The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

cable railway.
Waco, Tex, is to be Iightrl who'll
with electricity.
The London cabmeu now have thel
organ, the Ceutaiu.
David Wilson, Indiana, forty-sege
children, year 1850.
"A lobster yields from 10000 tu 81
900 eggs annually.
Catching 'possums for the mtFkJ
pays well in Alabama.
1t is said that far more women Tia
men fall victims to cholera.
Rev. ID. ErsRine. Scotland. thtrtJ
three children, year 1860.
Mime. ~FrescObaldi, Florence, dfty
two children, year 1870.
A new sensation in st. Louis is sal
to be specializing IN babies.
Mr.. Greenhill, Abbots Langley
Herts, thirty nine children.
-Gernau immigrants are SAID t.
avoid settling III cotton States.
"A Newton, Ca, man has paid fJ
d farm with the melons off it.
The Gainesville, Georgia, mattel
factory can't keep up with orders.
Twenty five ladies are doing IuT
service ia Columbia souuty, W. T.
A Philadelphia firm has ~contGacte,
for , 500 tons Of Alabama-made iron.
About 1000, 900 tons of paper Al
manufactured annually in the world.
r. In 1880 there were eighteen clerk
IN the General Land Office. Now ther,
are 367.
The honey crop Of the country las
year was estimated at rising I 100000
pounds,
Since lS23 cholera has visited Eu-
ropean Russia three times and killot
l GOO, 900.
Three hundred thousand dozen oi
eggs We're destroyed 10y fire at Water
loo, Iowa, recently.
During the dry season now abou
TO begin, 80, 1000 men will be employee
on the Panama canal.
Lewiston, Maine, has already had
a case of boys drowning, by breakia,
through ice, this season.
Even as late as the time Of Henry
VIII all foreign artifcers were prohib.
tied from working in England.
OF 1873 male children recently bOrt
in Dallas, Texas, l29 Of them, it is sta
ted, were christeBed Grover
1t is estimated that the wool cht
OF this year will amount to 300 00O, 00t
paands, and be worth SIS, 000, 600
During 1881 Massachusetts ha
paid her militia Sl5, 5l7 for special duty
aArlng aud fall drills aud camp drill.
The people OF aGsaeocs county.
Georgia, have decided to nal9 tae hrss
man caught at house burning theF
Plank sidewalks are disappearing
III Tallahassee, Fla. and more substan
tial pavements are taking their place.
In February, 223 slaves, wortt
S37, 600, were freed in Brazil. There
are still l 800, 900 slaves in the empire,
The corn crop this year is estimated
at 1897 600, 900 bushels, against S52,.
666, 900 last year and 9l2, I'll 900 in
1882.
A siXteen-year-old New HamFshIIy
lad hanged himself in his oOm a few
nights ago while III a state of sOmnam,
bullsm.
Another attempt to swim the Nj
agara Falls is proposed by a noted Eng.
lish swimmer who is coming to thi;
country.
-Ninety-tiye Thousand sheets Of pa.
per are daily consumed in printing I'm.
Gle SANS money and internal revenue
stamps.
The United States raised nearly
half of the number of hogs produced
in the world. Iowa takes the lead with
8 ,l07, AIS.
As late AS 1910 there were but seven
VOcatiOns into which New England
women had entered; in 1884 the num-.
Der was 81.
A monument TO Kit Carson wAs
unveiled at Santa Fee, New Mexico.
December lst. Col, IngersOhdeliyered
the Grafton.
Key West (Fla.) smackmen DO
quite a trade by selling fresh fish in
Havana, where their stock brings nine
cents a pound.
The fiber Of silk is the longest con-
tinuous fiber known. An ordinary Co
coon Of "A well fed silkworm will often
reel 1000 yards.
The American ship A. G. Ropes,
said to be the largest wooden vessel now
aaOat, spreads $3.50 square yards of a.
vas under full sail.
Russian engineers claim that Sc.
bastopol is stronger than ever, owing
to its monster guns, torpedoes, and i'm,
proved earthworks.
A hunter in the Black Lake region
of New York State recently accom-.
plished the remarkable feat Of killing
two deer at one shot.
If all the locomotives in the United
States were placed in line they would
make a train more than 200 miles long,
worth $50, 900, 900.
Up to November u the cholera
epidemic in Naples had lasted seventy
four DAYS, during which time 1925 PEG
pie died from the disease,
Most Of the more than 1000 women
employed IN the Government ,-ryIce at
Wash ngtOn are from the Middle and
New England States.
Mt. Mitchell, in North Carolina, IS
declared to be the highest point OF land
east Of the Rockies, being $3.50 feet
above the level Of the sea.
-Herds of cattle aud docks OF sheep
were showed IN ON the mountains, says
a despatch from Hill. n. H., during a
recent heavy % storm.
A Chinese doctor at Victoria, b.
c., is reported to have made some TO-
markable cures in cases where white
physicians had given them up as incur
able.
Boston now possesses that literary
convenience, a Bureau Of Matchmaking,
and authors need no longer worry about
the indexes so necessary to a well-made
book.
In the cotton States there are 1877
0OO, 900 acres OF land in farms. of which
81, $50, 600 are improved. The cotton
area actually titled was about "A 1000, 900
acres In 1879.
The Third Avenue Theatre, in