The Penn's Grove record., 1884-12-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

number there was there in 1861
The Oil region in the Caucasus CO.
yers an area of 1900 square miles.
Paris drinks more claret than all
England, a French winner declares.
"A factory at La Honradez, Cuba,
urns out $3.50, 900 cigarettes daily.
Thirty Chinese pupils attend the
Mission School at Walla- Walla, W. Il.
Minnesota has no less than 1000 lakes
taking up over 2,700, 900 acres Of terri
tory.
The Empress of Germany has not
been able to walk for over a year and a
half.
Philadelphia manufactures twenty
two million dollars worth of carpets a
year.
Paris has nearly eighty popular Ii
braries which have over 100, 900 volumes
each.
Portland, Oregon, now ranks fifth
among the commercial cities of this
country.
Cremation has been adopted in Por-
tugal. In time of epidemic it is COM
pulsory.
Three thousand men have signed
the Murphy temperance pledge in In
dianapolis.
Misunderstanding pools in Brooklyn
are being filled up at a cost to the city
of $4,000.
1t is proposed to put a "time'' staff
and ball on the top of WashIngton's
Monument.
Malicious fever" is the name Civ
en- to a complaint prevailing in South
west Georgia.
kentucky has a law prohibiting the
sale of illustrated police literature with
in Its borders.
The printing offices in London now
number over two thousand against two
hundred in 1906.
"A large public library, devoted ex-
clusively to newspapers, is to be estab-
lished in Vienna, Austria.
"A water famine is feared In the vi
cinity of Greensboro, N. c., no rain
having fallen for seventy days.
An ''army" of European drummers
is operating In the Western States and
said to be doing good business.
The only paper issued on Sunday
evening in this country, probably, is
one published at Woodland, Cal.
The effective strength of the Brit
ish army is given as 1S1, 900, lower, it il
SAID, than it has been for twenty years.
TO eat four quails a day for thirty
days or forfeit $1,000 is a wager at Los
Angeles on the result of the election in
New York.
The streets of Rome in the time of
Domitian were SO blocked up with cob
blers' stalls that he caused them to be
removed.
Deer are reported TO be very few III
number and bears numerous this season
on the mountains nea Remove, Penn
sylvania.
"A parrot, of the profane variety,
was the cause of a neighbors' dispute
that reached a city magistrates Office
the other day.
"A ton of mushrooms is sent to
England daily from Irish ports, and
now watercresses from Dundalk are be-
ing largely imported.
A man living at OrvilIe, Neb., says
he has frequently heard the whistle of
the railway shops at Grand Island, TWEEN
ty-eight miles away.
In several Georgia towns artesian
wells are used as a source of water sup
ply. The practice is extendingt to other
States IN the South.
Strawberries, the second crop grown
this season in al open field, neal Vino
ma, Mimi, are on sale in that city at
n dollar a quart.
Women are now admitted to the
Corcoran School of Sciences and Arts
of the Columbian University on the
same terms as men.
The citizens of Guadalcazar, Next
co, have united to alleviate the Iniseries
of the prisoners in the public Jail by
sending them food.
On a wager, a barkeeper of Pitts.
burg is reported to have killed, scalded,
plucked and cleaned a chicken ready for
market in 1874 seconds.
Over $500, 600 a year is realized
from the sale of the fifty thousand tons
of SCOT taken from London ehimneys,
and which is used as a fertilizer.
Another case of dementia being
caused by cigarette smoking is reported
that of a young man who was a clerk
In the last Nevada State Senate. :
The Poor authorities in Paris ask
for S., 900 600 for the coming year,
They say they will be compelled to give
assistance to over 400, 900 people
The Apple Mission is the name of
an organization, in Boston, which dig
tributes apples to the poor of that city,
hundreds of bushels being given away
annually.
"A fellow who stole some money
from a colored woman on a train bound
for Tallahassee, Fla, was given $50
lashes on the back with a rope and al
lowed to go.
The sunset glories of last autumn
have been frequently repeated lately in
portions of England, whose papers bear
frequent descriptions Of the brilliant
and gorgeous spectacles.
"A blind man who went to register
as a voter in Willimantic, Conn.,, was
recorded, after he had read some words
IN raised letters on a block of wood, I'M
der the reading qualifications required
of voters.
1t is estimated that the population
of the United States has increased II
per cent. since the census of 1850, and
the number of voters in the country is
now estimated at $4,000, 900, of whom
800, 600 are colored.
1t is said that in one block in New
York, that is bounded by Fourth and
Fifth streets and First avenue and
Avenue A, there are housed over 1000
human beings, as many as would form
a small-sized city.
The first regular company of play
ers that ever appeared in the United
States gave their initial performance in
Williamsburg, Va, in 1862. They pre-
sented '"The Merchant of Venice aud
the farce OF "Lethe."
In the reign of William Ill OF
England those who received parish re-
lief had to wear a badge. 1t was THE
letter p, with the initial Of the parish