The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-22
Itemical.

John Mccullough, whose father was
evicted from a small Irish farm, says
America is the best country not only
for actors, but for everybody else.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster has presented
to MI. G. F. Williams, of Boston, the
armchair and table used by her Illus
trious father-in.la in his Marshfield
study.
Blue jays, which some years ago
were rarely seen except in the woods,
are now found in the groves around
the churches and schools OF the New
England cities. They have been
driven in by the pot hunters.
Between the forks of the San Joa-
quin and Kings River, in California,
is a moving glacier of clear blue ice,
one mile long, half a mile wide and
100 feet thick, which travels about ten
feet a year northward.
OF all the Roman Catholic clergy
men in the United States in 1884, it is
said that the only one now living is
the Rev. Father Hsnermans, who
celebrates the ffty-third anniversary
of his ordination and the forty-first of
his present p~astorate, st. Mary's, Troy,
New York.
The bronze statue of Lafayette or
which Mr.. j. @. A. Ward is now at
work will cost 25, 900, and on its COM
pletion, in September, will be present
ed by j. P. Howard. of Burlington,
VT, to the University of Vermont, the
cornerstone of which institution was
laid by the French patriot in 1926.
The Liverpool Mercury reports the
death at Sulby, May IS. of Thomas
Anderson at the age of 107 years. His
wife died last year at ninety-eight
years Of age, after a married life ex-
tending over eighty. four years. Up to
within a fortnight of his death he was
able to walk about and converse intel
ligently about the events of his long
life.
A bequest of S25 900 worth of real
estate, left by the late Mrs. Robert B.
Bowler, of Clinton, Ohio, in 1865, to
found a Professorship of Natural Sci
ences in Kenyon College, at Gambler,
has been increased by Its sale and ju-
dicious management of the proceeds
to $51 500, and the college has just re-
ceivea the last installment of the pay
meuts.
Mr.. Seth Green regrets to say that
owing to the state of finances at the
disposal of the Fish Commission, and
the failure to get our appropriation in
time. we have been obliged to aban-
don shad culture for the past two sea-
sons. This is greatly deplored by the
Fish Commission, and the decrease of
shad In the Hudson will be felt accord
ingly in due time"
At = country house where l was Wis
iting afew years since, q stately major
domo, bearing the name of MacMahon,
reigned owe the cellar. "Are you a
relation of the Marshal's ?" jokingly
said a friend whs was with me. "No,
sir" was the grave reply "the French
President is of our younger house;
we are the MacMahons of Glare ~
Tableau London World.
In a recent trial in Ottawa, Canada,
a police officer testified that respecta
BILE women did not wear black cash
mere NANTES, blue dresses or hats of
the description worn by the defend.
ant, aud that the latter's clothes were
too fashionable for respectable women;
but he subsequently modified this as.
sertion BY saying that the clothes were
only "middling fashionable"
From France an extraordinary tri.
cycle journey Ia reported to have been
made by the Vice President of the
Lyons Bicycle Club, accompanied by
his wife. They travelled in one of the
~two-seated tricycles from Lyons to
Nice, Genoa, Rome and Naples, and
home again through Florence and
Turin. The entire distance is about
1900 miles, and they averaged between
so and GU miles q day.
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