The Newtown bee., 1880-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

What does the pupil of the eye studyP
 Morning milk is richer than that of vening.
 When a man draws an inference he should draw it mild.
 A green turtle is known by the date found on his back.
 When big trees begin to shoot it's about time for little bushes to leave
 A poor bookkeeper and disagreeable aunt are alike in that they are no accountants.
 "Now is the accepted time" remarked the young man when hls glrI told nm she would have him.
 The population of Leadville, Colorado, is estimated at from 25, 900 to 8, GOO, and it has nearly doubled in a year.
 One of Barnum's Zulus has run away from the show Show this to your wife, if she wishes to venture out on picnic.
 The Derrick tells of an Oil City man who has to turn his toes in. If he didn't they would hit the sides of the streets.
 The number of submarine cables at present in operation IS said to be 5oo: with cable length of 6e, 500 nautical miles.
 The total revenue from the bees of this country, of which there are 2,O0o, 900 hives, is estimated at Sl4.o00,0O0 an nually.
 Sparks from an unoiled reaping ms- chine set fire to great field of wheat in Illinois, and all the grain was de- stroyed.
 The chief use of a sea captain in these days is to explain how it all happened after most of the passengers have been drowned.
 About 1000. .000 shad have been matched at the matching establishment of the American fish commission at Washington this year. A new shade for silk is called demon ade color," whatever that msy mean Ne,o Orleans Picdyu'se. 1t me ns a heavy watered silk.
 Among the assets of grocer who failed in business in 8 Wisconsin town is put down: "One liver-pad, worn six weeks-worth fifty cents"
 The men who pack the little boxes of | figs have wonderful memories. They never forget to put the wormy fruit at the bottom of the box. 'Es not the money makes one rich, Nor most amount of pay; That man is richest who can get
 Sons happiness out of every day.
 -SfeubeaUiue HeTaLd.
 Although paper collars have to a great extent gone out of use within the | last ten years, POO, ,000, 900 of them are now manufactured annually.
 Doctors recommend people to go to sleep lying on the right side. This is all the better if you are a little deaf in the left ear and don't get home till late.
 Nothing-with the exception of his wife's millinery bill-so utterly dumb founds a young husband and father as the paradox of nine-pound baby, half IS long as his arm, with about two miles of noise packed inside of it.
 A beginning is about to be made. says precht's proposal for circle of observ. ing stations around the north polar region. The Danish government has resolved to establish a station at Uper- nivik, in West Greenland; the Russian government has granted subsidy foI an observatory at the mouth of the Lena and another on the New Siberian islands; Count Wilczek is to defray ths expenses ot a station on Nova Zembls under the direction of Lieutenant Wey precht; the United States signal servic' under General Meyer. has received per mission to plant an observatory at Poin [ Barrow, in Alaska; and it is expected that Canada will have a similar estab ] lishment on some point on her Arcti, coast. At the Hamburg conference i , was announced that Holland woult 1 furnish the funds for station in Spitz bergen; and tits expected that Norwa, [ will have an observing post on the ex , tremity of the province of Finmark ' This is 8 good beginning, and it is hope. that some sort of agreement will be es tablished to have all the observation made after uniform method, otherwis their value will be greatly decreased.