Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A proved thing-A ship.
Cold muffins-Raganuriins.
A moving sight Old cheese
You can't beat porcelain egg.
A judges position is a trying one
Post.
Did the man who " shot at random.
hit itP
How strange it is that hot words
should produce q GOODNESS.
IT is reported that the Indians in
Florida now number only 500.
No hotel porter ever tried to smash an
elephants trunk.-NeaC YORK. NsSgs- -i'i
The strength of an elephant is calcula
ted as equal to that of $50 men som bined
BY a new law the French postoffiee
undertakes the collection Of small bills
in the provinces.
The Philadelphia Times says that girls
who sing in hotel parlors haveeonspicu-
ously large mouths.
Il expend good deal of panes at my
work" as the glazier said to the window
sash.-Ney York Mail.
Mfr. Barry Sullivan, the English actor.
prides himself on having play ed Hamlet
more than 800 times in ;lll quarters Of
the globe.
'.All's well that ends well, said vic
tim Of the toothache, as bis swollen
cheeks resumed their former size--Da1s-
ielsonUille Sentinel.
A lad being asked What is Rhode
island celebrated for?' replied . It is
the only enc Of the New England States
which is the smallest
The official returns of the registrars Of
Ireland for the second quarter Of the
year contain q record Of the death Of
persons aged respectively IG5, l07 and
liz.
Two boys have been arrested in Paris
for cutting buttons from mems coats.
1t was learned that they collected
dozens a day and sold them to obscure
tailors-
The Touring mill industry in The United
States employs 90,OG0men in25. 000 mills,
turning out yearly 50,000,G ,GG0 barrels Of
flour, Of which 4,0O0, Coo are exported to
foreign countries.
The worlds wheat crop in 1879 is put
at l.540, COO 000,-not much above a
busher to every human being in the
world; and much wheat is consumed by
the lower animals.
New Hampshire's manufactures last
year amounted to over S96, ,000, 600, among
them being $50, ,5s6, 500 worth of cotton
goods. SIl. 709, coo of boots and shoes,
and SO 222, 900 Of woolens.
OF the sO,250, 600 English-spcakingp pco-
pie in the world, IL, $50, 600 are Episco-
Isalians, Ia 600. O00 are Melhodists. 49,
SOC. 600 Roman Catholics, 10000, 900 Pres
byterians, 5000, 600 Baptists, and 7,000,-
COO Congregationalists.
We believe i stands for fifty, according
the Roman notation, and that is the rea-
son why young man who had just in
herited fifty dollar legacy won the con-
sent of the girls father by telling the old
man he had just been left bare L of
money y.-Keokatt Constitution.
Learning from physiological sources
that carrying a pitcher of water on the
head would conduce to graceful poise
Of the system, a downtown girl tried the
experiment. She hasn't paid for the
pitcher vet, and she is anxiously inquir-
ing for something to take water spots
out Of her best silk-NcsU Hdvsa Rec
ister.
"Tm sitting on this tile, Mary"
He sald in accents sad,
Removing from the rncsing chair
The best silk hat he had;
And while he viewed the shapclcss mass,
That erst was trim and neat,
He murmrred, q Would ii had been felt,
Before took my seat"
-Facob Strauss
James Stewart, tvs I've year-old son of
James Stewart, residing near Willy :
! Neck. Dorchester county. Md was sent
into an out-field to make " smother. to
keep the mosquitoes from the cattle.
Not coming back after reasonable time
had elapsed the father went into the
field to search for him. lie was found
living face downward on the ground dead,
his mouth, throat, nose and esIrs ilter-
ally packed with mosquitoes.