The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-31
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Items of Interest.

On an average between six and seven
hundred dwellings are burned every
month in this country.
Phoenix, Arizona, contains among her
inhabitants family who are half white
and half Chinese, which suggests added
complications for the census taker.
New articles of export, from Norway,
are the skeletons of Lapps. Fifty-two
of them were lately found in Russian
Iapland and sold to museums in Europe
at $50 apiece.
A German industry is the coloring of
meerschaums The pipe or cigar holder
is suspended in n tightly closed box, and
smoke from damp, strong, black tobacco
is blown over and through it until the
desired color is gained.
The Walnut Street Theatre, Philadel-
phia, 70 years old, is the Oldest theatre
in America 1t was originally built i'll
M outskirt; it is now i'll the centre of
wealth, life and fashion. The building
OF the theatre was begun i'll 1903.
George Gordon, of Modesto, CAL, is
the owner of q small show i'll itself. He
has horse with horns like those of COW
growing just in front OF its ears, Il pig
with eight distinct legs and feet and a
chicken with four legs.
NJ N. Foster, farmer living near
G,lifor,,,o hos l,npr Ivbinl,
spends his time with flock of geese.
Every day when the geese go into Il pond
for their accustomed swim, the hog
plunges i'll at the same time, and .re-
mains as long rs the geese do.
The remarkable petrifed forests of
Arizona are being worked by Western
stock corporation that manufactures
jewelry, mosaics and other ornaments
from the siliceous wood. The colors in
clude black, white, red. green, yellow
aud brown, and cn hardly be distin-
guished from moss agate or onyx.
There is o curious series of trees on the
farm of Mrs P. Mariner of Penn Yam.
The original tree, an elm, was blown
down over 80 years ago. The trunk,
which remains, is So feet long, and from
this trunk row of 26 young trees have
sprung, many of which are fully so feet
high. The young trees seem like bran
ches from the old trunk, but they are
well-grown perfect trees
A curious Indian, in Belleyille, On
tario, recently placed two ties and q
bowder across the track of the Grand
Trunk railway SO that he could see them
fly when the express train came along.
The ties failed to fly, however, and the
train came near being wrecked. Sub
sequently he was arrested and convicted
for attempting to wreck II train, and re-
ceived light sentence i'll the county
jail.
Catholicism is making considerable
Roadway among the negroes and at
Baltimore there is convent for colored
women. At present it has thirty two
professional nuns two novices and one
postulant. Before an applicant can be-
come professed nun, she must stay six
months as a postulunt, then eighteen adj
ditional months rs novice, after which
nun.
Bury me in sight of dear old Boston,
was the dying request of Americas great
actress, Charlotte Cushman, says the
Hartford Times And how faithfully
that wish has been gratihed. On slop-
ing bank. in full view of the gilded dome
of the state house and the piles of brick
and granite which cover the hills on
which Boston is built, is an ivy covered
grave, and the tall, unpublished granite
shaft bears the words Charlotte Cush-
man."
At the funeral of wealthy Chinaman
in Carson, recently, the chief mourners
threw small parcels, done up in rice
paper, from the wagons as they passed
along the streets. No one paid any at
tention to this proceeding until street
Arab picked up one of the parcels and
found that it contained Il dime. In a
moment the street was thick with boys
picking up the little treasures, ana over
$50 are known to have been obtained in
the small coins.
1t is reported that private company
i'll Chicago has, by hiring the clerks in
the recorders Office to work nights,
secured complete copy of the little
books. He proposes to sell the infor-
nation thus obtained to lawyers and real
estate agents at less than the official fees.
The recorder regards this piece of en-
terprise so seriously that he will not ac-
cept a denomination holding that the
value of the office will be deprecated by
the competition.
A painful instance of the great distress
experienced by some families i'll Sun
derland, England, is reported in the
Newcastle Chronicle A lady who kept a
pig in the west part of the town, having
her suspicious aroused, kept watch upon
her stye, and was surprised at dusk to
see a man and woman approach the
trough and scoop ont the bread, etc,
which had been put in for the animals
meal The lady follove1 tha counIa 10