The Newtown bee., 1878-11-28
lingo is the Basque word for God.

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 The Empress of AusIrin is only s2 years of age, and yet she is Q grandmother.
 Twenty-two colored people in Washing ton claim to be over 100 years old.
 Four autograph letters of Theophile Gautier sold for $l2o in Paris few days ago.
 The potato crep for the United States for the past five years has averaged 145,- 900, GOO bushels.
 boatman of Birmingham, England, aged forty-siy, has been convicted of drunkenness ninety times and paid $l, 900 in fnes.
 A Cleveland woman adyeitises that she vii! take in washing and that, s'being un- til recently in afauence," she knows what fastdious folks require.
 As curious liquidation of an old bill as my is that of young man of Shelbyyille, Ind, who has hauled wood to pay doctor Tor attending his mother when he was born, twenty years ago.
 gentleman who lately bought pair of marine blue gloves in Hamburg, Germany, found that his hands were soon covered with m eruption. He gave the gloves to a chemist, who discovered a considerable quantity of arsenic in tlIe dye.
 The bones of the intrepid explorer, Pere Marquette, have been discovered near Point St. Ignace, Mackinac, abort thirty yards from the former Jesuit church, and probably within the fence which once surrounded the dwellings of the mission aries.
 The house in which John Knox, tue Scotch Reformer, lived and died is yet standing in that part of Edinburgh known as Old Town. Extending over the en- tire front is this inscription in Roman letters: :-"Lufe God abufe all and vi nicht- bour as vi self"
 A miller in England, who had beaten his wife and threatened his children because summoned for not sending the lutter to school, was last month seized by forty women, who fogged him and then dragged him to pond, where, while drenched with water he implored pardon for his misdeeds.
 
 A Nevada 2harmer the other day picked up rattlesnake and snapped both ends of the "varmint' at one twist The reptile measured four feet in length. His head was as fiat and large as turtles and he left nine rattles iii his captors hands.
 John Davis was incurably i'll in Mont gomery county, Ind His sweetheart, to whom he was soon to have been married, went to work in mill to earn money for his support, her well to do parents refusing to give her any money for the purpose Davis committed suicide in order not to be burden on the girl.
 Queen Elizabeth once claimed sover- eighty of Cyprus, contesting the Turkish usurpntion - 1570,73 - probably on the ground of Richard Cnur de Lion's con- quest The arms of Cyprus are blazoned on her tomb and her right to the title of Queen of Cyprus was recognized by tho College of Heralds of her day.
 The consumption of coal in London is steadily augmenting, both in arithmeticil and geometrical ratio. Thus, in 1881, the consun ption was within 900, 900 tons. in IooI, II Incrcastd to 3, 800, 900 tors; in | 1861 to 5,07S, 275 tons, and in 1877 to g. GOO, TOO tons. For manufacturing purposes alone ,5O0, GOO tons are used up annually in that huge city.
 A bear robbed of her cubs is generally supposed to be furious and dangerous, but at Reed City. Mich, Il bereft mother bruin adoped Il missing three year-old child of one Finn in their stead There the neighbors found it, after searching for tweuty-four hours, with never scr itch upon it, and the old bear seemed very 10th to give up the child of adoption.
 A boy of fifteen has been brought be- fore the magistrates of Bristol, England, charged with several burglaries. A wagon load of plunder valued ut from $200O to S3, GOO was produced in court, as also that young gentleman's kit of housetreaking tools and a library of exciting fiction of the ''penny dreadful sort from which he doubtless grined his inspiration. T A drunken fellow at Austin, Nevada, took handful Of coin from his pocket and threw it on the ground. An Indian standing by gathered up tue pieces and offered them to him, but the white man refused the money and saii:-"You keep it, Jim, and treat the Iniiians with it. "All right, replied the Indian, me keep 'um; give you 'um Luck when you are sober" And next day he hunted the nar up and gave him bnek the money.
 A curious case of suicide is mentioned in | London paper. cat belonging to tie Vicar of WOotton has given birth to four kittens. As she did not seem strcug enough to suecle so many. it was judged best to drown theis. After this shs noped, and vent about in quite de- spending manner On sudden she dashed seross the lawn, and plunged into the ornamental pond in front of the house. She was quickly rescued, aud little brandy given her. As she then seemed , little better, she wss let loose. Later in the afternoon. however. she spied an opp portunity to get out of tho house. ran ! again to the pond, and plur ring in was ] drovned-
 . The late Bishop os Winchester, Dr. ' Samuel Wilbsrfgres,~ commonly called 'sSoapy Sam eouid say smart ts.znz nov and then He gas trzvsiiag ly rza one : day, when lady. versins oa tAs sixtsss.