The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-07-29
BIG FACTS IN LITTLE SPACE.

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Finger rings remain as popular as ever.
Diamond half hoop rings continue to
i1nd favor
The filbert furnishes model for scarf
pins and watch charms.
Mrs varian N. II. Morton, of Cleveland,
o., colored graduate of the Women's
Medical College of Pennsylvania, has be-
gun the practice of medicine at Brooklvn.
The annual product of salt throughout
the world is estimated at 100000 tons,
the larger share coming from English
works.
Probably the rarest stamp In existence
has just been sold In London for G250. 1t
is an American five-cent stamp issued at
Brattleboro, VT, in 1910.
Louisville KY, has had the only FREQ bar
Der shop In the United States. 1t has just
been closed, not for want OF patronage,
but because 1t was too popular.
A fad of the moment among some fad
Affecting young women Is to chew flow
er, or, to put it more elegantly, to wear
ono between the lips. This, it may be
added, is purely house fashion.
Reid Marshall shot quite large bird on
Glade Run, near Dayton. Itmeasuted six
and one half feet from tip to tip of wings
and four and one-half feet from point OF
bill to toes. Some say the bird was blue
heron, others say 1t was crane
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes believes that
body and mind are both affected sby the
character of food consumed. IAN exclu-
sively pork diet gives briefly Character
to the beard and hair" and too. much food
from the sea gives the shine and motions
of fish.
A woman appeared at College Point, L.
l., with beautiful collection of birds
which she called Australians warblers,
She sold them rapidly at 81 each. The
birds turned out to be common English
sparrows, with their feathers 'artistically
painted.
A unique carpet is being made for tho
Church Of lie Cpur de Jesus, Montmartre,
In Paris, by some Partisan ladies. 1t Will
cost 1000, and the names OF the workers
are to be embroidered around the border
The center represents Montmartre, and
above are to DO the arms of the City Of
Paris.
The street railways OF Paris arc under
the Government control and the rules for
their guidance are very strict. Only four
passengers are allowed to stand on the
back platform. and they must pay the
same fare as the iirst-class passengers i'm
side. viz, six cents, while those on the roof
OF the car ride at half rates
The Prince of Wales Is direct descen-
dant OF King Alfred, being the thirty-third
great-grandson; thus tho English throne
has remained In the same family for over
one thousand years.
The area and capacity OF the Hotel del
Coronado, Of San Diego, CAL, the largest
hotel In the world, are: Area OF ground,
twenty acres; area covered by building.
five acres; total floor area, four and one
half acres; capacity of reservoirs 10000
gallons: area OF dining-room, 10000 square
feet.
AT Gotta, In Saxony, those that have not
paid their taxes last year are published In
list which hangs up in all restaurants
and saloons OF the city. Those that are
on the list can get neither meat nor drink
at these places by penalty of loss OF IL
cense. The Gotta municipality can give
us points.
Tho largest reservoir or artificial lake
In the world Is the greatest tank Of Dhe-
bar, twenty miles southeast OF Udaipur,
Rajportana, which covers an area of TWEEN
ty-one square miles; the masonry dam Is
1000 feet long by finety-five feet high,
fifty feet wide at the base and fifteen feet
at the top. M
Chaplain Junction, London, Is probably
the most remarkable and busiest railway
junction point In the world. At this point
tho London and Southwestern and Lon
don, Brighton and South Coast Railways
join and cross each other, and an average
OF ,2000 trains pass this point every twen-
ty-four hours. OF this number 1000 pass
the junction between the hours OF seven
O. m. and ten p. M, which gives an aver
age OF one train every fifty-four seconds
during the fifteen hours. The traffic is
chiefly passenger trains.
At Queretaro, near Mexico, soap is the |
currency Of the place, and a. legal tender |
for the payment of debts. The cakes are
about the size of common brown Windsor
and worth 11sc. apiece. Each cake Is
stamped with tho name OF tho town where
1t Is current and OF the person authorized
TO manufacture and utter 1t. Celaya soap
will not pass current In Queretaro.. It Is
for washing the hands and face. and they
never lose their current value as long az |
the stamp Is preserved.
grain Of fine sand would cover 100 OF |
The minute scales of the human skin, and |
yet each OF these scales In turn cover from
700 to 500 pores.
The first known weather record was
Kept by Walter Merle for the years 1887 to
1874. few Photographic copies of the
original satin manuscript, now In the Bod
elan Library, have Just been made.
1t has been reckoned that il the whole
ocean we're dried up, all the water passing
AWAY as vapor, the amount OF salt remain
ng would be enough to cover 100000,
square miles with layer one mile thick.
When the Mosque of st. Sophia, in Con-
'tantlnople, was built more than 1000 years
lgo the stones and brick were laid in NOR
ar mixed with solution of musk, and tho
building has been fragrant with the odor
,ver since.
The depth at which some of the Belgian
,oai mines are worked is something pro-
iiglous. In pit at Flenu the work is now
lone at 1900 feet; in pit at Fremerin at /
800 feet and In the st. Andre pit at Nom
igny-sur-Sambre at 5000. feet. II