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


There are sixteen thousand locomo-
tives in the United States s-oly sn4
The present governor of Colorado used
to be a carpenter at 81, so per day.
North Carolina has fifty-three cotton
mills which, in 1878, consumed 3Sy4s4
bales of cotton 1aiigr.fsre3 adj gsbas
The peanut crop OF. 1879 is estimated
at 1,O00, 900 bushels for Virginia. 100000
for Tennessee, and 5000 for North
Carolina, being an increase of 335, ,OO6
bushels over the aggregate yield of 1878.
Mr.. Tennyson writes fenced In by
screens, at a writing table facing the,
window, with numerous clay pipes
cumbering his papers, Hissson Hallamt
copies his manuscript, writes his letters,
and knows all his poems by heart.
When the Prince of Wales had ccng
cluded his visit to Boston some twenty
years ago, the furniture of the rooms oc-
cupied by his royal highness at the
Revere house were sold at auction, and
the pieces were sold at fabulous prices.
Emerson says man ought to carry a
pencil and noSe down the thoughts Of
the moment. Yes, and one short PEN
Gil, devoted exclusively to that use,
would last some men we know about
two thousand years, and then have the
original point on.-HG1Ckeye
When you see a young man in gor-
geous apparel walking about the streets
with his arms hanging in curves from
his body, like the wings of an overhead
ed turkey on summers day, it isn'tbe-
cause he is in pain. 1t is because he has
been " abroad. ."-LOlCeI Courier.
The windows glisten, the Old folks listen -a
To hear the sleigh-bells pass; r
The fields grow winter, the stars are brighter,
The road is smooth as glass. 4s-rH gI5G
Our muffied faces burn, 49, ,r
The clear north wind blows cold,
The girls all nestle, nestle, nestle, rr
Each in her lover hold.
A Dakota man was moving his family
into new house, and left his stove fOr
the last trip. Within a hundred steps
of the house his wife was taken i'll.
Leaving the two youngest children IN a
dry goods box on the hand-slelgh, LIE
helped her and two older children into
the house, where, in order to prev vent
their freezing, they were ali put to bed.
He then returned for the two children,
and was frozen to death before he
reached them The wife lay in bed I'M
til the next day without fire or food.
L lie ldlDtI lay ttCs-u Htdl ILS 'CO1 bcCc "a
his two boys in the box, but, although
the children in bed with their mother
were frozen nearly to death, it was
thought that they would recover
The Norwegian lemming is an animal
about the size of mouse. They live
under stones in the summer, under
snow in the winter They hiss and bite.
a bout once in ten wears they migrate in
large armies. They march in 2 Straight
line. They cross lakes and rivers
They 60 straight through hay-staeks
rather than go round. Nothing stops
them, not fire, cascades. nor sswamps.
If man stands in the way they will
jump 1T him as high as his knee. II
struck they viii turn around and bark
and bite Ike dog. Foxes. lynxes,
owls. hawks and .lveasels follow them
and destroy large numbers Of them, but
it does not check them. They continue
their course until they reach the sea.
into which they plunge, as persistent
and progressive as ever, until the waves
extprplinatP Them +-rr. a-