The Penn's Grove record., 1884-11-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

-pCAANlaA pOAhOAA III ~AspDgsfN9
in Egypt.
Cleveland, Ohio, is troubled with
flre-bugs.
AT Chicago corn is steadily improv-
ing in price.
Spain holds 6rst rank rs a lead pro-
ducing coun ~.
-Cast-iron chilled tools will soon
take the place Of steel.
American cattle and breadstufs
are wanted in England.
The French are making leather to
initiate alligator hide.
Female horsethieyes are surprising
Pennsylvania farmers.
Swamp fires are laying waste New
Jersey cranberry boys.
In trade circles, business is better
In anticipation than in fact.
THE NorriStown, Pa, Insane Asy-
lum has organized a brass band.
There are said to be 1871 ,217 illit-
crate voters in the United States.
The Emperor of Austria has the
finest collection of pipes in Europe.
The Russian Government has Dor
rowed $50, 900, 00O to build railways.
Two whales were captured at Mon
terey, California, on a recent Sunday.
The Mormon Church in Utah re-
ceives about 81, 900 900 a year in tithes.
The students of Yale College smoke
between 1000 and 1900 cigarettes a
day.
The number of oxen In Vermont
in 1850 was $4,000; there are only
$4,000.
Graveyard" insurance cases keep
turning up in some Of the Eastern
States.
Tile large Italian ironclads are now
pronounced utterly unseaworthy and
unwieldy.
One apiary in Texas has already
furnished 5000 pounds of honey this
season.
-Pitts5urg proposes to prohibit the
erection of wooden buildings within the
city limits.
1t costs the bank of England $50
600 a year TO feed Its clerks during Uusi-
ness hours.
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horse thieves have been hanged by Ne
vada vigilantes.
There ara nine establishments III
the united States producing $3.50
watches a day.
Pennsylvania wool growers estl-
mate their loss by tariff reduction at
over 81, COO, 0O0.
In 1888 the United States exported
440, $50 6l0 gallons of kerosene oil val
ued at S39,47O,3 1852.
The assertions in the British army
last year were 3,7l7. almost exclusively
very young soldiers.
"A certain cotton planter in south
east Arkansas has between 5000 and
5000 acres under cultivation.
Mexico pays S65 premium for COO
lies, and expects 1900 of them this
year to work on the railroads.
There are 419 type-setters, besides
the apprentices, IN the Government
Printing Office at Washington.
Out Of II, 500 Canadian cattle sold
in Glasgow last year, 1000 were taken
by farmers for feeding purposes.
The proportion of the trade of New
| York for 1888 was of the entire trade
| of the United States SAY per cent.
Egypt has to pay S22, $50, 900 in
demnity to property-holders for the
British destruction Of Alexandria.
The charter of Atlanta, Ga g for
bids any person from holding the office
of Mayor for two consecutive terms.
The Carlos Theatre in Naples Is said
to be the largest, and La Scala at Milan
the next largest theatre In the world.
The outlay for the Royal Agricul-
tural Show at York. England, last year,
reached $4,000, yet they made a profit
of $40, 900.
"A Washington lady is having made
into a belt the skin Of a rattlesnake
that she killed while on a summer trip
to North Carolina.
Nelson Miller, of Stephentown, N.
Y, who is reported to be 104 years of
age, recently walked ten miles to attend
a camp meeting.
French journals allege that mer-
chants In China have tried hard, since
the Tonquln difficulties, to export poi
soined tea into France.
The number of cattle slaughtered
in Chicago for the year ending March
/, 1884, was ], 1882, 900, as compared with
T4,579 for the previous year.
-Earlham College, at Richmond,
Ind, the leading Quaker college In the
West, is to have a new S45, 600 building
and three additional professors.
Dishonest miikmen to the number
of twenty-five were lined from $40 to
500 each recently in the New York
Court of General Sessions for watering
milk.
From Jan. l to May 20, the Union
Pacific Railroad sold 1,459, 900 acres Of
land for So, $40. 900; this land has been
considered barren and was sold TO cattle
men.
-Tornadoes, it is stated, occur ex-
elusively in the afternoon, and when
the temperature is very high, saturated
with moisture and charged with cleo
tricity.
The furniture interest in the Uni
ted States is Three years
ago it amounted in New York to 800
factories and a product of nearly Sl0,-
000, 900.
The Emperor of China recently
authorized the destruction of 81, 000,-
600 worth Of opium, and emphatlcally
refuses to accept any revenue from the
odious traffic.
"A Connecticut company manufae-
lures II, 900, 900 pounds of liquorice an
nually, 100000 pounds being used for
confectionery and medicines, the bal
ance in tobacco.
Gold was discovered in Dennison,
Texas, a few days ago by workmen en-
gagged in digging a well. On testing
small fragments of rock gold to the
value OF forty cents was extracted.
The city of Parts has leased 27,000
acres of the low.lying forest of st.
German and the adjoining meadows,
for the purpose Of experimenting in
utilizing the sewage Of the capital.
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