The Newtown bee., 1878-10-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


 A wealthy Rast Boston widow has eloped will her milkmun.
 Ton eaut strengthen fence by whlts- washing Il, nora mar's character.
 Certain locomotives arc deemed un- lueky, and drivers dread to travel on them.
 A London sehoolmaster has killed . boy by hitting him on tho head with a bauk.
 The P reeutasO Of suicides in San Fran. cisco k greater than h any other city ia thv world.
 A Florida farmGr fninted in his bara yard, and tho hogs ate og the calves of his legs.
 The Shah ot Persia has In his stables four little cnmels no larger than ponies, and of aspecies Il extremely rure.
 At Bath, Me-, recently young couple We're in reduced, engaged, married and divorced, all within n week.
 A Nevada miner fell into au old winze. where he lay three days, with both thighs broken, before he was found.
 During the pnst ten years Canada has increased her annual cheese production from 1, 4,5O0, OG0 10 37, ,0OO,U
 The Russian provinces have l,570 GOO horses the UmtrI Stat @, 5nO, OO0, Tur- Key .OO0, uOO Austria ,, j0n OU0, Geruuny s, 3j2, O0O and France ,, GOO, 0OU.
 \ new education law has been adopted 'y the Holland Chnnbers and sanctioned ny the King, which excludes the bible aud religious teaching from primary schools.
 A Poland, Pn,, man s5 years old, paid $lO, UOO cash, and dueded Il hoinrstend worth S2. 300 to secure his bride of twenty. four SHmmerS, It is to be hoped that she will turn out 10 De wotth all that was paid for her.
 A mechanic nt the arsenal of Tarbes, France, lns invented musket which can be fired five hundred times before need- ing to be clenued. After each hundred shots it is nrces1ary to ceuse firing until the gun becomes cool.
 An Alabama inventor has applied for patent for Il chalk nnrk. He has dis covered, l.e says that aniS will not cross line of chalk, and his idea ia to protect things from the pests by drawing IA chalk line around them. The application has been refused.
 A member of the Boston police force re- crntly examined by doctor Is seventy nine years of age, md counting his term of service from its commencement on the old Boston Watch, he has been for fifty. three years one of the guardians Of the city'S peace.
 The growth of the nails on the left hnnd rrqmir eiBhty.two days more thnn those of the right, is more mpd in children than adults and goes on faster in sunlnlrr than in winter. It requires l32 days for the renewal of the nails in cold W, nther, and but ll6 wheil the weather Is warm.
 Victor Saunders was married in Rock iusmm, Vn., four y"ars ago, and on the next day killed mnn. He WAS sent to prison on conviction of nanslaughter. His wife got divorce, and married au, other mnn. but she was widow when Saunders was discharged, recently, and on .nceting they remnrred.
 The Church of St. Perrnn, Cornwall, said to be the second ol lest in England. has recently reopcned. The font in which, Il thousand years ago. Gothrum the Dane. whom Alfred the Great had just d.feHtud Ut Edinsworth, conqnering the pe|lcs of Wedm,re, WAS b"ptizeti still stands iu Alter Church.
 Each Speaker of the HonHe of Common. receives Il pension of S2O. 0O0 y, nr. with remainder to his eldest son. at whose dt, mise it terminates; hut ere is only one ex-Sprakcr-Viscount Eversley, who ha> such pension, and hO hns no son. Hi' successor, Mr. Drnison. created yiScount OsSingtuu, refused Il pension. He died childless.
 The magistrates Of the villag. of Ava Tapan being unable to diScov. the author f n series of mysterious crimes. opeued ,oll. inviting every cilizen 10 name on hiA ,allot the person whom he thought guilty. )ne notorious nc'tr do well wus eiected $ the cuiprit by great majority, m iayiu2 confessed hls crime was promptly ,xccuted.
 4 gung of hnrghrr compose of twt lmcricans and three Englishmen has beeI -tldured in Sorrento. They recent! feetrd m .ntrnrc" into wealthy pgwii- rokrr's office ill Naples and escap Il witI large booty. Aboat the sans time valu ble articles of gold and silver were miss ns from several churches. \ merchant's .ouse was also invaded by the same ans, it is supposed, and robbed of precious late.
 4 few days ago girl of 1G was brongh. fore j. Police Justice in New York, for ,etty theft, when sle stated to tn. Coart nat she was partly adopte,i daughter Of Ter employer, who ated her services as Iomesiic. but paid Her no wages. She was niost destitute of clothing, and took tue aouey to get clothes. Pms plan of adop- ion is worthy of considerations by -co- ouiic.,l housekeepsrs. It might effect Very tIr.ble reduct on in tlc cost oi sersunts'
 .;ntananse.
 English steel pens are almost entir.l, made by woinen. h IS2n-2l the trsI grnss of .'thrre slit' steel pens was sol, wholesale at e 4s. the gross. In 1s3