The Newtown bee., 1879-12-10
Job Work
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Hard waar-Tipht honts.

Hard wear-1lgnt Dooss-
France has penny saving banks for
schoolboys.
Edison claims his electric light TO be
at last completed.
A new town i'm Landerdale county.
Tenn, is named Pilljerk-
Does the maternal Goldfish call II
young with Goldfish bawl?
AFTER the canvass duck shooting
on Chesapeake bay.-Rocbester Express.
The bulk of Prussian prisoners are
employed at cigar making, because the
work takes little space and is readily
learned.
In Westphalia, apples and potatoes
are separately boiled, afterward drained
and then mashed together, with butter
and salt.
Late carriage manufacturing statistics
show that ther. is a carriage for every
thirty-eight persons in the United
States.
A butcher in York county, Pa, while
cutting rounds from slaughtered steer,
recently, found in the beef gold dollar,
dated 1852.
eff punish you" said mamma to her
little girl, you don't suppose | do SO
for my pleasure, do you?" Then whose
pleasure is it for, mammal"
A law suit in the supreme court of
Hungary has just been decided after Ill
years of trial. The lawyers fees used
up what was left to the defendant.
1t is paradoxical fact in the matri-
monial economy that when a woman
makes it hot for her husband it's scold
she gives shim.-steubenvtlLe Herald.
Mr.. Dwight Whiting. a citizen of Bos-
ton, has gone to South Africa to pur-
chase one hundred ostriches for his farm
in the San Joaquin valley in California
The St. Gothard tunnel through the
/ Alps makes steady progress, no less than
5000 workmen being engaged upon il
Nearly ten tons of dynamite are used per
month.
1t is estimated that DR.. III. j. Glenn.
of California, has this year raised $1,000
tons of grain on his rancho in Colusa
county. The crop is worth about s2.-
10000.
The latest things in Paris weddings Is
for page boys to be substituted Tor
bridesmaids. Is tbs introduction OF
pages delicate hint TO turn over new
leafP-Saturday Night.
A Lyons Qa.) lawyer, interrogatins
sharp young juroa at the district court
the other day, made the remark, IN re-
ply to something the young man had
said. that " chickens always come home
to roost." The young man retorted that
the chickens taken by the interrogation
from his fathers roost had never re-
turned.
The lords of the British admiralty
have given orders for the making of a
handsome piece of furniture from the
timbers OF the old Arctic exploring ship
Resolute for presentation to Mrs. Grin
nell. the widow of the late Henry Grin
nell. of New York, who fitted out at his
own expense two expeditions for the
search of Sir John Franklin.
a German has discovered-what won't
German discover?-tLat twenty-nine
per cent. of men and seventy-one per
cent. of women miss railroad trains
But that German should remember that
a woman's back hair always wants flX-
ing lust at the critical moment, while
the men generally have very little, ii
any, hair to trouble them.-Blltimorc
Bulletin.
One of the most remarkable instances
of human precocity is that of Mr.. Will
bur F. Story the proprietor of the
Chicago Tunes, who is said, by the
Baltin,orean. to have begun life by
selling candies" Very few infants
adopt a commercial career at the start
! but Chicago is a wonderful city
Wonsan's Words. .........
The Cunard company has CO ntracied
for a new steams hip of great size and
power. exceeded in size by the Great
} Eastern alone; 500 feet in length, SO feet
in breadth, and Al feet in depth; ii viii
be of 5.oOo tons and IL, 900 horse power
! its carving capacity win be $500 tons
of freight. l,70o tons of coal, 1000 tons
of water ballast, $50 first-class and 60C
steerage passengers, and 200 officers and
men. The material is TO be steel
A musical bed has been produced in
Germany. 1t is so constructed that by
means of concealed piece of mechanism
; the pressure of the body produces tht
softest harmony, which lasts long
enough to lull one to sleep. At the
head of the bed is dial with hand
which can be placed at whatever hour
person wishes to awake; and at tbs
time fixed the bed plays a march o
Spontini, with drums and cymbal'
loud enough to awake the sonndes
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