The Newtown bee., 1879-07-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

judge yesterday, pushing his little mower vigorously.
 Thomas Jefferson was only twenty three when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
 Fifteen general managers of railways in the United States have salaries of from Sl0,000 to S15,00O per year.
 The world is full of men who have sufficient talent to get married, without possessing genius enough to support a family.
 The paint mine at Reno, Nev., con- prises ledge forty-two feet wide and ot unknown depth. The material is said to mix well with oil.
 Itis said that Mr. Scott Lord, counsel for Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, the con- testant in the recent Vanderbilt will case, received a fee of S1O0.00O.
 The French government recently paid the last installment of its debt of S3OO,- O00, ,000 to the Bank of France, incurred at the time of the war with Germany.
 The most economical man is reported as living in the Second ward. He took a bunghole to the cooper to have bar rel made around it.-Ronae Sentinel.
 A young man in Nebraska sent an offea of marriage to girl in Iowa whom he fancied, and in reply received this tele- gram: Come on with your minister.
 Three hundred workmen are employed in building the Second avenue branch of the Elevated railroad in New York, and the daily payroll amounts to S4,O00
 A young lady at ball in New York recognized in her comb-ly partnersthe young man who had dressed her head for the evening. Her hair stood on end.
 A printer doesn't rush off to the doctor every time he is out of ''sorts. ."-Neoo York Net0s. No; his case doesn't re- quire medical help. It's frequently only little matter of too much pi.
 If John P. Brady gave me black walnut box of quite a size" Nothing remarkable about sit, however, except that the sentence contains all the letters of the alphabet.-N. !. Tribune.
 The boy that walks lame around the streets now and looks pale and deiected. is the same gay and blithesome cifId of joy who but yesterday got caught slip ping under the canvas at the circus.
 The greatest number of vessels of war at any time in the service of the Colo nies, during the Revolutionary war, was twenty-five. The little American navy captured over 800 vessels during 1776-'77.
 Printing is derived from two Latin words, i7, signifying upon, and prenao, to press. Hence the characters stamped upon the freshly made bricks of Egypt and Assyria are samples of the carly at tempts at printing.
 It is stated that the average of one Touring mill per day was burned in this country during the month of March. Hotels and country stores are said to have gone at the rate of two day, each, during the same period.
 MT. G. T. c. Bartley writes: ]" An ounce of bread wasted daily in each household in England and Wales is equa to 25,00e, GOO quartern loaves, the produce of 30, ,00O acres of wheat, and enough to feast annually 100, GOO people An ounce of meat wasted is equal to O,0Oo sheep."..
 BEDRIDDES.
 Formed long ago, yet made to-day,
 I'm most in use when others sleep; What few would like to give away,
 And none would ever like to keep-a bed.
 Eugene Field.
 And in the stiffness of the night
 When silence is most awful thick,
 And you have just turned down the light,
 You think you hear that same bed tick
 -Ciaude De Harea.
 This is the time at which the small boy knocks picket off a fence to utilize as a baseball bat Two hours later a goat meanders through the aperture and regales himself on tulips and mignonette and currant bushes. One hour after that Angelina goes out with watering pot The three events combined cause more domestic circus in ten minutes than can be adequately described in an hour. Uncle Sum.
 sShe's darling, she's daisy" So sang the young man in a quiet, musine sort of way, beneath his breath. He was just starting down toward her house, and his heart was oyerflowing but as he turned the corner he saw Sniythe hand her into carriage and drive of to enjoy the moonlight. A sudden hush came over his song, his heart felt as if 8 goneness had crept over it, and he rapidly walked homeward, cogitating in his mind over the dread uncertainties of life.-Neao HdUen Register.
 When the mills blew up at Minnea- polls, Minn., there was question as to whether or not the insurance companies should pay the damage. They claimed that the mills were destroyed by the ex- plosion, and as the insurance was against fire they refused to pay. The owners of the mills held that fire was the cause of l the explosion. Ex-Governor Washburn proved that fire had been seen before the explosion. The trial lasted week, but the jury only took ten minutes to bring in verdict against the companies f frxl1 h, x,fn