Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A thief steals in tit of abstraction.
Great hoax from little falsehoods
grow.
1t was the man that fell downstairs
who spoke Of his extended trip.-Stdtes-
man.
It is better to have loved a short girl
than never to have loved tall.-M0d-
eSn Argo.
The tramp question: Madam, will
you please give me some old clothes? |
am 20 hungry / don't know where
shall sleep tonight"
Iowa has 4.OCO school districts, 10000
schools, 81 600 teachers, 365, 900 scholars
in average attendance, and school
fund of over $3,5OO,0 600.
Several undergraduates Of the German
university of Marburgh have been SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment
in fortress for dueling.
The burning of widows has not wholly
ceased in India. Recently, case oc-
Cured in Bamra, although the parties
abetting it were fined oy the authorities.
a little daughter Of w. V. Stoy, of
LAFAYETTE, tied balloon to the Sle neck
lace she wore. The jewelry slipped
over her head and the toy sailed away
with it. and it was seen no more.
Captain Gerard de Nisme, of the royal
Irish hussars, was killed in India by
stone, dislodged by goat on hillside,
striking him on the head while he was
taking his afternoon ride on horseback.
The Swiss government is to send as its
contribution to Washington's monument
a suitably inscribed stone from the
chapel built on the spot where William
Tell escaped from the tryant Gessler.
A citizen of Stafford county, Kansas,
has made record of 600 rattlesnakes
killed by him within three years. The
largest one was killed recently, and
measured six feet four inches long and
fourished sixteen large rattles.
Sir Alexander 7. Gait, the Canadian
statesman, surprised London recently
BY registering at hotel as Sir a. Il.
Gait, and fifteen children" the latter,
mostly girls, creating 8 sensation in the
dining-room when ushered in by their
governess.
American advertising agents in Italy
have made it necessary to put up no
tices to "post no bills " on the very
when a tourist sees one of these notices
the chances are that hell exclaim:
"Things in those days were about as
they are now"
More than 125, 900 children die in
France before reaching the end of their
first year. One-ifth of the entire num-
Der are in Paris. In the reimbursement
Of Nogent- le-Rol, where mercenary baby
farming is common, there are ffty-two
deaths in every 100 children under one
year of age.
A ruralist came into Tallahassee, Fla,
and finding a news stand ordered lot
Of papers, which he took from the clerk
with profuse thanks. He was aston
ished though when the clerk asked pay
ment, as he ''never heard of charging
for newspapers before" lie had been
reading his neighbor's paper for nothing
and never knew they cost money.
If a man ever realizes theinequalities
of this world and feels like joining the
communists, it is when he goes home
to dinner with q good appetite and is
encouraged on the way by pleasant
odors of roast beef. broiled shad, chicken,
beefsteak, chops and broiled dinners,
waited to him from aromatic kitchens,
and finds when he sits down to his own
repast that it consists of yesterdays
meat pie warmed over.-RoDse Sentinel.
One of the home missionaries on
Puget sound, holding q meeting in
mixed neighborhood OF whites and In
dians, observed that the Indian women,
carrying their babies according to their
usual custom, were surprised to see that
among the whites the men carried the
babies. At next appointment the
power Of example was seen, as the In
dian men came carrying the babies for
the first time.
Poison to lie palatable
Must be sugared till it's nice,
For poison, taken natural,
Never would entice.
And thus it is with people,
Wheu they get so awful sweet,
You may set it down with safety,
1hey re sugaring their dece (.
-SteubeaUitle HeraLd.