The Penn's Grove record., 1884-10-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Philadelphia spends 81 900 900 a
year for cut flowers.
Japan has only 10000 paupers in a
population of 30, 600 goo.
ireland pays eight millions per an
mum III taxes to England.
Mr.. Blaine has six ehildren-three
sons and three daughters.
Window glass blowers have &c we'd
an advance OF 10 per cent.
Louisiana has about AZ, 00O, OO0, 900
feet of pine IN her forests.
American sewing machines and
pl0ws sell rapidly in Mexico.
The standing armies of Europe
number over 2, 100, 600 men.
New York city has a Jewish popu.
lation of about sixty thousand.
II inois has 252,47t farms. Ohio
2j1 ,lo9 and NewG ork 1 l,05S.
The Bank of England pays $4,000
a year in dinners to its employees.
About four thousand comets have
been seen since the records began.
Joliet, ILL.,, now demands 81, 200
cash down for all saloon licenses.
-Somers' Point, on the West Jersey
Railroad, ships 40. 900 CLANS daily.
A combination of Minnesota farm.
ers has built eleven grain elevators.
Cremation has become a fixed
institution in some parts of Europe.
The first printing press IN the
United States was introduced in 1929.
Rhode Island sends the oHly
Quaker to Congress, Jonathan Chase.
st. Louis wants to get It's letters
from Mexico in less than three weeks.
Measures 200 feet on each side and
you have a square acre within an inch.
Until 177G cotton spinning was
performed by the hand spinning wheel.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in
1916.
The last pilgrimage to Mecca CON
sisted of 10000 pilgrims and 10000
camels.
Italy has IS, 900, 900 lemon trees,
which produce, 1900, 900 900 lemons
annually.
Six thousand vendors of fruits and
vegetables are licensed To walk the
streets of Paris.
Troy, n. y, manufactures &c, 00O,-
900 linen collars every year, besides
1850, 0UU shirts.
Since the patent office was esta0-
lished III 1886, nearly 300, 900 fa.enst
have been is; ued.
-The Uuited States, it IL SAID con
tains Three quarters of the coal fields
of the whole world.
There are at least 30 90 children
in louisiana, and school accommodate
tions for only 5000.
The male school teachers vi Yer
mont now receive an average salary of
SIS IS a week, the females S5.Ol.
The West Hotel, opened at Mime.
apOlis, Mimi, recently, cost s., 900, 900,
and occupied two years in building.
John Hastings is still efficiently
d~ischafgiug hls duties as Town Clerk
at Olondaga at the age OF 90 years,
In 1852 the United States produced
1000, 900 tons of coal, while last year
about 10000, 900 tons were marketed.
"A pest as dangerous to orange and
lemon trees as yellow fever to man is
thick on the trees at Los Angeles, Cal.
Russians, who want to live in Ger
many will hereafter be obi ged to ask per-
mission of their paternal Government.
- NClNo DclIili6u Cldll1o WtIc iOllu
at "A depth OF $50 feet, a week or so
ago, while boring for oil at Purissima,
Cal.
Nearly 10, 600, 900 pounds of high
explosives are used annually in the
United States east of the Rocky noun
tains.
The amount of counterfeit paper
money now in circulation is said to DO
less than at any time in the last twenty
years.
Milk contains about Is per cent.
of dry substance. 1000 pounds of dry
food will therefore produce l30 pounds
of dry milk.
The amount of money paid for rid
ing ON railway cars in this country dur
ing 1888 aggregated almost ST for each
inhabitant.
The ship canal from the Mediter-
raneaa to the Atlantic across the
Iberian peninsula is expected to be
finished in 1899.
Naples is the dirtiest, most ragged
ana squaled city IN Europe. 1t hasa
population of 500, 600, of whom about
400, 900 are priests.
The army and navy of England
furnish their full pro rata of that
country'S %convicts, and a due prOpOr-
ton were officers, too.
The importation of bananas to
New York in 1888, consisted of 15j
cargoes by sailing vessels, and parts OF
cargoes OF III steamers,
There are 230 carpet mills in Phila-
delphia, which. when running TO the
full capacity, produce $1,000 worth OF
carpets per working hour.
Cotton mills in Mexico consumed
1851, 900 pounds of raw cotton in
1888, of which 20, 500, 900 pounds were
raised in the United States.
The founder of cooperation in
Germany, Schulze-D elitzsch, has left a
manuscript romance dealing with the
the social problems of the day.
Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is
one OF the greatest art centres in
Europe. About three hundred Ameri-
can students are in the art school.
The famous theatre La Scala at
Milan, which has been permitted to fall
INTO a disgraceful state of structural
decay, is at last to undergo restoration.
Statistics are quoted to show that
there IS less crime in the United States,
in proportion to the population. than In
any other country of the world except
Ireland.
"A young %Southerner who lately
moved into the Indian Territory has
married an Indian girl, daughter of "A
chief, who is reported to be worth
over 500, 900.
Austria has eighty-four trade
schools, comprising schools for textile
manufactures, for wood and stone
trades, for ceramic and glsss work and
for small industries
The newspapers of British India
commonly speak of Engllshmen "a
fends, demons, robbers, and seoundrels,
and are e~ndeavoring, apparently, to in,