Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-03-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Clothed with verdure IA fresh
young man.-Nes0 York Mail.
Horse shoes are made of wrought iron
! except when horse throws one. Then
it is cast.-GGte City.
A genuine Mormon colony has been
discovered on Big Sandy river, KY,
with about fifty members.
The English trade in shoddy goods,
or mungoes as they are called there,
amount TO $4,000, 600 per annum.
At Madrid sentries exposed to the
death BREATH" blowing from the
Guadarama mountains, are changed
every half hour.
Oregon farmers propose to test the
practicability of raising the sugar beet
in that State. A premium has been
offered of 800 for the best acre and $50
for the second best.
The average life of a paper wheel
under trucks of locomotive engines
ranges from SOC, 900 to I,64I, $50 miles,
and under dining and palace cars from
| 794, ,000 to 668, 1856 miles.
The climate of California and North
ern GeOrgia'an Alabama is said to be
just suited to the cultivation Of the Gin
chona tree, from which quinine is
made, and it is proposed to introduce
the cultivation of these trees in this
country,
Mother, have YOU lost that big ball Of
darning cotton; father, have you lost
that little orange wood cane; sister,
have you lost all the pretty bits of silk
you had carefully saved for patch
work sofa cushion? Be not discouraged.
Look up. You viii iir Il the whole col
lection gracefully floallng in mid-air in
the shape of a Goldfish kite, and Bob,
| the cherub of the family yelling at the
top of his voice. jiolly, how she
pulls i"-NeaC Hare Reeister.
Mrs. Mary Jane Rozelle, Of Oswego,
n. T., is los years old. She has several
children in Oswego whom she visits,
walking to their various houses as
! sprighly as girl. Her form is straight,
she talks rapidly and intelligentiy, and
says she has perfect use of all her senses.
| She was born in Montreal in I774 She
has had fifteen children, nine Of whom
are living, aged SO, 81, IS, So, 81, SO and
two others younger. She was married
seventy-fye years ago, being the second
wife of Peter Rozelle, who died aged
| ITO years and four months, the father of
twenty-five children.
The British house of commons con
! sists Of 652 members, ,apportiOned as fol-
lows: England, forty counties with 172
members; l83 boroughs, 282 members
three universities, five members; total,
359 members; Wales, twelve counties,
| fifteen members; fourteen boroughs,
| fifteen members; total, thirty members;
Scotland, thirty-two counties, thirty
two members; twenty-five boroughs,
| twenty-six members; four universities,
three members; total, sixty members;
Ireland, thirty-two counties, sixty -four
members, thirty-one boroughs, thirty
seven members; one university, two
members; total, l03 members.
The first postoffice in America was
established by Governor Lovelace at
New York in 1872. In 100 Colonel
John Hammond, of New Jersey, was
authorized by the British government
to inaugurate a system of postoffices
and post roads, and to supervise the
same for period of twenty one years.
New York city was designated in ITO
by the postmaster general of Great
| Britain as the chief letter office of the
country. In l740 q road wss blazed
from Paulus Hook Jersey City, to
Philadelphia; over this road the mail
was carried on HOrseDdck, out AT no
stated intervals. Z
The GAINESVILLE (Wis.) Gazette says;
Two grocerymen made bet yesterday
as to which could saw quarter of
cord of wood in the shortest time, the
wager being a ticket to the lecture last
evening. The one who owned the pile
had his fellow groceryman saw the first
quarter, which he did in fifty minutes.
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time, and paid over dime to pay for
the ticket About this time it began to
creep through the brain of the winner
that he had been inveigled into saving
quarter of cord of wood for ten
cents. He don't like it.