The Newtown bee., 1880-01-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

VT American sweet potatoes are becom- ing popular in English markets. Fig trees bear fruit in California the second year after being planted. A sermon can be heard in the Arctic sections at distance of two mics.
 The world is said by astronomers to be at least five hundred millson year old.
 When a man falls down his temper generally gets up before he does.-BoS- to9 Transcript.
 Give us, yells the Philadelphia ChTOn- icle- Herald, the dollars of this country. and we don't care who takes the cen- sus.
 The easiest way to remove rust from iron is rubbing it with rag dipped in oil of tartar. The rust will disappear immediately.
 In the imperial public library of St Petersburg there are more than foo portraits of Peter the Great, collected from every country in Europe.
 Since the hour we were relieved of our woodshed paddock, we have learned that eternal vigilance is the price of kindling wood Yonkers StatsS''ldH.
 Pop corn makes nice refreshment for cold winter nights; but beware, young man; don't let Amanda Jane do the pop ping, It's leap-year .-SyracaEse HeydId.
 Europeans seek to renew strength by baths of earth and baths of mud. In- valids are planted in the ground, leav- ing the head and neck alone uncovered.
 The AnaeTicdn Register says the Uni ted States may be regarded as the para- disc of women. It would be if there were Adams enough to go round.-B0S- ton Post.
 It is leap year, of course, but after all it doesn't look very well for young lady to go home about two o'clock in the morning after sparRing her beau. Livingston Freeman.
 The youthful minor pants for twenty-one,
 The statesman pants for office and haul, The poet pants for an undying fame,
 The tailor only 'tis who pants for all. -he0hhk GJte Cug. Since the Oneida community aban- doned the mixed marriage" system, twenty weddings have taken place there, so that there are now forty-five married couples in a population of 299- The ties that are the tender, s;, Are strongest in their clasp; The bands that are the slendc-est They keep the fir1nest grasp. -BwFaIo CoHricr. Galveston CTexas) houses on unpaved streets rent much higher than those that are more accessible, tine reason being 1 that the tenants of the former houses do not suffer so much from organ grinders.
 The Welland (Can.) Telegruph says there is not village for thirty or forty miles back of ihe frontier which has not supply of some kind of smuggled goods, whether it be in dry goods, hard ware, machinery, coal oil, etc
 II druther fall down stairs than down cellar" affirmed Rockland miss of a very limited number of summers, ".'cause if you fall down stairs yol are right there, but f you fall down cellar you have to be lugged up again." l R0ckJasid Courier
 A little girl of six or eIght years, dressed nicely, with curling hair and bright eyes. presents pretty appear ance. but she never seems quite happy, ! in spite of fine clothes, unless she can manage to step into every mud-puddle | she comes to. Rome Sentinel.
 "Hurrah grass !" is taking possession of a great many fine farms on the Arkansas river bottoms. This botani- cal specimen, on account of inc lives lost in trying to kill it, is called eternity weed. The negroes entertain a super. stition that the seeds are sown by Satan. Little Rock (drk.) GaseHe.
 The unusual cold in the north of Europe sent southward immense fiocks of wild ducks, making for the less in- element quarters oi the Pontine marshes in Italy. They were seen and heard passing over Rome in the early morning. fying low. and have afforded such abundant sport and spoil that they were cried about the streets in quantities. little pair oi gloves that yet
 Retain the smell of clover,
 And just a tinge of mignonette-
 l turn them vaguely over,
 And marvel how the girl I kissed
 The night she promised to be true
 Could jam number seven fist Into paltry number two.
 -.Nec Orleans Democrat.