The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-02-24

The average American ndffleS at
the age of twenty-seyen.
Great Britain uses up nearly eight
tons of cardboard yearly in the form
of post cards.
Tie United States now holds second
rank among the worlds exporters of
boots and shoes.
An agitation has been commenced in
New York for u more uniform system
Of tea inspection
From $4,000 to 10000 letters are
posted every year in Great Britain
without addresses.
Colombia has had seven constitutions.
and the title of the republic has been
changed three times.
The tide of German immigration is
being directed to German steamship
lines as far as possible.
In America 10000 automobiles will
be placed on the market this year. sup
plying but half the demand.
The production of beer is now more
than half barrel for every man. wo-
man and child in the United States.
Over 100000 passengers travel by
bus. train and tram from the suburbs
to London by 1870 every business
morning.
The income of the British postoffice
from money In envelopes having no or
insufficient address is $4,000 or $780,
600 day.
The British board of agriculture esti-
mates that there are l.ST1.6l9 dogs In
the country-one for every score of
human beings.
According TO London publisher. the
society craze for the game of bridge
has caused great falling Off In the
demand for books.
1t is estimated that $4,000 is the
difference per annum of running the
twenty-five knot shin compared with
the twenty-five knot ship.
London has at present 115 miles Of
street railways, and hish authority
says It would need lea niles te meet
tie needs Of the community.
The itanan government has adopted
an American system enabling the 81.
multaneous transmission Of ten tele.
grams on one wire To be made
Egyptian fishermen receive 500 per
thousand for cells caught in Lake Men
saleh. These are salted and packed in
lee and sent to Hamburg va Trieste.
where the ice supply is renewed.
In order to reach tie port Of New
York with shipment Of cotton Intend
cd fer Liverpool s9ianers II freight
train on the New YopA Central regent.
i covered a 435 mile run in Is hours
and 20 minutes.
Horny Morris. an Englishman who
has given much attention to the sub.
ject of cancer, recently called attention
to the pernicious influence of the clay
pipe and the decayed tooth in causing
cancerous growths.
Wages in tue United States on the
average are more than twice those in
Belgium, three times those of Den
mark, France, Germany, Italy and
Spain and one and one-half those in
England and Scotland.
Tourists have in decade converted
Switzerland from one of the poorest &c
one of the richest countries. the money
per capita being larger than that in the
United States. Perhaps $50o0o000 is
received each summer by n population
Of less than 100000
The Kickapoo Indians are leaving
Oklahoma ut rapid rate and settling
in old Mexico. The McLoud Standard
says it won't be long until the tribe
will be forgotten in and around Nc
Loud and that there will be some fine
sections of land for sale in the near
future.
Each man In the Russian cyclist
corps carries a certain amount of lug
gage on his bicycle. consisting of cop
per drinking cup and cooking vessel,
small canteen and tie same amount of
ammunition as an ordinary infantry
man. The cavalry carry leather or skin
sacks. which, inflated. serve as floats
for both men and horse when crossing
rivers.
1t is doubtful If there is public man
in the United States who has better
memory than Senator Cockrell. He
never forgets face, and be can go into
any neighborhood of Missouri today
and call by name dozens of men whom
he has not seen in many years and re-
call little incidents in their own lives
or those of their communities which
they themselves but dimly reeollect or
have entirely forgotten
Professor William II. Brewer of Yale
predicts that the American trotting
horse will in time do mile in minute
and SO seconds. and he thinks that will
be the limit Of speed. The professor
calculates that ii may take fifty years
to reach the 1850 notch twenty-five
years ago he predicted that The two
minute trotter would appear in The first
decade of the twentieth century. and
the prediction was recen Is fulfilled.
In CASTLE spain Arieultursts. hav-
ing made practical ~pariments. prefer
American to English implements.
though the latter have been most pro
fusely offered The agrieulturists, not
ing that American machinery Is better
fitted for the uses for which It was in