The Newtown bee., 1878-12-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Holland has 10000 windmllls.

hoilsha haa IuiUou Wlndsnllis.
 peadwood is 5,e2l feot above the sea
 Chicago has three Indy lawyers In euo. sessfal practice.
 In china 100 cancelled postage stamps will buy q baby.
 Josh Billings makoa sis,ooo a year by bad ~ filing.
 Beautiful women can always afford to dress simply.
 There are about 8 oo0,00o Israeltes scat. tered throughout Russia.
 A woman will hereafter plead at tho Wausoon Bar in Ohio.
 Shop girls in Bofast arc provided with chairs, and can sit down when not Lusy.
 Four of the siynors of tao Texas Declara. ton of Independence are still living.
 An EngI-hman rode some 1000 milos on velocipede in six days recently.
 A too free use of quinine has made many of the young people of Memphis almost blind.
 A New York company is gsid to send 200, ,oo0 pounds of oleop.stsarine to Eng land every week.
 A Meriden Conn cnt rang the door bell the other night, becauGe she wished to get into the house.
 Ten per cent. of the husbands income Is what it is legally decided in England he sLRll pay for his wife's dresses.
 Tho unclaimed diyil3ndo now lying aa the Bank of England amount to 3,506,- 95G.
 A German says that London fog is so thick that he is tempted to drive nail into t and hang himself.
 Davenport, Iowa, has had it's wicked clergyman. He borrowed money cf church folks, forged checks, and absconded.
 Mir. Lyman, Geologist of the Japanese Government, estimates that there are in the Island of Yesso 150, GO0,oo0 tons of coal The Cherokees constitute an inde- pendent civilized nation, with public debt of $l87, 900 and $5G6.6G in tLe treasury.
 Refusing to serve the office of Lord Mayor Of London renders an Alderman liable to 8 fine of $5,000, which Sir B. Hammet had to pay in 1798.
 A French paper observes that philoso- phers pass their lives in not believing in what they see, and trying to guess at what they don't See.
 Switzerland has passed t law prohibiting children under the age of fourteen from being employed in manufactures after the first of next May.
 The Mason county, Ky, Grand Jury recommends that tho whipping post be TO- established to check petty thioying, and reduce the expenses of keeping prisoners in jail.
 There is Q crusade against dancing in Baltimore social circles Many young ladies who are church members are drop ping the amusement from their list of party engagements.
 Malmaison, the favorite suburban home of the first Napoleon and his Empress Josephine, was lately sold by auction to a Mir Gauler of Paris for 730, ,000 francs, or about $146. 900.
 Wolves arc becoming so plentiful and ravenous about River Falls, Wis, that the heaviest sheep raisers are selling of their stock, and either onigrating or going ous the business.
 A Judge in Wilmington, Del, has so profound a regard for custom that, having by mistake sentenced q murderer to bo hanged on Tuesday, he Lad the man arraigned again to change the time to Friday.
 Ben You yas gene Lack to China after making Slo0,o00 in the cigar business ip sa,. Francisco. Considering the relative value of money in the two countries, he will be enormously wealthy at home.
 X passenger train on an lrlsil railway recently run over an intoxicated ful- low OH the track. He was 50 insenBible to tue magnitude of his misfortune as to TO- mark to the guard, us he looked 1t his own laGer,ted limb. "Arrah, now, this Is too bad; didn .ueaato stop tha train
 A Lowell firm recently sent a lot of bills West for collection. line list came back with the result noted against each name, one being marked "deadn Three moiiths after the same bill got into new lot that was forwarded, and when the list came back the naIne was marked 'sstiil dead"
 Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, ab- horred smoking His Quaker Council one :ay observing his approach, laid down their pipes T anl glad to see" said Penn, you are ashamed of | vile habit" Not at all, returned q prai lpal Friend, i've only laid them down lest we should offend 3 weak brother"
 A young lady was overheard explaining to friend as they emerged from a yery fashionable ultra high church place of wor- ship i'll London few sundays ago, that d. thought was a dreadfrliy lotls way to come, she never missed aSnnday service there, be- cause she invariably got uew idea as to lress or bonnet.
 My friend, have you sulking vifef Don't go ard worry on it, but try and use diplomacy; lis best - depend upon it. Don't beg and coax-dont go and write a poem or sonnet; rouse her dropping spirits with brand-new winter bonnet.
 Wife. ..Wel, Jones, judging from your breath, cau't really tel whether you have been thinking whiskey or whether you have been swimming in it. Husiand Ire proaellfuliy). Hannah, don't you-hic- .oys me enough to sullls--hic the bene- Ii; of the doubt"
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