The Newtown bee., 1879-03-18
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A marDle naui-otcauAS o sohAtcsoucs A speech from the thrown" Blame that mule.
 There are forty-seven colored schools in Delaware.
 The body of the sensualist is the cof- 6n of dead soul.
 Adam was the only man ever married on his wedding Eve.
 Rumble Bee is the brisk name of . new postofice in Arizona
 He sued for her hand before marriage, and her hand sewed for him after.
 The Indians cultivate five times as much land as they did ten years ago.
 The man-was hard up, indeed, who tried to borrow quarter of an hour.
 A girl recently arrested in New York was charged with seventeen burglaries. The number of fires that took place in Paris during the past year was 2, "A.
 Many men whistle from want of thought, but few from thought of want.
 The Arkansas wild grapevine is gather ed and shipped to France to be used for grafting stock.
 We are funny people. We wear socks over bare feet, shoes over socks, and cloth overshoes.
 Hair cut from peoples heads by Aus tin (Texas) barbers is sold to the plant CTS at one dollar per bushel. There's one sphere that belongs to eYerybody-to women as we'll as men and that's the atmosphere.
 The monthly cost of the English ex- petition against Afghanistan is esti- mated at from 5000, ,000 to s6. GOO, 900.
 Contentment may be better ihan riches, but if any one wants to will us half a million dollars, we'll take the chances on contentment.-FresP Press. "There gre TO birds in last years nest,
 But when you find in last years vest
 dime, in what pleasant way It makes you feel all through the day.
 But for his dog, which pinned him and held him down till the neighbors could break in and bind him, farmer near Ripon, Wis.,, would have killed his wife and child while in an insane fit.
 A number of enterprising individuals have been engaged in collecting bones of horses that fell in the late battles be- tween Russia and Turkey, and have sold them to Austrian sugar refiners.
 The making of condensed milk in Switzerland is very profitable. The Anglo Swiss company last year cleared $500, 900, and after setting aside half of this as reserve fund, declared a divi- dend of eighteen per cent.
 A little girl, visiting neighbor with her mother, was gazing curiously at the hostess new bonnet, when the owner queried: "Do you like it., Lauraf' The innocent replied: "Why, mother said it was perft ct fright, but it don't scare me-" Laura's mother didn't stay long after that.
 "What's sauce for the goose" Pas senger Gin second class): ''I I think I've got into the wrong carriage" Ticket inspector (sternly): "The difference must be paidl l' Passenger (triumph- antly): Oh, just so Then I'll trouble you for three shillings; I've irst-class ticket. ."-Ptn1ch
 A gentleman recently about to pay his doctors bill said: "Well, doctor, as my little boy gave the measles to all my neighbors' children, and as they were attended by you, think you can afford. at the very least, to deduct ten per cent from the amount of my bill for the in crease of business We gave you"
 A man having some years since stolen a sheep at Michigan, in Surrey, tied its hind legs together and put them over his forehead to carry it away, but in get ting over gate the sheep, it thought, struggled, and by a sudden spring slipped it's feet down to his throat, for they were found in that posture, the sheep hanging on one side of the gate and the man dead on the other.
 One of Charles Dickens daughters-in- law, Mrs. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, has just met terrible death in Australia. where her husband has for several years been living and prospering. Mrs. Dickens was driving out with her little daughter, when the horse became frightened, and, running away, finally overturned the carriage. The child was killed, and the young wife was so dread fully injured that she died in few hours.
 When bedtime comes, and curtains fall,
 And round go the doors to lock,
 Ere lamps go out my wife doth call:
 Remember, desr. to wind the clock" When boots are on, and for the day
 All irksome cares seem put to rout,
 hear wifes voice from dreamland gay:
 Be sure and put the kitten out" When stretched between the sheets I lie,
 And heavy lids have ceased to wink, | From trundle-bed there comes a cry:
 "I want a dwink want a dwinkr' |
 Ladies TattooIng. I Frank Buckland says in Land and .I Water: The practice of tattooing is sometimes adopted by the fair sex of the present day. Ladies who are about to have the initials of their sweethearts