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, 1881-10-05


NOW coMI'Anl: THIS 1xrIsAvAti.AScE
md this reckless, bud Workmanship. with
whnt WIS dono III 1S,.. During tint ycIr II
revision OF tho city DrtllnancDs became inp6r,l.
tive. lilo tire huu destroyed nenrly mil tho
copies OF Oary'a rorts!nu ut iHGG, which wns also
n .ltttlo antiluatel By ruslsnh OF tho many
chnngcs ,na,e tn tho cItys charter by tho 1.eg-
IHluturG. So, Oh tho Recommendation OF tho
MHyor, tho Council directed tho City Lnw Do-
partnlcnt 10 ~ nhcn,l nnd ID tho work. 1t went
OIL and did 1t without extra expense tn tho city,
say @, pcrhRps, to tho GxtcHt OF $ial nr $HJO tat
Eo1x thu amount pn1tl tO me or two pc raons
wilo nssstot lit arranging tho work.
Tho city n,atu I'LL agrcutarns III tako .,0o1 cuples
Of tho huok ut 81 a volume. nnd TINT WIS prne.
tlcl,lIy ull It cost, NIL the uttar expenses mt
amounting to oyur Il ,0oJ additional. as to tho
quality Ut that revision tnndo by alr. Tuey, ton
CorrorntLon Counsel An1 iluw JuIlTr-rNrto o tuo
not III i extFt Jul, fnr which hD way pll sonu-
thing n addition to Ills rcvitsar snlAry, but as
nngt Of htA Dr.itn1fy Work-tAor0 bus tlnycr been
my question.
IT sroop rIlt: TEST OF TIME.
Examination and uto sailcd 10 reveal my g!ar-
x 5 Sss SS sfsGfs tA1s TSora wSh s sf'sS m 'Sp M
,hrt,uyh, iio tirnrtto nu!!lly s, nn nI.'cri'a,.d
ku0wnlAsid settled principles ot thu City ioyern-
ncnt. it wns HI ti!nlItaolu revision; clear. con.
sS %,o a1s s II, *FHx W s s cuegs % y a 1S yH1 M ,a
cstys Incorporating III IS1i uIiltcr tho nut,arul
ncf. It nayur w0liLl hnyu bctn MbandoueI; It
wolllll still tn retNincd Now, however, III 1881,
tho city IL called oil
TO FAY Sl9,0O0
for n revision. Tho number ot bnnke tnkon by
tho Csn1ncti mud tho prco paid fnr thutIl
ID substantially tho elln0 III III lBi.,
Int, willie tn thut cIse the royIser
Kat uothlIiR : fur gool work. hero
tno rovissr Kats y matter of x6o0o for sl,e ponr.
gwen uhuye, 1t IL r. spsl,ol .i!ultnlatratIt,n
itnll u GlrcIuha Cl,unGtl Wlai1h Will ButyHr such
tto Inns beel, caltct tn tt!s nHlter. atti ilo tls
put hls f.N't ,ltwE ~ THIS e1trnsnEant rxpcnl!-
Ii hot worth the shm charged for It, that INDY
will scarcely tlHvo ttlp hurtlihuu To ku nEeNd a
nuAlt tho 1Ill. t30O'l Wnrk Ia worth pnyinK for
doubtluas. aud whun Kuud Work IL t,,nlst,ed tho
Council by tho rovlstr-whc,l revision Is nude
which ts strniEht, a1sd Huunre, and currrct. whlsh
nrtl!uaMccs-iAo,,, and not TIL thon. should tho
Council lN4sE thD bill. -,
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
The Cause of Droughts.

The question is often asked why droughts are more common latterly than in former years. The main reason, we concede, however, to be because the forests have been cut down. The effects of forests upon the atmosphere are two fold. They fill the air with dampness, and again this dampness, when it is con- densed into clouds, is attracted by the forests. The roots of trees run deep into the ground and absorb the moisture that is contained in it considerable depth below the surface. This moisture, much of it at least, is evaporated by the leaves, and thus tue air is loaded with water. The amount of water that ia drawn up from the strata of the earth lower down than the roots of ordinary cultivated plants penetrate is enormous.
 This water, if not drawn up by the roots of trees, would gradually make it's way into creeks and rivers, and ulti- mately into the ocean. Cutting down the forests has two other effects, both of which result in decreasing the amount of rain. Dry and parching winds are unimpeded in their progress, and the resu 1t is that they carry off the moisture which is in the atmosphere. AnotEer result is that small streams of water have in many instances been en. tirely annihilated, except during the winter months. This has decreased the volume of water in the creeks and riv- CTS, and consequently decreased the at tractive force for the clouds and the amount of water evaporated from the surface of the earth in our particular section. - Cortland (N. Y.) Standard.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Garments Of Glass.

