The Newtown bee., 1878-12-05
.rnms az lNrEnnsr.

St. I,auE clergyman went oH on revival mlssion, and while he vas away from bone hIs housekespsr suspended . littls girI by her thumbs and whipped her until she was scared from head to foot A German gentleman who Is anxious 10 nut down the immense trade done In dslsterious wines, has had many samples, bought in hotels and rsstsurants analysed, and several didn't contain any iuios of the grape whatever.
 Wen.bred Parslans never treat. In pablio resorts, cafes. bunsts, As,, tho yrsneh system of every man psJins for his own drinks is strictly observed save In the ease of bsggArs, who are treated sonassaAos to n cup of conss, but never 10 whisssJ. A bear got away from It's owner in s'. Louis and half dozen police oiAOsis tried to throw a moose over it. head. Bruin dodeed it every time. At length two men held the :Asso open and an officer go, on the other side and held an apple in his fingers. The bear went for the apple and fell into the trap.
 Dr. vignollCs, Dean of Kilkenny, who lately died, aged ss, was the descendant Of one of the many French families who settled in Ireland after tho revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and was the last per son to read the English liturgy in French nj the French church at Portarlington.
 Caroline Bauer, wife of Count Ladislas Plater, is dead. In early life she was sn actress and A renowned beauty. CaptivAt- ing Prince Leopold, they wero secretly married; but years afterward, on his becoming King of the Belgians, tho union was quietly dissolved and in lsAa she wAs married to Count Platter.
 A Natchez newspaper describing the changes in the course of tho Mississippi river. says that St. Joseph and Rodney have been left inland; vicksburg is left on lake; Delta will soon be washed away out on has been made at Grand Gulf, and by another season Port Gibson and Claiborn county will have no landing.
 One who has visited the temple of the Three Thousand Gods in Kyoto, Japan. snys that one thousand of them are life size and hold the smaller ones in their hands. Thev stand in ranks like soldiers. Every one is richly gilded, and as the sliding doort of the great temple were thrown back and the sun shot it's rays along the line it mad spectacle of dazzling splendor.
 Ling Lok sleight-of-hand performer and Yamadina, contortionist, travelee for several years in this country. The, shaved their heads and wore Chinese clothes but really were Austrian brothers nams st Guder Recently they went to China, an' in Hong Kong the contortionist burss blood vessel whiIe performing, and died.
 John Garter, sea captain, went t Manchester, Mass, to get married. H found that the town Clerk was away fror home. and nobody else had the right t rive A license. His vessel was to sail on th morrow, 50 that delay was out of tn question. In this emergency tow meeting was held, and g temporary Cler elected
 Two young men, twins, of Hart county Ga., worked ont their fathers debts, compliance with his death, bed reques They were thirteen years of age when the began, and attained their majority befol finishing. Although frequently told thu they were neither legally or morally boun to do so, they persisted until the last eel was paid.
 An aged negro died recently in Phil' dclphia. He was noteworthy as the mod after which some of the best minstrel pc formers fashioned their characterization He was type of the old plantation darke in looks, walk, md voice, and all these ms be seen closely copied by many minstrel He was employed about the Phiiadelph minstrel shows 80 that his peculiariti might be initiated.
 A peasant named Yang who had @ hibited remarkable literary gifts, died Norwary recently in his S3d year. l never ross beyond humble office in u village school but he published sever important collections of folk music al folk songs, and ill 1871 brought out l markabe volume of local legends. lived entirely among the people and su ported himself partly by teaching al partly by breaking stones.
 Twenty-six years ago man went fro Wilbraham, Mass, to California, leavi S7OO as loan to farmer, ill whom he r more trust than in savings banks. wrote letters about the money from time time, and supposed it was safely drawi interest. Recently he came across continent to collect it, the sum of princi and interest amounting to $3Ooo; but farmer who is wealthy, refused to pay cent, on the ground that the note was O lawed. The man had to borrow rsoI with which to get hack to California
 An American doctor has been giving Spaniards keroscne baths to cure 'sm consumption, and some of the patSeI think they feel gread deal better th they did. They Sil make good lau wicks in time.
 Portugal has n law by which widO over 5O years old are prevented from m rying again. This is as it should
 When woman has reached that age should put ill her time making soft sc anu putting up pickles.
 s'Do you II that clothes?' said, stern a British Customs official to the won who had sworn that there was nothing her trunk but clothes for herself and h band, and us he spoke he pointed to
 bottles of brandy. ''Yes," said shs sof
 those are his night caps"
 .,,utry dnn,vai dascrihin1 hsr