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The life Of the gambler is all play.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
Sarcastic,

Two New Haven men bicyeled their way from that city to Bridgeport re- gently, finding the road sandy between New Haven and Milford, but in excellent condition between Milford and this city. We wish to make an explanation for Milford. If the bicyclers found the road sandy it was their own fault. as nobody knew they were coming in time to build better road. A postal card would have done the business, but not even a postal card was sent ahead Warned by this dreadful failure, the Milford authorities are going right to work to put up road between there and New Haven that no bicyclist can object to. It will be made of brown stone, neatly waxed and shad- ed the whole length to protect the com plexions of the adventurous bicycle trundlers, and iced lemonade tanks and ice cream cigarette booths will be set down every 30 feet. Brass bands will be carelessly strewn the entire length, and good-looking young ladies will sit on convenient fences and see the long legs and whiskers go by. If the bicyelers think of anything else they want they have only to speak and Milford will sit up nights to accommodate them Bridgeport Standard.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
A Caution to Young Men.

A young medical student from Michi- gan, who had been attending lectures in New York for some time, and considered himself very good looking and fascinat- ing, made deadly onset on the heart and fortune of a blooming young lady who was boarding in the same house with him. After prolonged siege the lady surrendered. The same afternoon the young wife sent for and exhibited to the astonished student beautiful little daughter" three and half years of age.
 Good heavens! then you are vii dow,n exclaimed the astonished student.
 " es. my dear; and this is Amelia, my youngest: tomorrow, Augustus, James and Reuben will arrive from the country and then shall have all my children to- gether once more."
 The unhappy student replied not a word; his feelings were too much for ut terance. The next day the ''darlings" arrived. Reuben was six years old, James nine, and Augustus saucy boy of twelve. They were delighted to hear they had ''new papa" because they could now live at home and have all the playthings they wanted. The ''new pa pa" as soon as he could speak, remarked that Augustus and James did not much resemble Reuben and Amelia.
 Well, mo-" said the happy mother. my first husband was quite different style ot man from my second-complex- ion, temperament, color of hair and eyes all different"
 This was too much. He had not only married a widow, but was her third hus- band, ana the astounded step-father of four children.
 The conceit was now quite taken out of the Michigander, who, finding that he had made a complete goose of himself, at once retired to farm in his native state, where he could have chance to render his ''boys" useful, and make them sweat for the deceit practiced upon him by their mother.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
Substitute for Gold.

One of the recently introduced substi- tutes for gold, which has become very popular in some of the jewelry and other manwfactories of fine wares in France, is composed as follows: One hundred parts. by weight, of copper of the purest quail ty, fourteen of zinc or tin, six of mag nesia, three and six-tenths of sal amoni- ac, one and eight-tenths of burnt lime stone, and nine of cream of tartar. The copper is first melted, then the magnesia, sal ammoniac, limestone and cream of tartar in powder are added separately and gradually The whole mass is kept stirred for half an hour; the zinc or tin being dropped in piece by piece. the stir ring being kept up till they melt. Fi- nally, the crucible is covered and the mass is kept in fusion for thirty-five minutes and. the scum being rsamoved' the metal Is poured into mou ds and is ! soon read, for pse. The alloy thus made 1 is represented es being iins-grained. mAl-
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The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
When to Trim Trees.

It is my belief that all free sap-fowing trees, fruit trees and grape-yines should not be trimmed in the spring, while the sap is passing freely from the roots to the branches. as all wounds made at that time will bleed, and that profusely. if the tree is trimmed to any extent. The health and vigor of the tree will suffer in proportion to the quantity of sap wasted. The bark around and below the cut will become black and discolored. and decay will begin in the stock before the wound heals over. I believe the proper time to trim trees is in June, aft- CT the spring flow of sap has ceased and is being converted into wood. Then the wounds will not bleed, and the healing- over process commences immediately. The latter process will be facilitated by pairing the cut smooth, and applying a thin layer of grating wax, to exclude the air and rain. When branches to be re- moved are not over an inch and a half in diameter, the use of orchard shears is preferable to the hand saw, as they leave a smooth, clean cut, and cutting from the lower side of the limb, the stock is not in danger of being splintered by the limb falling. In trimming, the preser- vation of the vigor and healthfulness of the tree should be kept in view, as well as its symmetry, and trimming should be done at a season when these will be least impaired. My experience proves that time to be in June. = Correspondence of Country Gentleman.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
The Grape.Yine

luxuriates in loose, warm soil, natu- rally or artificially well drained. Lime stone, sand, clay and iron are desirable elements. The production of grapes for tue table and for wine are separate and distinct objects, requiring different kinds of soils. Rich, fat lands give a generous growth of wood and good-sized punches of large, watery fruit, while thin, gray ely or rocky soils yield light crops of rich, highly favored grapes. Before planting vineyard, the wine-grower should make up his mind as to the kind and quality of wine he desires to make, and then select his site and choose his vines accordingly. He can produce eith- CT large quantities of medium wines, or small quantities of choice wines, but large yields and fine qualities do not go together, and are essentially incompati- ble. "Poor soil, rich product, great wine in little quantity" is the rule all over Europe. Wines of the best char acter are made from vines that flourish among stones and rocks. Hermitage, for example, was first grown among granite rocks, broken smaller by art, with little or no dressing of earth; and flint stones are sometimes carted into vineyards in the Medoc district, although nature has provided them with a very liberal sup
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
The Palliative Judge.

