The Newtown bee., 1879-04-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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 A man of few words-A mute.
 Contempt of court-A breach of promise. House cleaning refrain: "Get up and dustm
 A shoemaker should follow Carlyle's ad- vice and marry by awl means.
 The snake is not much of beauty, yet he always travels on his shape.
 The cynic of the New Haven RegiSe- has a notion that the x. B.'s" at the en.r -. a lady's letter mean new bonnets-
 Prot. - (translating a clause from Plautus): What did you say, you rascal?n MT. A:-(who seems to have just aroused himselO: Did you speak to me, Professor@
 To young limbs of the law: Apples ton, Wis, has no lawyer. Hold oni Don't start till you hear the rest. This has been known for several days, and probably there are fourteen there by this time.-Pree Press.
 No furnished apartments can henceforth be had at St. Petersburg unless maps, show ing the situation of the rooms and the doors of entrance, have been previously handed to the police. This measure is intended to facilitate arrests.
 Rusty stovepipe may be made to look nearly as good as new by simply rub ping it over with bit of cloth moist ened with sweet oil. By coating the entire pipe, joints which are unlike in appearance will be made uniform and display a nice luster-
 Arizona butchers are required to keep the hide and ears of cattle killed by them twenty days for public inspection, and to keep a record of all brands and marks upon them. This law is check to the stealing of cattle, which can thus 5e traced by their owners.
 An Ohio farmer was lately annoyed by the inroads of sheep upon his grain field, and raised the height of his fence. ram was the only one of the flock that could then leap it, but he enabled his companions to do so by placing himself alongside and offering his back for them to jump on be- fore clearing it.
 "Things," quoted David, "are not what they seem.' "Of course not" commented Sadie the sewing machine seams, but everybody knows the machine isn't the shirt it seams" And then nobody said anything for long time, and David made some re- mark about people who couldn't appreciate sentiment-Bwdette.
 ,al-e nf Mr Ssafl a actor, this story is told: He objects to his dog forming new acquaintances, so he fastens two very sharp needles to the dogs nose, leaving the ends projecting about an inch. When a strange dog rushes up to shake noses with him, he gets thrust which sends him away howling."
 Down Millcreek's fair and fertile vale
 A swift canal-boat sped,
 While on the bank granger titled
 His fragrantonion bed.
 "Man ho, man hoi" the captain crIed.
 "weI, ain't hoeing," the man replied.
 Up spoke the sturdy captain then:
 Bring forth the hawser strong"
 (. It ain't no hoss, sir, but a mule,
 That pulls your boat along"
 The granger said. He was rudder green,
 You see, in the terms of the marine.
 Gin. Star.
 All know that a lump of ice in glass of water melts very slowly; but if divided into pea-sized pieces and stirred round, ii is melted with many times greater rapidity, each piece being dissolved from without nwards, and the surface exposed to the water being multifold greater. So 1t is with the food in the stomach, the juices of which develop it for the purpose cf re- ducing it to a liquid form, to prepare it for yielding its nourishment to the system; the more numerous the pieces, and the smaller, the greater will be the amount of surface exposure, and the more rapidly will it be dissolved; hence the reason for chewing the food well-Healfh and Home. HUMAN NATURE. Within dell With piercing siIriek Where cowslips dwell The maiden meek A love-lorn frog Leaped from her log Sat on log. Into the bog With signing croak His mnrd'rcr bore His love he spoke To distant shore For Polly wogg, Her lover dead A lady frog With rven head, She swore that she And skinning him, ! Would faithful be- He served each limb | And never wed All broiled on toast Aught else, she said. To hungry host And as she spoke Bat in that bog A fatal stroke Upon a log Korfiopped her frog Another frog From of his log. Loved Polly Wogg- | And such is life
 Come death, come strife, Our Polly WogE
 Loves t'other frog