The Newtown bee., 1880-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

2II.
 There has been no issue of silver five cent and copper two-cent pieces since 1872.
 An Ohio newspaper speaks of a man being bruised by '' emphatic gestures of a mule"
 The first gold mine known in the United States was discovered in South Carolina in l790.
 An exchange softly says of deiaulter: '" He admits a gap of S2,O00 between himself and creditors"
 The aggregate salaries of the New York city school teachers for 1879 amounted to sl. .OOs. .207.
 A firm advertises "raw silk stock ings." Good gracious, who wants them cooked!-Roekland Courier.
 During 1879 more railroad accidents occurred in the transportation of coal than of any other kind of freight
 The last criminal executed in Paris spoke of the two murders he had com mitted as having been his only faults.'
 Yes, pie is the great destroyer. Whenever we are confronted by it we at once cry for quarter.-BoStOn Tran script.
 Eighteen express trains are run from
 
 Pennsylvania railroad, Sundays eX- cepted.
 We have known some young ladies
 to take five or six years to get over be- ing sixteen years old.-Waterlo0 O. SerUer.
 A young man at Canton, Ohio, sued his own mother for SIG, ,0o0 for islander. | She circulated a report that he was
 drunken and thievish. l A French chemist asserts that if tea be
 ground like coffee immediately before
 hot water is poured upon it, its exhila-
 ratingqualities will he doubled.
 Will you name the bones of the head?" said teacher to one of his
 class. five got 'em all in my head,
 teacher replied the pupil, |" but can't
 give 'em."
 Talk about Robinson Crusoe's island
 being uninhabited! Didn't he find
 great swell on shore and q little cove
 running inland? Avast there.-BoSton
 Transcript.
 "Who will write the music of the
 future?" asks a New York paper.
 What troubles us" replies the Detroit
 Free Press, is to know who will have
 patience to listen to it." Some of the smallest baseball tossers , in the profession get the largest pay. | Therefore we may adapt an old aphor-
 ism to their case: '' Little pitchers have big salaries. Rome Sentinel. Both peaches and apricots are natives of Persia; they were brought into Europe 5 by the Romans. They were first intro , duced into England for cultivation in the year l524. by Henry the Eighth's ) gardener.
 The Ponca Indian, Woodworker. says ! ha hax h-zsy- } in his fife. There are men in his tribe l over ninety years old and their hair Is jet black, and bald heads are never seen
 among the red men, , When q man reflects that by going } back a few generations he can claim 2 several hundred ancestors, and reflects z how little they have left him for an in | heritance, it makes him feel abused | S!tllDater L1snl6e17aan. l If the theorist who ayers that animals , can resist temptation will experiment
 by poking his neighbor's big bulldog , in the ribs, he'll find that his theory, , together with his trowsers, will be torn in shreds.-HackenSdck Republicdn. You can train the eye to see all the bright places in your life. and so slip , over the hard ones with surprising [ ease You can also train the eye to rest on the gloomy spots, in utter foFgettUl- 5 ness of all that is bright and beautiful The only time in life when woman seems to be happy is when she calmly : sits down and attempts to trim q new bonnet with old trimmings Sine seems
 to be truly happy; but what Nesuvius = is at work within her:-QHi'scy Modern AT!go
 There is one man in Nevada who has , never been shot at. His experience Is
 limited tn heinz St hhaH tp-iga hrlripR . in an avalanche, and kicked into a , mine-shaft by mule His neighbors , say he'll see something of life if he stays , in Nevada long enough.-BoSIO'I Post. f see him in the starlishts gleam, ' His soft glance answers mine; With melting look and tender beam I see his blue eyes shine. My garden wall see him scale Still. heart! He will.no fall;
 | hear his voice-his tuneiul vail;
 The cat upon the wall
 No language can express the power,
 beauty, heroism and majesty of a D mothers love It shrinks not when , men cover, and grows stronger where f man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance eS f its quenchless fidelity like q star in ' heaven.
 A big six-footer was yesterday lifting , for all he was worth on a wagon-wheea which was stuck, when little wo-foot mite of humanity, nearly as broad as he was long, and just out of long dresses 7 and into pants, with his hands in his , pockets and a swaggering air, sang out :: ' Mister, do you want me to help youP , can grunt while you lift."-Ol City : i Der7i0k.
 l The reason why the moon appears..as l large as the sun is because of its near t ness, its distance being only 2i0,0G miles, while the sun is aeout 92, COG, 900 |. miles The moon then is by far the nearest of all the heavenly bodies. Her , distance, however. is not always the same, !but changes, so that at times it Is } 30,000 miles less distant than at others. William Franklin, of Salem, Oregon, astounded his bride by telling her that he did rot believe husband ought to have any secrets from his wife, there ! fore he would confess to her that he had murdered several men. He assured her that he would kill her and himself if she : revealed the matter. The love that she had borne for hiIa ihereupon changed to , loathing, and she soon told inc story. Next morning the couple were found dead, Franklin having carried out his : threat.
 In the early settlement of Illinois and , Missouri two trappers were going down the Mississippi river to New Orleans