A long-winded lawyer lately defended a criminal unsuccessfully, and during the trial the judge received the following note:
 "The prisoner humbly prays that the time occupied by the plea of the counsel for the defence be counted in his sen- tence." This recalls an incident in a State Supreme Court. The late Mitchell Sanford was arguing case and the late Judge Gould was presiding. The Judge had interrupted the counsel considerably. and when he reminded the counsel that his "hour was up,o the latter said :: Well, Your Honor ought to give me half an hour more, for you have talked half the time since I have been on my feet" The same judge once fell into a ferry-way, and, unable to swim, he had the presence of mind to turn on his back and float until he was rescued. In nar- rating the circumstance to lawyer, he said: All had to do was to keep on my back, with my mouth shut, for three minutes" The lawyer exclaimed ]: Judge, how did you manage to keep your mouth shut so longp"
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
A New Discovery.

A discovery in chemistry has just been published which bids fair to influence agriculture in a manner that may well be described as revolutionary. It must soon compel the attention of farmers and manufacturers of artificial manures all over the world. The essential part which ammonia plays in vegetation need not be dwelt upon, and no one will question the desirability of securing it cheaply and in quantity. The importance of the recent feat of Messrs. Hickman and Thompson of England, disclosing plan by which ammonium sulphate can be made and sold with profit at two cents pound, will not, therefore. be liable to be under estimated. The following ac- count of the process is taken from the Chemical Netcs: within the last twen- ty years the manufacture of ammonia alphabetically has been several times attempted, and though in every attempt it is probable that ammonia has been made, it has never been paoduced on a commercial scale. In all these attempts the process has been to combine the nitro gen and hydrogen directly at a low tenn perature, and receive the ammonia in solution in water, or by substitution, first forming cyanide at a higher heat, and then indirectly producing ammonia by the decomposition of the cyanide, the result in both cases being ammonia in solution with water. Hickman and Thompson's procedure is altogether different; they produce ammonium chlo- ride direct, either in dry powder or in solution, and this by the simplest and most inexpensive means. Instead of employing retorts, as in all other cases, they merely use closed brick furnace, the ash-pan of which regulates the SUD- ply of air, and they cause the vapor of water to be produced by the waste heat of the furnace itself. With the excep- ton of about bushel of coke for starting the furnace, the deodorizing material and only fuel used is coal-dust. The great difficulty in making ammonia from the nascent hydrogen of water and the nitro gen of the air is the restricted limits oi temperature between generation and de composition, 1t being necessary that carbon, however used, should be at Q full red heat to decompose the vapor of water, and at bright red heat to decompose ammonia Now, ammonium chloride under the same conditions is simply volatilized and not decomposed. As chloride of sodium or of calcium is de composed at full red heat in presence of nascent ammonia, therefore one ol these chlorides is mixed with the coal that ammonium chloride may be formed
 so that if by chance the heat should bs raised to bright red. no loss will be sus' tained-the ammonium chloride is simply volatilized. By these means greater range of working temperature is obtained At the present time, with the consump- tion of from twenty to twenty-eigh' pounds of coal-dust and salt mixed from two to three pounds of ammonium chloride is formed"
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
The Young Man who Went West.

l was falling into doze, when plain. farmer looking man across the aisle poked me with his cane and said: Been up in the West?" I told him that I had, al- most to the land of Nod. But that didn't make any Mods to him, for he continued: Great country, that West of ours. 'Taint half appreciated yet. Greeley understood it, though. He knew what it could do for young man. Now, we had young fellow up where belong Huron County, smarter'n a whip. Could do anything. But, bless ye, he hadn'tno chance round there. Everything occu- pied except himself. Every place full. Folks said if he would only go West with all his talent, he would seon be big man.. He wouldn't listen to it for long time-kept struggling on, but finally he went. This was two years ago. And now, sir (rising up in his seat with eag- erness and animation, while I, catching something of his enthusiasm, half rose myself), and now this young man, who had no chance in the world in Ohio, where do you supposee he is?" l said l didn't know. (Resuming his seat)- ssDarn'd if I do either. We haven't heard word from him since he left"
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
How He Caught Him.

