The Newtown bee., 1880-03-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The net cost of the Hoosac tunnel to January l, 1880, is Sls, 523 ,5g9.94. z
 Upward of I,442 persons in the Brit sh empire possess hereditary titles.
 The combined length of the new rail roads projected for 1880 will be 5000 miles.
 One firm of Ludington, Mich, hes purchased I40, ,O0O, GOO feet of standing pine timber.
 There are made yearly in Reading and Berks counties, Pa., over 6,OoO,OOo woolen hats.
 Steam and horse railroads in the United States require 100000 men to labor on Sunday.
 There are 40, ,293 children enrolled in the San Francisco schools; the average attendance is only 2, ,6S2.
 The fifteen car manufacturing sstab- lisnments in this country turned out 37, ,350 cars in eleven months
 Eve, go to grass, as Mary said to her little lamb when she sent it out to get its meals.-OttdDd RepiGblicdn.
 A child being ask ed what were the three great feasts of the Jews, replied: Breakfast, dinner and sE Epper-
 Owing to the advance in most all other things, the Free Press thinks we
 may soon look for rise in balloons. In diamonds solitaries are fashion able, but when it con2Cs to buckwheat cakes let us have clus-Crs --EUeTy Sdtssr- | dly.
 1 He was six feet two, ir b;s stockings,
 and when he made the remark, Love
 me little, love me long" she laughed-- Salem S,Gnbedn.
 The brook, you know, flows on tor
 ever. Sometimes it seem as if a lawsuit
 tr,c no
 one better.-Fo7ld du Lac Reporter
 The imports of coffee from all coun-
 tries into the United States-eNcluslve
 of the States on the Pacihe-for 1879
 were l9S,0l0 ions, against imports Tn 1878 Of l47, ,030 tons.
 In sixty-two years from 1915 to 1876. : the mum Der of emigrants that lett Great Britain was upward of S,0eo.O00. and of this number very nearly 5,0OOsooO came
 to the United States. 2 A French investigator finds that | smokers smoke most in cold weather. 7 A Rockland investigator has discovered 5 that this is precisely the case with his 1 stove.-R0ckIGl.d Courier For the first time since the Franco : Prrssian war a German newspaper has u been started in Paris It Is issued daily. e There are in the capital of France TO r fewer than 1000 Germans r "Yeu may talk of the beauty of the
 pyramids," said Miss Sociable to n dis
 t;,t.a;siaod traveller, |" but as for me, 2 give me I3;yn pyramids of ice e. cream at a h Lyons, France, which burned Jac- is quard's first loom, is to raise marble f. statue to the great inventor, represent e ing him, with folded arms, looking at e the destruction of his machine. r. A man without earnestness is mourn Y ful and perplexing spectacle. But it is d n consolation to believe, as we must of ,- such a one, that he is in the most effec- tual and compulsive of all schools.
 There are plenty of individuals, says
 Josh Billings. who can t make q boys
 windmill that will grind, to save their u lives, who wouldn't hesitate minute to l. tell you how to improve q steam engine. a Manufacturing clothing in Chicago f gives employment to 30 Oo0 people, and n the value of the goods made is : I5 0O0,- :. OOO- This industry has doubled in four years.
 O Some people act as if Providence W ere 7, thing of the future entirely; others as 1f if it were a thing of the past-while the a fact is it keeps right on doing business 7, at the old stand every day.-McGreeo' ,, Mcscs.
 e Out in Ohio, says an exchange, when | l. school sixteen times. the law considers Il them engaged to be married, and she it has good case of breach of promise if 2 he doesn't walk up.
 c The total number of public schools IT in Maryland is 2,009, instructing I65,- e 4S6 pu Jils. The total school expendi- 'c lures were SI, ,55I, ,556.32. There are 373 y colored schools. employing 367 teachers n and instructing 9, ,33l pupils. l. ..- . . seems to be happy is when she calmly < sits down and attempts to trim new \ \ bonnet with old trimmings. She seems \. . to be truly happy; but what a Vesuvius- . is at work in her!Quincy Modern 4rSo- Q Busted, busted, busted, {. By the cold gray stones, Oh sea; ' And if could only borrow
 A dollar until tomorrow, How happy I would bel !, -.Nes Fork Express. T ! Are we raising Nihilists and assassins !. of kings in this country? A bad boy in . public school the other day, who was n threatened with punishment, called out = to an attentive circle of his companions |: :; .'Oh, shoot the ruler!" He is under U surveillance Fheeli,ag Lender. e Miss Howard, popular physician at l. Tentsin, China, is a Canadian girl, and
 received her education at Michigan
 University. For successfully treating
 the wife of a prominent Chinese states |, man she has been sent to Pekin in a t royal barge, loaded with presents. Turkey, lately scourged by war, is the d prey of famine. If in any American city = fifteen persons should be found. in one day, dead of starvation, a thrill of hor- c TOT would run through the nation; but = as the city where this has occurred is = Adrianeple, few notice it. Mrs w. w. Astor wore diamonds and pearls at a dinner at the White ;, House and afterward at the Mexican !. minister's reception in Washington, y which were worth nearly or quite one 7 million of dollars. A Washington let ter says: She was attended by two ' detectives, dressed IS gentlemen, and 3 U policeman was on guard before the door of her room at Wormley's day and | night.
 o Young Fred, a bashiul yet persistent swain, U Was very much in love with Mary Jane. s One night she told him, in her tsnderest tone, Q s.,lt is not good tor men 10 be alone" !. Said Fred, s Just so, you darling little elf; t Pve often thought of that same thing myself, q When said the lass, while Fred WAS all sgo- l. Ton ought to buy yourself terrier dog"
 He took the hint, and left.