The Newtown bee., 1879-07-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

about S45, 100000.
 It is expected that the Zulu war wis cost England siOo,OG0.OO0. .
 Round waists and wide belts are ex- tremely becoming to tall, slender figures.
 De Lesseps says ground will be broken for the Darien canal next New Years day.
 The 13, 790 miles of French railroad brought in last year revenue of $751; IF, 7,O43.
 The height of kindness is to cut of your horses tail to prevent him from disturbing the flies.
 Wisconsin pays seven times as much money annually for liquors as for the support of public schools.
 A Louisville woman was arrested --for hanging her heir. She whipped her boy beyond the limits of the law.
 He sang " Meet me, dear, at the gate" but she insisted that she would rather meet him in an ice, cream parlor. To encourage the mining of lead an Austrian emperor decreed that all coffins should be made of that metal.
 Why is a newspaper like tooth brush? Because every one should have one of his own and not be borrowing his neighbours. A mob tied man to q post al Solon, | O., and used him as q target to throw eggs at. Each hit was rewarded with a drink of whisky.
 ! Messrs. Matthew and Guy Vassar, of Pouglfkeepsie. \. Y, intend to erect in that city a structure to be used as a home for poor old men.
 A cypress saw-log recently passed down the Sabine, in Texas, sixty feet long and seven feet in diameter, capable of making 5O,0Oo shingles.
 The Czarowitz, the heir to the Russian crown, mixes freely with the people. He is not afraid of the Nihilists and is said to be in no danger from them.
 The man who won't take a paper be- cause he can borrow one has invented q machine with which he can cook his dinner by the smoke of his neighber's chimney.
 Ut is an excellent thing, pathetically remarks an exchange, to suspect that the person you call on may have some thing to do, notwithstanding you have nothing"
 James Larrabee, of Stark. N. H., a veteran woodsman of eighty-e:ght years, has furnished spars and masts for 50 vessels; he has not been i'll for fifty years, and can still remain up day and night for two days at a time while en- gagged in his work in the forest.
 Some fellows may follow the tickle goddess of fortune for a whole lifetime and never get near enough to kiss the hem of her garment, while fat-footed luck pursues others with club and knocks the gilded balls of wealth straight into their hands at every clip Rome Sentinel.
 In England neither Indian corn, pota- toes, squashes, carrots, cabbages nor tur- nips were known until after the begin ming of the sixteenth century, and Queen Catharine was obliged to send to Hol- land for saladto supply her table. The
  made of barely ground in the hand mill.
 The Department of Agriculture at Washington reports that the direct loss to sheep owners by the ravages of dogs reach S1,OOO,n ,nO0 annually in wool and mutton. The indirect loss in preventing sheep husbandry in many distrlcts, es- pecially the South, and the consequent xxf. af..rr ,f fha crop, may be probably placed at double this sum annually.
 People talk very lightly of $ supplying an army" says the London Spectator, as if it were an easy thing; but just let them try to take five wagons across a thousand acres of plowed field. In h. dia the camels, ii over-urged, have a trick of Splitting up''-that is, dislocat- ing or slipping their thigh bones out of the socket in way that no veterinary skill is able to repair; and even in Zulu land, and with oxen, the beasts die of heart-break as much as anything.
 There is lots of fun to be had at little a stream in large boat to pleasant woodland. All you have to do is to lug three baskets of provisions and a box of croquet to the boat, and then help row it and get four blisters on each hand, and then climb tree covered with briars to adjust a swing, and work your self almost to death swinging the girl who never seems to get enough of it, and then reverse the. order of things until you get home. There is lots of fun in it. Fun? Why, it is just reeking with it. New Fork &dr.