Dana Krum, one of the conductors on the Erie Railroad, was approached before train time by an unknown man, who spoke to him as if he had known him for years. Il say, Dana" said he, Il have forgotten my pass, and want to go to Susquehanna; I am fireman on the road, you know!" But the conductor told him he ought to have pass with him. It was the safest way. Pretty soon Dana came along to collect the tickets. Seeing his man, he spoke when he reached him: Say, my friend, have you the time with youp'
 s.Yes," said he, as he pulled out . watch, ''it is twenty minutes past nine. '
 .'Oh, it is, is it?" Now, if you don't show me your pass or fare. 1 will stop the train. There is no railroad man Chat that ever saw who would say twenty minutes past nine.' He would say, 'nin' twenty.s T
 He settled
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
The Migration of Weeds.

Prof. Claypole of Montreal gives long list of weeds which have migrated from Europe to America, and become so thor oughly naturalized as to prevail over some of the plants native to the soil while only three or four American weeds have crossed the Atlantic and become natrualized in Euaepe. This marked difference in the migrative power of the two horas, as he showed, could not be considered as fully accounted for by any difference in climate between the two continents, or by the conditions of their mutual commerce. But he suggests that that the American plants had not chang cd much from the type existing in the western hemisphere during the miocene period, while those of Europe have been vastly altered; the long persistence ol type of the American plants might Lave induced rigidity or indisposition tc change, as the elasticity thus shown to Dc Characteristic of those of Europe might make them better able than others to adapt themselves to strange climate and conditions.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
NO. 52.
Soil Stimulation.

In an apparent effect of some kinds of fertilizers, as salt and gypsum, on certain soils, there seems to be something like stimulation, but the effect is on. the soil rather than on the plant. Salt is pow erful solvent, and its beneficial effect is often due, and perhaps always. to its ability to make available the latent min eral fertility of the soil. By the use of salt, the insoluble compounds of potash and phosphate may be released and put in shape for the roots of plants to take them up. Or it may be that salt decom- poses vegetable matter and releases am monia in some form available for plant food. The crop may be immensely ben efited by dressing of salt, and yet scarcely anything in the salt itself may be found by analysis of straw and grain- This, however, cannot be called stimula- ting the crop, for the plants grew as they were fed as truly as if the feeding had of something to develop the latent fer Utility of the soil. It might indeed be said that the soil was stimulated to pro- duce more than it naturally would, and that in time unless real manures were added, these stimulating fertilizers would cease to produce any effect. But when we look at the suject in this light. we shall find that all manures act as soil stimulants, that is, they help decompose and make available the plant food already in the soil. When stable manure decom- poses, its carbonic acid gas helps to de- compose the particles of soil with which it comes in contact. So, too, in still greater degree, with the clover or grain herbage plowed under in June. The ad- vantage of a well-worked summer fal- low is in exposing as much soil as possi- ble to the influences of nature to make it's fertility more available. Yet there are many farmers who scout the idea of using concentrated manures, because they help to exhaust the soil, but who think everything of the naked fallow whose effect is even worse, for the con centrated manure really adds some fer tility, while all that the crop takes from the naked fallow has been got by coax ing the soil to part with more of its strength than it naturally would.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
Another Electric Lamn.

A lamp has been devised by c. Stew art. It consists of number of square carbon rods placed radially upon a disk of wood or metal, so that the inner ends of the carbon rods form complete cir cle. There is circular opening in the wooden disk, through which the light is seen from beneath. The cartoons are forced toward the centre by uniform pressure as they are consumed, and to- gether they form the positive electrode of the lamp. The negative electrode is a hemispherical cup of copper. which, be- fore the current is transmitted, is in con- tact wit the cartoons, but when the cur rent is sent into the lamp, an electro magnet raises the cup, and the electric arc is formed between it and the carhons. Such is the essential part of the specii- cation. It appears that this lamp has been tried, and that it has operated satis- factorily.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
A DISASTER RECALLED.

