The Newtown bee., 1879-07-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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A smart thing-A mustard plaster. Smoking is a bad habit. Mount Etna has given it up.
 A forty-pound meteor killed a sheen near Little Rock, Ark.
 Brass passes for gold in Africa, and, by the way, it does here, too. If there's a place for everything D where Is the place for boil?
 A bright thing of the future-The electric light.-Modern Argo.
 A striking passage - Hitting your head against low doorway.
 There are about 65,0O0 physicians and surgeons in the United States.
 A popular loan is one that fellow gets without obligation to pay back.
 The saddest words of tongue or pen 1 intend to pay; 1 can't say when.'
 Up one day and down the next-The weights of a twenty-four hour clock.
 There are 3,450 Roman Catholic bishops, priests and chaplains in Ire land.
 George Lessard, of Montreal. aged ninety-nine, recently married his fourth wife.
 It is the season for finding all the post age stamps in your pocket fused into a wad.
 | Whirled without end-The waters of Niagara into Lake Ontario.-NcD York 1 .Neaos.
 A china wedding and wedding in China are horses of quite different colors.
 The Sprunt family, after whom one of the most beautiful of roses was named, live in North Carolina
 Time makes all things right" except the disappointment a fellow feels when he is left by a train.- WheeEi1lg LeGCler- Celebrated as is England for its high l farming there are yet 30,000, 900 acres of waste or uncultivated land in thai coun- ! try.
 | Some American corsets shipped to Mexico were supposed to be saddles of a new kind, and were returned as not i giving satisfaction.
 Mechanics live in houses erected on l the top of St. Peters Church at Rome, that they may watch for any defect and attend to any leak in the roof. i It takes I62 house-fiies to weigh an 1 ounce, and yet this country spends mill i lions of dollars per year to defend itself against the poor little insect.-Free Press
 The published report of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for 1S77-'7S records 1 the phenomena of white rainbow, witnessed at Edinburgh January 10th 1 of last year.
 i. The hardest thing in the world for a i young woman to do is to look uncon- cerned the first time she comes out in q handsome engagement ring.-Seuben' riJIe Herald.
 l What is the difference between ca confined in a bag and the wind blowing | through dilapidated house? One cries l thrn11nh tho caaly and thn nther cfoiS through the crack.
 As well might the toad swell to an elephant, sheep acquire the courage of a lion, or a tiger the harmlessness of a lamb, as an insolent man to become brave, noble and dignifed.
 To dream gloriously, you must act gloriously while you are awake; and to bring angels down to converse with you in your sleep, you must labor in the cause of virtue during the day.
 The Prince of Wales has consented to .lend to the corporation of Glasgow, Scotland, his Indian presents, valued at 8, 100000. They will be exhibited gr:t- tuitously five days sn the week.
 Nothing exceeds that peaceful calm which steals over young man as he sits in the shade and watches his mother maui carpet on the clothes-line. lie pities her. but he didn't invent carpets.
 Henry Ward Beecher mentions in the Christian EISiO1g, among other su ggestions about st How to Keep We'll" one impor- tant condition not generally put down in the medical books, namely, Refuse to be unhappy"
 Do the dying suffer pain ?n is ques tion that is being considerably discussed by scientific men, We don't know about the dying, but we do know that the living suffer payin', particularly if it spayin' a subscription to q newspaper Saturday. Niglt. ~.-.- Packages warranted to contain the ? it Els of sure death for potato bugs, without poison, were sold at fair in Illinois. Each contained two blocks of wood, on one of which was written, '.Place the bug on this block and smash him with the other"
 A great many marine disasters for this year have been reported, tut of the number of (partper)ships that have been wrecked, of barks (of dogs) that have been lost, and schooners (of beer) that have gone down, no record has been kept.
 The ages of Ohio political magnates are Judge Taft, ,sixty-nine years: Senator Thurman, sixty-seyen years: Governor Bishop, sixty-seven years; Secretary Snelll'tii, uitl l-SlA ltsfisi cestiileg ,lssl- thews. fifty-five years; Mir. Forster, tifty-one years; Mir. Ewing, fifty years :; and Gen. Garfield, forty eight years
 lis now within the heavens
 Der valley still and mountain The skies are drnped in purple
 The storm king orifiammes,
 And now beside the ocean,
 The grand majestic ocean,
 The average young mans fancy
 Lightly turns to thoughts of clans.
 -.NeU Fork Star The widow Berg, of Evansville, Ind, had a suitor in the person of Matthew Schnautz, and they had made a marriage engagement Although she was only thirty -one years old, she had 8 daughter of sixteen, and when Schnautz saw the