The Newtown bee., 1880-07-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A pair of slippers-Two eels-
 A Greene county (Ga-) child has two tongues.
 Recipe for making your own eye water-Stick your finger in it.
 There is enough untitled cotton land in Texas to supply the world.
 Cider is made in Texas from toma- toes, and sells at SIPS per gallon.
 Before 1870. there were in Paris thirty. nine clubs. Now there are seventy.
 English sparrows have driven the squirreis from Court square in Memphis.
 Vanderbilt will have over $500, GOO worth of pictures in his new Fifth ave nue house.
 Twenty per cent. of the cattle that run on the Western plains die during the winter.
 The total loss of life among sailors in British ships from" accidents" ia 1875 to 1878 inclusive, is l0.636.
 The 150th anniversary of the founding of Baltimore will be celebrated in that city next October.
 While thousands of men, women aLd children bathe in tue Great Salt LaLe yearly, accidents from drowning are unknown.
 Which is the most home abiding let ter in the alphabetp w, because it is never out of town and always to the front in work.
 Much machine betting Is now made in California from the entrails of sheep It is said to be far stronger and more durable than that made of hemp. Full many a gem of spurious my serene,
 The spotlesy spirits of hotel clerks do beat: Full many a simple ignorant sariine
 Believes them purest stones oi value rare, And that's where they're fooled.
 In England there are at present about lS0 generals holding honorary colonel~ cies of regiments, costing the country nearlySl loo, ,O00 a year and doing not one hours work from year to year tor their pay.
 The little girl who was disappointed because her name could not be found in the Bible says: Never mind! will be such a good girl that if ever i another Bible is written my name shsll go into it.
 The visible supply of petrolsum is the largest known in tue history of the COG, ,000 barrels, and, with production trade, being estimated at LOCO, coo to le,- largely in excess of the consumption, It is steadily increasing.
 The three children of George Comp ton, aged respectively ten, twelve ana fifteen years, were drowned on ! Sunday evening near Shelbyyiile, III. Mrs Compton died from injuries received in her stIugg e to save the children.
 It is estimated that there are about {, 2,O00, 900 beehives in the United States, each yielding on an average about twenty-two pounds of honey and a revenue of sbcut SS,e00,oo0, and. in l addition. the industrious bees supply us with 24, ,O00. 900 pounds ofwax. On the Snsquehanna, near Lancaster | Pa, a woman was seen rowing. accom- anied by two little children. When Tn the middle of the river the boat upset. While swimming she held the little ones clinging to her back. It was a desper- ate situation, and just as she was about touching the shore, one of the babies rolled away and was drowned.
 One of the most curious facts about therensus in Columbus, Ohio, is col ored enumerator who, being run over by the cars several years ago, came out of the doctors care with both arms ann puiated at the shoulder. He learned to write legibly by holding his pencil be tween his teeth, and as an enumerator recorded on an average 200 names day
 There was an exciting wolf chase & short time ago in Godfrey township, Illinois. The animals had become so bold that they appeared in the neighbor- hood of farmhouses in packs of from six to ten. The boys got together and started the hunt. which resulted in the killing of several and the capture of a large gray wolf.