The Newtown bee., 1879-05-27
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A horse too fast must hold on a bit. Kansas has a coal area of 9 ,256 square

| A horse too fast must hold on bit. Kansas has coal area of 9, ,256 square miles.
 An auctioneer is man of more-bid | tastes.
 We most need what the baker knead the most.
 Pedestrianism is now called the foot distemper.
 The heart beats Ioa, 900 times in twen- ty-four hours.
 Tine coast line of the United States op both oceans is about I2, 900 miles.
 The earth is round like milk wagon -once day.-Fon du Lac Reporter. | Sick headaches are caused by eating too much and exercising too little. Money that bank officers get away with is charged to running expenses.
 The protection should come from be- heath to keep carpets from wearing out. If an old sheep can only jump fence | they call it spring lamb.-Ne,o York Herald. Book agents and hgntning-rod men are now on their travels throughout the ! country.
 Prof Piazzi Smith foretells glowing ly-hotn summer. It can't get above '7s anyhow.
 Timely advice by the New York Con- n,ercidl-In time of peace prepare fo sunstroke.
 The late Dr. Petermann, of Germany, estimated the population of the world at I, 429, I45. .OO0.
 When the little frog was scooped up from the spring, he found himself with in the pail of civilization. The soldier may draw useful lesson from the old carpet. It shows its eolors the plainer the more it is beaten.
 The fellow who is known as an arran coward will frequently evince enoug pluck to strike a bargain. A poet sings of the twitter of a Ina sleeping bird" He must mean Dir that sleeps with one eye open.
 A mans curiosity never reaches the female standard until some one tells him his name was in yesterdays paper.
 The Lenox Library, of New York city, is pronounced unsurpassed for the rarest editions of the Bible in all languages
 The real wealth of man is the num- Der of things which he loves and blesses, and by which he is loved and blessed.
 James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, having won Sl5o,ooo on Parole, is going tiger hunting in India.
 In order to rent postoffice box in Paris, one must have certificate of character and sign seven different docu-
 A certain raIIrOaH III Trru ru.r -zSs-- GOO. 900, but only one train a week is run upon it, and that frequently has but one passenger.
 The men who always say a kind word for their neighbors and turn deaf ear to scandal are not only very blessed, but ;lso very scarce.
 Sm;Hp3 Barron, of Clayton, Ind, owns a six-iegged cow, healthy and we'll developed and as gosId 8 milker as if she was not such curiosity.
 It is proposed. says the Norristown Herald. to open school in Philadelphis for carriage drawing. Nothing can draw carriage better than horse, but these animals will not be admitted to the school.
 Col. w. B. aIcCreery, of Flint, late State treasurer of Michigan, had to have finger amputated in order to save his life. He was poisoned by cut with a new pocket knife. | Good actions crown themselves with | lasting bays; who well deserves. needs not another's praise.-Heath. That's even so; but if no praise is meted, he | who deserves will swear he's badly treated.-LukenS. | Moy Sin Kee, a New York Chinaman, pretended to be converted to Christianity and conducted Chinese school and mis- sion until visit to his place by the police resulted in the discovery of a lot of goods which he had stolen from his employer.
 The French government has author ized a lottery of 3Oo, 900 one franc Ca franc is equal to twenty cents, American money) tickets for the purpose of raising funds to complete the statue of Liberty which France gives to the United States, and which is to be erected in New York harbor.
 It is world of change, an age of van dalism and iconoclasm. The radiant sunrise and the cloudless skies this mt rning; the tossing clouds and the | +.., ,,snht To-day stand in speeches. admiration before the bill-boards of Barnum the magnifi- cent, and to-morrow-the goat of hap py hollow and the hill district pensively browses upon the gorgeous tropical scenery, the writhing boa, and the fierce Numidian lion, the Kentucky giant, the sleeping beauty and the lady whose clothes were destroyed in the Chicago fire. Sick transcript globular Monday. | -Rurliu0fo,a Hnlrkeue