The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18
TIMELY TOPICS.

A gentleman of Flatbush, Long Island. has returned from a European tour of ninety days, and, profting from his previous experience and a knowledge of the language of the countries he visited, succeeded in limiting his hotel and travelling expenses to S375, the return steamship ticket costing S1OO included. He does not describe his manner of living, but states that he spent half his time in the British Isles, and visited Holland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and France.
 Cincinnati can boast the most enter prising constables of this country, be- yond doubt. The Enquirer tells of a certain constable who heard of the death of colored girl and went post-haste to the house, where he discovered he was the first on the scene. He hastened off at once to notify the coroner. but fearing that in his absence some other constable might come in and take the case from him, he pinned his profes- sional card to the flesh of the child s breast, and left it sticking there while he was absent.
 It appears, according to the Shipping LGst, that certain parties in New York, and also elsewhere, have taken the un- crystalizable sugar obtained from corn, commonly called grape sugar, reduced it | by pulverization to a fine white powder, and then mixed it with yellow refined sugar, returning the mixture to the original packages, and selling it as the product of the refinery branded upon the baryel It is said that large profit thus accrues to the mixer, and that already the scheme has been carried or much more extensively than would al first be imagined.
 The long pending suit brought by cit izens of Louisiana against General Nea Dow, to compel payment for propert! which he seized for the use of his troop! during the war, has been decided in tn supreme court against the plaintiffs thus reversing the decision of the cir cult court. The suit was intended to b a test case, and if it had been successful not one of the Union commanders in tn late war would have been exempt iron litigation of this character. Judge Cliff ford, of Maine, dissented from tn opinion of the court.
 The service of a citation of the pro oo,, l,a ,,,oIo Inv talaphonp | St. Louis. In a case decided last wee the sheriff testified that he read the cita tion to two of the four parties in actio through the telephone, and took fror each of them an acknowledgment of SCI vice. He did not know the parties b faith given to the responses of those wh represented themselves, in answer { his interrogatories, to be mentioned i the citation. The court deemed it req sonable to presume that if it had n notice, or if anyone else had answere the officers inquiry in their name, the would have proved the fact on the trial The return ofthe officer was accordingl taken to be literally true.
 k. B. Roosevelt Is quoted by tn Rochester Democrat as saying that :" tn man of the future has got to know tn language of beasts and birds and fishes, and Seth Green is described as adding "Wby, I tell you, know they hol their conversations just as regularly a we do. How'd these trout of mine GU there at the ponds know the differenc between a plain, long stick and regu lar fishing rod, as they do, if they didn talk it over and compare notesP Why r they'll most break their heads bumpin them together to get out of the way ( tish-pole, and you see couldn't scar , them at all with that long stick to-day They know the difference, too, betwee the man who carries a pail about dir ner time and the man who don't, ca tell you"