Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Blue-fishing-When you don't catch
anything .-EUery Saturday.
The Fat Contributor says fool and
his money. like the hair ofa bald-headed
man, is soon parted.
Over 100000 gallons of petroleum
or earth oil, are brought to the surfac
every day in the oil regions Of Pennsyl
vania alone.
ment. So it does; and the more there
is of it the better it suits, providing it
is proitable.-Ron1e Sentinel.
We are rather inclined to the opinion
that baseball player isn'thalf as much
interested in catching flies as is bald
headed man.-OttG1UG Republican.
The Chicago milk inspector has re-
Gently begun the systematic examination
of the milk furnished by dealers in the
city. Out of twenty-one samples first
analysed every one proved to have been
SKINNED and watered.
The Bowling Green (Ky.) Pt1satagrdph
says that horse Sam. Crosthwaite was
riding threw up his head and drove the
stem of Mr.. Crosthwaite's pipe down his
throat, rupturing q blood vessel and
nearly killing him.
The Boston Transcript says the first
step in getting remunerative employ
ment is to learn to do something that
everybody else can't do. Everybody
can't edit a paper, yet we hear of few
who find remunerative employment In it.
-SatssrdGy Night. raH
At the Fulton (Wis.) fair, recently,
valuable COW died suddenly, and post
mortem examination revealed q hairpin
in her heart This paragraph should be
headed: I" Distressing Fate of a Mix
maid! A Portion of Her Remains
Found in the Heart OF Cow Morris
torn Herald.
Let us gather up fhe sunbeams
Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and cIiaff;
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day, .f-fi
With the patient hand removing
All The briers from our way
In the year 1854 two domesticateg
goats left the neighborhood of Harper's
Ferry and ran away to Maryland Heights.
Since then they have gradually increased
until the flock numbered about 3Lt.
They are in every respect wild goats,
without the least trace of domestic
habits. At night they shelter under
= projecting cliff which faces Harper's
Ferry. ltM h4Tam
They were. courting. What makes
the stars so dim to-night?' she said,
softly. ''Y our eyes are so much brighter,p
pressing her little hand. They are mar
ried now: " I wonder how many tele-
graph poles it would take to reach from
here to the stars,n she remarked,
musingly. Zone, if it was long
enough, , he growled. Why don't you
talk common sense ?i'- R0ckLd7ad Courier
SOMEBODY WAITING.
Somebody's waiting for me,
The homesick sailor cries, arm
As far away Ger the sounding sea
He casts his anxious eyes.
Somebody's waiting for me-
The truant schoolboy walls,
AS he deity doubles up his hat
Under his jacket tails
The golden autumn days, oftimes
sung by the poet, are now flush upon
US; we roam the fields and woods in
search of the rarities of natures floral
offerings, stopping occasionally to in
dulge in rhapsodies over the beauteOus
tints of this leaf or that flower, and sit
ting on stone fence in the sunlight's
welcome warmth calculate with uner-
ring certainty just how much we can
afford to put up for fall overeoat, and
finding that we are just S3.75 short of the
purchasing power to obtain the one that
would look well beside our best girls
new wrap, the prospect is not Elysian-
-WedUeT.