The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-07-06
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eaters.
A croquet tournament is proposed in llli-
nos.
The .'oldest inhabtant" of New Jersey is
ITO years old.
There are Indian as well as negro Free
Masons in Iowa.
The total cost of the Boston water works
has been 50, 765, 959.
Many of the richest planters of Jamaica
live on coffee grounds.
The King OF Burmah is known as "his
Golden Footed Msjesty."
One fifth of the meat consumed by the
Parisians consists of veal.
An ''uky warfare is announced among
Sunday editors in Indiana.
The Northwestern States consumed ], 600.
600 bales Of the cotton crop OF 1869.
Boston wants pneumatic despatch line
between that city and New York.
\ Burdentown (N. J. y spinster has used
al umbrella for twenty-five years.
A Polish count is working as q journe y
man harness maker in Galesburg, Ill.
a divorced Indianian has remarked aud
eng ,ged his first wife as chamber maid.
Out Of 100 native born Parisians there
remains at 20 years OF age but 50 living.
Quaker merliugs have tcen re-establshed
in Bos on. after u cessation for many years.
Now Denver paper comes ont and
prints Prince Erie's name .'Jimphisqne. :"
Thirty PER cent. of the population in
France, it is said, can neither read or write.
The Cincinnati police grumble because
they are no longer allowed to smoke whi 10
on duty.
Springfield, Ohio, has the champion por-
ter, who can smash DC 500 pound trunk un-
assisted.
A young woman born without arms is ex-
citing the curiosity Of Altoona curiosity
seekers.
A paper is published in the Cherokee
Nation, one page Of which is printed in the
Indian tongue.
The King of Prussia has, at the garden at
Bablesber, fifty white mice, which be often
watches for hours.
A vocal critic complains that nature has
given too much voice to Sioux Indians and
New York milkmen.
a man in Council Bluffs is both q liuuor
saloon keeper and an undertaken. One bust.
ness helps the other.
Toe cholera has been raging fearfully in
British India, and the smell from one Of the
rivers there is ffightfu.
The delegates from Great Britain 10 the
Evangelical Council at New York will mum
bt'r between 800 and 400.
The Chicago Young Mems Christian
Association found emp Ioymeut the past
year for over five thousand men.
The Darien Canal surveyors are said to
have discovered only slight traces Of gold,
but plenty Of indications OF copper.
There are s7,225 members of the temper
ance organization in the United States ex-
elusive Of the Father Mathew societies.
The machinery used in the State OF Mas
sachusetts is capable Of doing the work o.
more than hundred millions of men.
The village of Burlington, Wisconsin
boasts OF not having single loafer in it.
every one having employment and work. na
steadily atit
A lady at Beloit, Wisconsin, few days
since, found in tho nest of q setting her
four yonng kittens who had not got theil
eyes oren.
The first gold mine in the United States
was discovered in Meadow Gre elk Cabarras
county, North Carolina, in 1893, by Conrad
Reed. =
The Washcrwomen of Paris have jus,
joined in the trade ''slrike" movement
which is extending in that city and al
over France.
Henry McShelton. u brave soldier boy
l,wbO was supposed to have been killed al