Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Hard money is that which is hard to
get.-PScGyuae.
The letter d is truly an old salt-has
been following the G for years.
James Liar and Henry Slander are
two Of the best citizens Of Dubuque,
Iowa
There are said to be only four word
| in the English language ending in c-i-o-n.
WHAT are they?
During 1878 there were 1877 miners
killed and 602 injured in the Pennsyl-
vania coal mines.
We see a great deal about spelling
reform in our exchanges. We don't
think reform is very hard to spell
Norristoa0n Herald.
There is a man in this city so averse to
being dunned for his bills that he can't
bear to see a crowd " collect in the
street.-BoSt01l Gazette.
The man who got into barber-chair,
| pinned the newspaper round his neck
and began to read the towel may justly
be called absent minded.
A housein the Avenue de Clichy, Paris,
was lately struck by lightning, which
| first followed a water-pipe to the earth,
1
Look not upon the watermelon core
when it is red, and tackle it not heartily
| lust before going to bed. A word to the
wise is s'nuff ced. ."-CedGr Rapids Re-
publican.
Kansas has now $50 churches, SO Of
which are Baptist. SO Congregationalist-
39 lutheran, % Episcopal, l25 Metho-
dist, 81 Presbyterian, and Is United
Presbyterian.
The Railroad Gazette says that John
Houghtaling, Of Rochester. i the oldest
railroad conductor in the United States
now poor and disabled.
Sh! Don't give it away. We keep q
bottle with stick in it constantly on our
! table And we find that it adds much to
! Tighten our editorial labors- 1t paste to
keep it, Y0nkers Salesman
The editor Of the Hastings (Minn.)
| NelU Era was attacked in his Office, re-
Gently, by three masked men. but he
escaped from their clutches and now
/ gives notice that he will be preparedto
receive company at all hours
A gentleman learned in the origin of
social customs was asked the meaning Oh
casting an old shoe after 4 neWly-tnar-
ried couple as they start on the trip
He said, To indicate that the chances
Of matrimony are very Slippery
The small, meek looking wife of Tom
Cottrell, a Missouri horse thief. followed
him weeping out Of a st. Joseph court
room. after his trial and conviction, In
] the corridor she flew at the sheriff like q
tigress, threw him on the floor, and thus
enabled the prisoner to mount a mule
and escape.
The weather was getting cool and the
empress told Peter that he had better
get an additional CRATE while he was
down town, but with his usual forget
f1iness he came home without it, when
his wife remarked. reproaebfully-
:" Peter, the CRATE" and the cognomen
stuck to him ever after. GTistCold.
.sThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There IS a witchery in summers Kiss,
There is spell that charms our tend'rer
moods
When day brings on the twilights bene6ee.
There is q richness in the morning chant
o. birds just wakened from nights Iepose,
There is n something in the onion plant
That's uncongenial to the average nose.
- fonkcI Gd7etfc-
The maddest newspapers of the pres
tIlL Illlle arg lliOSt WHICH, dtC pub1f1uNe1
in the Austrian lunatic asylums. Con-
tributions are received from AL the in
mates who have either hobbies or griev-
ances. Those who are afflicted with any
monomania whatever may explain their
delusions and support their convictions
by argument and example. The logic en-
ployed in an article of recent issue by
one gentleman to disprove the belief OF
/ another that his heard was of heather
and required constant watering. was 50
faultless and incisive as to have done
credit to Regius Professor Of Moral
Philosophy. Alas! he himself firmly be-
lieved that his own nose was made OF
sugar. and to prevent its getting. wet,
and consequently melting away. always
: drank through a straw.-NcaC f0rS
Tribune.