When Sarah Bernhardt made up her mind to visit this country she deter mined to wear on the stage some novel; ty that no other woman had ever worn. The genius of Worth was unequal to the demands of the artiste, and she was about to give the idea up in despair. At last one of her friends suggested raiment that was at once novel, beau tiful, original and practically possible.
 His idea was to array the divine Sarah in garments of spun glass, glorious in all the colors of the rainbow, not trans parent, but as flexible as the softest silk. The world laughed aud looked upon his idea as an advertising scheme. But Sarah encouraged him and at last it was announced that he had accomplished what the world deemed impossible. Messrs. Attlebury & Go. of this city, says the Pittsburg Telegraph, one of our prominent glass firms, are actually engaged in the manufacture of articles of dress from a material that is composed of 9 combination of glass and silk. Experiments have been carried on for the past few months in secret manner, and the firm has given the impression that they are now engaged in making some part O. Bernhardt's wardrobe. The firm obtained the secret of manufacture from the original dis coverer of the great secret. The articles are as flexible as cotton or silk, and can be washed or tied in knots. The ma- terial is not fragile, and is uninflamma- ble. The exact mode of manufacture will be kept secret for sometime yet.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Floating Grain Mills.

A correspondent, describing 8 trip down the Danube in Austria. says: :: The floating grain mills on the Danube are perhaps it's most curious feature. Fancy two canal boats moored parallel to each other, in mid-river, about fifteen or twenty feet apart, and supporting between them the crank of gigantic mill wheel, turned by the current of the stream. Fancy, moreover, the sides of one of these boats carried up one story higher than those of the other, then roofed over, a la Noah's Ark. with doors and windows as needed and you have fair idea of these Danube grain mills, some four or five thousand of which, in groups of ten or g dozen together, arc scattered along this watery highway, all the way down from Vienna to Belgrade. Each mill is in- scribed with it's owners name, and I found time in passing to copy one or two. such as "Juhas Istvany ces Lan- dos" and t Jonasvitch Makopoponi, '' as being curious samples of Magyar peasant nomenclature. As the steamer goes shooting by these mills, so close that the slow "clack, clack,' of the mill wheel is distinctly audible, it is amusing to note the inmates, looking for all the world like Humpty Dumpty in the play, rushing to their doors or win- dows to wave 9 salute. and have a look at the passengers.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
BeneyOIent MT. Wixham.

At 8 meeting of the Ladies' Renew olent society, held the other day, it was resolved that committee of four ladies be appointed to canvass for donations. and in the course of their perigrinations this committee yesterday dropped into Mir. Wixham's office. He received them as a gentleman should, and after the usual formalities one of them beg g4n:
 Mir: Wixham, we are asking aid for benevolent purposes"
 s'Ah! yes. Benevolence is 8 bump which should be cultivat d. Are you looking after poor folksp"
 We are."
 "Very proper-very proper. You all have children of your ownW
 "Oh. yes."
 "All of them are well-fed, well- clothed and well-cared for, are theyp"
 Yes, sir.''
 "That's very proper. I presume their stockings are properly darned, buttons in their places, and they say their pray CTS when they go to bedP Am I correctp"
 The women looked at each other in a sly way, and then at him, and one of them said:
 "We shall be happy for any contri- bution."
 "Yes'm, yes'm. You don't want this contribution for your own families, ehP"
 "No, sir!" answered four voices in | chorus.
 "Well, I am somewhat inclined to benevolence. Hardly day passes that don't do something for charity. Here's an old account of S26 against Mir. -. know he's hard up and having close time to get along, and yesterday I can celed the debt" | nf ha white and blue and looked out of the window. That was her husband, but Wixham didn't know it..
 And yesterday I found poor, for lorn-looking little boy out here crying with hunger and cold. He said his name was Tommy -, and he lived at No. 36 - street. He hadn't been washed or combed for week, and felt sad for him. l was going to take him home and feed him, but he slipped away.
 | Another woman suddenly looked out of the window, and her pulse ran up to 120 a minute, but Wixham was as in- nocent as lamb of any knowledge that it was her boy.
 "Then you won't aid usa" queried the spokesman.
 "Oh, yes, certainly I will. I was simply figuring to see how much could spare. l Slgned note WiGn MT. - last fall, and had to pay it yesterday. That makes me feel rather poor"
 The third woman didn't turn red, but green, but Wixham couldn't have posi- lively known that it was her usband.
 "Let's see. Let's see. want to give you all I can spare. MT. - on - street, owes me four months house rent, aud I'll give you an order on him for S2O."
 The four women rose up. They rushed in solid body tor the door. They went out in heap. Some were red and some were pale, and all mad. They tried to speak, but they couldn't, and as they hastened to get away from each other, Wixham held up the half-written order and gasped:
 How very, very singular! Perhaps they thought they couldn't collect the money. .n-Dttyoit Free Press.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Something New in Entomology.

