The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The population of Memphis IS now 40.927 Last year it was 43.is7-
 They freeze fish in artificial cakes of ice in New Orleans for shipping.
 Spelling reform pays. Josh Billings has made SIOO,OO0 by his writings
 One good turn deserves another when it comes to buckwheat cakes.-Rc1yu'se. The cream of the English people probably come from Cowes.-Boston Transcript.
 In Dude and the northwest provinces of India, 4OI, ,0so persons died of fever last October.
 The wind always finds something to blow about. even if it only blows about ones ears.-Boston Courier. Mir. Seth Green, the fish-culturist. \ thinks that trout "can hold converse tions with each other like men,"
 The man who is as honest as the day is long is getting a little more honest as the day lengthens.-Nelo York Hei asd.
 In 1879 not single death was occa- stoned by steam explosion on the Mis- | sissippi steamboats, which is without precedent.
 A melancholy case oi suicide-A nau ughty little boy, having been threat ened with whipping, immediately hung his head.
 Queen Victoria receives from the government each year Sl, ,e25, 900, from which she Is obliged to pay all her household expenses strength enough to carry his trunk up- stairs, can frequently bring down the house.-Ne,c Fork NeWs.
 Remember girls, it is possible for young man to show a great amount of interest in you, and possess very little principle Yonktrs Salesman.
 The Hawaiian legislature has appro- priated $50, ,0a0 to build a palace for the king, whose palace has heretofore con sisted of number of wooden cottages enclosed by high stone wall.
 General Robert Toombs has been se- lected to deliver the annual oration be- fore the literary societies of the Univer- sity of Mississippi in June next, by the unanimous vote of the students
 Eureka, New, boasts of a one-armed man who makes a living by chopping wood. He is a good chopper, and wields his axe with as much deNterity as the'best woodman in the country
 On Herr's island, Pittsburg, there is an immense establishment devoted to the manufacture of wax from parafine. This wax is moulded into candles, and is a component part in chewing gum made in the East.
 If it turns out to be true that Edison will be able to harness electricity to coffee mills, the men who have to get up of mornings and grind the coffee. will arise as one man. hold a convention and ratify the invention.-Qui'acy Modern Arg0.
 The girl that wants a lot of elbow room around the house is perfectly easy when seated with her young man m a buggy so narrow that sheet of paper would crowd them apart if it was in- serted between them. - DanfeLSonritte Sentinel.
 Nearly every pawnbroker in Chicago has loaned from S30 to $50 on watch chain made of a remarkably close imi- tation of gold. The operators were two young men. who simply offered the chain as security, without saying that the metal was gold.
 Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular but he will want weight. No soul moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. The Cornwall estate. Lebanon county, Pa., noted for its mountains of iron ore. comprises, besides the furnaces and ore liflls, 24,000 acres of land, partly in Lebanon and partly ill Lancaster county, stretching away continuously eight miles toward Lancaster.