The Newtown bee., 1879-09-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
 A proved thing-A ship.
 Apopka, Fla, grows three-dnd-a-halt pound onions.
 The Rome Sentinel says q postman is a man of letters.
 A chicken hawk is the bird to raise chickens.-NetU York MdH.
 The best e-pullers-Telegraph re- pairers.-NeW Fork Empress.
 Stanley the indesatigable is again in Africa, busy in exploring schemes.
 The probate duty on the win of the late Baron Rothschild amounts Sii2, 500.
 Animated people-those who have taken an electric shock.-MOdern Aro0.
 Our grief may be guessed from the solace self-deceptiOn we resort to- Richter.
 ''I'll take the starch out of you, '' as the precipitation said to the shirt collar Messenger
 Some ofthe New Y York gambling houses have been found to be connected by telephone.
 According to m official return, seventy seven persons died of starvation in Lon don last year.
 Disraeli has written his own biogra- phy, tn which he is in the habit of add ing almost daily.
 Selling introductions to beauties is the last method of money making introduced at the English fairs.
 One Boston firm sold i6.00e panes of glass at retail the day after the great tor nado and hailstorm.
 The puzzle which careful mothers try to solve Is how to train the girls and how to restrain the boys.
 A child remarked, after gazing ear nestly at a man who was bald, but had heavy whiskers, '' His head was put on upside down. wasn't it?"
 An English paper tells of black cat which decoyed birds for its eating by eeding them on bread crumbs.
 There have been constructed in the United States since the great crash in 1873, and within a period of five years, II, ,563 miles of railroad.
 Donald Mcleod. a veteran of Waterloo, died at Cleveland, Ohio, recently, one hundred years, six months and twenty two days old.
 All should adopt this stirring motto during the heated term: Our temper: 1 it must and shall be preserved --fdgsgS City Times.
 Green apples have arTiven, And mothers will be given Enough to do; For the voungster, they will eat 'em,
 And the mothers they will beat 'em, Then won't they ruey l --neridea Recorder.
 Canada has 7,095 miles of railroad in operation and under construction. Her railways represent a nominal capital outlay of upward of S360,0 ,000.
 The New Haven Register sees one ad- vantage in warm weather At no other season of the year can you spread the butter on the children's bread so evenly and so thinly. 1 A young man has been courting one 1 girl five years, and every time he has | called during the past six months she had fed him on popcorn But he doesn't take the hint-and pop ,-NorristosCI1 | Herald.
 The Steubenville Herald is iii raptures over the discovery of Trigga, a new planet. So would we be, but one day on a skating pond we thought we'd dis covered about 1000, ,000, coo, GOO new planets--Nea0 York Express.
 John, did you take the note to Mir. Jones?" Yes; but l don't think he can read it." Why so, Johns'' Be pause he is blind, sir. While I was in the room he -axed me twice where my hat was, and it was on my head all the time.'"
 A newly-married lady was telling another how nicely her husband could write. ''Oh, you should just see some of his love-lettersl" Yes, know" was the freezing reply; I've got d bushel of them at home in my truank.:' i CTableau.1
 | Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive substantial plea sure from it. Just as long as there Is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy l it; but when they begin to look around and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead within them.
 Nothing usually creates more eonster- nation among the females of family than to have the door-bell .-g at nine in the morning while the hired girl is down at the grocery after potatoes They can't make up their minds whether to show up at the door with no crimps and no belt on their wrappers. wait on the girl, G ask Who's there?'' ! between the shutters of a second-story window. Wheeling Leader.
 When evening pale OCT dewy vale A somber shade is throwing, And twinkling eyes in azure skies - With gold are oyerfowing, When all is still, and wood and hill Proclaim the days ah1Action, Then do the sinful gnats begin To double on their suction. -Wnse HhipFlc.
 After theyrecent death of Piute chiel in Nevada. an admiring Indian concluded to kill his own squaw, so that she could accompany the chief to the happy hunt ing grounds; but the woman did noi- wish to be sacrificed, and so made her est cape The Indian then seized a baby, buried it to the neck in the ground. and stood guard over it, intending to let starve to death. After three days tho child was rescued by white men,
 There is a large family of Bonapartes | living in Rome-the grandchildren of Lucien Bonaparte-all of whom are ex- cluded from the line of succession to the French empire by the law disinheriting the children of Lucien who inclrred the severe displeasure of kis brother, the first emperor The eldest of the family is Cardinal Lucien Louis Bonaparte, who ives very quiet life in Rome and is universally respected for his piety and charity. His brother, Prince Ma poleon Charles, and his four sisters, all married to distinguish Italian noble men, belong mostly to the Catholic-C Con- servative party.