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

statistics us A matter ot Hotorlsly ''lhat lar great majority of evlaplalnrs rvaghing Inc head office taks tLsir Fise with clergy. lusu."
 An Irato and jealous Washington wife walked into the Treasury Department tlie othsr day and horsswhippsd the fs. male clerk whu had aroused her suspi. ei0us.
 Al oastagna, Italy, recently, \ mason went to ths parish church and asked tho priest to say uinss for him. While the services were being celebrated he went up 10 the belfry, tied tho boil rope round his neck and jumped out, breaking his neck.
 The town of Black Diamond, Cal, enjoys the distinction of being the only walled town on the Pacific coast. Il has high fsnee surrounding it and the only entrance Is n gate, over which is an inscription warning the public Of II i've dollar hns upon any person who leaves tho gate open.
 A prize fight between women took place n, Cobridge, near Annley, England, few weeks ago. They were both married md with families. Thy tied up their hair and ring was formed each woman having her pnrtsnus Teeth as well us fists weie freely used, and, after three rounds, one Of lLe wretches Has severely bitten mud retired.
 A Sacramento man intercepted note sent 10 his wife by nuoth' man. lie therein discovered tlmt she was making an appointment with t'olher. He simply took her false teeth from the bureau, put them into his pocket, kissed the children, went down town and played several games Of ! billiards.
 1 On t e const of M.hhur are some He- Grews who are black belonging to con- munity called l5'nni Israel. They claim to he descendants ot tho Jews sent by King Solomon to Iudia to collect ivory mud precious stones. They observe the Pass over and the Jewish Sabbath. There are some among the British troops at Malta. The pillory was used in Scotland within the present century. Its last victim in . Glasgow not only received tue oblntions of the crowd, but when relieved from the crib WIS violently assuiled and tossed about, and at length cast headlorg into the police manure wagon. Except for per- jury, it wnS abolished in 15lG aud alto getLer in 1857.
 On the first day of her honeymoon Je- susita Chavez, of San Antonio, Texns, put a bullet through her heart because she had beer "bulldozed' into marrying Jesus Zepeda, rich fellow she did not love, and had abandoned Jose Madrid, her chosen lover from childhood sith whom an elopemeut bud Leen planned but failed.
 there We're lying on Hn ordinary sized bed two mothers, two sons, one daugh- ter, one grandmother, one grandson, brother and sister, uncle and nephew, all of whom (eleyen) were coupre- hrnded in four persons viz:-A mother and her daughter, each with an iafunt son.
 There is tradition in the East that one of the tests by which the Queen of Shebn tried to prove the wis,iom of Solomon was by placing on a table before him two bouquets, one of natural, tue other of arti. ticial flowers, and requiring that he should distinguish the one from the other; where upon the wisest man ordered the win bees.
 A man at Liverpool was recently ar- rested in his bed at three A. M. for non. payment of school board fees, it being the custom of the officials to muke these IT, rests at night, when they are certain of finding th-ir men at home. So agitated was the prisoner on this occasion that on reaching the jail he died of heart disease. The Coroner's Jury cunsurvd strongly the mode of procedure of tue officers.
 A young man of twenty-two years wen! into the private office of the Judge of tue County Court, ill Milwaukee, recently, and asked for an injunction to prevent the yoang woman he was in love with from marrying a cripple to whom she WAS devoted. The womans father accom- pnnied the young man, and they were much chagrined when they learned that no legal injunction could be laid to prevent wedding.
 As furniture in a tenement house at Fall River, Mass., was being transferred to a wagon, the wife carefully wrapped in 9 large comforter Ier little baby and put it on the bed in all upper chamber. A little later some one down by the wagon called to D man who entered tue chamber to throw down something to use for packing to protect some articles. The man seized the rolled-up comforter and flung it out of the window. It Was caught by s woman, who, finding lump in it, unfOlied it to ind the child unharmed.
 A resident of Dnnbury, Ohio, while on his way home tho other day saw huge | gray eagle sitting on a fence beside the road, but, as he had nothing with him with which to shoot the bird, be was at loss to know how to kill it. He had, however. a bottle of shoe polish in his hand, and he sneaked along as near to the bird IS possi- ble and then threw the bottle at it, hitting tue eagle on the head and killing it iu- ,tantly. It measured nearly seven feel from tip to tip of Its wings.
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