The Newtown bee., 1879-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
 Needs looking into-A telescope.
 Amateur gun clubs need q wide range. | The fattest hog has the most winning weigh.
 The army at the polls-The words barbers.
 The most perfect type of sweet home The beehive.
 Every young doctor must get on, if he only has patients.
 Irony" of the .law-Sentencing a blacksmith for forgery"
 Is not detective in the United States Coinage Bureau mints spy?
 About I,OOo,oOo quarts of beer are swallowed every year in Paris.
 A man who owns good oil well is said to live onNAe fat of the land.
 Brooklyn expects to have an elevated railroad in running order by December The man who bears torch for pro- cession cannot complain, because his burden is light.
 The cost of living has increased more rapidly in Germany than in any other country in Europe.
 A young lady in New York died re- gently from the effects of swallowing d pin about a year ago.
 The New Haven Register comments on the Northwest passage-'.Too much ice to the amount of water" The Soudan railway, one of Egypt's magnificent enterprises, has been aban- doned as unremunerative.
 There is always more or less quarrel | ing at boat races. Even the wind has been known to come to blows.
 A skipping-rope was placed among the flowers on Kittie Boylan's coffin, in Clyde, Ohio. She had died from jump ing it l2O times without stopping.
 The Supreme Cour: of Iowa has de- cided as constitutional the law prohibit ing the sale of wine and beer within two miles of the corporate limits of any mu- nicipality where such sale has been pro- hibited by vote of the people, or within two miles of any voting place at any election.
 A Colorado correspondent prophecies that sthe bullion yield of the United States for 1879 will be S55, 5,0o0, ,O0O to S70, ,oo0, 900 larger than for any other year in our thirty years of mining history The volume too will cross the Rocky mountains. from the Pacific to the Alt lantic slope" When you see woman going toward the river with good sized pole in her hand and a wrinkle across her nose, you needn't think she's going fishing Not much. she's got a boy down that way who promised her with tears in his eyes that he wouldn't go in swim ming.-SeuJencille Herald.
 A letter crushed within the palm
 Does no harm To you or me-
 X harsh word spoken to a friend There's an end
 But who shall smooth the wrinklcd lines
 From all signs Of rudeness frees But who shall in the wounded heart
 Heal the smart A new novel is called "A I.ady's Four Wishes" An old bachelor says he hasn't read the book, but he knows what her wishes are. First, a new bonnet; second, new bonnet; third, q new bonnet; fourth, a new bonnet" From this one might suppose that the old bachelor was q married man--Acr- | yist0srla Herald
 The cricket invasion of Algeria in 1866 cost the government Sl,Ooo,0oo and 2oo,- 900 of the natives died of starvation. A single band of these animals was esti- mated to contain 50,O00 tons of them and the nitrogen of them to weigh 1000 tons. Nets have been patented in France. so that in case of another inva- sion this valuable manurial agent may not be lost. The crickets are caught in the angles of the nets and fall down into a pit, where they are to be treated with green vitriol. | A LAMENT. withered leaf, A revery- And no relief | In memory. sigh, A tear, l To scorch and smart, | To dry And scar | A broken heart. Hopes promises, Honor wrecked
 An, bitter, bitter | Retrospect -W. J. Lampton, in .Nelc York .Ncsrs.
 The Mules Experience.
 Once upon time the mule, without having received an invitation, attended | a convention of animals that was called for the purpose of discussing the best methods of family government l IUb.f d<, ,-x,t, Er,nxu ahnuf all flliS ae-