The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

pronounce in the language.
"A man in the northern part OF
Maine recently moved a barn After
the building had been raised on rollers
the mar placed himself underneath
the building aud turned it around.
1t is said there are twenty cen
tenarians in Paris, the most noted
being NJ. Chevreul, the famous chem
ist. OF the twenty. four are bachelors,
one a benedict, four are %widowers, one
a maiden lady, one a married woman
and seven are widows.
Members Of a church at Adrian,
Mich, have been supporting an old
widow there for years. The other day
she went on a spree when she boosted
that she had been saving the money
received from the church for that pur-
pose. An investigation showed that
she possessed four hundred dollars.
"A lady OF Kansas City had u large
mole on her cheek which she regarded
as Il disagreement. She didn't like
her teeth, and had them all extracted.
Brooding over her imaginary personal
~plainness she became morbid, and
leaving written directions to ''iS me
up to look as nice as you cam she in
hailed a half pound Of chloroform and
died.
"A resident OF Litehfield. Conn,
who carved his initials thirty-fve
years g on the limb of an apple tree,
found the souvenir the other day just
as a piece of the tree was going into
the fire. The gentleman has often
looked for the initials but they had
disappeared from the surface. a short
time ago the tree was cut down, and
the letters, as found, must have been
about four inches from the surface.
Two innocent looking farmers were
arrested the other day at Pittsburgh
and taken to the police station, where
they were asked to disclose the on
tents of a small satehel they were
carrying. Five thousand dollars in
good greenbacks,' they replied. The
satchel was opened, and was found to
contain old newspapers. for which the
verdant countrymen had paid $40,
thinking they getting counter
felt bills.
in some parts of Africa q mans
wealth is judged by the number of his
wives. a man with sixty wives is
looked upon as a sort of bonanza king.
His wives probably 90 out washing at
fifty cents a day, or make shirts at
forty cents a dozen. In this country Il
mans wealth is judged by the number
of dogs he owns, The possessor OF
eight dogs is generally too poor TO
pay school tax, and his wife takes in
washing.-Dra1e'S Hagaztne.-
Tho members OF a Naugatuck
Comm family were awakened the
other night by the screams of a young
woman who dreamed some one had
kissed her. The father of the family
appeared with a lamp in one hand and
a revolver in the other. No man
could be found, but the daughter said
one must have been about, as she felt
his moustache. The mystery was
thoroughly solved when 4 pet kitten
emerged from behind a pillow.
The Statue of Liberty on Bedloe
Island has wonderful attractions for
the swarms of birds that are at present
migrating southwark. They become
attracted by the glare of the electric
light, and rushing headlong upon it
are killed in great numbers. The
other morning no less than five hun
bred birds were picked up at the base
OF the statue. Twenty-Five distinct
species were counted. Nearly all Of
them were small, and most of them
were ''yellow' birds. A red-feaded
w~oodpecker, two cat birds and several
English sparrows were among the
slain.
In a recent scientific discussion of
'Benevolence' it was said: "Exper-
fence is showing O and more that
those who are supposed to stand in
need of all this voluntary b%enevolence
derive but little real advantage from
it; that, on the contrary. it further
weakens their already defective char
acters, and tends to make their condi-
ton one of chronic and constitutional
dependence on the assistance Of others.
The time, we hold. has now come,
when, broadly speaking, the best thing
any man a do is TO hold himself
erect, to practice a high-mindcd justice
in his relations with his fcllow-men,
and to esehew all modes of action cal
culated to encourage others to expect
that they may reap where they have
not sown."
The most plausible view, among
many doctors was that badness was
especially liable to follow the wearing
Of a tight-ftting hat, the blood vessels
being CONSTRUCTED and the scalp de-
prived OF the necessary supply of blood.
But this view has been controverted by
Il fact brought to light about the Par
sees of India. The Parsees are COM
PEELED to keep the head covered during
the day by a hat SO tight as to crease
the scalp and possibly the skull, and
at night they wear skull cap; and
yet not one of them has been knownt to
be bald. The Orientals say that worry
causes the hair to fan, and it may be
true in some cases. The general state
of health naturally affects the scalp,
but the fact remains that no special
cause can be given for baldaess.
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