The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

~ 80 W. IVY NDNteA y AZ AN'FH EIA
ling wheat below cost.
Near Medora, Oak, the coal fields
are on fire.
The 4th Of next March will fall ou
Wednesday.
-Taffy pulls are raging in Warren,
Ohio, society.
Shipments of oranges from Florida
have already begun.
Los Angeles has two great ilouclug
mills in full operation.
Wild game is reported very abuud-
ant in Virginia this season
At Salem, OAK, q piece Of fine gold
was drawn up from a well,
-Diptheria is reported to be making
terrible ravages IN st. Louis.
Over $1,000 was realized by "a tam At
Virginia City, New, recently.
Europe cannot begin to get along
without United states meat.
st. Louis is experimenting with
prepared gum-wOod pavements.
About 5000 patents on churus have
been granted by Uncle Sam.
Neither of the great fairs recently
held in Boston made any money.
The Russian Government is build
Ing ironclads for the Black Sea.
The taxable wealth of Missouri has
increased Sll,0G0,000 since 1882.
There is at present a great scarcity
Of female domestic help in Denver,
The receipts of wheat al Duluth
last month were 1929, 500 bushels.
THE carriage business is duh 1T
''the Hub, " as it is most everywhere.
There are 100 clubs IN London
which meet in their own club houses.
Extensive deposits of copper ara
sand to have been discovered in Texas.
Mule meat is among the favor1te
dishes in Paris, and brings high prices.
During the last ten years Italy has
expended 500, 600 900 on monster war
vessels.
And now New Workers are pro-
jeeting an ice palace, after the style Of
Montreal.
There are 1864 600 head of cattle
iii Texas, and their value IS estimated
at SO, $40, 800.
The late Senator AnthOny's present
of 5000 volumes to Brown University
is valued at S25 900.
The mosquitoes IT is said, annually
drink 81, 900 gallons of human blood IN
this country alone.
Etched glass plates have peer CO.
mented upon blocks, and printed from
on ordinary presses.
The Land Office report shows that
there have been 400, 900 farms taken up
by settlers in the last year.
"A conservatory of music has been
established at Charleston, 5. G. Its
officers are ali Germans.
Wisconsin will send to the next
session of Congress a 26-year Old mem
Der, II Nj. La Toilette.
The city Of Honolulu is now said
to be an imposing place, full Of beauti-
fui and stately edlGces.
-Des Moines, Ia, has a new park
covering sixty acres given to the city
by an enterprlsing citizen.
Oak pillars are now considered 10
be safer in a fire than iron ones. They
do not warp from the heat.
Over three hundred in a band OF
AngOra goats were killed i'll a Callfor-
mia thunder storm recently.
LADY Medicals"ls the phrase EN-.
pioyed by some of the English journals
TO describe women doctors.
The expenses of Harvard's navy
last year amounted 10 about $500. The
association is now $3.50 III debt.
E. P. Weston, who was a celebrated
man fifteen years ago, is not dead yet.
He is giving exhibitions out West.
Ticket scalperS are besleging New
Orleans in anticipation of a great rush
OF business during the Worlds Fair.
India is said to have 81, 900 ,OOO
widows, and not one of them, accord
ing to Hindoo usage, may marry again.
The oldest person in Natlck, Mass,
died "A few days ago, Mrs. Johanna
Smlddy, aged % years. She was bonn
in ireland. and emigraJed to Natick
with her children. She could speak
only the Irish language.
During the twelve years occupied
in the translation of the new version OF
the Old Testament twelve of the TWEEN
ty-seven translators died.
England is at the head Of the mir
ror manufacturing industry of the
world, producing 10000, 900 Yards an
ually.
The newly discovered cave in Mer-
Ger county, KY, has been explored for
three miles without the end being
reached.
French coppers, which have fOr
lnany years done duty for the English
penny, are now being refused 10y Eng
.tsh post-Ofiices.
Prince Bismarck is said t. be greatly
in favor of a more direct communica-
ton between Berlin and London by rail-
aud steamboat.
Naples is the dirtiest, most ragged
and squalid city in Europe. It has a
population of 500, 900, Of whom about
100000 are priests,
The road bed of the Southern Pa
ciflc Railroad through the Colorado des-
ert IS ballasted with salt, vast beds Of
which abound in the vicinity.
The finest church music in Europe
~ believed by some to be heard in the
court chapel in Dresden. This struc-
turo is a cathedral as to size
- hotel at Hawkinsyille, Ga, will
take lady boardeTs. The landlord
says he wants all the merchant travel
lers. but he doesn't want any trouble.
From 1863 to 1888 the lottery play
ers turned into the ROYAL Italian Treas
ury $40, 900 600, Count CaYour used
TO call the lottery the tax on ~fools.'
The crop OF oranges in Malta, so
priced on European tables on
account OF delicate flavor and thin
is more abundant this year than
ever before.
In Ontario. PASSENGER trains ara
started on Sunday. An attempt
was made recently by a new road, but
strong was the public feeling aroused
that the company discontinued the sun.
day train.
The culture of salmon in Maine is
a success. Parties are now on the
lakes, and it is expected that 100, 600
90 eggs will Ike taken for propagation.