The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
4 notorious eavesdropper-Raiu.

A notorious eavesdropper-Rain.
 "Chest" protectors--Good padlocks
 Belgium had no gold coin until the year ls47.
 This years flax crop of California is three times that of 1879.
 Jones calls his wife "Old Pien be- cause she is so crusty. .-SeisbenUillc Herald.
 During the year 1880 4,946 miles of new railroad have been built in this country.
 The man who is always boosting of
 speaking his mind, usually has the least
 mind to speak.
 Because house is let out does not make it any larger Very often, though, the tenant is taken in-
 Well, Johnnie, did you catch Any fish to-day?" No" replied the lad. "but drowned good many worms.p
 A facetious burglar, who had broken into an editors house. said the only thing he struck was a match.-Fat Con- trtt7stor. .. Senator Foorhees has prepared lec- ture on IT omas Jefferson, and is going to deliver it for the benefit of the York town fund.
 Of %. 0.CO0, 030 people transported bF steam vessels in the United States in tine ps.. year, but is5 lost their lives less than one to each million.
 Hint to a musician--Ihe surest and safest way to strike A fat is to creed up behind him when he isn't looking, and after you strike him take a run.
 It is said to be a singular fact that. with the exception of Turkey, every reignins royal family in Europe has some of the blood Of Mary Stuart in its veins.
 health officers reports thought that Total" must be an awfully malignant disease, since as many die Of it as all the rest put together.
 A bright little girl. who had s1ccess- fully spelled the word "that," was asked what would remain after the st '' and saucers," was the reply.
 4 novel pump, discbarging fifty gall Ions minute. worked by hand, las been invented by convict on Blackweirs Island. Now we know where all the novels come from.-LoIceH Citizen.
 Wheat has fallen fifteen cents busheI during the past week, but the interest on mortgages has remained the same It takes pretty hard season to depress a mortgage on farm.-Feck's Sxa.
 The femsles and males more nearly approximate each others in numbers in Maine than in any other New England State. the excess of the former being only 7l7 in total population of 645, ,sA5.
 James Buchanan, President of the United States, made an election bet in 1919 and lost it, and the deed by which he conveyed the land he forfeited is, in his own handwriting, on file at Warren, Pa.
 A father of three sons and five daugh- ters was asked what family he had. The answer was: "Ihave three sons and they have each five sisters" "Mercyp' replied the interrogator: "sieh 8 family !"
 MT. Parneil. head of the Irish land league, is very abstemious. drinking little but water or tea. In the intervals of agitation he is a great rider, mod erately keen sportsman and something of a farmer.
 A thousand persons, mostly women, are employed in engraving and printing government money and banknotes at w Washington. They are so strictly watched during work hours that they look upon themselves then as prisoners.
 The lions ia Algeria are fast dimin- ishing in numbers, and will soon, doubt less, become extinct. To meet tue in- demand for fairs and geological gardens, lion-breeding establishments are coming into vogue in that country.
 A meditative man was roaming through an anatomical museum, and came across the skeleton of 8 don- key "Ah!" he said in reyerential awe, as he adjusted his green spectacles. < we are indeed fearfully and wonder fully made"
 It all depends on how you look at these ancestors. One little aristocratic girl was yesterday boosting that her lorefathers came over with the pilgrims, when another wee maiden, whose wid- owed mother had recently married. ,aid: Shaw, go long with your old iuds. I've got 8 bran new father."-Ou City Derrick.
 : According to the imperial budget the Ierman army on a peace footing. as by the accession of strength recently voted, now cons sts ,f ls, l25 officers, 427, ,274 men, and el.- '29 horses, the addition including 90I officers. 25.6l5 men and .736 horses.
 Chief Justice Waite ives in a hand !ome brick and brown-stone house on Rhode Island avenue, Washington. It 8 pleasantly adapted for entertaining md is full of pictures, books and orna- nents. The chief justice does all his work in charming library on the sec md floor.
 Out of l.5ll orders for relief issued y members of the New York Associa- ion for Improving the Condition. of the 'oor last year. only sixty five per cent. were ever presented; of these h66r per ent. gave wrong address- and nine per ent- were found unworthy. co thAt okty-etght per cent. of the whole nun 'er Wcre not r1lieSod.