The Penn's Grove record., 1884-11-15
NEWS IN BRlEF.

-lhers are 3 ~lCeldAdeT5 Ia Mani
tOba engaged as farmers.
Louisiana has about eighteen bill
lion feet Of pine Ii her forests.
Chicago is complaining Of the over
erowding OF its wide sidewalks.
There are 300. 900 more men In the
United States than there are women.
Electric ~tricyeles, It is expected,
will o be Ia common use Ia Eng
land.
Vermont has buried sixteen repu-
ted c~entenarians during the past three
years.
The average sale OF postage stamps
In this country last year was "a for each
person.
-Louisiaua's rice crop for 1884 wilt
be 20 per cent. short, and the sugar crop
about Is.
There are over 5000 untenanted
houses in Havana, Cuba, and neighbor-
ing towns.
"A ''horse-swappers" convention
was announced to meet at Admission.
Ala, on the 18th.
-Ulm Cathedral, after remaining
unfinished for nearly 400 years. will
soon be completed.
On the Pacific road there are towns
where Sunday is said to be ''the busiest
day of the week"
1t is announced that the total mum
Der of known Australian fishes now
amounts to l ,29l species.
An underground stream Rows be
meath the city of Birmingham, Ala. II
is to be used for a sewer.
Some sections of the South are sur
fertng from what are declared the worst
drouths in their history.
Over $50, 900, 00O 10 said 10 have
been spent in attempts to solve the pro
blem of perpetual motion,
Instead Of designating single ladies
az old maids, the indianapolis Journal
calls them "b~aehelettes.
An Essex Conn., druggist poisoned
his baby the other day by giving it SUI
gar of lead for sugar Of milk.
-WInnipeg, the metropolis of Mani
toba, is a go-ahead city, u enough.
1t has a debt of g, 10000
Sarah Bernhardt has to pay 30O
francs daily to her creditors from heT
salary to avoid the sale of her effects.
The latest census of Paris shows a
population Of 2,239, 92S, Of whom TO-.
798 are English and ., 993 Americans.
Fully 95.13 per cent. Of our exports
OF bread and breadstUffs consists OF
wheat, wheat -four, o and coTnmeal.
-Kidderminster, Eng. Is suffering
from an epidemic of typhoid fever. The
mortality is chiefly among young per
SOL
"A young medical student Of Mis-
sissippI has been rendered temporarily
insane by the sights IN the dissecting
room.
The City Council Of Thomastown.
Ga, has raised the liquor license to
5000, and the license ou billiard tables
TO $500.
Bears are SO plenty in some parts
of New Hampshire this season that
they are seen in couples By daylight oc.
casionally.
"A couple in Oxford, Miss, married
on a months probation, and at the end
of that time dissolved by consent Of ali
concerned.
The price of the two Rubenses
sold to one of the ROthschild family
from the Blenheim collection is said to
be $3.50, 900.
The electric light will be tried ia
the Evening High School of New York
next winter, as being steadier and bet
ter than gas.
The profit of. the cattle business OF
Texas this year, the yield being estt-
mated at from 500, 900 to 100000 head
is $4,000, 900.
Since the development of tree cul-
ture the forests of Europe have in
creased from one-siKth to one-hfth of
the entire territory.
The area of the coal-helda OF tho
world Is estimated at 1S4 900 ge0gra-
phical miles. One tw~enty-hfth part is
in the United Kingdom.
No less than twenty-five persons
assembled Mount Blanc during August,
the largest number Of a~scents, il Is said
ever made in that month.
-GoetZ's posthumous opera, Fran.
cesca de Rimini, " is to be brought out
In London this season, with Mile. Min
ME Hauck IN the title part.
The exhibition OF historic relics Of
their line Of business is becoming a
somewhat popular mode Of advertising
among London storekeepers.
"A few years ago the women OF Ia,
dla were not allowed to learn to read
Now there are 126, 84S girls attending
schools established for them.
Damages amounting to over SPA
600 have been paid by Des Moinss, Ia,
the past four years for accidents
by defective sidewalks.
The district around Galena, Kan.
sas, is credited with being the largest
zinc producing locality in the world,
Last year 10000 tons were mined.
The new japanese Minister 10
Washington, Kuichi Kukl, Is only s.
years old, but is regarded as the author
Of Japan's present school system,
jefferson DAVIS has had returned
to him the saddle on which he rode
while endeaYorlng to make his histori
escape through Georgia IN 1888,
Assaults on policemen ara quite "a
common occurrence In London, no Less
than $500 people having been arrested
the past year for this offence.
The Sutlel, a large river In British
India, with a descent of Il, 900 feet III
$50 miles, or about u feet per mile, Is
the fastest flowing river in the world.
Russia possesses 10, 694 ,723 horses.
and yet is so alarmed at the export
which has risen from 5000 Ia 1878 t.
IS, 1000 in 1882, that a tax is talked Of.
The average yield of wheat in tho
United States Is about IA bushels per
acre. In England, according to tho
best authorities, the yield is IS bushels.
The United States possesses 5000
who yearly preach Q, $50 ,00U
Their talk in book form
would make 152, 220 volumes Of 800
pages each.
The exports Of manufacturer from
France in 1872 amounted To e53, $50,
300. In 1882 they did not exceed ga.
POS, GOO, dlminution Of about 10 per
cent. Ia 10 years.
India contains about 250, 100000
classed as follows: 1893, 000, 900
Of Hindoos Of ell castles, 100000 or