Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The first moving machine was pat
ented February, 1922.
The total number of cotton spindles
in the Southern States is 687, 200.
No matter how large gas bills are.
they may be said to be light charges =
Rome Sentinel.
What is needed in the way Of inven-
tion is some kind of alarm to be at
tached on ones umbrella DG'sitE
-ctlIe Sentinel
A two-headed " gopher snake is on
exhibition in the museum of the Wood
gardens, San Francisco. 1t takes food
indifferently through either mouth.
The coal beds of the Union Pacific
railroad are worth having. The COM
pany mined $40, l52 tons at total cost of
$685., $50 and sold I25, ,669 tons of this for
S7OO,O13.
Manufacturing clothing IN Chicago
gives employment to 80, 900 people. and
the value of the goods made is Sl5s-
600, 900. The industry has doubled in
four years.
United States Senator Logan's speech
on the Fitz John Porter filled forty
eight pages of the Congressional Record,
and is said to be by far the longest
speech ever printed in it.
Elderly gentlema to freshman on
the train: =" You don't have any ticketpn
mo, l travel on my good looks
''Then," after looking him over, prob
ably you amt goin' very far
Dynamite has been tried at Monte
Catillo, near Tivoi, for pulverizing
rock adapted to the cultivation of the
olive, and the experiment is described
as indicating satisfactory result
4 Minnesota man is pursuing a party
Of gypsies. who break camp whenever
he gels near them. He thinks they
| have stolen his little girl, three years
old, who disappeared few months ago.
1t is not always the handsome single
gentleman that manipulates large
sized cane gracefully, who as married
man is as handy with garden rake or
broom stick on the back pavement
when the hired girl is off on vacation.
-&eu6enUilLe Herald.
DIR. O'Leary, of the house Of COM
mons, is but four feet tall and finely
formed Addressing the speaker short
time since, he being new member, the
house, after looking vainly around for
some time to find where the voice came
| IL,
upon ascertaining that such stem
torian voice came from such little
man, who himself was unable to refrain
from laughing at the awkwardness OF
the situation.
An exquisite decoction this,
Worthy OF loves most honeyd kiss,
The juice OF the Celestial plant,
Brought from Asia 5 fiowery land.
Its fragrance is JOY,
Its taste will not cloy;
It is balm Tor the sick
And nectar for tie quick.
The Mongolian's pride,
The Cauca asian's delight;
What would the world be
Without its amber tea?
-.Netc York Graphic.
Burdette. the Burlington Hawkcye hu-
morist, said he had lived for years
within hearing distance of barrel fac
i tories in Peoria, and yet never saw q
| barrel made until one day he happened
| TO be I'D in Wisconsin. He was having
Il vacation there, and4with some friends
visited little cooper shop where sins
| gle cooper worked. He found the opera
lion of setting up barrels very interest
| ing and watched the cooper as he placed
| the slaves around. That doesn't LOOK
very strong said Burdette, as the slaves
were placed around I'll bet you
dollar you can't kick II down In three
kicks, said the cooper. " wasn't TO be
blufed, said Burdette, :. and took 1t:
Then kicked. Gracious, that barrel
flew all over the farm and part Of 1t Out
into Lake Menitowoc, and don't know
but some of it went out of the State into
Minnesota. There said !, did it, "
~ said in three kicks replied. the
cooper, and Burdette gracefully admitted
the "catch."