The Newtown bee., 1879-07-09
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A column article-A monument.
 Playing with dice is shaky business. The knobbiest part of a house is the door.
 London has eighteen daily news. papers.
 A mad dog is pronounced instance of outrage.
 The fattest dog has the most win- ming weigh.
 Venezuela produces s5,ooO pounds of coffee annually.
 A bycyclist in England re ently fell dead while riding. -. ...- A doubtful ompliment-TeIling clown that he's no fool. Admission to the degree of barrister is subject to tax of S250 in England.
 The spur of the moment may have something to do with the flight of time. A Kentucky farmer found six of his cattle dead in heap, killed by light ning. - - . 900 negroes have joined the Methodist church.
 An Englishman has taken out a patent for purifying smoke so it will not soil buildings or clothing. @ Some of the towns and villages of Cashmere, India. have become depopu- | lated by the famine which prevails there-
 Jacksonville, Fla, israpidly growing. In 1877 it was said to have l,7OO inhab- itants. It now has If ,oo0, and more to | follow.
 A teaspoonful of coal oil to gallon of water will exterminate all the insects that infest beautiful and delicate plants and flowers.
 The total population of Portugal, ac- cording to the last census, taken in 1877, is 4,745. l24, as compared with 4,343, ,935 in 1863. 'a11 HFE
 Massachusetts has 5,730 schools, with | 3I0,000 pupils and $500 teachers; on these schools she spends every year S5,000,00
 The Baron Bigi, who just died in | Italy, was so inveterate gambler that from 1880 to 1870 he never missed a night at cards. .a 1 It is a sad fact that the elk and ante | lope, the noblest game of all, and Col orado's attraction and pride, are beingu rapidly exterminated- l-ae There are two things in this sad world 1 the latter ends of which should be avoided-the street-sprinkler and the hornet.-SyydczSe Times. .5Eaess-F- The Sanitary Record says that diseases of the eye are often distinctly traceable to arsenical poisoning in wall paper, and that people must not Imagine that l injury from this source is by any means rare. 12-i-H ca zEE-s -El.-T .1z.-r-H -zr -e At the national convention of brew CTS, in St. Louis, a resolution was passed to establish a .' Brewers Academy" for the purpose of '.educating brewers sons and others in the .. science of beer brewing. ls --F
 Some gossipy .women's mouths, like drug stores, are open at all hours, and | contain more poison and venom than all | the asps which bask in the sunshine on the shores of the Nile. ~yg.g- t0GWh hat is more deserving of our sym l pathy than a young man with fifteen cents in his pocket, girl on each | arm, and seven ice-cream signs insight? I 1-Mtdtteto,ofs Ird'ascript- A man may be the representative of all that is good and upright, but even coldly critical world will forgive him discovers the hired girl engaged in whiting shavings with his favorite razor.-Rockland Courier. TICEfF E
 At the darkest hour of the night one of the policemen of Moscow, named | Yarighin, saw and seized young lady in the very act of posting Nihilist pro clamations. Yarighin has been rewarded by the Governor General of Moscow l with 100 rubles, and the young lady has been sentto Siberia.
 Such is the formidable antagonism of the sexes that chance to give a Roland for an Oliver is never lost. Dontyou think that a good likeness of me?n said a pretty wife to a small fraction of her I self called her husband. :. Very good" was the reply, except that thereEis little too much repose about the mouth.' | EFooLS-n g ff-mw | Oh. why should the spirits