The Newtown bee., 1879-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST


 Asweepingreform- Spring cleaning.
 This is the walking year; the next will be leap-year.
 The gold and silver product of Cali fornia since 1918 is S1, ,997, 100000
 The owner of a Chicago peanut stand has formally gone into bankruptcy
 The beauty of the face is an enyiable thing, but the beauty of the heart lasts longer.
 A Chinese proverb says, Great souls have strong wills; others only feeble wishes"
 Tennessee has 6,33i public and private schools, with an attendance last year O 292, ,862 pupils.
 It is a figure of speech to say that a man walks off on his ear, but h. may stand on his gums. At the present rate of increase of the Slav race. Russia will have 3OO,0o0,ooO of inhabitants in fifty years.
 Irving said of a conceited man that whenever he walked toward the west he expected the east 10 tip up.
 Many persons given to hitting the nail on the head find on investigation that the nail in question is the finger nail.
 People who cannot heartily love and hate will never command the first or know the clearing influence of the latteI A young Philadelphian says he'd ratLer walk right into the affections of a ccr- tain young girl than to wm the champion belt.
 ! Can animals learn arithmetic? asks an exchange. We believe they all multiply, and one is a good addcr.-Nc'g York C0ps- mcrcial.
 A profound writer says We are ere ated especially for one another" Then why blame the cannibals in wanting to get their share?
 Always pay as you go," said an old man to his nephew. But, uncle sup pose I haven't anything 10 pay with2" Then don't go."
 The Glasgow bank relief fund has reached SI. .75O, ,OoO, a sum unprecedented in charitable annals. Lady Burdette Coutts gave S5,0OO. An Iowa horse has a nondescript gait. He simultaneously runs with his fore legs and trots with his hind legs, in a way that astonishes the turfmcn.
 At wolf hunt in Gage county, Ne braska, recently. about 1000 persons, in cluding loo ladies. participated, and four teen wolves were taken i'll.
 In Philadelphia last year there were IS, 3l6 births t9.6i9 malcs), 6.2i7 mar riages, and I5,7l3 deaths (7,959 males). Of the deaths, 1885 were children.
 When boy walks with girl as though he were afraid some one would see him, the girls his sister. If he walks so close to her as to nearly crowd her against the fence, she Is the sister of some one else.
 Find out your child's speciality" is the urgent advice of a Phrenologist. A Boston man says: We have tried this and find it not so easy Sometimes rock candy seems to be the favorite, and then again there is marked tendency to taffy."
 Bishop Colenso has issued a form of prayer to be used during the Zulu war, in South Africa, in which occurs this passage: Watch over, we besecch Thee. all near and dear to us. and all our fellow men, whether white or black, engaged in this deadly struggle"
 The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Telegraph says that among the poorer classes of St. Petersburgh suicides. through swallowing a solution of phos- phorus, have become so numerous that it is proposed to prohibit the manufac- ture and sale of lucifer matches made to ignite by means of phosphorus.
 The pilgrims to Mecca the last season have been rather more numerous than usual, and numbered between 5000 and 90, 900. Their health was very good. and the Turkish authorities insisted on their taking unusual sanitary precautions and being subjected to sanitary inspection, theirpilgrimages being oftentimes fraught with much danger to the public health.
 As tlistle-down borne on the air,
 Or downy bit of feather, So fit along the uncertain hours
 In springtime's catching weather
 And soon the shepherd will starr out To bring his flock to feiher;
 Ger rock and fence he'll skip about,
 Employed in catching wether.