The Newtown bee., 1880-07-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The simple flowers are sociable and benevolent
 "'Tis sweet to be remembered" as the man said when he got a cork leg A'airt as Queen.
 The demand for chairs that Washing ton once sat in is keeping the furniture makers very busy.-Boston R0St.
 One of the original tea stamps, which caused the rumpus a century ago, is advertised for sale by London firm.
 The seal is especially fond of music. he will follow a boat to listen to & musical instrument, or even a chorus Of pieces
 "All work and no play makes Jack dull boy" Very few Jacks will be come dull boy if left to themselves Bosto, Trdnscript.
 An umbrella blrd has been imported for the Central Park geological garden from South America, much to the de light of natura- ists.
 A tall man having rallied friend on the shortness of his legs, the friend re- piled: My legs reach the ground what more can yours doe"
 The annual potatoe crop of the United States is estimated at nearly 200 900. GOO DuSlSls- Ol WHICH NC" Il OI K Sl1It 14Oue furnishes 25, ,0o0.00 bushels
 A petrified canoe of good size and shape has just been found at the bottom of Lake Neufchatel, Switzerland. Ii must be thousands of years old.
 Grandmamma-"N Now, Nellie, spell ice." Neliie-"I-c-e." Grandmamms -"D Do you know what ice is?" Nellie -" Yes, grandmamma, it's water fast asleep-PhiJGdelpti Times
 That curious little fish, the stickie- back, builds its nest like bird. whe' n its spawn is deposited and protected This fish rarely grows to be over two inches and half in length.
 We have received some verses frnm an unknown poet, beginning, Hoy can ease my throbbing browP" Did you ever try a wet rag bound around the head?-Oincinnati SItzrdIy Niyh.
 A fabric of dress goods is being manu- factured in Germany from prepared article of glass. that is to ssy, glass is the basis of the woven goods. It is as fine as the product of the silk worm.
 It is a curious fact that Pe.trum. Italy, was famous GOO years before Christ for its roses, which bloomed twice year--in May and November and the same fact is annually -exempli- fled now.
 Some woodchoppers at Canton. H., sent boy to the top of a tall tree, which they had cut almost through, to swayit in the direction which they wished tito fall. The plan was successful, except that six bones of the boy were broken
 A Chicago man makes a living by finding lost articles. He goes to public gardens, parks, etc, every morning be- fore daylight, and looks for anything which persons may have dropped dur ing the previous even i:-
 Breaking an awkward silence. Mrs Montague Smart Suddenly. to bashful youth, who has not opened his lips since he was introduced to her a quarter of an hour ago)-" And now lei us talk of something elsem-Pisnch.
 A New Orleans lady procured, a year ago, over 2.00o silk worm eggs, from which she raised 2,000 cocoons, and from these she has obtained over so, 900 eggs. The silk is pronounced by manu- lecturers to be of very superior quality
 One dismal antagonist to all the brotherly, uniting. harmonizing in fiuences of the day fills us with dire ap- prehensions-the war spirit of Europe It appears to laugh to scorn all the mild but steady influences that are fitted to draw the nations together. 1t is per haps, the most humiliating fact con nected with our modern civilization. that in an age of universal travelling, international exhibitions and con- gresses, commercial treaties, Christian considerations, great common interest in the literature, the science, the indus try. and the institutions of diffe -ent ouatries-in an age with so much to draw the nations together, and to con vince them that the prosperity of elch depends on the peace and progress of the rest. it should yet be deemed neces- sary to keep up such tremendous mili- tary armaments, to discourage industry by oppressive military taxes, and to de- vote the highest skill and science of the nations to the contriving of engines for destroying buman life and property! Such is the example that Europe sets to the rest of the world.