The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-09-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
Firm friends-Partners.

Does standing Joke ever require
seat?
J. B. Cough has delivered 5000 lee
lures,
Philadelphia's police force last year
cost 81 ,235. 13I.
Florida ships 5000 head of cattle to
Cuba monthly.
How strange it is that hot words viii
produce GOODNESS!
The lawyers motto-"We study to
pleas. "-!Sulem Sunbeam.
A chicken hawk is the bird to raise
chickens.-Flenlilsg Mail.
The rule of the average modern peda-
gogue-the ferule.-RiggS.
Gross earnings-Those made in dis
reputable business.-Pxs5ch.
The dentist makes almost as much
money per achcr as the farmer.
Hasten the day, oh, Father Time.
when peace prevails in every cline.
Did you ever know civil engineer to
be guilty of rudeness ALBANY Journal.
Mexico allows a million bushels of
huckleberries to go to grass for want of
picking.
The net profits of the Western Union
Telegraph Company last year wers
s., 23S, 9Ss.
A New York restaurant keeper adj
vertises to sell "a schooner of milk " for
four cents.
A rattlesnake eight feet long and with
twenty-five rattles has been Killed near
Bristol, Tenn. ...
Over 10000 pounds of glycerine are
used annually in the United States for
mixing with beer.
| a recent African explorer writes of
ants one inch long. Trey must be gi-
ants.-BOStO7s Gazette.
Nobody should complain of sea-sick-
ness when he considers that even the
ocean is confined TO its bed.
| We like a man with lots of temper
| 1t is the man who gets out of temper thsS
we don't like.-B0StOn Post.
Great Britain produces three times rs
much iron and nearly three times N
much coal as the United States.
Norfolk ranks first in the peanut
trade. Fully 100000 bushels were man.
/ died there the present season.
People who struggle to the tops of the
Swiss mountains are those who may be
said to most enjoy foreign climb.
| The "a economical Institute" is the ma
tional agricultural university of France;
its annual maintenance costs Sf6, 600
! Is III a
child named Doyle, two years old.
weighing two and three-quarter pounds.
a recent authority on swimming says
| that good swimmer can go two miles
an hour without the aid of the current.
The nineteen win tow-glass factories
in Pittsburgh have managed to keep
] ahead of the boys and pebble stones of
| America.
"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind, but fellow feeling for our pocket
book makes US wondrous mad.-iierSdcx
Recorder.
Sitting Bull, who says he is looking
for place to rest where he can sleep
soundly, should pitch his tent in a store
that is never advertised .yrdciIse
Times.
In the Arctic regions, when the Their
mometer is below zero, persons can con-
verse more than mile distant. DIR.
Jamison asserts that he heard every word
of a sermon at the distance of two miles.
What glorious country this is, when
you come to think it all overl Seventy
five cents pays for card in a newspa-
per nominating your brother-in-law for
| the Presidency What nation can match
us ?-Detroit Free Press.
Ether was thrown into the cell of
refractory prisoner at Vervay, Switzer-
land, until he became harmless. He had
defied the gendarmes to take him before
the judges, and the court could not wait
until he was starved into submission.
Jakutsk, East Siberia is supposed TO
be the coolest of towns. From Novem-
Der to February the thermometer ranges
| from forty-two to siXty-eight degrees
below zero. and the peighboring river is
solid ice for nine months OF the year.
| Yet it is place of considerable BUSH
ness.
A curious case of death is that of Karl
Goler, butcher, who died in New York
from malignant pustule. He had been
handling some diseased meat, and his
fingers must have become impregnated
with the virus He rubbed his mouth
with his hand, and shortly after the ma
| lignant pustule appeared, and in few
days caused death.
A hungry printer is not apt to crit
else the typographical appearance of a
bill of fare.-NeW York NescS. Esne-
cially if he is satisfied with the quality
of the inside matter.-SanlfoTd AdUocdte.
But he frequently forms an opinion
of the pi: an assertion which needs no
proof.-Genner And he gobbles all the
fat he can get.-Mor,thly U'aisn. azz
Richard Grant White says the express
sion. i" He is going for to go" is incor-
! rect. Richard is too particular We
suppose he wonld also object to the re-
mark, /" You git right up and git right
out and gift" And yet the fellow to
whom it was addressed would under
stand it as quickly as if you Were to sling
two pages of grammar at him.-AOrrts-'
tos1n Herald.
Shakespeare was married at eighteen.
Dante, Franklin and Bulwel ut twenty,
four; Kepler, Mozart and Water Scott
at twenty-six; Washington, N poleon /,
and Byron at twenty-seven; j ossini, the
first time at thirty and the s. -ond time
at fifty-four; Schiller and Weber at
thirty-one, Aristophanes at thirty-six.
Wellington at thirty-seven, Talma at
thirty-nine. Luther at forty-two, Ad1i-
son at forty four, Young ut forty-seven.
/ Swift ut forty-nine, Button at fifty-three
and Goethe at fifty-seven. as
The city of Paris employs one-or two
very effective devices for street sprink-
| ling. one of these being tank, or oblong
box, made of sheet iron, and which has
seat for the driver, whence the tank can
be operated. The capacity of this tank
Is some $40 gallons, and it works ON a
strip fifteen feet wide at each passage: it
is emplied after a run of from 1900 to
1900 feet. according to its contents. The
fl ling is done by n leather or india rubber
hose screwed to hydrants under the side,
walks, and so spaced that the tanks have
| only short distances to run when emp