Items Of Interest

Mrs. Sarah Stouch hanged herself to a picture nil at Perkasie, Pa. The enormous size and massive structure of native houses is among the recent surprising discoveries of explorers among the villages - inhablted by numerous warlike tribes - scattered along the streams of New Guinea. Houses 300 to 400 feet long and 100 feet high, among the largest in the world, are reported to be not uncommon. From Tunis comes a queer story of an insult offered to the Franch fiag by an Italian innkeeper, who had a couple of plgs killed at the public slaughter-house and then removed in a cart which was decorated with French flags. The French vice-consul lost no time in interfering, and the offending innkeeper was pardoned after he had written a humble letter of apology. A direct descendant of the old elm tree which cast shadows over William Penn and the Indian chtefs during the famous session when the Penn treaty was drawn up has been planted in Philadelphia by Chief Elsenhower of the bureau of city property directly on the spot which the old tree is supposed to have occupied. The old treaty elm stood on the Vandusen estáte, which has since been formed into Penn Treaty park, and shoots from the tree have been carefully treasured by the Vandusen family.