Last Sunday as Mir. Jones was return ing from church with his family he dis covered new and singular looking bug on his front door step. As he was some thing Of a scientist he was naturally pleased with the new specimen, and, forming his pocket handkerchief into a sort of cage, he bounced down on 1t, and succeeded in capturing it.
 '' Bring the microscope, children" he called, "and tell your ma to hurry; 1 want her to look at it; I'm sure it be- longs to the Hempitera class and is 8 new specimen. Here, Charlie, put your eye to the ocular side and tell me what you see."
 "Oh, pa, ain't it splendid It's got four wings, eight eyes, and, oh, my l! ain't it 8 sparkler, though ? Red, and green, and yellow, and-oh! it's getting away, ain't it, pa ?"
 "Then it isn't dead 1" cried Mir. Jones, in ecstaey; wasn't quite sure whether it moved or not. Let me look! !! Yes! it's terrestrial, think, after all ; 1t belongs to the genus Pentatona-the autenn@ have that peculiar flexible look; and yet, now that 1 look again, the eyes seem to indicate that it is 8 phytocoris, in which case it will be very destructive to your mas plants. and we must kill it at once. I'll ask Professor Sill. It will be, in any case, a valuable addition to science. Maria, where's the chloroform ?"
 "Up on the clock shelf; what are you going to do with it." asked Mrs. Jones, who had been giving her undivided at- tention to the baby.
 " Xiii this bug as soon as you have examined it," answered MT. Jones. in q lofty voice. '' shall present it to the Detroit scientific association-"
 Well, guess not, Mir. Jones'" broke in his wife, who was looking with much interest at the new specimen. "I paid two dollars for that bug last week to wear on my new tonnet, and I must have dropped it off when I came in. 1t belongs to the genus miIliner@, and couldn't be any deader if it had been baked for century. Science will have to get along without it, Jones, it's al- ready classified" Poor Jonesi- Free pas0co
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
l777a77 Habits of inc Raayar

| am well acquainted with the habits of the Northern beaver. Several years ago l bought up several hundred acres of mining lands near the south shore of Lake Superior, in Ontonagon county, Mich. On Carp river, small stream that crossed part of my lands, the beavers had built several dams, and formed extensive ponds, in which they built their houses or lodges, as the h. dians call them. These lodges are built in water several feet in deIth, and the entrance is several feet under wa CT, but the floor ot the lodge is built at least two feet above high-water mark. The floor IS built solid from the bottom of the pond except the entrance.
 Although the beaver is warmly clad with long, fine fur, he is very sensitive to the cold, and rarely, if ever, leaves the pond or lodee during the cold weather. lie lays in his winter supply of food, which mainly consists of the bark of a certain species of poplar. He cuts down small trees and cuts them into short pieces of one foot or 8 little over in length and takes them into the pond These pieces of wood are dragged up into the lodge as often as food is needed. and the bark is gnawed off; and after being denuded of the bark they are by no means thrown away as useless, but are taken under the ice and carefully placed in the dam, to strengthen it.
 They built one dam little below the foot of Carp lake, which raised the lake thirty inches. The lake is small one; about one mile long and fourth of mile wide. l measured the stump of maple tree that they had cut down, and it measured fourteen inches in diameter. There were no less than eleven dams on the stream, all in sight of our buildings, where we were mining for copper.
 The beaver possesses great engineer ing skill, always building his dams in the form of an arch, giving it strength to resist the pressure of the water. The Indians used to tell me many singular traits of character that this animal pos sesses. Forest and Stream.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
A Successful Community.

