The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-02-10

one years, from 1872 10 1903, James
Perry has retired
In the city Of Washington there are
$4,000 Browns, 1900 Smiths, 1000
Johnsnns and LOCO Joneses
It is estimated thai the population of
British Somaliland is about 23a,0oo Its
area is about 6S,no0 square miles.
During the last three years twenty
two millionaires hive died in England
Their average age was seventy five
years.
There are 1900 negro farmers mem
bers of the Farmers Improvement So
eiety of Texas. They own 10000 acres
of land.
Alpine flowers and plants are so
quickly becoming extinct that strong
measures are 10 he taken in future for
their preservation
The deaths from consumption in New
York have decreased 10 per cent since
its health department began its crusade
against the disease Two years ago
KnmaSsi, in ashanti land. Is NOW
connected with the coast, $50 miles dis
in October The line WAS begun in 1898
The most valuable book ever pub
lished by 4 private citizen was proba-
bly, the catalogue of the Walters collcc=
ton Of pictures and ceramics in Ralti-
more
Women are NOW being substituted
for men in the Italian postal service.
Signor Galmbcrti thQBnlnister of posts
and tclccraphs, is responsible for the
change
The immense indirect cost of warfare
is illustrated by The fact thai the Span
ish.Ameriean war cost Sl.ooe,ouo a day
for over year, although hostilities oe-
eupiod hui three months
In the matter Of Wine the citizen Of
The United States has never been Il
large consumer In lSao The per capita
average WAS but - Of gallon. aud In
1902 II had risen To only .63
Track walkers for certain Massaehu
setts railroads are now required 10
wind registering clock nj certain
points every hour. and records arc kept
10 be examined weekly by the snpern-
tcndent
The cotton crop Of Alabama, Arkan=
sas and South Carolina is about loo.
600 halcs. worth $5o each Georgia aud
Mississippi produce lt00.o0o bales and
Texas = tO00m bales More than half
the cotton IS now produced west of tse
/ Nisslssippl'riycr
j The master electricians and the clcc-
trlcian scrgcants NJ the ncWly created
corps Of tho army Viii he designated Ivy
/ u syHha of white metal resembling
forked lightning iucloscd within Il
wreath Of gih metal The uniform
trousers of these officers Will show n
carlet stripe
NOW That Inc farmers Of the north
west have begun 10 raise macaroni
wheat The popularity of macaron
among Americans ought to increase
/ The lialitns hayc loug understood its
Z value as 81 cheap aud uonrishing food,
/ but IFS use In the uilcd States hns
! been confined chiefly Ia the large towns.
! Thrashine machines are used 10 a
limited extent IN Seville hut tile old
/ system Of bnafing ont the grain by
/ driving colts aud mares around in the
/ open tlirashing floor is still generally
prevalent. With the exception af some
/ haf II dozen farmers who have chiefly
[ English implements M one there uscs
/ really modern agricultural machinery
/ People in Paris who are Interested in
/ giving working girls bit Of pleasure
now aud then have devised scheme,
where worthy girls receive two tickets
10 Il good tbratcr once in awhile. The
scheme calls for an elaborate system of
registrations but il is working 10 per
: fection The kniser is thinking of in
Producing the idea into the royal thea
ters in Germany.
The eye of young child Is MS trans
| parent rs water thai of the youth a
+ little less So In The man of thirty the
eve begins 10 he slightly Opaque; in the
man of fifty or sixty it Is decidedly
/ Opaque. and In the min of seventy or
i eighty ii is dull and lusterlcss This
gradual development of opacity is due
i 10 HE increase of tbrous tissue aud
! deposit Of waste matter in the eye
I ! llt harvest ~ W WHEAT 'tlbllf flEdEtn
about luOuO00 men aud 10000 teams
+ three months of summer, While At least
/ 10000 women are needed to prepare
! food for The workers. The harvest of
| other crops employs less men. but the
entire number of haTycsters needed in
/ gathering the crops Of the United
States has been estimated AT l,520, 700
that IS. exclusive Of the farmers who
reside on their own land and aid in the
/ harvest
When Emma Booth married Freder-
ick St. George Gatuur in Calcutta she
adopted the clothes and the manner Of
life Of the natve women, and, bare
! footed dipping her unaccnstoned fin
+ gers in the curry dish she begged her
way through the streets Latour. then
Il worker in the Salvation Army. had
/ adopted The same plan Aud when they
were married il VAS in the way If reli-
gious TEACHERS he appearing as barc-
footed, turbaned. calico fobcd mendi'
cant. with his begging bowl
Cremation is growing IN public favor
in Scotland From the latest report of
the Scottish Burial Reform and CremH.