The Penn's Grove record., 1882-12-30
items Of Interest,

digesdble albumen as oae hens ess.
Some families in New York have gor-
geously-miformed private messenger boys
A d-rawing-room in Fifth avenue, New
York, has a s., 900 ceiling of cathedral
glass.
A living in Fail River, Mass, has
had five husbands. The divorce court
has been kinder than death to her-or to
her husbands.
In Italian has invented a process for solidi-
flying vine. a small quantity Of the sub
stance, stirred in water, reprodaces the arti-
Gle in its original shape.
Not only did a Michigan woman lose her
husband by clopemont, but his companion
in disht was the hardy servant girl, and no
took along an able-bodied son, leaving a
helpless cripple with his wife.
Tie shock Of finding out that her lover
was a horse thief, instead Of the rich gentls-
Uan that he lad represented himself to be,
c1,r6~ tho reason Of a girl 4 Dallas,
Texas. A>week later her father followed
her to the asylum, crazed by sympathy and
grief.
show that the education of German recruits
has been yearly on the increase since 1875.
In TINT year 2.37 per cent. of the re-
cruits could neither read nor write. In
1881 the percentage of ilhterates had sunk
to l.54
No slight indignaiion-bas been caused in
patriotic circles at Paris by the news that
the French residents in Berlin intend af-
fixing a memorial tablet to the house in
which Yola,re chiefly lived waen in berlil,
Us TIE Court fool, SO to speak, Of Frederick
Tie Great.
An old resident Of Providence wrapped
kerosoac-soakei bandagas about his rhou-
inatic shoulders the other evening, and sat
down near sho stove, 20 get relief from his
pain. TIE hont set Ere TO the bandagcs,
and lie man was Terribly burned before they
c2ad be removed.
Green pippius and golden russets grow
III tie same bough Of an apple-tree in a
.a7.lea at Hariinsburg. Ky. Some Of the
a,P.e are ono-hslf pippins and the other
ssI} r.ss.s. The pippins, being the largest
g., , over The @russe,s, giving the fruit the APP
p,~sare Of great acorns.
Tine aoket-of- lenve system is to be intro
draal at tie Michisnn State Reform School
:ar ,urls at Adrian. Girls who have made
, COOS records will hereafter be released on
parole, and allowed to go out to service. A
portion of thsir wages will be placed to their
credit. and Il they behave well, they will be
discharged.
Pigeon races are SO popular in Belgium
FRAT in the province of Liege alone 81, $50
: - ricr pigeons we're sent by rail in March,
! 36Z, $50 III April, $50, 500 in May, 2G9, 900 i n
J ane, and $1,000 dining the first three
weeks in July, making q total Of more than
one million for less than Ave months,
More than d thousand railway .yappss Hire III
Ion.
The people around the Hebron (Ky.)
acAooLhouse see every few days a wild man
IN that vicinity. Tie is seen at the school
house before and after school hours, and
as he mover visits any house, or even
peai. it Is supposed that his food con-
! isaa Of to,ss herbs and the scraps thrown
way by de children. His clothes are tat
ere.l corn and dirty, and his appearance is
aot pleasant
4 woman Of Gaarlestown, Mass, while
Irgsl her dying f.sSer, began to abnse
i've o,her children, am yowed that they
tlog1a never have a cent oiNthe old mans
sea, as she would control hit in making q
He bslaeathed all his properly TO her,
be had said, but her owa words have
3so acotp'1i III court As proot that she un-
"a .eucal ms enfaenlsd mmd, and the
III e&a ueeu SCI aside. ,
} canary bird at Virgins, Nevada, five
e0.s 81 AZ. hid never sang a note. A few
e,a ago is o,yaer req e,ted a friend to
q sans chloroforin aud XIII the bird, as he
,elleyed it was either dumb or troubled with
ONE impeachment Of the vocal organs. The
lext day the bird suddenly burst forth in
ms, and hardly stopped to take breath all
~. l: is not only a fine singer, bui has a
no different from any other bird of its spe-
rs T11Te is hardly a canary note in its
ons. I. now siass daily.
A woman was Ill, in Pittsburgh, and q
.san convinced hor that she was b~ewitched.
Ia Undertook the job of releasing her from
10 spell. Under his direction, the room
a Which She lay was 'sgept nina miauights
II succession, lie s~weepin3s bclug left il the
iai@es, corner, where they were beaten nino
nsalng nights with brooinsticks. lie gave
icr medicines, too, assuring Ler alls DIZZY
@ere composed Of various revolving iagresh-
mrs. Size died, and he Is to b prosecused
fer dJtt2iins ~ lout a diploma.
4, Iroiylle and tie other Norman water.
i9s places lhoy have been a.arsing a new
>.yie of ucins crab crawling in oppesi-
aaa TO Newmarket. Considerable SUMS
lage changed hands over lie crab hanli-
Crabs catered to oraNl are duly
in their owners colors aud weighed,
the heavier give the lighter 50 much
.a1ft over o course of twenty-five yards.
the starter gives the signal, tine
'rabs, winch are held Town by their owners
y 49, si--N rsse, tsIlu upgAe unelr
say, III a sidelonls seutsling manner, to
lie sea, where the crab who passes q post
.yst wins.