The recent terrible collision on Long Island Sound brings to mind the burning of the steamer Lexington, on her trip from New York to Stonington, Monday night, Jan. I3, I84O She was burned off Huntington, l.. l., and everybody in the steamer, excepting four persons, were lost. She had lO5 on board, and the agony of the night. after the freight of cotton took fire, baffles all description.
 The second mate of the Lexington was among the saved. He took refuge on a cotton bale, drifting away from the steamer, and stuffed his clothing full of cotton to prevent freezing. He stayed on the bale of cotton another day, and the bale drifting against the ice on Long Island he crawled ashore, and was saved. The owner of the cotton gave him the the cotton. which he brought to Provi- dence, and kept until the war broke out. This bale was sold when the staple was at the highest point during tbe rebellion, and from it sprang the Lexington brand of Cloth.
 The coroner's inquest on this terrible occurrence brought out the fact that dur ing the burning of the Lexington sloop was within five miles, and refrained from going to the assistance of the steam CT on the miserable plea that the captain of the sloop thought the steamer had her boats, and if he went to her rescue, he would lose tide over the bar. It was believed that the sloop might have saved half of those who were either frozen to death, burned or drowned
 The account from which we condense the above says that the fire on board the Lexington was first seen in the casing around the smoke stack. It made swift headway over the boat, while death waited in the icy water. In the panic, the passengers appeared bent on destroy ing themselves. The boats were lowered so that the wheels of the steamer swamped them in moment. The life boat drifted away without being of the slightest service. Not one of the four persons saved derived any benifir from the boats.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
Tho Earth,s Day Increasing.

In recent lecture on Eclipse Prob lems," Prof. Chas. A. Young, of Prince ton, said, with reference to the observed increase in the rapidity of the moons motion, that the discovery led at first to the opinion that the moons orbit was growing shorter, and that ultimately the moon would come down upon us. More accurate calculation, however, shows that there is no danger of so disastrous q result. The moon is not coming nearer, but our day is growing longer, owing tQ tho friction of the tides upon the earth's surface. The tides net like break, and slowly diminish the speed of the ear 'h's rotation.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
June.

The fondest guest of all the varied year Comes in her roseate charms from nuptials
 rare;
 A child of light, whose sweet, lnelodioas cheer Fills with glowing pulse earth, sea atsd air Soft and yoluptuous, but==4ss heaven is-pure; Her rich arotnas tnusing in the shade, Luxuriant, fair, with holy purpose sure, Though dull narcotics sleep with blisses laid Close are the ties that never yield to Death, This unseen spirit present in the whole; We longing wish the full inspiring breath That Nature draws through her Almighty
 soul! Deep, broad and high, but duteous to fulfill, See life renewed in all it's marvels still!
 -C. c. MERRITT.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16

Two Chinamen, probably too ignorant of the English language to know .wheth- CT or not there was an in June, sat down in Boston oyster saloon recently, and called for 'sstews." The by-standers, who rather expected to see them draw chopsticks from their pockets and fall to in oriental style, were disappointed, for the Chinamen used the ordinary appli- ances, though awkwardly. But their notions about the way in which oysters should be eaten were rather peculiar. Ignoring the pepper and salt, they took the little dishes of green pickles and up- set them into the stews. Then with a fork they harpooned alternately an oyster and a piece of pickle until there was nothing but liquid left. At this point a halt was called, and the Celestials debat- ed mentally moment. Then the more venturesome seized his dish with both hands, raised it to his lips, and brought it down empty. His example was fol- lowed by the other, and then, after each had emptied his plate of crackers into his pocket, they were ready to settle.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16

A Georgia paper gives this description of humming- birds nest recently brought to it's office < T N was set upon a limb of tree the size of mans thumb, and coated outside with the moss of an oak, so as perfectly to represent knot. It was about the size oFa large hickory nut, an inch high, and constructed of cotton and hair. It contained two little white eggs about the size of common snap bean.'
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16

When the publishers dress their beauti- full new books in blue and gold they cannot expect them to be red.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
c. JON AS, Merch ant aiIOr,
MAIN ST. VIEWPOINT,

MAIN ST, NEWToWN, Calls the attention of theScitizens of this town and vicinity to his New Stock of Goods which he has on hand at his Store in Glovers Build ing.
 He will make All-Wool Pants to order for s3.75, and whole Suits for $l4, Give him a call and see for yourselves.
 Ef-Cutting done at the shortest notice.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16

A new opera, Sardanapalo, was given on the evening of April 30 at the Teatro Apollo in Rome. While the house rang with plaudits and cries for the author, the author was obliged to announce that, succumbing to nervous fever, the result of overwork and anxiety, Signor Libani, the author, had died an hour before.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16

and sells the cattle to another speculator in Chicago, who again sells them to some Eastern market, whence they go to the wholesale dealer, and from him to the retail dealer; and the one who wants to eat the beet pays each his profit.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16
SOMETHING FOR ALL.

Mr. James Booth, who died last 1iionth in London, was for good portion of his life, counsel to the speaker of the House of Commons, and his hand may be trac- ed in the wording of all the most impor- tant bills discussed by the House of Com mons for a full generation.
The Newtown bee., 1880-06-16

M. Fautrat has been convinced, by his the moist currents that pass over them, that pines and other needle-leaved trees have strong attraction for the vapor of water. He believes that the resinous trees transpire twice as much as other trees; and has also observed that when they are exposed to moist air they absorb vastly more water than tbe latter.