The Newtown bee., 1879-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
 A matter of course-A horse race.
 Tramps have gorgeous times, says PWcI
 StraIn at a gnat, snd swallow a cara mel.
 Women dress to kill; butchers kill to dress.
 Sharp practice-LearnIng to strap raZor-
 An angry man should pull down his choler.
 Boston has q bureau for supplying choir singers.
 Bread made with hot water will he full of cavities
 More frogs legs are eaten in America than in France
 Men of the world judge us by what We do in the world.
 It is less pain to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.
 "Your're a nasty stuck-up thing" as he pen said to the paste-pot.
 The new postoffice in Antwerp is fur nished with American lock-boxes-
 The average business life of Boston street-car horse is about four years
 Geneva, Switzerland, is to hold grand exhibition of watches in 1880.
 Do you know Rose Wood?-AlbrHy Aro,Is. Certainly; she is sister to May Hogany.
 Hudibras calls matrimony a perverse fever, beginning with heat and ending with frost
 Unless all signs fail, the crop of base ball clubs this year will be the larges ever known. ..m.-. .-.... .
 There are more than 4,0oO, 900 acres of public land in Alabama subject to entry or homestead
 A man who has married a rich widow calls her Economy" because she is a source of wealth. .
 Edison denies with great emphasis that his electric light has failed, or that he has stopped experimenting
 It is French saying that sooner or later we pardon our friends all the in jury we have done them- --
 Erratique Enrique" says: Give the pendulum full swing if you want the clock to have good time.
 The Philadelphia Item says - the best wives are the cheapest. Wrong \ good wife is '' little dear"
 One hundred and twenty thousand peo- pie annually are killed in the United States by lung diseases alone
 Before marriage We know but little, and believe too much; after marriage we believe but little and know too much.
 Boston has s25 doctors--about one to every 425 persons-and the ratio ofPhy- sicians to population about the same in the sub bs,
 It just happens this way. that the big \ est strawberries are at the top of the box. There is not room for them below, when the bottom of the boxes are so near the top
 On the Hudson river, between Iarry- town and Albany, there are upward of l50 brick-yards, varying in productive capacity from %, 900 to 10000 bricks day in the working season
 The Portuguese vice-consul has re- ceived circular from Portugal, adyis- ing that until further orders no pork, lard or hog products would be admitted into the kingdom or its adjacent islands from the United States, for fear of tri- china, which it was understood there had broken out in this country.
 A lawyer in Lebanon, Ind, was on trial for perjury. The jury agreed for acquittal, but just before they returned to the court room with their verdict, the prisoner embraced the opportunity to run away. The inference is, that he thought the jury looked upon the matter in the same light as himself.
 It is enough to make the enlightened Caucasian hang lis head in shame to think that with all his lingual achieve ments these unclothed children of the jungle, these Zulus, can manufacture and speak words that would inconti- nently break the jaw of the white man attempting to utter them
 The advertising columns or tue -Atvfabe- kid1s are filled with rude woodcuts Of cows, each with a particular brand on her side, and her ears trimmed into ir- regular shapes. These are the herds men's announcements of the way m which their stock is marked for identifi- cation, so that when the beasts get astray on the prairies, or are stolen, they may be readily traced. The variety of cows ears must be great out there, for in these pictures may be found specimens of square. triangular, three-pronged and irregularly notched ears, no COW having ears that match each other Hand in hand together they soughtt , stray leisurely down the path of time, 1 slipping the nectarine sweets of life from every cup of joy that presented itself, but just as the bargain was about to be sealed shrill voice was heard from the l head of the stairs, Mary Jane. Mary Jane. you set the bread to rising, put out the milk things and go to bed, hear ? me. Tell Jim Blankinhorn to go down the front steps mighty quiet Bose Is ' sniffing around the yard" The sue ? ceeding tableaux were in two lively : scenes. accompanied by the unmusicai 5 growlof the family bulldog. Neetarine