The Newtown bee., 1879-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Tennyson loves English farm-life in its most practical way.
 That was an exciting race, when a woman's eyes ran with tears.
 Among London's 4,000, 900 or nor people there are ss, 663 paupers.
 Some men get rich and fail, some fail and get rich, but most fail to get rich.
 The man who turned down & street was the same who bent over precipice. The young lady who took gentle mans fancy has returned it with thanks. Philadelphia claims 6 population of 900, GOO on the basis of her last directory. Stockings are worn long this season. by those who cannot pay their washbills
 The man who carries his railway ticket in his hat-band makes fare dis play.
 Wear your store, rot your tore, clothes when you go to see her eyen- ings.
 Storms generally are a mystery, but you can always see the drift of a snow storm.
 An immense advantage-Keeping on top in a rough-and tumble fight with the world.
 Seventy per cent. of the deaths in New York last year occurred in the ten ement houses.
 Long Vow, an actor in the Royal Chinese theater, San Francisco, is paid at the rate of s6, TOO year.
 The man who sighed for the wings of a dove probably did not know that the legs were much better eating.
 "To get the sack" is from the French but a young man does not care where it is from so long as it is not from his girl.
 A farmer when whipping two of his unruly boys was asked what he was doing. Threshing wild oats, was his reply.
 "I say, my little son. where does the right hand road go?" Don't know, sir; 'taint been nowhere since we lived here"
 A British professor estimates that bees, to collect pound of honey from red cloyer-hesds, would have to make 2, 500, 600 visits.
 A Michigan editor advertises his paper for sale. saying that he desires to put many hundred miles more between him- self and his mother.in-iaw.
 Tine United States has IFS, 204 miles of telegraph wire, Great Britain los. 900 miles. Russia 31, 900, France 25. 900, Canada 20, 1000, and Germany 5000.
 A recent analysis of twenty-one popu- lar hair restorers" and hair dyes now in the market, showed that fifteen of them contained poisonous quantities of lead.
 The human heart is six inches in length, four inches in diameter, and beats seventy times per minute, 5OO times per hour, 100, 800 per day and 26, Sl7, 200 times per year.
 Among the names in the Philadelphia directory are Zuschmitt, Yrigoyen. Za- krzewski, Yunguichel, Schwiizgoozle. Quickendugfel, Pequignos and Oohi- schlegel.
 In Michigan, etiquette permits bride to be married "without gloves, |" which induces tho abandoned Buffalo Express to remark. Precisely the way she handles her husband"
 That was good though rather S. were pun which was made by an Edin- burgh student when he asked, "Why IS Prof. = the greatest reyivalist of the agep" and, on all "giving it up," said, Because at the end of every sermon there is great awakening" Oh, who would live forever
 In this leland land, Isa thing that we could never | Understand. The days may come and go, The north wind fiercely blow, Covering everything with snow That's quite simple. But what makes buckwheAt cake, | Cause pimple?
 Information at the department of agriculture in Washington shows that the hog cholera is both infectious and contagious, and the only way to prevent the spread of the disease is to kill the animal. It is estimated that swine of the value of s2O. O00, 900 to S30. coo. GOO perish every year.
 The Russians have made . remarkable collection of spongas from the northern parts of the Caspian sea. In shape they resemble carpets, eggs. and spheres in color they are wonderfully brilliant, ranging from pale yellow to bright red. They were found at a depth of two hum dred and fifty feet. | To sleep the sun sinks slowly in the hills,
 And all the western stony winter skies A flashing flood Of fitting color fills, Full fair enough for skies of Paradise. Like some great dome of iridesoent gems.
 Lit by thousand iurid, iickcring fires; Like nAtures lustrousest of diaders;
 Like like-Ah the poverty of language
 like say, the pictures on . circus-uagou
 -Losispille Courier Journal
 A teacher in one of the public schooll was startled the other day at the answer she got from one bright little fellow. On the blackboard was the picture of n ostrich, and the teacher described it' great strength and power of endurance. closing by saying it was the only bird upon which . man could ride- "l know another. spoke mp littlo chap. "Wen, what is it 3' A lark" Un' suspeckineIy the teacher aeked: a Hox