Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-08-25

FACTS AND COMMENISs
The United States dollar of 1904 sells
for $500. IT the government officials
had known how highly these coins were
TO be valued they might have made a
grand speculation by turning out few
millions of them. As it was they
thought eight would "meet the busi-
ness wants of the country" and eight
they made.
A correspondent of London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun dried grass or heat
at this time of the year, as the bottoms
Of such bottles frequently act as burn
ing glasses. The Australi MS know that
extensive and damaging brush fires
have taken place in Australia In conse-
quence of broken bottles having been
carelessly thrown down among the dried
scrub.
From the year 1876 to the present
date 176 murders have been committed
in Chicago. Of these, as is the case
generally, nearly one-ha1f were com
mitted in the hot months-June,
July, August and September, chiefly in
July and August. Only two of the 176
murderers were hung for the crime
But in that year, 1878, one of the hot
test summers known. the number of
murders decreased, from thirteen in
the summer Of 1877, to six; increased
next year to nineteen, and this year
bids fair to exceed it.
The Main Exhibition building at
Philadelphia, which cost 81, 800, 900 to
erect, was recently sold at auction for
$97, 1000. Its sale calls to mind the long
and disastrous effort to maintain per-
manent exhibition within its walls with
some of the shells and vestiges of the
great Centennial fair. The scheme
was doomed to failure from the begin
ming, but it was heroically supported
for four years by company Of Phila-
delphia gentlemen who have paid dearly
for their enthusiasm. Nowhere has q
large permanent industrial and art ex-
hibition been successful save at Syden-
ham, near London, and that has in its
favor the attractiveness of the Crystal
palace and It's park as a point for ex-
cursions, and the immense population
of the British metropolis close at hand.
A handbook giving general account
of the Jews, just issued by DR.. r.
Andree, estimates their total number
throughout the world at about 6, 100, 900.
Only 100000 of the race are to be found
in Asia, 400, 600 in Africa, 100000 in
America, and 10000 in Australia. The
great majority of the race, more than
100000, live in Europe. Roumania
contains far larger number of Jews in
proportion to its population than any
other European country, namely, IA
per cent; while Norway contains only
"a individuals of the race. The local
distribution of the Jewish population in
different countries is traced out with
great pains by DIR. Andree. Thus, in
some of the government districts of
Russian Poland the Jewish inhabitants
constitute from 13 to is per cent. of the
population. Although for the whole of
Germany the Jewish element is only
70 IL per cent. of the population, in
the city of Berlin it has increased to
nearly 5 per cent.
There is nothing small about the
nawab of Gondal in India. He has
chosen seven youthful and lovely brides
from among the daughters of the Con
dal aristocracy, and has made arrange
ment to lead them to the altar, one
after another, upon seven successive
days. 1t will be the pleasing duty OF
each bride, progressively and in regular
rotation, to attend the weddings cele-
brated subsequent to her own, SO that
the first lady of the series will enjoy
the unusual privilege of witnessing
seven nuptial ceremonies, in all OF
which she will be more or less directly
interested, within the limits of single
week. The seven-fold bridegroom,
however, has bestowed upon all his
brides wedding dresses and ornaments
of identical material, design and value.
The rooms they are destined to occupy
in his palace are all furnished exactly
alike; and the accident of seniority, as
regards the mere date of their respect
i've marriage ceremonies, is not to carry
with it any precedence at court.
The time is not far distant when, ac-
cording to scientific geographers (who
certainly ought to know, the passage
across the. Atlantic will only occupy
four days. This will not be, as one may
hastily suppose, on account of improve
ments in steam power, electricity or
any such out Of the way attempts, but
simply because in time the American
continent will be something quite diff
ferent from what it is to-day. The
coast of New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island is rising, the land round
the Bay of Fundy4 is sinking. Green
land is slowly sinking along line Of
900 miles; New Jersey and the coasts
to the east are rising, and on the Pa
cifc there is 8 subsistence Of water.
The American continent must in time
project to the North Pole. Hudson's
Bay will be a fruitful valley, with just 8
lake or two to keep up the waterJ
character Of the place, the Newfound-
land banks will become arid and St
Georges bank will be part of the main.
land. The coast line Of all oceanic
States will be carried out to the ipnel
edge of the gulf stream.
The Conductor.
What an alert type of men the con
ductOrs on the steam railroads are