The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1908-03-25
HERE AND THERE.

is impossible
Caleb Powers wants to get out OF
Jail to get into Congress Perhaps he
would be no happier if he succeeded.
If diamonds only drop fifty per cent.
and wages go up fifty per cent. how
happy some women will be in the good
old summer time.
The undertakers act of New York
has been declared unconstitutional.
Some people in Gotham may now die
happy.
The last hope of the rural Georgian
is gone Congress has prohibited the
transmission of whskey TASKS through
the mails.
AT 81, George Burnham, the grand
old man Of Philadelphia, is full Of fire
and looking confidently toward the
century mark. This man worked on
one of the first locomotives erected in
this country and such thing in the
world as steamboats, were novelty.
The report OF mountain ofpetritled
fish, five thousand feet above sea level
in Texas, indicates that there are some
liars even in Lent,
The silk mills of New Jersey have
started up on full time. This indi-
Gates that there must be some money
to spend ON luxuries. OF course, its
women first, the men may get chance
after little while.
A woman recently fell ten stories III
an elevator and on recovering from her
surprise, continued her shopping. 1t
takes more than little drop like that
10 keep them away from the female
bargain counter.
The Agricultural Bill this. year calls
for about $i2,ooo,ooo The farmers
ought to raise an awful lot of stuff with
that encouragement
A new order forbids girls calling up
midshipmen at the Naval Academy
What's the use of being a cade, any
way2
In Budapest, the chief of the fire de-
rnr''s,e,,, ;e hviga.har ce"a,el, in New
York they put them at the head of the
police.
A man named Fake is being boom.
ed for Congress in the eighth New Jer-
sey district. There are number oil
that brand already at Washington.
Don't forget that the hremen and
coal passers had something to do with
the record trip Of Pacific fleet
Professor Hart, of Harvard, says that
where the south has $4,000 teachers,
the north has 1873, 900, where the south
has school property worth $42, 900, 900
the north has $2I7, 100000 and where
the south spends $40 per pupil the
north spends $50.
Since the coming of prohibition, no
room in an Oklahoma hotel, it is said,
is regarded as furnished unless it con-
tains glass for mixing "toddics."
Mr. George Apsley, Of Lock Haven,
Pa, who celebrated his ooih birthday
on Friday last, ate his birthda4 supper
from table cloth bordeIet with a
string OF new one dolar bills with
the ends basted TO each ether making
continuous line around the table cloth
The bills were the gift of his son.
An item from Ohio says: Five hun
dred persons at church sociable were
made i'll by eating chicken. That
fowl must have been served in mighty
small portions.
a man never prolongs his lite by
drinking to other peoples health
In Chicago they fine the parents Of
children who play "hookey' IS and
costs. A good licking is much cheap
or and more effective.
Anna Gould says she has had all the
experience OF matrimony that she
wants. However she may change her
mind and be luckier next time.
The man who died at 70 without
ever having experienced headache,
was lonesome man and not one who
could be said to have understood
human nature.
A New York woman is going to
adopt sixty children 4 year for ten
years and rear them on "vibratory''
principles. We do not understand the
term, but il it means some good old
fashioned licklngs, we have great hopes
OF her success.
Paderewski has paid $7,soo for four
chickens reared in Nebraska. That
seems an awful lot Of money to pay
for spring broilers, and there are not
many undesirable millionaires who
would think of such extravaganza.
Three years from now, the British
Admiralty says, England's fleet can
lick the combined navies Of the world.
That is the best peace argument we
have heard for some time
Some family trees seem to bear any