Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST

There is not single national bank in
Mississippi.
Japan has forty-three Christian
churches. Seven years ago it had none.
The manufacturing business is so dull
in England that ten mills do not make
cent.
When man uses his cane to help him
walk rapidly it becomes a hurrycane.-
Lot0eh Coarier.
There is an establishment in New
Haven which manufactured 22,424,7 ,772
fish-hooks last year.
The Japanese think paradise is en-
closed by high board fence; and SO
does the small boy in watermelon time.
The boy who has love for swimming
and nervous mother is one of the most
unhappy beings on the face of the earth
We hear of men sowing wild oats, but
who ever heard Of woman sewing
anything but tares?-i&. Louis Times
Journal.
The Emperor Alexander, of Russia, is
devout, well intentioned. and physically
very weak. He lives simply and is given
to long walks.
The United States half-eagle contains
1l6 grains of pure gold. equivalent to
IS; the British sovereign, ll3 grains
equivalent to S4.S7 Of United State
money.
A young man went into n restaurant
the other day. and, remarking that
Time is money, added that as he had
half an hour to spare, if the proprietor
was willing he'd take it out in pie
A Norristown man vino was advised
to 90 to the Hot Springs for the benefit
Of his health, said blamed if ne was
going to do it, as it was about as much
as he could do to worry through the hot
NorriStor7l Herald
We are told that not one American
woman faints to-day where thirty years
ago twenty five fainted.-BOstO1s Herald.
Nothing ike variety They got tired
fainting in the same place. probably.
Men are not SO easily tatigued by it.
Boston Courier.
One Of a series of Indian mounds,
twenty-five feet in diameter. has been
unearthed by the Albany Qn.) scien-
lists. Curiously carved drinking yes
sells of stone were discovered, and skulls
and bones. evidently belonging to an
ancient race of mound builders, were
found in profusion.
A British army captain and two
| lieulenants lave been fined $50 each Tor
breaking into the bedrooms Of two
other officers and sprinkling pepper on
! the carpets in order 10 make them sneeze
tunnily when they returned. Tire conf
plainant was the landlady, whose turnl-
ture had been damaged
The blind PAGER. Sleepy Tom, slackens
| his speed toward the end OF each heal
as soon rs he hears the crowd yell. Tor
lie thinks lie has finished. This ten
dency has to be met by talking and with
the whip, and even then counts seriously
against his success, although lie has
made the best time on record.
Immense pumping machines were or
dered by the Hungarian government OF
English firms for the rebuilding Of SEE
gedin, at an expense of over $500 OOo-
but this money proves to have been en-
tirely wasted. 1T has become evident,
says the iSzegea6 Nap'0, that Szegedih can
be rendered dry only by the falling OF
the river that caused the inundatlon-
For the money these enormous pumps
cost the banks of the river might lave
been fortified, and future overtioWs to
that extent guarded against.
Here is an incident of railroad travel
in Hungary. A mail train came to Il
sudden stop in a tract o. open country.
The passengers thrust their heads out OF
the windows to see what had happened
A pig had ieaped from van and was
skurrying away. The train employees
Joined in pursuit, and the fugitive was
hotly chased for twenty minutes. Then
all returned to the waiting train except
the official who had charge Of the bag
gage vouchers, and the delay was bro
longed, but in vain, for him to come
back. At the end of the journey the
passengers could not get their trunks
until next day, when the voucher man
arrived.