The Newtown bee., 1878-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Bald hsaded mn hnva increased nine, teen per cent. iu hiA ytara,

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 American heef Nnh American girls, both looking for raiket, eross the oeean Ly every steamer,
 Out West they eatraw eegs wltl vinegar, pepper and salt, anu call tlIem prairie oysters.
 New York tailors sell their old accounts Against Sous Of first families for two eeuts on the dollar.
 A Caledonia man found mans finger pressed in n plug Of tobneoo he was ell We ing. The discovery cured him of chewing tobacco.
 A Crazy man dng grave for himself near Utica and slept in il, in an open coffin, every night until he was taken to m asylum.
 As an express train wos leaving Mnrsh- feid, Yt., r gently, n large crane ligltei on the top of the engine and remained there until sufocated by tAc smoke.
 hhAhlhu lhulth hIN Hl' !" NA''N' "Nl'H of other countries in the number of braue- lets they wear. From twelve to twenty are often Seen on their arms.
 At Liverpool g BOO damages were given in breach of promise cnse. The parties had been conrting for fifteen yenrs, and four ilcgitimate children had been born.
 Shakespeare makes use of the words "And thereby hangs q t'In' in four of hhs plays" "Tnming of the Shrew, "OthelIo,' " 'Merry Wives of Windsor, and "As Ton Like It."
 h the stomnch Of lorge fish recently caught ill the river nepr Port Washington, Ohio, was found the watch and chain lost by man wading the river over two yenrs ago.
 There is married woman in West IIo- boken, N. J., who hns given birth to twon- ty.six children at eleven accouchemcnts, namely, eight times twins, twice triplets, and once four at birth.
 A gold watch formerly owned by Presi- dent Andrew Jackson has been found ill pawnbroker's shop in Boston, On the back of the inside case is the inscription, .'Andrew JubLson, Hermitage, l626."
 The chair in which the Tory Governor Tyron sat when from the crest of Grum- mans Hill he watched his red-coated troops burn the town of Norwalk, Conn.,, was sold at auction in that place recently.
 Bay City, Mich, servant girl, given to sleep-wnlking, walked out of second story window, struck in a flower bed, got up and went to the front door, rang the hell, and inquired if her mistress was ill. She wns awakened and put to bed.
 The English Post Office Department wanted a few women clerks, and adver- tised for them-applicants to call between ten A NJ. and noon. Three thousand wo- men put in appearance, and the streets were blockaded for two hours.
 The officers of Jewish synagogue were recently arrested at Manchester, England, charged with cruelty to bullock, ln siau. htering it by the Hebrew method of allowing it to bleed to death. Professional witnesses testified that .this method was not cruel, and the case was dismissed
 The coin examiner at the Treasury at Washington can detect counterfeit coin ill heap of money while blindfolded. He runs his fingers through the mass, and in q few minutes each coin is tested. This remarkable power of touch has been per f, cted only by the practice of many years
 Charles ". asked the Dnke of Medina Cnli how many towns and villages lie owned. Nine hundred and ninety-nine," replied the grandcst of grondees. "Why not make the number up to one thousand? ! ''Because sir, the sound of nine hun dred and ninety-nine is much more vast"
 In the new Russian uniform the cap which the Christnin sdiers wear has on it 1 brass cross with the inscription on its branches: For the Faith and the Czar." On the caps of the miitiamen who are not . Christians thr cross is repac, d by brass plate, inscribed For the Czar and the Country"
 The conundrum about the pins is well ] enough, but who breaks hll the needles | A single factory in Redditch, England, turns out between 6G00 GOO and 70o0,0 GOO | of them each week, or about $50, GOO, GOO year. which is equal to one-third of the population of the globe. With all the fac tories in the world going, who breaks these billions of needles?
 From the beginning of the reign of G, orge III to that of Victoria, upward of 200 duels were fought in England. Ill three, both combatants were killed; in eighty -one, and in all, 120 were wounded. Upwards of twenty trials connected with duels occurred in which four duelists were found guilty and two hanged. In the list of duelists occur the names of York, Nor folk, Castlereash Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, Grattan, Burdett, Canning Peel, aud Wellington.
 boy of fifteen, residing at Trzemeszno, province of Posen, has committed one of tie most frightful crimes recorded in his- tory. He killed his mother, cut out Der tongue and sewrd her lips together; he also sewed her stockings to her feet, cut pieces of flesh out of her legs. slit open one of her hands and tore of one of her thumbs When taken into custody por- tions of the woman's lungs. liver. d.. were founu on his person wrapped in hsmakerchief.
 Two of the worst puns on record-The largest ant is the elephant; and the worst relation is the earb-uncle.
 Thomas Jefferson wasa tender-hoarted IT I ..-: ,-5 +E ..,.