The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18
WQOslbury.
NUMBER NINETY-oNE.

NUMBER NINETY-ONE
 For many weeks there has been little of news in this town There have not been any items. '.or scarcely any" of as startling interest as the usual summer and spring items. to wit: :" Mir. A is building a new garden fence; Tom Jones is shingling his horse-shed; ;' q Mir. Mitchell has replaced a hitching-post, which had been torn up by a frightened horse few weeks ago." and the like. Snch items are highly detrimental to the mental forces of ssensitively organized human beings, and, on- occasions, they have been known to make "a horse laugh" There is a person in this town who was borr on the 29th day of February, many years ago. That individual has had but nine or ten birthdays, though i'll middle life, because he is limited to one in four years or, in other words, one in each Presidential election year. This 1 year the 29th of February falls on Sun 1 day; the question has been asked, when | Suppose he was born February 29th, 1924 1 and should live till the end of the 29th day of February, 1920, or ninety-siX years-an age often reached. How often l in all that time would his birthday have occurred upon Sunday? In point of fact l it would have occurred but four times, viz: the date of his birth, the date of his death. and also in the intervening veal of 1852 and 1880. It is further fact, ! that the 28th of February will never fall on Sunday except in a bisseXtile year, nor then, unless the first day of January for l the samc year occurs on Thursday. Now who will give us the rule for determining these curious facts
 Social reunions were a feature of the past week: two occurred on Monday. A very considerable party of neighDors and friends made surprise call on Mir. and Mrs. James G. Curtiss; i5 was all the
 mere agreeable to them because it was a genuine surprise. The genial host and
 hostess, as, l suppose, after all, they must be called. thought they were the entertained, and not the entertainers,
 made everyone happy and at home by
 their cordial and kindly reception, and
 an enjoyable evening was passed. On the
 same evening some fifty of the numerous
 friends of Mir. John Ward, of Hotchkiss
 vile, gave him friendly visit, taking puius to prevent him from having pre-
 vious notice. Mir. Ward had been fol
 many years the leader of the North Con gregational Church choir, but had latel, resigned the position. The ladies of thu
 party furnished q ,bountiful ropast, t.
 which ample justice was done by the as
 sembled guests. After the cloth wa = removed" ." Mr. Frederick A. Walker pre- = serted to AIr. Ward in behalf of tn
 choir, a set of Chambers encyclopedia
 consisting of twenty volumes, when til = work shall be completed, as token ( - their regard. accompanied by fe = graceful and appropriate remarks. NJ Ward, much moved, replied ill fittln
 terms. After passing a pleasant ever . ing, the company dispersed to their se' 2 eral homes.
 They had different sort of a party ? the Town Hall on the same evening Mol = day)!> Jay Castle came up on our frien - Tylers stage in the afternoon, and g o out at the drug store of w. $. Strong
 Co. He was so cold and demOralizt 20 that he was not admitted there; butsOn - benevolent individuals took him to u - Town Hall, and called Drs. Shore ar
 Outman to his assistance, uhhcr wno
 care he was brought to consciousness - and was watched over during tue niaslt -l two neirhbors. He came out all right - the morning thanks to this care. B - the event should teach him not to tru
 such cold weather.
 = In pedestrian enterprises, think tn - have a mode of testing excellence in wh l., is called the go-as-you-please gail 1q They have introduced that rule up = Nonnewaug, with little variation in = matter of eating oysters, viz: " eat; - vou-please" style. A man up there W
 the happy possessor of a gallon of O, II ters-value one dollar. A couple - "Yanks" came along, and the owner 2 the oysters offered to allow them to - us much as they pleased for fifty cen in an increditable short time three-four
 of "the vile " had disappeared, and startled proprietor bought off the rema - ing quart from their hungry grasp
 twenty cents. That's the way they do K. Nonncwaug. NAMELESs