The Newtown bee., 1879-08-13
ITEMS OF INT REST.

In Michigan they nam heir tornadoe& after eminent politicians. -.a
 A citizen of Michigan has beard seven and half feet long. ..,.
 The tax on armorial bearings in Eng land realizes S500,O00 annually.
 Female farmers clubs prosper out West, especially in Kansas.
 One-third of all the coffee sold in the United States is said to be adulterated.
 Prince Louis Napoleon was insured in an English insurance company for Sl50,000.
 Should we call banana skin pride, simply because it goes before q fall?- Bradford Era.
 Seraping hogs by machinery is one of the nearly perfect devices in the packing houses in Chicago.
 Won't some of those people who "juss drop into poetry" oblige us by dropping clean through? Modern Argo.
 A butcher at Des Moines. Iowa, has a list of regular customers who come peri odically to drink blood for their health
 Harsh words have many a time alien ated n child's feelings and crushed out all love of home.
 A Nevada mule was killed and care lully ulSSSClcu. lstl sWallOW- ed ten twenty-dollar bills.
 When the time arrives for baby ts commence eating bread you should break it to him gently.-Burba,k.
 Your time has comeim remarked Mrs. Nobbs, as the jewellers boy brought in her husbands watch.-Netc Iorr NeWS.
 The same man who finds the weather too warm for church sits under the blazing canvass of q circus without . murmur. .7- -z ---
 The parlor matches of the winter now rest their heads together over the.front gate, and the moon makes light of it, The People.
 During the last ten years 2I, ,OGO per sons in the United States have died from yellow fever Of this number 4,o0s died in 1878. -.-.,.-...- .-rrr.
 The applications for patents in ti United States now number over %, GOO a year, of which about two-thirds ars granted, against only 5000 or TOGO ap- plications twenty years ago.
 In remaining a number of streets which have borne names associated with the Napoleonic dynasty the Paris Municipal Council has reso we'd to reehristen one in memory of President Lincoln Town Treasurer Wilson, of Monti- cello, Ind, brought libel suit against the local newspaper that said he was dishonest, but before the case. came to trial he fled with S2l.00o of public money. f. -t ..,=--. --s .-----
 The snIan who gets the maddest at . newspaper joke on himself is the same party who goes round showing the paper to everybody he meets when the joke is on some other fellow.-SeabenviH Her. dLd. - sz ss -.rsrg.---. yy-
 The young lady strolls by the murmur- ing sea, filled with romantic thoughts and poetic fancies, and returning to her hotel finds that seven large and three small freckles have suddenly appeared on the left side of her nose, and she is mortified beyond measure.-NeiD sHGrea Register. k&sa
 Health is the ground which great per sons cultivate, whereby they exchange the light flying hours into golden usage. To them it is industry re,resented in it's power; the human riches of time The minute glass runs willingly sand of cen turies when great ideas are in the health ful moments.
 Junius Polk, of Columbus, Tenn, ac- cording to g local paper, has pet trout. which likes Junius as much as his little schoolgirl sweetheart 1t jumps out of the water and takes minnows and fat meat out of his hand. If he has no food. and is only sfoolingn it. it catches hold of his finger and bites till he halloes.
 THOSE TWO. He lay in the gutter, ragged and drunk, a Aslec D in the filth of the street; Even the wickedest away from him shrunk,
 As 1T fearful of soiling their feet.
 sgEs g. sEE' Away in the farm house, far from the town, A sadmother sat in the evening light, And she thought as her tears came trieklins
 down,f0 .h9[A4E sf.Oh, where is my darling to-night," ascls - J Lampton, fn Satarday .Aight- Al The .,v1na 1,ar- of con~va faof sx