The Newtown bee., 1879-06-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


 Something to be looked into-A mir TOT
 Epitaph on photographer-"Taken from life"
 Puck is of opinion that grass is about the only thing that gets its dew.
 Four watches were found recently in the stomach of a Florida alligator.
 They are making glass tombs in Pitts burg. Beware of glass tomb much.
 Farmers gather what they sow. while seamstresses sew what they gather
 The number of producing wells in the oil regions is at the present time lO,7S2.
 The late Judge Asa Packer, of Penn sylvania, amassed an estate valued at about S20. 0.0O0.O00.
 Mir. Moody, the evangelist, has de- clined an urgent invitation to renew his revival labors in this city.
 Out in Nebraska two boys living on 8 farm followed and recaptured horse thief who had escaped from jail.
 American women eat more candy than all the rest of the world combined. ''Sweets to the sweet. ."-Chicag0 Jour- 7adl.
 Lord Beaconsfield and the Duke of Northumberland are the only members of the English Cabinet much past mid dle life.
 "Where is My Boy To-Night?" is the title of a touching new song. We don't know which is his favorite gate- Boston Post.
 Col. King, hning, 3 Texas cattle man, has a about 337 square miles, on which Tango 1000 beasts.
 Statistics lately published show that the number of German pork-eaters known to have suffered from trlclnnosls in 1877 was I3S.
 Mir. Caird. the agricultural statistician, estimates the capital of English landlords at S1 ,0O0, ,OO0, ,O00. and of English tenants at g. .000, ,O00, ,000.
 It is a curious fact, and one which has not been made as prominent as its inn portance deserved, that the parlor is the place in which most of our matches are made.
 The man who will never wrong any one out of a single cent will take secret and fiendish glee in swindling a man out of his turn in tonsorial temple--NeIg York Sur.
 A prisoner in the Tombs Police Court, New York, made his escape one day recently, while awaiting trial, by jump ing fifteen feet to the ground through an open window.
 There was a young man in Versailles who kept Ill the old cans and tin pails. And why he did so-now whisper it low he kept them 10 tie to dogs taiis.- GosUdqdG Enterprise.
 "Who was the first man?" asked a Sunday-school teacher of her prodigy. Adam" And who was the first woman?" He hesitated but moment, ] and then shouted "MadamP" i The damps of autumn sink into the | leaves and prepare them for the necese i sity of their fall and thus insensibly ar we as years close around us, detached rom our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow
 A little Waterloo Sunday-school miss was asked by her teacher, WI hat must people do in order to go to heavenP" '' De, I suppose" replied the little one. The teacher did not question her any further- Waterloo Obserrer.
 A medical magazine gives the details of case where a lady in Baltimore slept in damp sheets and took a Sudden cold about year since, which has left her void of taste or smell, that is, with par alyzcd palate and nasal organs
 Street scene in New York: First ruff fan. Kill i'm, Wot I'll we do with i'm afterward?" Second ruiiian Contempt uously)-. You're green 'un- Why, bury i'm under the rubbish in the street. of course He'll never be found-"
 "Young Philosopher would like to inquire what a safety match y is, and why so called. A safety match is one in which the young man owns pair of horses, three-story house, and q sea. ring, while the young lady's father is the possessor of S50, ,O00 and whole suburb of brick huilt houses.
 Mrs. Ellis, of Ithaca, N. Y, has in her house large room, the floor of which is covered with sawdust, and with two leafless trees and many bamboo perches in it, where she keeps more than hun dred canary birds, raised from singY pair which she bought few years aga She can identify almost every bird a1
 tell its age.
 Prussia appropriates S2,6l2.s4o ann , ally for agricultural purposes, and A l l tria and Hungary S5,495, l25; WI Trance appropriates nearly S10,00O,q Z No civilized nation does so little to n
 mote. foster and encourage its agrid
 ture as the United States, it's appropt ) ton for this purpose for 1879 bS
 S2O4, ,90o.-Boston Caltsuator.