Godin, Paris iron master, has con- bined community of work and the CO., operative store in a palais social he founded at Guise, near Compeigne, in 1860. Godin makes his workmen asso- ciates in his business, giving them twenty. .hve per cent of the net profit. l,200 persons in Q large mansion of three wings, each four stories high. There are extensive grounds and gardens, a hospital and a store where everything of the first quality can be had at nearly cost prices. The factory also employs women, suiting the hours to those caring for children; takes the boys as apprentices when they leave school, and boards and lodges the aged and inca pacitated for the good they have Gone.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
A Wicked Village.

I write this from country village containing about l 1000 inhabitants. It i5 a lovely little town, nestled on side hill to break of the raw winds of winter and the hurricanes of summer. When 1 arrived this morning 1t seemed to me as if there could not be a bad man or 8 scolding woman in the village, but four hours have passed, and am a wiser man. I came here to see old Mrs. Brown about pension she wants from the government, and when we had finished our business I said:
 '' I see you have four churches here"
 Yes; but we never have any sermons worth listening to-"
 "The men look intelligent and smart
 "Humpn! They are regular pokes! There isn't man in Farmville who knows enough to ask boot in horse trade"
 But the women look happy" pro- tested.
 s'Then they look what they ain't." she answered. q don't believe there is 8 happy woman in the whole village. If you knew of the awful carvings on here you wouldn't look for happy wives"
 "What awful things do the men dop"
 You'd better ask what they don't do! It's wonder to me that Farmville
  Gommorrow."
 Do they drinkP"
 Do theyP Didn't I see even old Deacon Harris weaving this way and that as he climbed the hill last evening" It's slippery path, of course, but sober men don't climb a hill sideways"
 Do they gambler"
 Gamble What did Mrs Potts tell me that her brothers wife told Mrs Davis not 8 month agop Four of the leading men in the place were caught playing checkers for the soda water. That's 8 nice example, isn't it!'
 ''Is Mrs. Potts nicep"
 "Nice! Why, she's the: worst gossip in town! It's a wonder the men don't ""sH And nd Mrs. M s DavisP" '"'
 "She's hypocritel She'll talk sweet to your face, and abuse you behind your back"
 "Mrs. George is well spoken of"
 By whom? I've known her fifteen years, and never heard 8 human being speak well of her! She eats opium and lies like trollop'
 "Isn't Mrs. McHenry all rightP"
 All right? Why, no one can live in the house next to her."
 'Tne postmaster seems like good man." 1 ventured to remark.
 "Good man! Why, my husband al ways believed he was the very man who threw yaller dog down our well! I don't say that he steals letters, but know that when sent two three-cent stamps in letter to my daughter in Illinoy, she never got it.
 But there must be one good man herep"
 "There must, eh! Well, I wish you d pint him out to me. I'd like to polish up my spectacles and take good look him"
 And isn't there one faultless woman?"
 Well, don't want to seem vain and conceited, because none of us are long for this world, but I expect m the faultless one you are inquiring after !"
 l think shall go out on the evening train. Mrs. Brown says that every house and lot is mortgaged, every busi- ess man is ready to bust" and every family has at least one scandal about them. On my way over to the post office an hour ago 1 asked 3 grocer if he knew old Mrs. Brown.
 Know her !' Why, she's 8 gossip, liar, hypocrite and a dead-beas, and too lazy to change her stockings more than twice 8 year.-M. Quad.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Foreign News.

M. ANDERwERT, who was recently elect d president of the Swiss confederation for 1881, committed suicide in the public promenade at Berne, Switzerland, by shooting himself with a revolver.
 MINE at St. Etienne, France, has been the scene of fatal fre-damp explosion. Eleven bodies were recovered shortly after the explosion took place.
 FLOODS have caused great destruction ot property in Corunna, Spain.
 HE sum of SS70,000 has been collected for the defense of the indicted Irish hand leaguers
 THE trial of Parnell and thirteen other lead CTS of the Irish land league was commenced in the Dublin court of queens bench before an immense crowd. Not since the trial of Daniel O'Connell in 1844 has there been wit. messed such scenes of excitement. The first days proceedings consisted of the impaneling of jury and the opening of the case by the attorney-general.
 GALE, an English pedestrian, undertook to walk 2,500 miles in 1000 hours, but broke down after covering 2,233 miles of his pro- posed feat
 SEVEN persons were killed and fifty injurel by the falling in of the roof of church at Laillagot, France.
 A NUMBER of soldiers have been severely beaten by crowd which filled the streets of Westport, Ireland.
 JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, president of the London board of trade, has received letter from Dublin threatening the lives oi himself, MT. Gladstone and John Bright, if they con- tinue to oppose coerciye measures against Ireland.
 IT is supposed that the British steamer Montgomeryshire, from Cardiff bound to Singapore via the Suez canal, has been lost with her crew of thirty men on the coast of Portugal, as steamer has been wrecked near Figueira, and Wreckage with the name < Montgomeryshire has been washed ashore.
 HE British steamer Garnet, of London, was wrecked in the North sea during gale, and all hands, numbering seventeen persons, perished.
 BROKEN dikes in Holland have flooded eighteen villages, doing an immense amount of damage,
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Josh BllIings, YYisdorn .

