The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Summit, Miss, which will be the tenth in that State.
 The Philadelphia Ledger estimates the increased wealth of the United States for the past two years at S5O0,0Oo,0oo.
 An exchange speaks fiippantly of a "one horse college" It should know that colleges are now rated by their boat races.-Picayune.
 An order received in St. Louis for about l, ,600, ,00G bushels of wheat to ex- port to Germany is reported as new feature in the Western grain trade.
 London measures about thirteen miles from east to west and nine and half from north to south, and is set down as containing O,OOO miles of streets, courts and lanes.
 "Who hath woe?" asks the Ithaca Journal. Well, now in our opinion, the man who breaks pair of wild steers has more whoa than any one -GoscGnda Enterprise.
 In 1881 there isTT to be in Switzerland an international exhibition of watches, ewelry, snuff-boxes and musical boxes. This will be the first exhibition of the kind in Switzerland.
 There's new counterfeit fifty-dollar greenback out. We've spent our spare time for the past week in looking over our wealth, but all our fifties are good ways off.-The People.
 A society has been established in Lon don for the prevention ofstreet accidents and dangerous driving. It is estimated that l6,000 persons were injured by vehi. cles in the streets of London last year. Official returns show thatEngland has lost twenty officers and four hundred men of cholera and other diseases on the return march from the Afghan cam paign. Only about one hundred men were killed in action on the British side during the war. rt these clear cool evenings, and drink in deep draughts of astronomy-that is, they attentively and consistently study the reflected stars in each others eyes, while they take particular notice of Mars movements. t-
 The negro murderer, Napoleon Bora parte, who was hanged at Sardis, Miss, told reporter that his proper name was Wiley Watson, but that after reading the life of Napoleon Bonaparte he be- came so impressed with his character that he assumed the name of the Corsican conqueror. ...- e -.-.- -. APosTRoPHE TO THE WATERMELON. Come to the mortal as he sits
 Upon dry goods box and sips The nectar from thy juicy lips
 Come to the youngster as he fits Across the hig and peaked fence
 And moves with ecstacy intense Thy charms from off the native vine. And thou art terriblei Oh, August-born monstrosity, Incarnate colicosity,
 Beneath thy emerald bosom glow,
 Like glittering bubbles in the wine,
 The lurid fires of deadly woe,
 And from thy Vaccinations grow
 The pain, the cramp, the pang, the throe- And all we fear dream or know Of agony is thine, -St. Louis Times. Frederick Malcho, S murderer, ven tured from his hiding place in the woods to his home at Wilberton, III. He feared the officers of the law less than he did his neighbors, who, as he knew, would | like to lynch him. Hungry and fatigued, however, he had resolved to take the risk of this visit. It was night, and, after eating a hearty meal, he lay down on bed to sleep, first placing loaded | +I,,,, Ic+a h ,fa at window to keep lookout for lynch CTS. He had not slept long before she awoke him to say that mounted men were approaching. He unhesitatingly shot himself through the heart Of General Albert Sydney Johnson is related that one day in Utah when his command was two days distant from a mailing station. he found that a captain 1 had returned to the camp forgetting to post letter which general had intrusted to him. But all the commander said was: .' 1 can imagine no excuse for such carelessness, captain" Not long after the general himself discovered in winter coat, which had been packed away, letter which long time be- fore he had received from the surgeon with the request that he post it. He had taken it the station, forgotten to post it, and it had remained in his pocket for six months. The conscientious gen. eral first apologized to the surgeon, and then he sent for the captain and said; " I beg your pardon for reproving you for an offence in which I myself set the example,