The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-03-02
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pointed 10 France he Is allowed $4,000
for outfit.
After driving London bus for sixty
one years. from 1872 to 1913. james
Perry has retired.
In the city of Washington there are
1900 Browns. 1900 Smiths. 14.90o
/ Johnsous and 1000 Joneses.
Ii Is estimated that the population of
British SomalilaDd is about 25a0J0. lis
area is about 6s.0O0 square miles
During he last three years twenty
two nillIonaires have died ID Ea-Hnl.
Their average age was seventh. i've
+ years.
There are 3.o0o negro farmers mem
bers Of the Farmers. Improvement so
ciety Of Texas. They own 5000 acres
of land
Alpine flowers and plants are 50
quickly becoming extinct that strong
measures are 70 be taken in future for
f their preservation.
Tie deaths from consumption in New
York have decreased 10 per cent since
its health department began is crusade
against The disease TWO years ago
+ Kumassi. in Ashanti land Is now
connected with The coast. Isl miles dis
tanf. by railroad Trains began ta run
+ in October. The lire was begun in 1898
The most valuable book ever pub
lished By private citizen was prooa-
by the catalogue Of tie Walters ee!Iec-
ton Of pictures and ceramics in Balti-
more
Women are now being substituted
for men IN the Italian postal service.
+ Signor Galimberti. IL . 4inisfer Of pests
and telegraphs. Is responsible for the
change
The immense indirect cost Of warfare
+ is illustrated b. the fact thai the Span-
+ ish-Ameriean var cost 81 10000 j day
s for over II year. although hosjilities oc-
cupicd but three months.
In the matter OF vine the citizen Of
the United States has never been
large consumer. In 1870 the per capita
& average was but 81 OF a gallon. and in
1892 il had risen to only Go
Track walkers for certain Massachu.
sets railroads are bow required 20
wind a registering clock Al certain
+ points every hour. and records are Kept
+ 70 be examined weekly by The super.n.
tendent.
Tie cotton crop Of Alabama. Arkan-
sas and South Carolina * about LOCO
o00 bales. worth $50 each. Georgia and
Mississippi produce I.400. GOO bales and
Texas 100000 bales. More than half
the cotton IS now produced west OF TIE
AIississippI'river.
The master electricians and the cleo.
trieian serEeants Of the newly created
corps Of the army viii be designated by
a symbol Of white metal resembling
forked lightning inclosed within a
wreath ef gilt metal, The uniform
trousers Of these officers will show
scarlet stripe
4 INV That the farmers Of the north
west have begun to raise macaroni
whea the popularity of maear0n
amehs Americans ought to increase
/ The Italians have long understood its
salue as a cheap and nourishing food
but its use in the United States has
been confined chiefly 10 the large towns
Thrashing machines are used 10
limited extent in Seville. but the old
system Of beating ont the grain by
driving colts and mares around In the
open thrashing floor is still generally
prevalent. With the exception Of some
haf dozen farmers who have chiefly
English implements no che there uses
really modern agricultural machinery
People IN Paris who are interested in
+ giving working girls BIT Of pleasure
now and then have devised scheme
/ where worthy girls receive TWO tickets
( to good theater once in awhile The
scheme calls for an elaborate system u
/ registration. but il is working Ia nor
I fection. The kaiser IS thinking Of in
Producing the idea into the royal thea
tiers in Germany.
The eye of q young child IS as trans
parent IS water; that Of the youth a
little less SO In the man Of thirty the
eye begins TO be slightly Opaque: II the
man of fifty or sixty if IS decidedly
opaque, and in the man of seventy or
I eighty II is dull ans lusterless Tbs
gradual development Of opacity is due
10 the increase Of hbrous tissue and
F deposit Of waste matter in the eye.
! The harvest of wheat alone engages
I about 100000 men and 10000 teams
/ three months OF summer. while al least
4 10000 women are needed 10 prepare
/ food for the workers. The harvest Of
other crops employs less men. but the
I entire number of harvesters needed in
! gathering the crops Of the United
/ States has been estimated at l.-20.7o0
! that is exclusive OF the farmers who
reside on their own land and aid in the
I harvest.
/ When Emma Booth married Freder-
1 lex St. George Latour in Calcutta she
adopted The clothes and the manner OF
| life OF the native women. and. bare
footed. dipping her unaccustomed In
gers in the curry dish" she begged her
way through the streets. Latour. then
4 worker In the Salvation Army. had
adopted the same plan. And when the!
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