The Newtown bee., 1879-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST


 Missouri has 200 convicts in her State penitentiary.
 The ocean has a wave doing things peculiar to itself.
 Delaware. Virginia, Nevada and Cali fornia use the whipping-post.
 The deepest mine in America is at present staying in California. It makes hole {, $40 feet deep.
 The Princess Louise, following her mothers example. pays bounty of five dollars apiece for triplets born in the Dominion.
 An exchange mentions a horse that eats meat. Well, we think it about time they have been running for stakes long enough.
 Careful housewife Qifting shoe from the soup -tureen)- Lai who'd a thought baby's shoe would turn up in the soup9 But knew it wasn't lost. I never lose anythingP'
 Mrs. Alice Swift, wife of the proprie- tor of small grocery store in New York, has fallen heiress to an estate in England valued at s2, GOO, ,00), left to her by a maiden niece who lived with her.
 He that pursues honor, or applause worldly reputation, is like the foolish schoolboy running after the butterfly and neglecting his book; both mee with disappointment, dissatisfaction and reproof. A celebrated lady once said of cen serious neighbor: "His mouth costs him nothing, for he always opens it at the expense of others. Iwish that some day he should bite his tongue. for then he would poison himself" An advertiser in the Chicago papers says: "Never go where you are not wantedi If man wants you to come to his place of business he will invite you through an advertisement. It is wrong to intrude on privacy" A Chinaman connected with the em- bsssy in Paris has passed his examina- ton for the degree of Bachelor of Letters, though he has been there but | OuG yCdIs duo hnCM AOk a NOA0 0A kk4b language when he came there. The Boston Transcript says Strange there are men occupying high positions in business and society in this city, not knowing how to read. This remark is suggested by seeing the number of in telligent-loo men utterly unable to decipher the mystic legend, ss PLsass shut the door," | Amelia waved her fan with siec, | And. being in playful mood, She gave the airy toy to me. | And tsde me fiirt it if could.
 The pleasing toil quick began, But jealous bangs my bosom hurt; | "Madam, cannot iirt fan, | But with your leave I'll fan fiirt."
 "I tell you what, sir, there's luck in odd numbers" he said. "Why, there was old Jeremy Puckett lived to be ninety-nine, and Miry Arnold died st a hundred and five, and Squire Billy Mo- Crackersly departed this life aged one hundred and 'leven. Suppose, now, that he'd a-died when he was just even a-hundred and ten why, sir, I'll bet to gracious he wouldn't have lived more'n fifty or sixty years"
 A Milwaukee newspaper published story about a dark-haired girl and light-haired girl, room mates in board- ing school, who dressed one morning in the dark and each braided the others switch in with her own hair, so that their heads at the breakfast table looked like confused checker boards. The im- probability of the narrative has been noted by several journals, one of which thus expresses its incredulity ] This is the very first time that any mere newspaper writer has dared to suggest that a couple of young women ever dressed themselves in the dark and without the services of the mirror, and it is to be fhoped this ridiculous kind of literature will be discountenanced at the outset" THE WINE GLASS, 1 Who hath woe2 Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentious Nhr | hath wounds without cause | Who hath redness of eyes They that tarry long at the | wine They that go to | seek mixed wine Look | not thou upon the wine 1 WHEN IT IS RED,
 when it eiveth it's color in the
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 it biteth like l serpenf and afinpeth like an adoer