inches from tip to tip.
o. T. Williams. of Patillo, Ca, has
found q snake fifteen inches long, and
no bigger round than q knitting needle.
It seems to be variety of water SER
pent.
ID. B. Flint of Boston still drives one
OF the horses ridden by Gen. Grant
during a portion of the war. The ami
NAL is 20 years old, milk white, and
still full Of life.
President Carnot, of France, is a
greater believer in capital punishment
than was M. Grevy. The guillotine is
much more active in Paris than it was
some years ago.
Theodore Tilton, now white-haired
old man, is to be seen every night at a
famous chess cafe in Paris. There is
talk that he will soon publish history
OF the great Beecher-Tilton trial.
Prof Garside, late of the Johns
Hopkins University, who has been en-
gagged in the soeialistic propaganda
some time, is said to have gone over,
bag and baggage, to the Anarchists.
The Hon. William C. Endicott, ex-
Secretary Of War, and Mr.. Sigourney
Butler, ex-Controller of the Treasury,
have formed partnership for the
practice of law and will open an Office
In Boston.
Long Island has some very swell
beggars. Around Bellmoro the beg
CARS 90 around with horses and
wagons, and it is not an unusual thing
to get as much as horse can draw in
one days travel.
Aman in Chester, Pa. paid SIC. so for
.'gold watch" at an auction house,
and finding il was mainly brass de-
manded his money back. Tho propri-
etor gave him 50 and kept $3.50 ''for
his efforts in the transaction"
A sharp and fascinating miss visited
Allentown, Pa, and got numerous
orders by sample for now style of
corset, at $3.50 apiece, went to retail
store and bought them for $1.30 each,
delivered them, got the cash and left
town.
A Berlin journal announces that the
Paris exhibition marks a new era, the
era of architecture in iron. 1t con-
siders that the most remarkable iron
OF the Eiffel tower-are on the grounds
OF the exposition.
John Steven, an old lnborer around
the mines at Nantic0ke, Pa, Is kick
or TO some purpose. He kicked against
tho sides Of the rough box In which he
was being carried to the grave, was
taken out and resuscitated. He was
only dead drunk when encofiined.
Buenos Ayres has at last got port.
and large vessels are no longer COM
PEELED to anchor twelve miles from
shore. A basin has been excavated at
great expense by which vessels can go
right up to the city. The completion
OF the enterprise was made the occa-
sion of grand celebration.
Dennysville Me-, town of 522 peo-
pie, has no debt and has 81 900 to her
credit. There has not been a fire for
eighty years. One Peter E. Vose has
boon first selectman twenty-nine years,
treasurer twenty-three years, assessor
khittv.ana vaara ouarcaar fxuan tv.f ou,.
years and town agent twenty years.
Victor Hugo's residence in Paris. In
which the venerable poet died, has be-
come place of pilgrimage for
thousands of persons daily, in this
exhibition season, and the house has
been converted into a kind of q
museum, with few relics. Ono franc
admission is charged. and the place is
crowded from morning until night
Intemperance has spread to such an
extent among boys and girlsin Austria
that the Vienna school board is again
moving to have law enacted pro-
hibiting the sale of intoxicants to
all children under fifteen years Of
age. The appearance of boy at
school In state of drunkenness is said
to BIO by no means rare sight in
Vienna.
The Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon, the great
Baptist minister of England, lives on a
magnificent estate, having parks varied
with lakes and streams and adorned
with statuary, and Conservatives
filed with rare plants. His stables are
as fine in arrangements and appoint
ments as the royal establishment at
Windsor, and his coachman sports a
gorgeous livery.
Captain Packam, of Sanford, Fla,
has owned violin for twenty years.
Tho other day he took it to violin
maker to have 1t repaired. When the
instrument was taken apart the fol-
lowing inscription was found on the in
side: 'sAntonins Stradivarius, Gre
mon. Faciebat Ammo 1878" Good
judges, who have examined the i'm
strument do not doubt its genuine
ness.
Mrs. Josephine Baxter, who died
recently at Pomona, CAL, had an un-
usually varied matrimonial experience.
She had no less than six husbands in
thirty years, and lost them all by death
except one. Her first husband was a
teacher, the second pork-packer, the
third o Lieutenant in the regular army.
the fourth apreacher. the fifth sugar
planter. and the sixth q lawyer, who
survives her.
Prince Bismarck recently explained
to an Ambassador who had expressed
wonder how he could manage to pre-
vent visitors from encroaching on his
time that his wife generally knew how
to help him out. He had scarcely
uttered the words when footman
knocked, entered, and delivered a
message that the Princess desired his
presence. The leave taking of the
Ambassador was more precipitate than
formal
Prot. John Campbell Oman, who has
the chair OF natural science in the
Government College at Lahora, India,
has written volume on the religious
and social life in that country, and the
result is not fattering to the Theoso-
phists. Prof Oman puts occultism of