The Newtown bee., 1879-11-26
Job Work
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Bunions give the feet knobby appear
ance.
An orator is like an umbrella when he
spreads himself.-Rcayssne.
In Eureka, New, they steal chickens
with baited fishhooks and lines.
More than 1000 murders occurred in
Italy last year and some 10000 rob-
berries.
There are thirty-five tack machines in
the United States, twelve of them being
in Pittsburgh.
They now have an invention by which
eight different messages can be sent over
n single wire at once.
Chang She Tang, the Chinese, Consul
General in California, has just expended
50 600 on birthday party
Twenty-Five thousand live quails are
being imported from England to be set
at liberty in Pennsylvania.
There are more than two millions OF
acres of land in the United States de-
voted to the culture of the grape vine.
George Washington was quite won
derful man, but he couldn't open n PEN
knife with a short thumb-nail.-Eesr
York Star.
cit is great man who can do justice
TO his enemy" says an exchange. and il
we can get our enemy where there will
be no one to interfere, we'll prove our
claim to greatness.-BoStcn Pos.
A ton of gold makes fraction over
a half a million of dollars, and when a
man says his wife is worth her weight
in gold, and she weighs l2O pounds. she
is worth $50. .O00.-Yonkers GageHe
1t is estimated that the agricultural
products of the United States for the
past year equal in value all the gold and
silver that have been mined in the coun-
try since lS49.
The only market reports boys care
anything about is the rise and fall in
leather when the mother holds her shse
in her good right hand Cincinnati
Commercial.
Briquettes, or compressed fuel ofsmail
or waste coal, are now manufactured
near one of the English mines. at cost
of a shilling ton. They are an excel
lent fuel. and have long been used in
France.
A Warsaw man invented a combined
hammer and can-opener. Unfortunately
for domestic science, the first can he
opened with it was a can of nitro
glycerine. He got it open, though
Ha,Ckeye.
Nearly all the cane mills and evap-
orators now used by sugar makers in
the West Indies, South and Central
America, Sandwich Islands and Aus
tralia are furnished by American manu-
facturers.
John Dunn, the Irish secretary of
state for the kingdom of Zulu, taught
Cetywayo to play on the flute. until
that august party could play three or
four simple airs and soothed his savage
breast with it.
Enough cloth is made every year from
old rags, with a proper admixture of
wool. TO supply all the adult population
of Great Britain with n new suit, all the
children with a..dress, and allsthe women
with a jacket
Fullness under the eye denotes ian-
guage," we are told. So it does, and
we fear bad language, too, at times. In
recent instance fuilness under the
eye denoted that the possessor had called
a man liar.-Saniford AdUooats-
Satin is said to owe its origin TO Oc-
tavo Mai. WHO, having listlessly chewed
scraps OF silk, was struck with their
glistening appearance when he elected
them from his mouth. By applying heat
and certain mucilaginous matter TO the
silk he arrived at satin.
Mr.. NJ. V. Davis, co;ner of the New
Orleans mint, states an interesting fact
n come ction with the loss of weight of
silver coins by abrasion in the course of
circulation This loss is about one per
cent in twelve years. Half dollars and
dollars suffer less loss than the other
denominations.
The inherent laziness of human nature
often tends to encourage inventive
genius. 4 peanut vender of New York
has an ingenious continuance by which
the escaping steam from n smah boiler
is made TO turn the roaster. while the
lord of the peanut stand has only to sur
vey The scene and receive the pennies
with quiet dignity.
A philanthropic physician who has
interested himself n the subject of en-
oloyment for women. wriurs-- All
women who have opesed their hearts TO
me agree in affirming that they would,
by preference, serve the male sex, mas
much rs women are, they assert, usually
hard and unsympathetic in their rela-
tions with members OF their own sister
hood"
10, the poor Indian, whose untuiored mind
Canno; stand the racket Of the. white mans
wiles.
Who cannot cheer when ponies are run Of.
Nor view the loss OF grazing iands with
smiles,
Who, when he's nos allowed in peace 20 raise
his sheep
Throws up his lease and seeks farm else
where;
And when he sees fbss raising uoesdon pay
Just makes a change and goes 10 rs's'ns
hair. -Snitm S"H''"
Words or wisdom.
Common sense makesno parade
Selfreliance is quite distinct from self
assertion
Casual thoughts are sometimes Of
great value