The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1879-12-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

No slouch-A high hat.
Germany is now overrun with beg.
gars.
\ Girls, Naomi was five hundred and
eighty years old when she was married
The cook who undertakes to pluck a
turkey must make a clean breast of It.
-Pcdystse.
"That baby. | admit, is as good as
wheat" remarked a fond parent the
other day. 'sbut like wheat it has to be
threshed. p Wheeling Leader.
| There is still outstanding $3I, 100000
| of called United States government
bonds upon which interest has ceased
since the seventeenth of July last.
Mr.. Soule of Illinois, has, it is claimed.
100000 dozen frogs of all ages on an
acre and quarter ofland, which be is
breeding for the Chicago and Cincinnati
market.
John Bright declares that if he was
teacher in school he would make IL $ a
very important part of his business''t1
impress every boy and girl with the
duty of being kind to all animals.
clasped her tiny hand in mine; /
vowed to shield her from the wind. and
from the worlds cold storms, She set
her beauteous eye on me, and with her
little lips said: An umbrella win do
as we'll
Many a handkerchief Irritation on
the street has caused q runaway, = says
an exehang &c. and the Nerristown Herald
remarks that the runaways are often
brought to q sudden stop by an alter
and bridal"
Be what nature intended you for and
you will succeed, say the wise men, but
it seems to take about twenty-five or
thirty years of the average mans life
before he finds out what it was nature
intended him for.-Des Mosases Register.
Professor Sheldon il his new work
on dairy farming. assumes that S5O, coo,
GOO gallons of milk are annually made
into cheese in England and 100000, goo
gallons to butter. The quantity of the
former product made is 1876, 900 tons and
of the latter so, ,285 tons.
The shrinking of the water in Tulare
lake. CAL, has uncovered p prehistoric
settlement, stone buildings, traces OF
canals once bordered with planted trees,
and other evidences of former occupa-
tion by an unknown race, are being
clearly defined as the water subsidies,
Z he three gfeziest nsfttrrssl wonders u
the American continent-perhaps we
may safely say the three grandest on
earth-are all comprised within the
United States. They are the Yosemite
| valley, the region about the head waters
of the Yellowstone river. and Niagara
Falls.
| Alexis st. Martin, whose stomach was
blown open by charge OF buck-shot
fifty-eight years ago, furnishing an op-
portunity for the doctors to learn all
about gastric digestion, is still hale and
hearty at the age of eighty-seyen, and
the orifce in his stomach is still open.
He lives at st. Thomas, Canada.
Scientists say that man whose speci.
! fic gravity is one hundred poundson this
globe would, If he were transported to
Jupiter, weigh twelve hundred pounds.
| Imagine the New York fat mems asso-
citation holding clam bake in Jupiter!
| They would bust the bottom out OF the
planet NorrdstoaC4s Herald
In sterile tract of country between
Dar- es -Salaam and Nyswasswa the efe-
plants attached to the Belgian elephant
expedition marched .uninterruptedly
without food for forty-two hours and
without water for thirty-five hours,
each animal carrying at the time bur
dens weighing twelve hundred weight
An Edinburg woman, whose hus
band had beaten her 800 times in four
years. had him arrested andhe was sent
| to Jail for three days. The punishment
was too light. The brute should have
been sent 20 jail for whole week. The
next thing we know he'll kill his wife.
and then he'll get locked up for month.
l-Norristos0n Herald.
The tusk that Cetywayo sent over to
England as herald of peace, is seven
| feet long and nearly three feet in circum-
ference al the big end. 1t was q very
appropriate emblem of peace. If we
| should see man coming at us with a
| tusk like that, we'd go in for peace on
any terms. ..and pay the hall rent our
selves. -Burlingto11 HaaOkeye.
LINES on A POPULAR ARTICLE.
Open and shut,
! Open and shut,
Fen from the rise to the setting Of tho sun.
Open and shut,
| Open and shut,
And never single bit OF fun.
Open and shut,
With never iond smiles OF Joy or tears.
Open and shut,
Open and shut,
Oh, this is the life OF pair OF shears.
There now live near Dahlonera,
Cherokee county, Georgia, two children
who have 10 such seemingly necessary
things as veins. They are the step
children OF George Gayle. who married
the Widow Montvale. The popularity
was inherited not from their mother,
but from their grandmother. who was
also veinless. The slightest scratch
causes copious flow of blood. There
were three of the children until few
weeks ago, when one of them bled to
death from an abrasure of the skin. The
surviving children are in perfect health.
3 This is a very tall story. but the Dahlo-