The Penn's Grove record., 1884-11-29
NUMBER II
NEWS IN BRIEF.

pi.
The value IF minerals exported
from Australia last year was sll 1914,
l40.
Prof. Max Muller Of oxford Uni
! yersity 10 an accomplished tricycle. II
der.
-MsckereI, it is reported, swarm in
the surf AZ points Oh the California
I coast.
/ johann Strauss has celebrated bis
forJieth anniversary as q director 10
Vienna.
One single oyster will produce I2,-
100000 young oysters In the course OF
one year.
An Alabama farmer obtained eight
gallons of molasses from 100 water
melons.
In Pittsburg rs, 900 pupils are co
! rolled in the public schools, with $50
teachers.
There are over 100000 persons IL
+ England who now use the bicycle and
tricycle..
President Arthur pays taxes in
New York this year to the amount Of
/ S6377.S5
One grain Of Dakota wheat In three
years produced two bushels Of grain.
This is authentic.
The ligbtest, ~pleasantest article In
the world is said by Englishmen to be
the American buggy.
Dynamite is a drug In the Mexican
: market. II has fallen IN price from 81
. to % cents a pound.
1t is asserted that about a third Of
the banking done in the world Is done
in the British empire.
William Miller Is a Wisconsin far
mer who has made 81, 900, 600 out OF the
products Of the farm.
Hiram Grubler,a miser in Ringers,
town, Pa, has become insane over the
loss by theft, of 81. 500.
A citizen Of Des MONIES, Iowa, has
be used as 3 public park.
An Ohio Ex-Governor, once q man
/ of large wealth, ia now selling cigars By
sample to retail dealers.
There is a tree In California $50
feet high and "a feet in circumference
ut the base Of the trunk.
Hundreds of German children are
christened Elsa now In honor Of Wsg-
ner's Lohengrin heroine,
1t is estimated that an average OF
100 thlmbles are annually swallowed
by the babies of America.
The Senate House ut Kingston, \.
Y, was erected 1875, and is the oldest
/ ~, hlFo hui1lipu in fha ppItpFrQ
Sweet Snow died in Cleburu county,
Ala. He, his wife and two children
have all died within four weeks,
"A Boston savings bank cashier says
it Is the poorest dressed people who de-
post the most money as a rule.
The island Of Cuba is threatened
with the cocoanut bugs which the plan.
tiers fear Will devastate the crop.
England makes $50, 000, 900 gallons
of beer every year, Germany 900 900. 900
and the United States go, 1000, 0O0.
Wild geese are passing south a
month earlier than usual and this is said
to be indicative of an early winter.
Five years in the pe~nitsntisry Is the
penalty just inflicted on q negro at Lees
burg, Florida, who stole y little over
SO.
Lieutenant Schwatka Is going to
employ himself, after his arctic work,
in cattle raising in the Aleutian Is
lands.
The oil tanks OF the Pennsylvania
oil region are uniformly % feet high.
30 feet in diameter, aud cost 5000
each.
People who have buffalo robes
would do well to hold on to them.
They will oon be valuable as curiosi.
ties.
There is such a glut OF apples IN
New York that farmers are selling
their crops rs low as eight, cents per
bushel.
The temperance societies OF New
York will celebrate Father Mathews
birthday anniversary with great enthu-
siasm.
The cotton seed which Is shipped
from the Mississippi Valley to Europe
in u crude state comes back to the South
as pure olive OIL.
The abolition of the business tax ID
being agitated in PIttsburg, and lcsn-
Sos for the different classes OF business
proposed instead.
The first persons in the world TO
protest against negro slavery in America
we're the English colonists at German
town as early as 1858.
Buffalo bones, gathered from tho
Westerns plans, to make fertilizers Of,
are said to bring more per ewt. at the
factories than wheat.
Americans hand 81, 00C, 600 per year
in small change to street mendicants
and Migrants, and no Ii can see that =
bit Of good has been done.
The Episcopal denomination has
been growing very rapily IN Scotland
during the past thirty years, having
gained oyer 5000 members.
A fine Of Il shilling:each was i'm
posed upon two London newsbOys for
offering their papers for sale TO people
going to church on Sunday morning.
"A man in Greeuyille, s. O., has
been blind tor years, yet drives AlOns m
q buggy, and runs both a Sawmil and II
a gin mill-that IS, = cotton gin mill
One thousand Chinese sailed In one
vessel from SAN Francisco for China a
week OF So ago, to celebrate the New
Year. An we're provided with ceUtih-
Gates.
After December / the Germans Will
be taxed for insurance purposes. The
money Is to be given TO sick and dis
abled workmen aud for the burial Of
those who die.
There Is a stone called Centre Roes
located In the rotunda in the Capitol al
Raleigh, NC. If a man stands squaTely
upon it his words become inarticulsts
10 those aronpd hin.
=. The rough and uncut diamonds ex-
, ported from the Division OF Kimberly
ia south Africa, during August last
, weighed 1871, S09 29-32 carRts; shs
declared value was e2s3,9l2.