Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KING, Of Texas, has 10000 head of
stock in one inclosure.
GUEST" Waiter, bring me another
dish of peas and magnifying glass
BEES are said to be preventive OF
smallpox, being sort of waxy-nation.
"AND what makes my little Johnny
50 cross this morning ?" dot up
s'urly."
A MAN, who sill carries in his body q
bullet which entered it at Antietam,
calls it lead astray.
IT is lucky to pick up horseshoe, IN
less, of course, it happens to be attached
TO mules hind leg.
FARMER JONES caught rooster steal
ing his corn, wrung his neck, and now
claims to have killed cock robbin'.
WHEN old Faust signed the contract
with Mephistopheles in his blood, he
wrote in his best vein, SO to speak.
The beauty of a mans parting his
hair in the middle appears to be that it
gives both ears an equal chance to flap.
"Should a man drink malt hquors?"
queries medical exchange. Well, il
man has wife, it's his duty to sup
porter.
How SOON popular songs become
old. Even now "My Grandfather's
Clock may be classed among the old
time pieces. -f
THERE are many things in this world
that are as deceiving as fish-hook with
a worm on it; you don't feel the point
until You bite. fr
KNOWLEDGE is the right bower, and
one of the showiest cards in the pack,
yet in the game of life cheek is the little
Joker that is oftentimes the winner.
Promising that the Russian Arctic
expedition, which cost $4,000, discov-
cred new kind Of moss and saw sor-
rel-eolored fox, the Detroit Free Press
feels warranted in demanding, Who
says that science doesn't pay?
PHoToGRAPHER-s You don't appear
pleased with your pictures, SIR Sit
ter" No, I'm not; they look Like the
very Old Nick" Photographer
Why, sir, I thought they were a re-
markably good lkness-" Sitter
Blast it, yes; that's Just what's the
trouble"
The Burlington HdlCk-Eye gramma-
rian is again at it. He says: @Ah,
Young man, if you only had not Of dyed
your linen ulster last fall for to make of
it overcoat, you wouldn't not now had
to OF bought linen duster for your
summer wear"
AT Tonne, Siberia, several secretgun-
powder manufactures were discovered
in houses belonging to the peasants de-
ported there. An investigation has
proved that the district local authorities
were cogaizant of the manufacture, but
had Kept it secret, having received
small bribes.
ACCORDING to statistics Just published
there were 1878 Young men studying
at the twenty German universities dur
ing the winter semester Just passed. OF
these, 2,43S we're studying theology,
5,IO0 law, and 1857 medicine-7, ,657
being inscribed in the philosophical
faculty. Their ages ranged, for. the
most part, from 19 to % years.
A WAITER was told by countryman
to bring something of what he had"
The waiter brought regular dinner
upon small dishes, as is the usual form,
and set them around his plate. Tk,
countrynan surveyed them carefully
moment, and then broke out: "We1
I hike your samples; now bring on your
dinnerl"
OK the Delaware river there lives
woman farmer, Mrs. A. @. Thomas, who
manages personally farm of twenty
acres, and makes a profit of S2,500
year from it. She is well educated, and
is well acquainted with many notable
persons in this country and England.
George Eliot among the number. Be
side her own family, she has brought up
thirteen boys and girls, eolored, French,
Italian, and Of other nationahties.
WILLIAM HENRY ERB, of st. Louis
behaved so badly to his wife that she
procured divorce. He afterward be-
came s drunkard, and earned misera-
BILE living as a knife grinder, Ut was
his custom to set up his machine across
the street from his wife's house, and
menacingly grind knives in her sight.
This made her nervous at first, but she
gradually became accustomed to it.
Seeing that he was no longer soaring
her, he took to running toward her,
brandishing knife, and declaring that
he would kill her. When that plan
began to fail, as it did few days ago,
he stabbed her to death