The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-05
Items of Interest.

In England they are building houses out
of paper In this country great many
houses are built on paper.
A man offered $40, 900 for license to sell
LIQUOR at wholesale in Westfeld, Mass, for
five years, but the authorities refused
Solomon s. Gray the pioneer manufac-
turer of paper collars, died at Natick, Mass
recently, in the fifty-ninth year of his age.
DR.. Bigelow of Boston has won the high
est of the rgenteuil prizes t$l, 200 for
medical treatise sent to the Paris Academy OF
Medicine.
franklin Pierce's old home, in the out
skirts of Concord, N. H., is to be trans
formed into q Protestant Episcopal school
for girls.
Three factories in the United States con-
sumo nearly two million eggs year in MAX
ing peculiar kind of paper used by photo
graphers.
Rabbits are supposed to be very harmless
little animals, but they have already cost the
Colony of Victoria between $50, 0o0 900 and
S25,00o,0oo.
Gypsies really do steal children outside OF
fiction. Boston small boy was taken by a
strolling band, and kept ten days before his
parents found him.
An English manufacturer was lately fined
$3.50 for an infringement of the factory act
The Inspector had found forty-fye women
in the mill seven minutes after the hour for
closing.
Frederick Douglass denies the statements
that he is worth 100000 or $3.50, 200, and
declares that both his fortunes and his
annual income are very greatly over est.
mated.
When it is generally known that female
student has been expelled from New York
college for inordinate use of tobacco, the
fitness of women for higher education will
be no longer questioned
One of the pretty school marms Of Dakota
has sued three young men for breach of
promise, two school trustees for her salary,
and now threatens to sue any newspaper
that speaks disparagingly about her.
Charlottesville, Va, printer has written
1852 legible words on q postal card with a
lead pencil, reserving in the centre of the
card space the size of q gold dollar, on
which is inscribed the Lords Prayer
New York doctors have found that pneu-
monia increases every year, and note as
curious fact that the malady prevails In the
months of the highest winds. and that the
number of deaths increase ns the wind in
creases.
doctor in California claims that the
Juice of eucalyptus leaves caused the hair to
crow on his bald head He was in the habit
of pounding the leaves to pulp, which he
applied to his head for the headache, when
new crop of hair appeared.
piece of rose point lace at the London
aquarium, 81 yards long, is valued at S.
900. There are 96 sprays to each inch of
the fabric. and each spray cost two days
labor, showing that it required seven years
work of a skilled workman to complete the
trihe.
lady in Washington owns the wedding
vest buttons and knee-buckles of Light
Horse Harry" Lee They are made of opals
nurmounted with diamonds. She also has a
piece of his watch-chain, which he broke one
evening while waltzing with her grand
mother.
London consumes 80, 000,00 quarts of
milk annually At recent meeting of the
milk farmers" the complaint was made that
there is difference of 100 per cent in the
prices paid to the producer and those paid
by the consumer; also that barely 10 per
cent of the milk is sold pure.
NJ Ferd. Reiber of Strasburg has publish
ed book on beer in which he states that
it has already invaded the south of France
and is rapidly making its way into Italy. He
gives curious reason for the fact. Beer
is the only liquor" he says (which one
can drink and enjoy while smoking"
No one who has any bits Of old net lace
which her mother or grandmother might
have darned figures upon, or sprigged, as
the English say, years ago, would have been
much tempted to wear them lately; but
since it has become new fashion under the
title of Pompadour lace there will be a
rage for hunting it up.
In Breslau, chimney shaft fifty feet high
is composed entirely of paper pulp, which
has been chemically impregnated SO as to
resist combustion. Paper has been put to
some extraordinary uses, but this is perhaps
the most astonishing violation of precon
ceiyed ideas yet attempted The next thing
in order now will be gun-cotton crucibles.
Prof Cohn of Breslau believes that slate>
lead to shortsightedness, and would substi
tute pen and ink, or an artificial white slate
with black pencil, manufactured in Pilsen
Black or white is proved by experiment to
stand out most clearly to the eye. The
Zurich School Board forbids states. They
are noisy and invite dirty habits in era
sure.
John Brown has left diary which, if
published, will require considerable editing
1t is not probable it will ever appear. Gre
vile and Wilberforce have proved enough
for one generation. 1t is a fact that
ottaonrfa were made Iv one of tle T,Ju1I.-