West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-03-07
NO. 1866
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

army.
Michigan's last apple crop was worth
100000
| Postage stamps costs one cent per 100 to
manufacture
The mint ceased coming two-cent pieces
five years ago.
American flour pays duty of S. 40 gold
at Havana, Cuba.
Crock candy and whiskey'' is the great
Southern cure for consumption
Kansas farmers estimate corn at fifteen
cents bushel, which is cheaper fuel than
coal or wood
Chicago paper estimates that there are
at least $4,000 men wearing the red ribbon
of temperance in that city
! Queen Victoria has written to King Hum
bert asking keepsake some article from
his dead fathers writing table.
You cannot get rid of trouble if you tray
el the face of the earth. Each must learn
to bear it bravely and live it down.
An intelligent German thus expressed his
preference for quack DOCTOR 81 would no
call him ov mine cat vas sdeadr'-P0rchester
Journal.
A sweet-voiced woman has no advantage
over shrll voiced one in blowing the din
ner-horn or in driving the pigs out of the
front garden.
The long continued blindness of woman
in Eizabethtown, KY, was broken by an
| hn1r nf iubt oft x.Lio Oh
tally blind again.
Japan has twenty five national banks,
with $23, ,000,000 of capital all established
within less than two years, and all under
Japanese managers
Five tons of rock containing Impressions
of birds and insect tracks have been taken
from Westerfied, Connecticut to Mount
Holyoke Seminary.
A little girl in Syracuse N. Y, died in
convulsions from drinking brandy handed
| to her by her mother during the night un-
der the supposition that it was water.
A jury at Philadelphia has awarded $12,-
900 damages against the Philadelphia and
Reading road, to the widow of a policeman
March.
The death of Margaret Logan, an old col
ored woman, who resided at Freehold, N.
j., is announced. 1t is claimed by the
friends of the deceased that she was ia
years of age. ... ..
The Dutch Of the Paris exposition will
come ont worry strong in t.lits. rUruy
thousand bulbs are to be planted so as to
figure out the arms of HARLEM in most
effective manner. .-I ..
lady purchased nice, new door mat
the other morning with the word ''Wel-
come" stamped thereon in glowing letters,
and the first man that came and planted his
number elevens on it, was a tramp.
b The expense of Stanley's African explor-
. ations is in round numbers $115, 600 He
t discovered 10000 900 heathens, which is
+ about six for five cents, very reasonable
, figure for heathens.- Worchester Press.
Mr.. Henry rmitt Brown, will give the
Grafton at the Valley Forge centennial cele-
bration on June 19. The Valley Forge Cen
tennial Association is trying to buy Wash
ington's old headquarters there for $4,000
young man, just engaged on ranch
+ in Truckee Cal, was sent to driving yoke
of cattle, and at noon, when he wanted to
feed them, was observed trying to unscrew
, their horns in order TO get the yoke off the
8 animals.
t A machine that will knit stockings in ore
2 piece at the rate of one miuute, is the in
$ vention of aSwede of Rockford, Ill. Twelve
! machines can be operated by one boy, whose
wages, $4 so per week, make the cost of
r knitting one cent for sixty stockings.
A monument to John c. Breckenridge is
proposed in Kentucky. The Legislature
of that State has Incorporated au associa-
tion which will collect funds for the purpose
and bill appropriating $4,000 for the
? monument has been passed to a second
} reading. -.... ..-..... ..-f ..
A father lately induced a croupy little
boy to make a healthy meal of buekwheat
cakes and molasses, but the latter proved
to be syrup of squills, The boy said he
thought something allied the molasses the
very minute his father told him to eat all
he wanted.
, There are lots of curious folks in this
world. They encourage a young lady to
devote three four years to music be
cause she may have to teach it some day."
!, but neglect to encourage her to learn any
thing of houswork, never dreaming that
she may be a wife some day.
A movement is on foot to purchase the
building known as the ''M E. Seminary
at Vineland, and establish therein an asylum
D for inebnates There is no such institution
in New Jersey, and the establishment of an
, asylum for the wretched victim of intem-
perance would be noble charity.
, Fifty houses, including a school house,
7 at Lockport N. Y, have been heated the
: present winter by steam brought from a
. central boiler house. There are three miles
of distributing pipe laid through the streets.
The cost to the consumer has been about
equal TO what we would have to pay for
fuel
Mr. James Hageman has introduced
new style of clapboard in the Ocean Grove
!. . and Asbury Park cottages 1t makes
flush surface on the inside and laps one
5 inch on the outside in rabbit so there
are no cracks nor crevices for the wind to
3 penetrate and shows upon the same as or
dinary siding.
What few years of freedom can do for
the colored men in a Southern State is
evinced by the fact that the 81, 1854 colored
voters of Georgia own 457, ,645 acres of land
worth $1,244, 1O4, city property worth ST.
1879. 725, personal property worth 1886, ,522,