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
 There IS 8 great deal of religion in this world that is like life-preservcr. only put on at Ihe moment of danger and tilen half the time put on hind side before
 Experience is a school where a man learns what big fool he has been.
 The man who doesn't believe in any hereafter has got dreadfully mean opinion of himself and his chances.
 There are two kinds of fools in the world--those who can't chanae their opinions and those who won't.
 A good doctori is a gentleman to whom we pay three dollars visit for advising us to eat less and exercise more.
 Out in tho world men show us two sides to their characters; by the fireside only one.
 The world is fitting up with educated fools = mankind read too much and learn too little.
 Every man has his follies and often- times they are the most interesting things he has got.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05

A WASHINGTON dispatch says that from the statistics of population now published and other data it may be predicted with good de- gree of certainty that the total population ot this country wil be found to be almost pre- cisely fifty millions, probably few thousands in excess.
 THE President has decided to accord Whit taker-,he colored West Point cadet who was declared by the authorities al that institution to have mutilated himselt-auother hearing, and court-martial will be ordered.
 MIR. A. S. LOGAN, ineal descendant oi the celebrated Indian chief of the Six Nations of that name, has been appointed by Secretary Schurz to a position in the interior depart ment.
 THE Ponca chiefs left Washington for Carlisle, Penn, to visit the Ponca children at the Indian industrial school, and thence pro- ceeded directly to their reservation in the Indian Territory.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
From Washington

THE treasury department has directed the transfer Of $3 999, 800 in gold bullion from the assay office in New York to the Philadelphia mint, for coinage into eagles and half-eagles. Alter this transfer there will still remain in the New York assay office about $63 1000, ,000 in gold bullion, more than enough to keep the Philadelphia mint employed for six months in coining gold exclusively.
 THE following statement shows the popula- ing to the United States census of 1880. This statement is still suhject to possible correction by reason of the discovery of omissions or duplication of names in the lists ot inhabitants returned:
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Wora fnSnen

Before you begin your heavy spring work after winter of relaxation, your system needs cleansing and strengthening 10 prevent an attack of Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or some other spring sickness that will unfit yon for a seasons work. You will save time, much sickness and great expense ii you will use one bottle of Hop Bitters in your family this month. See other column.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
GREAT HORSE MEDICINE.

< DR. TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT in pint bottles SO cents B years established It is the best in the world for the cure of Coe Old Sores pains, Bruises, Sore Throats etc. TOBIAS CONDITION POWDERS are warranted to DisempeT, Fever Worms Bots; give fine coat; increase the appetite and cleanse the urinary organs. Certified to by Col D. McDaniel of of the fastest running horses
 in the world, and 1000 others. 2J cents. Sold by drug gists. Depot-41 Murray Street, New York
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Tn. riax Housswife.

The careful, tidy housewife, when she ii giving her house it's spring cleaning, should bear in mind that the dear inmates of her house arc more precious than houses, and that their systems need cleansing by purifying tho blood, regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent and cure the diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma, and che should know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely as Hop Bitters, the purest and best of ali medicines. See other column.
 You can't comet" she remarked to him, as he tried to snatch a kiss from her rosy lips, as they were out star ailLe Sentinel.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05

A Physician Of Great Prominence In Thirty-slxth street, New York city, was unable to even help Mir. Wm. Mckee, of Pater- son, N. J, suffering the agonies always at tendant upon diseased Kidneys. As an honest man and practitioner he prescribed and cured him by using one bottle of War ner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05

s'In choosing wife," says an ex- change, "be governed by her chin. ]" The worst of it is that after choosing q wife, one is apt to keep on being gov erned in the same way.-Meradss Re-
The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05

Much valuable time is save by promptly treating Cold at its first appearance. Moth. ing takes the place of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup for Coughs, Colds. Irritation of Throat, etc Price 25 cents.