The Newtown bee., 1879-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Truth is stranger than fiction, for ther is less of it,
 Army officers on court martial are placed in trying positions
 The strength of an ordinary elephant is equal to that of 1T men.
 Young men are mapping out short routes around iee-cream saloons
 Within the past year eight Mormon girls have married colored men in Salt Lake.
 It costs the farmers of the Unised States S2O, ,OO0, GOO annually to do ther blowing.
 "When is man eowardF = asked q teacher. "When he runs away from a COW" answered a pupil.
 The Cincinnati Commercial does not believe that an apple caused the fall of Adam; but thinks that it might have been an orange or banana peel
 No man in this blessed country need ever die of hunger. He can always have a roll in the morning, if there Is
 only little patch of grass in his neigh
 borhood.-New York lMdil.
 A gentleman who thought that the
 price asked for the ground floor of house was somewhat steep told the Janl-
 tor so. "Well, ye-es; perhaps 1t Is hlgh'
 but then there is an elevator"
 The estimated value of the straw hats
 and bonnets manufactured every year in
 New England is from Sl5, ,oOo, ,ooO to S2o.-
 ooo, eco. Nearly all of this business IS
 confined to Massachusetts
 .Mr. Jones, you must come into my
 room soon and see my lovely baby" said
 fond mother to a fellow lodger-
 Thank you, I heard him all last
 night" was the equiyocal reply. [ A rich New Yorker IS so fearful that his daughter may marry a coachman that he has taken her and started for China. But he must remember there Is , Cochin China. too.-SItarday Algfa. The Indians of the West, who are supposed to be always in such fine physical condition, cannot sustain the same amount of real hardship as q white man under the same circum- stances. This has often been proved "I wish were you about two hours,' '' she said, with great tenderness And why. my dear?" he asked, with consid- erabIe interest. Because" she said, toying affectionately with his watch chain" because then would buy my wife new bonnet" . A Paris correspondent writes to Lon- don that at the Madeleine on Good Fri 2 day and Easter Sunday there was to be : seen probably the largest floral cross ? ever made. It must have been some T thing like fifteen feet long and was made . of red and white camellias, roses and
 other bright-hued blossoms
 The fifteen largest hotels in New ' orb
 city consume weekly 6S.6e0 pounds o v meat. of which 4s,O0O is beef; of fisll = 700. GOO pounds per year; also during tho > twelve months l9,0oo, 900 oysters, a.5eo,
 900 eggs, 1,sO0, 900 chickens and poultry e II .O0O barrels of four, 10000 barrels O 1T 1T potatoes, B, ,000 cans milk, 10000 quart 'i cream and 4So, ,000 pounds of butter. T Saturday seems to be the fatal day il = the royal family of England William i, III. died Saturday, March IS, l1o2 Queen Anne died Saturday, August 's l7I4; George I. died Saturday, June 10 . f727; George II. died Saturday, octobe n 25, I76O; George III. died Saturday = January %, 1920; George ". died Satm = day, June 26, ls3o; the Duchess of Ken - died Saturday, March I5, 1861; tn a Prince Consort died Saturday, Decembe :, I4, 1861; the Princess Alice died SatuI Y, day, December If, 1878; and the Prin 70 cess of Hesse recently died on the sam ', day of the week as the Princess Alice