The Newtown bee., 1880-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A word with business men-Settie-
 Iron affected by fog is mist-rusteds
 A two-foot rule-Don't wear tight shoes.
 Only a question of time-Asking the hour.
 A man is supposed to be in his prime at forty, unless he knocks his prime out before that time.
 There are about l5,O0O factories in Russia producing goods to the value of SOC, ,OO0, ,00O rubles (S325. .ooo, ,00O) year.
 A woman cannot become 8 successful lawyer. She is too fond of giving Der opinion without pay.-On Ctty Derrick What pity the census was not taken during melon season when hau our population is doubled up--CIeveba'ad Herald.
 There's many man whose highest ambition is to successfully contest seat on nail keg in corner grocery.- Meriden Recorder.
 The Paris Figaro recently gave an ac- count of a frog hunt which lasted for two hours, in which many Of the fash ionable Parisians took part.
 The crown prince of Germany gets more pulling over giving s nddle to a blind boy than an American does over
  An amateur female poultry-fancier called at the bookstore for the book called Foul Play" She thought 1t might give her some useful hlnts- | SyTacnSe Sunday Tunes.
 If there is anything a yonng man | Considers a disgrace,
 | It's to have his beard referred to | As the down upon his iace-by his girl
 -Ioronto Graphic. I
 Memphis is the only city in the United l States which sho WIS q positive decrease | of population during the last ten years ] In 1870 its population was 40,22o; now it is 8, 200.
 You can never convince man whose laIgn has been trampled down by crowd but that there arc sometimes more than three feet in yard.-MaTG- tton IadepeHdCnt-
 There is fort nc ir store for the milliner who shs devise bonnet that can be worn ir any part of . church and always present its trimmed side to the congregation.
 Yah Phow Lee, of China, gained the highest rank in this years graduating class from the Hopkins grammar school at New Haven, and won the first prize in English composition.
 A boy will go in swimming and fooi around the water tor hours together but when told to wash his face, he NH have almost a hydrophobir dread of half pint of water in the basIn--AeD
 Hauen Register.
 The average person speaks about l2o
 words a minute This estimate Is con
 siderably short of that required when the speaker has trunk lid iait on his head while he is hunting for sleeve i ibutton.-AndreICs Queen The net of our life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues
 would be proud if our faults whipped ; them not. and our crimes would de- spair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
 When a man wants to make his enemy unhappy he poisons his enemy's dog,
 but a woman chooses & very dlnerent way to make her enemy unhappy. She ,, buys some new clothes that her enemy can't afford and sits in front oi her enemy at church.-Aiddteto'on ifa''- script. Browns laudlady passed him dish of vegetables at the dinner-tablc and t ne heiped himself to about two spoon. : fuls, almost bankrupting the dish, when g she said to him, with smile on hei l face and ire in her eye: Those arc : new potatoes, Mir. Brown, and some ol :. the other boarders may want some: Q < Beg your pardon" choked Brown, IT
 surnrise. as two or three effected an un e pleasant pigment in his windpipe; e thought they were pess," and then h' t finished his dinner hurriedly. browr l. is now hunting around for anothe g boarding ng-place.-Boston Globe. In the pleasant little Rhenish towr of Biberich there lives horse of pre- ternatural sagacity, whose method O dealing with an inebriate master Ina T. achieved well-iherited celebrity <, Whenever the latter appears incapaol 'i of fl lding his way from the wine sho 'i to his dwelling the horse watchfull U follows him hard it heel, and. ap II plying his forehead to his back when T ever he is about to stagger out of hi 'a a homeward path, gently, thrusts hir ?, forward in the right direction, nc T, ceases its timely ministrations until si . has succeeded in propelling him to hi o own door.